The mid-year 1969 “A12” package turned the already spicy Super Bee into one hot pepper, a green pepper in this case. Decoding the (detached) fender tag confirms this 1969 Dodge Super Bee in Denver, Colorado came with the A12 3-2BBL ENGINE CONVERSION PACKAGE, 603 Hemi 4-speed, and 999 4.10-geared Dana 60 rear end. Of those components, only the Six-Pack setup (triple two-barrel carburetors) is gone! It’s rare to find a car like this with numbers-matching drivetrain intact. Not only that, the original 440 “turns over and fires,” though the seller recommends a rebuild. If that’s got your attention, check out the listing at AutaBuy where the $125,000 asking price will quickly separate the wheat from the chaff. Thanks to SixPackSixBBL.homestead for some details. Only 826 A12 four-speed hardtop Super Bees left the factory. How many do you think are left?
Normally we’d show the engine here, regardless of its condition, but the listing has no engine picture, so check out the shiny F6 BRIGHT GREEN METALLIC paint, also a 1969 mid-year introduction. In addition to the 390 HP tri-carbureted 440, Dana 60, the A12 package brought a 26 inch radiator with a seven-blade fan and four-wheel 11-inch drum brakes, presumably because drum brakes can be adjusted to reduce drag, and “drag” racing is the entire point of the A12. Thanks to ForBBodiesOnly for some details.
Originally equipped with the 1X Black Vinyl Top and 8X Black Bumble Bee Stripe around the tail section, this Coronet-based Super Bee would have been one sharp ride. Matching the black roof and stripes, a matte-finish black fiberglass lift-off hood attached with four pins instead of hinges.
The only interior picture leaves something to be desired, but from a mile away it looks mostly original. After some mechanical work I’d gladly risk a spring in the backside for a chance to row through the gears in this potent performance machine. Check out this video on YouTube for a look at a pristine red Super Bee Six Pack car. Are you surprised by the lofty asking price?
How about the seller puts it back together and paints it and then maybe someone can make an offer.
This is just crazy. Shameless greed. I hope the reasonable folks will keep looking for a better example.
With the asking price, and restoration this is an easy $200K plus project.
If one can afford that cost, one can also find some beautiful examples that are available for around or less than $200K.
It probably won’t be a 440 6 pack. A fender tag and build sheet are nice, but this car is not where I would choose to put my money, time, or effort.
A 2-door 1969 Dodge that won’t be subjected to cries of “turn it into a General Lee”? 125,000 sounds reasonable.
The seller is fishing, nobody should read anything more into the ad. There have been several other matching number 440 Six Pack Super Bee’s featured on this site over the last year or two that were in much better shape for significantly less money.
Steve R
I’ve never seen a Super Bee come with a bench seat. I supposed they did. Does anyone know?
Most did, same with Road Runners. They were true entry level muscle cars, they were typically sold as stripped down without any frills.
Steve R
Yeah, my 69 Road Runner was a 383, automatic on the column and a bench seat. I don’t know if the car had any options at all. It did have an AM radio, but that may have been standard.
I was 16 years old, and all that mattered was the ability to spin tires! I put in an under-dash Pioneer Supertuner with 8 track and a pair of Jensen 6×9 speakers in the back deck, and I was ready to cruise.
Yes they did. It actually was standard. I had the exact same A12 Bee without the vinyl top. There are plenty of standard 1968- 1970 Road Runners and Super Bees running around with the 4 speed and Bench front seat.
wow I thought it was just me about pricing on this one. But I guess many of you already spoke for me. The worst part about this is I don’t the so called detached fender tag. does the fender tag match all the other parts were all the other hidden numbers are?
I remember in the mid to late 70s there was an orange one like this sitting on blocks in our small town. It was quite rusty and it was in full view of the street. The local ladies were already upset that “Beautiful Elm Street” was quickly losing its elms, but now they had to see this. There was quite the uproar, even an editorial that, though not naming this car per say, but obviously was about this car, came in the local paper. The car was soon gone, not sure what became of it. Most of us thought it was some kids “hot rod” as it had that big hood scoop that we assumed was some JC Whitney absurdity. If I had only known what was to become of such cars, I might have bought it for pretty much scrape price, plus a six pack of Bud, and put her in my Uncles old farm shed.
Looks like it really upset those local busybodies. Can you imagine if you would have rumbled up to a Dodge dealer in ’80 in this thing to trade it in on a new Mirada CMX? You would have probably gotten a hundred bucks that they’d have quickly made up by selling you an overpriced Rusty Jones package, plus a lot of snickers behind your back.
In 1986 I tried buying avgas for a Kawasaki Z1 I was riding. They told me I needed a tail number. When I told the jockey that it was for the bike I was riding he told me to try Turbo Blue.
I think there’s a better-than-average chance they would have even refused to take it as a trade for that Mirada. But if they had? Maybe one of the lot boys would have picked it up for a few hundred bucks and raced it and trashed it. An engine cannibalization doesn’t sound out of the question.
These things were worth almost nothing in 1980. That was about the bottom for them. Gas prices were at historic highs. About 3.50 gallon in today’s money for regular. And a lot more for the gasoline these cars needed as you pointed out. Plus inflation was high, 14% was an average mortgage rate, and there was that whole Iranian hostage thing going on. The country was depressed. Certainly not in the mood for beasts like this. Very limited audience for this back then.
Yes, car salesmen are among the lower forms of life here on Earth. I would compare them to the cockroach, but I have too much respect for those.
