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- The world's rarest 1969 Dodge Hemi Daytona breaks auction record! 1 of 22 Hemi Daytona 4-speeds produced in 1969 with the original 426 CI Hemi V-8 engine. Watch Mecum Auctions Indianapolis on MotorTrend+ ➡️ motortrend.app.link/DDui57DI8pb
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4 more payments on my '85 Dodge Aries K and she's all mine.
You stay strong
Those are great cars!
That 2.2 is indestructible, as long as you don’t drive it or start it ….it will literally last forever!!
Best car ever made for making K turns...
😂
At the ripe old age of 20 , I tried to convince my dad that buying a used Daytona 440 in '74 for $3500 would be an excellent investment. He laughed.
Trouble was your old man had good taste
Thats 20k in today's money. Then put in insurance. Housing and upkeep cost for the car from 74-22(50ish years). Yeah thats a nightmare barely worth 1.2mil to me.
@@ianmangham4570 Frank says - “hey if you could have talked Pops into buying $3500- worth of Apple stock ... what would that be worth today ?”
@@wardmontgomery9259 Apple did not exist in 1974
@@albertandrews130 well Steve was getting busy out in his garage - lol
That is an insane amount of money! The sad part is that thing will probably get locked away somewhere and nobody but a select few will ever get to see it.
It's because it is ""STUPID money." No relation to reality.
That funny thing is the number of these cars selling for BIG dollars that are complete hack-jobs. Im confident in saying that the rich must use these in the same manner they use art... tax breaks.
@@32degreesretarded62 It's MOBILE art at this point for the ultra rich.
@@rickbailey189 A cheaply assembled vinyl covered interior ancient V8 terrible suspension
@@rickbailey189 something driven by joe dirt is now $$$$$
When I was in high school, I remember a 70 Super Bird in yellow with a deep black vinyl top. Gorgeous car. Looked brand new even though it was 13 years old. Someone decided to hop on top of the wing and sat in the middle of it. Didn't break or bow. Now that's made in the USA!
And it looked something like this down below. Click on the link below. Brings back memories for me.
czcams.com/video/iDYkkSAV7yk/video.html
I mean they are desighned to take the force of the wind on them at 200 plus mph.
@@jonathonsaavedra843 Click on the link above. Press skip ad to go directly to the gorgeous yellow 70 SB.
That's how I remember it when I was a kid.
People were probably not as fat as they are today
i have seen many a pic of 3 adult men sitting or standing on the wing. they're not only extremely strong, they were anchored all the way through the trunk compartment to the subframes..how many wings on Ricers can say that? There was even a steel cable run through them (can't recall if was for the racers only, or for all the production cars to..in the event of a crash), if the
wing did become separated it wouldn't fly up into the stands.
Final assembly at East 10 Mile Road and Brittany Avenue. Watched them load a a carrier full of Hemi and 440 Daytona Chargers in August 1969. Small crowd watched as the one hemi fired up. The cigar-chomping truck driver was straight out of central casting. Seeing the dozens of Daytonas lined up in the small parking area was breathtaking; oh, to have had a camera... Maybe this one was there, but don't remember that paint colour...
Was that the location of "Creative Industries" in Detroit?
Junk
I got the same feeling when I saw a truck trailer in '65 loaded down with a dozen Shelby GT350s...all white with blue stripes
looks like F8 green, a fabulous color that was brought back for the new crop of Chargers & Challengers.
& you saw an amazing sight to be sure!
@@jefferyhurley151 1 man sees junk another sees treasure.
My dad had a 70 Bird. I remember the day he traded it for a 69 Charger 440 Magnum, a 70 Coronet RT convertible with a 383, and $5k cash. That was 45 years ago.
Beautiful, beautiful Daytona. The Daytona Charger and Road Runner Superbird are incredible. If only I had the money for one.
One of the ugliest cars produced
@@mattephoto6850 Your opinion and it don't mean much to me. Go troll somewhere else.
