Dodge Charger 1968 Hemi

Dodge moved nearly 100,000 Chargers in 1968, but only 475 of them left the factory with the 426 Hemi under the hood — a number so small it puts every surviving example in rare-car territory before you even factor in color. This particular Charger pairs that Hemi with a shade rarely seen on Chargers today, echoing some of the genuinely scarce factory colors documented from that model year. A 4-speed stick backs up the engine, keeping the whole package period-correct and driver-focused.

Sweet 1968 Dodge Charger loaded with a 426 Hemi and 4-speed… We really like the color! It’s believed to be the only one of its kind.

Out of nearly 100,000 Chargers Dodge built for 1968, only 475 buyers checked the box for the 426 Hemi — less than one out of every two hundred cars sold. That number alone makes any surviving Hemi Charger a legitimate unicorn, but this one raises the stakes further with a color combination that’s almost never seen paired with the big engine. Dodge offered more than twenty exterior colors that year, and several were ordered so rarely that surviving examples can be counted on one hand. Stack a numbers-matching Hemi and a 4-speed on top of an already scarce color and you start closing in on genuinely unrepeatable territory. Just how rare does a combination like this actually get?

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Less Than One Percent Got the Hemi

Of the roughly 96,000 Chargers Dodge sold in 1968, 17,665 buyers went for the sportier R/T package — and of those, a mere 475 specified the range-topping 426 Hemi. That works out to about half a percent of total Charger production, which is why Hemi Chargers from this year sit near the top of most Mopar collectors’ wish lists regardless of color or options.

A Color Combination That’s Genuinely Hard to Find

Documented 1968 Charger production records show just how thin some of these color runs were — only seven cars were painted AA-1 Silver Poly that year, and shades like Light Gold (HH-1) were unpopular enough at the time that surviving examples are rarely seen today. While it’s tough to independently confirm any single car is truly “the only one of its kind,” the documented rarity of certain 1968 Charger colors makes that kind of claim entirely plausible on a genuinely scarce Hemi example like this one.

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