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The combustion chamber that made Chrysler famous was never Chrysler’s invention, and the company’s first hemispherical engine was not designed for a car at all. It was drawn for a fighter plane, then refined in a tank, and it reached showrooms in 1951 wearing a name that had nothing to do with geometry. Read on to find out how a wartime experiment became the most valuable four letters in American performance.
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.