American Muscle We’ll Be Watching in Monterey 2024

[Hey-O]

And that's one of the first things I changed on my first new 67, after I burnt off the original tires.

Where I'm from, across the highway from the St Louis plant, they did the same thing!!

 

[chargervert]

Where I'm from, across the highway from the St Louis plant, they did the same thing!!

Someone had to gently break in all those brand new mopar muscle cars!

 

[eldubb440]

I would put the wheels and tires on the green car on my head if they weren't so heavy

heavy is the head who wears the crown

 

[chargervert]

It's good to be King!

 

[eldubb440]

have you tried getting radio stations on that thing?

 

[chargervert]

I get Satellite Television on it! A Mopar pun!

 

[Hey-O]

Someone had to gently break in all those brand new mopar muscle cars!

I used to watch them drive the course for their final shakedown before loading for parts unknown. You wouldn't believe the show we watch on an eight hour shift. I watched some get towed back to the plant. If you bought Mopar Muscle it was well broken in before it hit the dealer and damn sure before you got it from them.

 

[68BabyBlue]

I used to watch them drive the course for their final shakedown before loading for parts unknown. You wouldn't believe the show we watch on an eight hour shift. I watched some get towed back to the plant. If you bought Mopar Muscle it was well broken in before it hit the dealer and damn sure before you got it from them.

Back in 2017, I talked to an organizer for a local show, who had been the lot boy for Clark Motor Company in 1969, shuttled customers in what later became my car, told me he ran the daylights out of it. When I bought it, in 2022, it ran great.

 

[Budnicks]

Said it before and I'll say it again. In the '70's I rarely EVER saw performance cars with stock wheels. Even the original rallys and magnums were ditched for either Cragars, Keystones, or slots.

Exactly,
it's a new trend, not the best either...
Attempts to look OE, even if not ordered that way

The 'Chrome Road Wheels' no trim ring style like 68's weren't bad,
most were 14" though

these cars have big *** wheel wells
they need some wheels/rims & tires to fill them, not some f70 14"s

 

[chargervert]

75 MPH speed rated white wall tires on a car designed to break the 200 MPH barrier!

 

[66ChargerHI-PO]

Was that tan metallic 4spd one for sale at same auction?

Not THAT same auction, but I believe at a Mecum one. Here is a post on here about it 9 years ago….

David Spade - Purchases SWEET Daytona!

 

[66ChargerHI-PO]

 

[chargervert]

If I were to sell off a few cars,I could afford about this much of an original Daytona Charger in the current market!

 

[Coelacanth]

$990,000 in 2015
$1,320,000 in 2022


This 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona broke an auction record, but could it have claimed more? - Hagerty Media

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I thought that Daytona looked familiar. I could be wrong but it looks to me like the rich enthusiast community is just buying and reselling that car for profit.