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Edmunds put a 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack through a full test-track battery — three launch modes, a quarter mile in the 11-second range, braking, skidpad, and a dedicated range test — to answer one question: does an electric Charger actually deserve the name? The car’s Fratzonic exhaust system, built to fake a V8 soundtrack, gets its own verdict too. The results split the difference between genuinely quick and genuinely different.
Ramo Stott’s #7 Superbird won four races across ARCA, USAC, and NASCAR-adjacent competition in the early 1970s, and current owner Doug Schellinger has spent years turning its scars into documented history, down to a rear window that Stott himself deformed with a blowtorch to pass tech inspection. Every ding, weld, and mismatched panel on this car has a story and, often, a photograph to back it up. Read on to find out how a blown engine and a stubborn NASCAR inspector shaped one of the most authenticated winged cars left on the road.
To legally race its wing-nosed Charger on NASCAR’s superspeedways in 1969, Dodge had to build at least 500 street-legal versions first, whether buyers wanted one or not. This Daytona is one of just 503 built to satisfy that rule, and one of 433 fitted with a 440 instead of the Hemi. Some viewers say it is more than any ordinary muscle car deserves to be called. Here is why the rule that created it still matters.