The only reason why a 1969 Charger was converted to what you see is because the objective was to hit 200 MPH on the NASCAR circuit and also the Charger 500 was only hitting low 180's using the 426 race HEMI. Aerodynamics play a BIG part when you're up at those speeds. 18" nose was adapted and a 23" back wing too and air dams. The rear window on the regular Charger's was made flush with the body. Buddy Baker hit 200.096 average MPH in the Daytona at NASCAR back in 1970(03/24/70). Dodge and Plymouth had to do something to compete effectively with Ford. Racing back then was HUGE and Mopar and Ford just hated each other out on the racetrack. So Bill France said, "you want to race here? 500 units produced for the public and you can race your stock car at NASCAR." Plymouth had to build their '70 Roadrunner into the 1970 Super Bird in order to race in 1970. 1 car for every 2 dealerships. Thus, 1935 SB's were built to satisfy the "godfather of NASCAR."--Bill France
FYI-505 Daytona's built at "Creative Industries" in Detroit. They were modified Charger 500's. In 73 days they were all built and ready to go. Summer of '69. Original list price for a 1969 Dodge Daytona--- $3,860.00
There's NO 1970 Daytona nor 1971 Super Birds. "1 year wonders." And that is Mopar history for you. Thanks 4 reading.
Click on the link below to see Baker actually make racing history back in 1970 at the Talladega AL motor speedway. Press skip ad button to go video.
czcams.com/video/xzWlEkUuYYc/video.html
Nice copy and paste job
Calm down
I can remember these on the lot sitting price at the time was high and the public wasn't impressed only race fans loved em
@@stevenmorrison4692 Steven, this was all from memory of "wing car" Mopar history I can recall. As I age, this Mopar history will fade from memory. It's for all you Mopar fans to read and digest. Enjoy!
@@jimardizoni3453 Outrageous looking cars weren't they?
l am in my 80's an l had one of these when they new....lt was a straight line car...Thanks
People laughed at them back then, mostly didn't they? Did you sell yours before or after they became collectable? Most didn't have a clue they would ever be worth anything back in the day and sold them for a grand or two if that. Did your dealer have a hard time selling it, and did that help you get a good deal on it? How did you use the car? Just drove it around as a normal daily driver, right or did you appreciate it and understand it's significance, even back then and baby it?
@@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism l raced every guy that l could back in those days....l flipped over on its top going to Harlan Country Kentucky one night at l think 1:30AM hauling Moon shine...Thanks for asking....No body l know ever laughed at them...l was king of the road...!
@@steveshoemaker6347 Wow that's awesome. So what became of the car? They must of just crushed it, if it was just a 10 year or old car or less that rolled, right?
Mopar buff here. Where'd ya'all buy that wing car from and ya remember how much it was? Was it the Charger Daytona or Superbird?
@@rickbailey189 in 1969 l bout my Dodge Charger Daytona foe $3.700.00....An in that day $3.700 was a lot of money...Thanks
A magnificent car!
That's a beautiful mopar.
The company I worked for had an office one floor down from the Chrysler district sales office, and one day a week they had a sales meeting with all their dealer reps. At the time, the Superbirds and Daytonas were selling slowly, so all the reps were given one as their company car. I would come to work and there would be a parking lot row of these cars to look at. What a spectacular view it was. I guess I should have just stopped up at their office and made an offer to buy one, but my eyes were bigger than my wallet in those days. Hindsight is always 20/20.
Too bad you didn't have a crystal ball or went to Gypsy fortune teller.
@@rickbailey189 The story of my life. A day late and a dollar short.
@@bobkonradi1027 Look at the bright side, you could still buy a nice decent '69 Charger if ya really want one. Something tells me these cars are going to drop in value a bit by the next decade.
In 1969 one of these monsters sat on a Dodge dealer's lot near my apartment and virtually rotted in the sun. It may have still been on the lot when I moved from the area in 1971.
Absolutely fantastic!!
Mecum is the Best 👍🏻
I remember seeing these going for ~$250k not too entirely long ago and my friends laughedat how much I wished I could own one, saying how ludicrous itvwas for a "car like that" to be that expensive... It's insane how much they've skyrocketed in the last 5-10 years or so. Just wow.
Sweet Jesus that car is gorgeous inside and out.
A thing of beauty
Hoovie needs to find the original engine for his Daytona.
He has a Super Bird
@@diegohorton869 a pretty so called rough one.
@@relaxitsme_alex9104 he recently got it tuned. It looks like it’s working great.
@@bngr_bngr oh I saw it. I wouldn't be surprised if he sold it for a half mil since it doesn't have the original motor. But knowing how the market is. I wouldn't be surprised if it sold for close to a million.
who cares about another rich guy with 10 supercars....
