Finally; a 1969 Charger that will forever dodge the suggestion to “Turn it into a General Lee!” This beautiful Dodge Charger Daytona’s brilliant EV2 Hemi Orange paint looks like a re-spray but considering the claimed 3,692 original miles, it might be nicely-polished original. The seller calls this 1969 Charger Daytona a “survivor,” but not “all original,” though many visible parts and surfaces in the engine compartment and interior may well be original. The listing here on eBay totals 76 words and features a “Buy It Now” price of $365,000; that’s $4802.63 per word!
Long before the Internet, every motorhead had a “Barn Find” story about a “Chrysler Wing Car,” often along the lines of “The son worked at the steel mill and bought it brand new before going off to Viet Nam. He never came back and his folks never could part with it.” Sadly some of those stories were true, and not always legend. These days, just when we think the great Barn Finds are all tapped out, another amazing dusty treasure comes to light. This one, however, appears to have been well-kept its entire life. While the novice enthusiast may simply refer to either the Dodge or Plymouth version of these cars as a “SuperBird,” only the Plymouth Road Runner Superbird wore that name. The winged Dodges are Charger Daytonas, built to win NASCAR races, and actually appeared one year before the Superbird (thanks to allpar.com for some details).
With fewer than 4000 miles on the clock, the front seats, pedals, and steering wheel, arm rests, etc. should be original, with some fading, and show the identical amount of wear… zero. You would think that only someone with a war injury would have ordered a Wing Car with an automatic, but here it is.
In the original owner’s defense the Magnum 440 cid V8’s 375 HP and 480 lb-ft of torque did not require a standard transmission to kick you in the pants (thanks to automobile-catalog.com for some details). The two-minute eBay ad to sell a car worth more than most people’s homes may seem flippant, but potential buyers likely already know this car, and it could be the Internet equivalent of parking a muscle car in your yard with no For Sale sign, knowing that serious buyers will rap on the front door and inquire. We’d love to hear from anyone who’s preparing to smash their piggy bank and click “Buy It Now,” or other observations, in the Comments below.
Do you think tar remover will get those ink spots off the roof😜
I talked to the misses and we’re gonna sell the house and live in this one at a self storage place !
I want to say a future very set Ohio person
when sold for having this beautiful race car 🚗🙄🤡
Wait no hemi and only a 440?
Some had 440 and some 440
six pack and a few had the
426 hemi !!!
Why cheap out back in the day 😫
https://myclassicgarage.com/marketplace/knowledge_base/1970-plymouth-superbird
Most were ‘cheaped out’. To meet the quotas, dealers were forced to take these. They had to move them from Chrysler inventory to dealer possession for that to happen. Dealers learned very early that these were almost impossible to sell, as they looked odd to 1969 eyes. Thus, to minimize their losses, dealers ordered them with the fewest possible options in what they considered to have the broadest appeal. It’s worse for the Superbirds in 1970, as the quota requirement was increased from 500 in 1969 to 1500 in 1970. My grandfather was a small Chrysler Plymouth dealer in SouthWestern Michigan. He was forced to take one and he never sold it. He was able to trade it, along with a check for $500 to another dealer at the 1974 dealer convention for1 new 1974 slant 6 Valiant 4 door… they were hard to get rid of even with boot money… but Valiants sold themselves.
Five minutes & a few drops of polishing compound ought to take care of that without leaving a mess. :P
say what you want but you will never get another buddy baker autograph! or some of the others on that roof. but who cares most people don’t have the scratch to buy it and do what with it ?drive it and some fool yapping on his cell phone run into it! think not!
What’s the point of turning the roof of the car into a autograph book? These people never owned the car. It’s not a replica of a car they drove in a race. They aren’t certifying the pedigree of the car. What’s the point? All I see is that this car was built and sold to the public so that the design could qualify to be used in a sport and these people drove one of the cars with it’s basic design. Well, Whoopty-freakin-doo. That doesn’t make it worth any more the way I see it.
440 auto?
Least desireable combination in a Daytona especially for that kinda cash!
