I remember many years ago one of the big MOPAR magazines did an article on a restored Hemi car from Alberta. The owner remarked that back in the late sixties and early seventies Alberta was going through an oil boom and there were many young rig hands with a lot of money who subsequently bought muscle, and yes, Hemi cars. The featured car was one of three that he found in a field. He sold two, kept one.
I always viewed this article with suspicion as starting in the mid seventies a few friends and I would spend our holidays scouring back roads looking for a Hemi. Never found even one. The closest we came was in Grande Prairie (Alberta, not Texas) a guy had a ‘68 Road Runner. You could clearly see “Hemi “ outlined in faded paint where the badge had been removed. It had the worst metal flake paint job I’ve ever seen. Huge gold flakes in dark blue paint. A genuine blue shag interior. It had a 383 automatic, no longer a Hemi four speed. We tried getting the location of the motor out of him but all he would say was that it had been blown up in Saskatchewan.
Asking price on the car was $3500, a lot of money for what it was then.
Here in the arctic the local Ford dealership actually found a six pac Super Bee on a property here in the early nineties. They restored it and sold it to a young guy who immediately rolled and totaled it.
Until quite recently there was a real Super Bird daily driver beater just north of me in Yellowknife. It was sold new there, 440 car. The owner must have finally caved and sold it as it hasn’t been seen for a few years. It was a surreal experience to drive down the street to get groceries and see a beater ‘Bird.