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Tim Wellborn built one of the deepest private Mopar collections in the country, including a genuine NASCAR Daytona raced by K&K Insurance and a limelight-green Hemi four-speed he refuses to restore. When Rocket Restorations’ Tom mentioned he was a fan of the channel, Tim didn’t just say thanks — he flew him down for a personal tour and a drive. Watch to see what fifty years of collecting looks like from behind the wheel.
A New Jersey car owner named Mario Rossi refused to accept a NASCAR rule that was supposed to end his Dodge Daytona program for good. So he built the smallest engine the rulebook allowed and sent it out to embarrass the sport’s biggest teams. What happened next has stayed a Mopar racing secret for over 50 years.
This Hemi Orange 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona was built for one reason: to homologate Dodge’s radical aero package for NASCAR, and only about 503 were ever made. But one sharp-eyed commenter swears this isn’t the car they think it is — the wheels give it away. Watch to see what separates a documented Daytona from a case of mistaken identity.
Chevrolet built 69 Camaro ZL1s. Dodge built 503 Charger Daytonas just to satisfy a NASCAR rule, and Shelby finished exactly one Super Snake before the project died. Here is what the production records actually say about all five of these blue-chip legends, including the one that was never a one-year car at all.
Only about 70 of the 503 Dodge Charger Daytonas built for 1969 left the factory with a 426 Hemi, and Tom Lembeck’s car pairs that rare engine with an even rarer factory color, F6 Spring Green Metallic. Built purely to win NASCAR’s aero wars, the Daytona’s 18-inch nosecone and towering wing still look radical decades later. Read on to find out why a paint code can matter almost as much as an engine code.
Only about 503 Dodge Charger Daytonas were ever built, a number that existed purely to satisfy NASCAR’s homologation rules, and this particular car belongs to an even smaller group: one of just 139 built with the 440 engine and a 4-speed manual. Muscle Cars With Eric sits down with the collector who owns it to unpack the aerodynamic engineering that pushed Buddy Baker past 200 mph and the aero war it kicked off. Discover what makes a winged Mopar like this one a different kind of rare.
Ryan Brutt, The Auto Archaeologist, returns for a third visit to a private warehouse hiding a stunning run of aero-era Mopars, Daytonas, a Superbird, and more, parked alongside far more ordinary iron. Not every car here is a survivor ready to drive, and one viewer’s own Superbird memory adds a layer the video alone could not. Watch to see what three visits still has not fully uncovered.
Dodge never actually built a 1971 Charger Daytona — the aero-warrior program ended after 1970. Gary and Pam Beineke built one anyway, using documentation of an actual Chrysler prototype, then added a 472 Six Pack, a Bi-wing spoiler, a pistol-grip five-speed, and, improbably, a sunroof. Completed in 2001 and shown at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, it’s a recreation detailed enough to make Mopar loyalists stop and ask questions. Watch to see how close two people got to building the car Chrysler almost made.
This quiz-format rundown of Dodge trivia mixes real automotive history with one deliberately planted lie, daring viewers to separate fact from fiction across seven claims — from the 1968 Charger’s controversial “Coke bottle” styling to a Lamborghini connection behind the Viper’s V10. Some of it is common knowledge among Mopar fans. At least one claim is designed to catch even serious enthusiasts off guard. Watch to the end to see which fact doesn’t hold up.
On paper this matchup is over before either Charger leaves the line: one carries a supercharged 707-horsepower V8, the other a naturally aspirated 5.7 making roughly half that. But the Daytona name on the underdog was borrowed from the first car in NASCAR history to lap a closed circuit at 200 mph, courtesy of Buddy Baker at Talladega in 1970. The 2013 Daytona Edition never claimed to be a straight-line fighter. Read on for what it actually was.
Calling a car unbelievable is not usually meant literally, but a 1971 Dodge Charger wearing Daytona badges has a timeline problem. The winged Charger Daytona was built for exactly one model year, and 1971 was not it. By then the body had changed completely and NASCAR had already written the rules that killed the aero cars. Here is what the original Daytona actually was, and what a 1971 car with that badge is really telling you.
Dodge’s 1969 Charger Daytona wore a 23-inch nose cone and a rear wing tall enough to bolt through the fenders, chasing a single goal: beating NASCAR’s fastest superspeedway cars. It worked well enough to hit 205 mph at Chrysler’s own proving ground, but only 503 were built, and just 70 got the legendary Hemi engine. Read on for the numbers behind one of muscle car history’s shortest, strangest production runs.
This photo captures one of NASCAR’s rarest creations: a genuine wing car from the sport’s brief but wild ‘aero wars.’ Built by Dodge and Plymouth to chase top speed with towering rear wings and extended nosecones, cars like this one dominated the 1970 season before a single rule change legislated them out of competition almost overnight. Read on to find out why that rule mattered so much, and why surviving examples are worth seven figures today.