I used to see these cars on the road when I was a young boy and I would dream about owning one but not at that price.
Where did you live? Only 503 were made and many used in NASCAR
Great old times indeed. When I were a wee tyke of 17 years in 1970 my Dad gave me his '66 Olds Dynamic 88 425 convertible with variable "switch" pitch stator blades in the torque converter. Wow, that car was fast off a standing start. It put down vast amounts of rubber and the tires smoked up seemingly forever. At one point a few years later I owned a '66 289 Sunbeam Tiger that would chirp in all four gears but I have never lost my affection for that '66 Olds. A good one is only $16,000 vs. the $1.2 million sale price for the Daytona. If one would like a piece of 1960's nostalgia but can't afford the million dollar super cars there is always a great selection of GM, Chrysler and Fords available that are fast and look great.
Makes me think of Joe-Dirt .. Nothing but pure muscle..
I LOVE IT!!!!! SO BEAUTIFUL AND THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!
Man this car is beautiful. Love the color !!!!!
That paint color is AMAZING.
I always loved these cars and I can remember them on used car lots in the late 60s and early 70s
I just saw a Plymouth Superbird going down Barbour Blvd, In Portland Oregon, an hour ago, thinking, there's a million dollar car. It was STP blue, with number 43 on the side.
Unless it’s a hemi car, it’s not a million dollar car. A regular 440 bird goes for a touch over 100K
In 1969 if you had this car you would believe it be that much in 5/20/22 53 years blow your mind 💰
Not really
The stock market would have had you at $750k ($4000 investment in S&P in 1969)
Only winged Mopar I ever saw on the road was a Superbird in Norfolk, VA when I was stationed there 1969-71.
Yes they sat on the lots forever. My cousin has a yellow Superbird. Have never seen a Daytona except in car museums. Those were the days. Chrysler Corp. made the hottest muscle cars IMHO.
..in your opinion and on the streets and race tracks record books, muahaha.
not only hot, but tougher & stronger than anything else, anywhere on earth.
Good stuff loved these cars
The dodge dealers couldn't give those things away when new in 1969.
Had anyone known what they would become back in the 70's when they were just weird looking cars. You could have bought 10 of them for a couple grand a piece, put them away and retired today.
Exactly.
Yeah, The Boomers weren't as gearheaded like their off-springs, More into family station wagoning and mortgages 😂
I think the look of the Dayton and Superbird from the front was the real turn-off, The rear spoiler was actually a beauty. In the 1980s I've seen rear spoilers dam near this size on Corvettes and supped-up Honda Accords but yeah, They didn't catch-on with average auto consumers and a lot of hi-per enthusiasts just couldn't afford them [if that makes sense] !
And your x wife?
So true, dealers weren't able to sell any... If they only knew...
Love that car and color!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👏
Now that is a car worth a million dollars! Dale yeah! 🏁🏁
Spectacular car!
I had the 1969 Daytona dodge brand new, hemi off the show room in Marion Ohio in 1969. Had it for two years, and sold it for my purchase price of about $4,500. I have the title and photos to show.
Did you realize at the time that it was just 1 of 22 built? What Dodge dealership? With the HEMI under the hood, the car would've been close to $5000. Tax, etc. it would've topped 5 g's in 1969. With 440 under hood, it was about 4 g's.
I remember that dealership. Dad always did business with the dealership in Delaware because he thought those guys were crooks.
I so miss the full auction on CZcams
What’s an actions
In 1975 I was a junior in high school and bought my first car, a 1969 Dodge Charger. 383 Magnum, automatic on the center console. Nice looking car with 57,000 miles. White with a dark green vinyl roof. Dark green interior. Paid $1,200. I owned it for a year and a half and sold it for $1,000. I then bought a 1967 Chevelle Malibu for $ 700.00.
I never owned a "winged" supercar, but I had several "classics" in my youth. A '61 T-Bird Convertible w/slideaway steering wheel, '67 Corvair Spyder, '66 Mustang and several others that would be worth big bucks today if they were restored. My buddies and brothers had Cuda's, SS 396 Chevelle's, Z-28's, '56 & '57 Chevy's, an early Mach I Mustang and lots of Mopar muscle. Strangely though, no one wanted a Corvette. I looked into buying one only to find out that the insurance payments would've been more than the car payments! We "kids" back then weren't interested in imports, we wanted "American Muscle!"