We kinda laughed at these winged Mopars when they came out. I find them to be a bit outlandish for my taste. Well I guess I hung out mostly with the GM crowd. To each his own.
nobody but the dodge boys were laughing in 1969 when these cars were the first over the finish line at the daytona 500! gm and ford whined so much they got them banned in 1970!
You need to review the nascar stats, Ford won overwhelmingly even against the winged cars.
Wasn’t this car on here a few months ago?
Back in 1970, the local Plymouth dealer had a new white 70 Super Bird in stock. I tried to convince my mother she needed it. I still remember her comment, “It would be easy to find in the parking lot at the mall”. She bought a new Grand Prix J instead. Oh well.
you already featured this one, i think.
A car so nice, BarnFinds featured it twice. It’s amazing to me how many of these wing cars were automatics–some column-shifted even. Such a boring option for one of the craziest-looking cars ever produced.
Josh featured this one last October.
https://barnfinds.com/3692-mile-1969-dodge-daytona-survivor/
These cars made history in NASCAR but the autographs, as far as I can tell, are all of drag racers. “Big Willie” was a legendary street racer. Neat machine, and harder to find than the Superbirds.
But at least Big Willie raced a Daytona, and I think it might even have been Hemi Orange.
Actually, he had three, his orange one, a second one that his wife Tomiko drove (his was the “King Daytona” and hers was named “Queen Daytona”), and a third one that was used as a tow car.
My cousin and former owner of Gowers Body Shop had a 1969 Dodge Daytona Charger same color and same motor with the automatic. He sold it to a Tim Sparrow who in turn sold it to someone from Ohio. wonder if its the same car?
YES! I know the car well
At least this one doesn’t have the column shift bench seat boring option. Was never a fan of the winged cars and their provenance in nascar was less than stellar. Ford was smart enough not to put an auto trans and bench seat option in any B9 cars. Mopars are very over played in my opinion.
Had a Talladega. Bench seat, column auto.
I remember seeing one of these winged cars in Ireland when I was living there. Jaw-dropping is the word that comes to mind, especially considering the size of European cars at that time. Aside from that, let’s be honest, at the time when these outlandish cars came out, why would you buy such a cop-baiting car when you could get the same thing without the wing, nose, graphics and stand-out colors?
The Superbird cost about $4,300 when new but you could buy a Roadrunner with the Hemi for a few hundred less. These Superbirds and Daytonas were a tough sell, some remaining on dealer lots until 1972. Some dealers even took off the nose and wing to sell them. I’ll admit, definitely a milestone car but back in the day, you looked kind of ridiculous driving one.
This is definitely a great car and maybe it will bring what’s being asked but if you do end up with it, you can’t drive and enjoy it; it’s just too valuable. It will always be a trailer queen.
For more useless trivia that you can store away for a later date, that is Big Willie himself setting up the street race at the beginning of the cult classic Two Lane Blacktop.
Great.. Another worthless piece of information that will be etched in my brain, replacing a more mundane bit of memory like where I parked my car this morning.
Thanks for your comment. I laughed for a minute straight.
My neighbors son bought one of these Blue with White vinyl top and stripe for $125K 2 years ago and it was immaculate, too much $$$ for this one.
Those signatures ‘ll buff right out……….
Crazy absurd and insane, and was never a fan of most mopars of this era with their whiny starters and acres of sheetmetal and all their weight,, But worth their weight in gold today..
If only I had a time machine !!!!!
Ridiculous looking car, at a ridiculous price. Only a Baby Boomer would see any worth in this car, all these 70s/80s ugly cars are future beanie babies.
These have been priced beyond anyone’s imagination for quite some time now, this is old news, not surprising or shocking at all. Really, these are museum pieces anymore, dust collectors, just like when they sat on car lots decades ago.
Original owner of the Daytona was the late Larry Gower from Bangor PA.I know this because I bought the car from him and sold it to the Malcom’s.
Out of their collection, this is the one I want. They’ve had it since day one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1970-Plymouth-Road-Runner-Superbird/112787706916?hash=item1a42abd424:g:zkAAAOSwMmlZ3nE
Love everything about this car until you get to the nose, that is ugly.. Anyway I was fixing to write a check for it until I saw the deal breaker, NO power windows!! NEXT!!😁 😁 😂 😂