In late 1979 , I paid 1,500 bucks for a 73 340 Duster at our local Chrysler dealership with 40,000 on it. It was traded in on a new Volare. Because no one wanted a bright green muscle car , it wasn’t even in their used car row , it was behind the dealership. I bought it anyway and still have it !!
Obsolete, that’s what these old muscle cars had become by 1980, before that really. All of them too, not just our beat up six pack up in the picture. The kids of that era could buy these for a song….maybe a dance if needed, it wasn’t about value but more about pride of ownership and the thrill. Cruising was still happening, street freaks, some short lived techno rod thing led to pro street so cars were still being enjoyed for what they were no more than that. It was always a loss with these things back then. We had fun too, driving them sometimes with Trick racing fuel, or the one ’76 service station I knew of that sold 97 octane, maybe it was 98, for nearly twice as much money. Or a can of the 104 octane boost. Nothing like your engine sounding like a box of rice crispies!
Obsolete, but still around.
Great stories from that era! A high school kid down the street from me bought a 1969 GTO in the fall of 1980 for $1,800. I always loved that car. It sounded mean and looked cool in gold with black vinyl roof. He offered to sell it to me for $3,200 in 1984 because by then, he had a new engine put in it.
I was pretty upset over being charged that much but I had to have the car. Unfortunately my dad refuse to give me the money for it. I ended up with his hand-me-down 1974 Buick Century Luxus instead.
The kid ended up selling the GTO and buying a late 1960s K5 Blazer and then, eventually, a 1979 Trans Am.
Absolutely! My dad bought a 69 Bee wrecked with 600 miles on it ! It was a pale yellow with a green vinyl roof , green interior BENCH seat 4 speed post car ! This became our family driver until my brother went off to college in1971!! Needless to say he drove this car until 1975.In 74 I bought a 71 Challenger and he asked me if I wanted to buy this car for $75.00 and I said no I have this Challenger. So he ended up selling this car to someone in the Keyser WV area for $250.00 so they could make a dirt track racer out of it!!! BIGGEST MISTAKE I EVER MADE!!
Price is crazy. There are 2 fully restored true A12 Super Bees for sale right on Hemmings for $99k. One is a Lime Green 4 speed. Do not support this guy’s crazy ask.
125k is the seller including the paint that he’s huffing that what a12 super bees are going for on the high side if there prestine unless the car has one hell of a history if this bee is a true a12 with matching #whick is rare very rare the a12 was esspeialy made for the 1/4mile only came 30 day warranty with all these boxes checked and it’s solde and parts are oem 50k in this shape would be a good day that’s if the motor is # match like I said it was exspectef the egone would need swoptec out if it didn’t get wrecked first this guy is looking for somebody that just hit the lotto
Back in 2005 when guys like Bill Wiemann were paying stupid money for mopars this car may have brought the asking price but that frenzy is over. Looks like a decent car to restore but for this kind of money just pay a little more and get a ready to drive superbird.
This stuff is like click bait. Come on now— nobody is dumb enough to buy that car.
This guy must be a grower. Cause he definitely is way high. And isn’t the motor all the money? And no pics? Some funny business going on here.
I’d think that someone asking $125k for this beast (with a free standing data plate) might have offered a few more pics, including some under the hood.
Glad that everyone realizes the greed this guy has. Even if he gets half of that asking price he should kiss the ground he is standing on.Wonder has a six pack set up for this car goes for these days.Bet 10k plus
My younger brother bought a 1970 Super Bee ($3500) with the 440 6pak motor, 4 speed, bucket seats, console, PS, P disc, 3:54 Sure Grip, orange ext and orange int, he was the president of the So Fla Mopar Assoc and he needed a fast car, the local Dodge dealer Massey Yardley let him use a bay and in one night they installed a Scheifer Clutch, Hurst shifter, Hooker long tube headers, 4:56 gears, very fast car, had “383” call outs on the fenders, after 2 years he really drove it hard, (5 MPG ughh) pulled the motor & sold it for $500 and had a 383-4 bbl from a GTS dart installed in 1 night. Sold the car to Broward Auto Brokers for $1500. He can’t believe the prices now!
Curt LeMay,
Nice comment.
I think it puts YOU in the cockroach classification.
I sold cars for 52 years and met some of the finest people you would ever know in this industry.
I’m sure whatever you did for a living had to be ranked very high for you to make a remark like that.
Shame on you,
Gary Lehman
Well, you might be one of the few honest car salesmen, but I have yet to meet one. I have had more then one bold face lie to me with a smile on his face. More then once I had offers for new cars rejected and shown, supposedly accurate paperwork, their cost of the car, just to find after I purchased at a higher price that a nearby dealer was advertising the price I had offered. Of course the internet helps with new cars in that regard, but I imagine used cars now fall to the dog eat dog realm. Luckily, I no longer buy used cars, but our children have had to swim into those shark infested waters.
I love mopar,but I’m a realist, as I have said before, I could buy a new hellcat to race,and probably still find a real nice coronet r/t for 125k!
Don’t mention the Hellcat you get the 1980’s Buick GN guys upset.
I have driven one of these. As fast as any ‘60s muscle car but brakes & suspension were awful. Straight line performance was all it was good for, passed everything but a gas station also.
Barely a 4 figure car, but will probably end up getting a $50k resto, then sell for $50k when the economy collapses and gas is $5-6/ gallon next year.
Come on fans ‘ it’s a Mopar! You start at $125,000 to keep the small bidders out. If the fastback convertible Mustang that went through the crusher. Then for sale her on barn finds the other day. If that would have been a Mopar it would have been a bidding war. Grave yard cars would have been all over it.