Last year for the Spyder was 1964. They were dubbed Corsa from 1965 on.
In the late 90s, there was a NOS plastic DDC nosepiece in the orig. wood crating down here in S. Florida. I bought a bunch of stuff from the owner's warehouse sale but lost out on the nosepiece when someone gave him $100.00 more. I think it was only $1200.00, or $1300.00. Stupid me.
Awesome color!
How big you want your rear wing?
- Yes
Big enough so the trunk lid clears
@@canadaeast8358 exactly!
What a gorgeous car. American muscle is still popular here in America.
I remember a row of these brand new at the Dodge dealer near my house in Northglenn Co when I was 9 yrs old. If only we knew!!
If you could only go back in time for these cars
Mopar had so many great stock colors - I had a 1970 Charger 500 - Plum Crazy - Purple! My favorite was the chartreuse - Awesome!
One of my favorite models looks cool and green but I love the petty blue version
Love it !
I wish I could take it around the track a fee laps!
beautiful
Mecum guys are happy because of the premium bonus coming their way!
I'm not into old cars but this one is really nice
Such an awesome car. Made history as well. Idk about it being 1.2m but its deff worth buying.
Just remember, that isn’t real money! It’s just cars changing hands at what shows a higher selling price.
This is beauty
MOPAR ruled the 60's and 70's, this Daytona at $1.2MILLION, they were capable of speeds of 220mph or more and nothing could touch the Daytona or the Plymouth Superbird on the track or the street. Then there was a HEMI Cuda from 1970 or 1971, I'm not sure what year but what I do know is it was sold for $3.5MILLION. Incredible pieces of automotive art that look as good now as they did in those days, the most explosive, greatest muscle car periods like it is/was now. No matter the economy or gas prices there's folks that love to hit the gas and scream down the road. There's nothing like the sound of a HEMI at full throttle, or Chevy 454 or the Ford BOSS 429.
Wow just great
I’m here stressing about a 19k car loan, and the starting bid on this car is $900,000.
For a car he'll never get to enjoy fully...
@@dustinwarner6594 Sure he can.
A bargain compared to the Mercedes that just sold for $143,000,000.
@@747heavyboeing3 he will enjoy the money he makes when he sells it later on. These are investments to these guys... and I understand that I'm sure he's got something at home tho that he can shred and beat on to put a grin on his face when he wants
@@dustinwarner6594 Jay Leno drives his classic cars. Many collectors have drivers too. I went to a going away party for a serious collector with 14 classic Mopars in his garage. Still has original 1969 Dodge Charger that was his first car.
well there goes the dream car
I’m not huge on the color, but spec wise, this is probably the nicest charger in existence.
I love the metallic dark green, reminds me of a forest.
What a BADASS car.
Thanks so very much for driving the prices of these cars up. Now I will never be able to afford one. Well done.
I had a co-worker who said his brother bought one new. I knew a guy who taught in my auto shop that had a 440 Daytona.
I have one just like that in my barn.
I'm sure you do!.....Holding out for 2 million Huh?
I had a 69 R/T Dodge charger same color /black vinyl top 440 Magnum 4 speed 3.23 track pack tic tac clock Magnum 500 Wheels I had it for 8 months before it was hit by a drunk driver it had correct wiring harness everything on the car was original it had 70,000 miles I bought it in 1981 for $800 I kept the original broadcast sheet that was behind the back seat in the center of the upper seat in a sealed bag. The only thing that didn't work on the car was the fuel gauge and I hadn't quite got to fixing that yet I had installed headers and a holly double pumper. I ran out of gas in a rainstorm I ran 5 miles ran into my mom's bedroom grab the keys out of her purse and roasted them like starsky and hutch I got back to the crash site unknown to me it had been hit by a drunk driver I slid my mom's old Cutlass sideways with the door open and had one leg out ran up to the car and started beating on the passed out drunk drivers window I could have sued him but I chose not to because they were poor.
Um ok wow, quite a story, what exactly does that have to do with this video?
My lord what a car.
DAYUM!
One of me droogs from my high school days (class of '71) has one of those his father bought new. About 30,000 miles, all original. Me droog has about 30 other cars from the era, all stock. They live on his farm in a gigantic garage he built.
I didn’t even know they made an avocado green Daytona and 69 as a factory paint job
Insane
What's the guy they were talking to the previous owner of the Daytona that David Spade purchased?
Wow!
Those hubcaps put it over the top.
How? They are just plain old dog bowls? I understand keeping it original but that chrome sticks out like a sore thumb.
@@KatiTheButcher sarcasm
@@davidperry970 I was hoping so!
I remember seeing several of these and Superbirds for sale for 20k or less
I'm sad that's its not in my garage 😭
what a car
crazy money
Cool.......... 👍👍👍
beauty
It's like looking at a Lion in captivity.
That's what I mean when I say "Now, that's a car!" That's my dream car through and through, except the color. Mine would be B5 blue with black wing and graphic.
That F-8 green is my favorite dodge color. Plum Crazy is not far behind 🏁
I see in one of my car magazines that someone built their own version of a Daytona. Pile of mixed parts but well executed. Total cost $8,500. Who's the smart one here?
My late brother would have been there bidding on the car.I could just imagine him thinking about how to win.
i remember seeing one driving on the streets in 1974..it was so wild looking ..i am thinking it was orange.
I wanted one so bad when I was a kid in about 1981. There were 2 setting in a junkyard in KCMO. My dad thought they were the dumbest looking cars ever although he did take me to the yard to look at those 2 cars. They were 440 cars and the owner of the junkyard wouldn't even talk about selling them. He was happy to let us drool over them though. Today that yard is a Pick and Pull and both of the Daytonas were sold sometime in the late 80's/early 90's. Amazing had anyone known what they would become back then.
FOR $1.2 MILLION YAAAALL
A couple months ago, B-J auction had 001 2023 Z06. $3,000,000. Guess who got it. Rick Hendrick of course.
I actually saw a Dodge Daytona on Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia one time. The only Daytona I've ever seen on the road. Must have been about '70 or '71. Superbirds were plentiful compared to Daytona's.
Mopar or no car. Always on top.
Someone please educate me. What does it mean when a reserve comes off as opposed to it still being on? Thank you in advance.
The reserve is set but when it comes close the owner is asked if he will take the winning bid...just to make the sale.
@@eckyx9019 Got it X. Thank You.
Boy I sure miss my 69 super Bee 383 4 speed and my 69 Coronet with a 440 one day I hope they win the lottery unless somebody would like to donate one 🎅🤶 I've been good
Didn't the previous record setting Daytona sell to David spade?
Holy .... It's unbelievable when you think this car was worth probably about 5 or 6000 back in 69. Looovvvee the color. Wicked. 😲😘 When I see these I'm always remember the cook from the pizza shop I used to go to in the late 80's that had, well, not a Daytona, but the rusted out Superbird he used to always park out front.
They couldn't even sell them in 69. Check it out.
@@zone47 Actually, come to think of it I've heard that. Upon looking up the price in 69 they were even less too. Around 4 and half thousand.
@@danbaumann8273 My old man bought his Black on Black Hemi Daytona from Reedmans in Langhorn Pa in early 71 , paid 3990 cash for it.
@@rickgehring7507 Unreal. Love b on b. I wonder if that wasn't a rare color combo too.
I will keep my 17' 392 Charger for another 50 years and then sell it and retire......oh wait...I will be long dead in 50 years....haha
Congratulations to whatever hedge fund investor on their new acquisition.
old school money making. Plot twist would be if that bidder was actual flush with cash because of Crypto haha
I think the color helped
Further evidence that cars can indeed be a good investment.
Ya,it does take a lot of money to keep a car in that condition for over 50 years though!!
It’s a good investment until it all goes pop. I guess for as long as the US government prints money like confetti then it’s going to continue.
@@ThE420DbOY
Nah, just a proper place to keep it.
A good investment requires a 1969 investment of $4000 to be worth more than $750k today without any holding costs. If your garage cost $1000 in 1969, then you would need to be at over $1m to be "good." -Obviously this car qualifies, but since this is the best; then it has to be compared against the $100m you could have had from the best stock market investment.
If only I could time travel.....
Lol the body lines are off missing a few rubber parts to pay that kind of money lmfao 🤣
If the owner blows the Hemi up I always have a slant six he can use.
This car is the grandchild of Sarge and the King, in the Cars Pixar movie
wow!!
Wow 🤩 !!!!😎😎😎😎