Does anyone know if this car is still out there?

[67charger383]

Must be one of the rarest mopars ever, and has to be a 1of1.
Pink '69 charger 500 with a hemi and a 727

 

[slimt]

Thats pretty cool.

 

[Lionized]

Must be one of the rarest mopars ever, and has to be a 1of1.
Pink '69 charger 500 with a hemi and a 727

That Charger is actually red. It just looks pink.
Rare enough though.

 

[R413]

Yes it’s alive today, it’s R4 red, Which is on the orange side of red. Yes it looks pink on the video. there is a restoration thread on this car here:

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,135491.0.html

 

[67charger383]

Yes it’s alive today, it’s R4 red, Which is on the orange side of red. Yes it looks pink on the video. there is a restoration thread on this car here:

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,135491.0.html

Huh. must be a little colorblind.
Looks exactly like FM3 Panther Pink to me

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Huh. must be a little colorblind.
Looks exactly like FM3 Panther Pink to me

It's an old film.... Films break down... It wasn't digitalize in 1969... It might have been digitalized in 2009.... A forty year old film isn't gonna have true colors... And while someone may have gone through the trouble of digitalizing an old road test they didn't spend the time to correct the colors...

 

[Photon440]

Huh. must be a little colorblind.
Looks exactly like FM3 Panther Pink to me

Panther Pink wasn't a 1969 colour.

 

[slimt]

just like the film.. paint fades after 50 years..

 

[#41]

Bud calls it a "cherry red" charger 20 seconds into the video. Pretty definitive.

 

[Photon440]

He also says "most of the super cars that we test fall in the 'intermediate' class, but this full sized sedan"...
Did he think it was based on a Polara or something?

 

[67charger383]

He also says "most of the super cars that we test fall in the 'intermediate' class, but this full sized sedan"...
Did he think it was based on a Polara or something?

To be fair, B bodies are big cars

 

[Kern Dog]

To be fair, B bodies are big cars

By today's standards, maybe.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

By today's standards, maybe.

In their time they are considered mid-sized.... Currently the only thing bigger is a Challenger....

 

[YY1]

Didn't we have pretty good evidence right here on FBBO of a 69 Super Bee with 999 paint that was FM3 everywhere it should have been (floors, under the seam sealer, etc)?

 

[R413]

Chrysler paint codes. The first letter is the year it came out. Just like the letter stamped on the engine block. F is 1970. FM3 code came out in Feb 1970. There is paperwork to prove it.

Now the color existed before that and could be mixed up, like that 69 Bee with 999 code. Who knows what the actual code to mix it and it was called, but it was not FM3 because the code didn’t exist yet.

999 Paint code was for any color that was not on the standard color list for that make and model. So if you wanted an imperial color on a Plymouth then the code is 999. But it could Almost be any color a customer wanted.

 

[YY1]

I wonder how much development lead time the paint department had for upcoming offerings?

 

[33 IMP]

If memory serves..... 999 was used for a custom order color, for fleet use, generally. If, for instance, you wanted a bunch of four door satellites for taxi use, they would paint them all your specific shade of yellow, or green, or whatever.
Maybe that 69 Super Bee was Mary Kay pink? Not FM3.

 

[YY1]

I've personally seen a 999 paint 73 or 74 'Cuda that was plum crazy/in violet- still in ratty original paint.

 

[Ron H]

Imagine a nice set of rubber (or M/T's back in the day) would have lowered the 1/4 mile numbers some...425 HP getting 14 seconds is right awful.

 

[67charger383]

Imagine a nice set of rubber (or M/T's back in the day) would have lowered the 1/4 mile numbers some...425 HP getting 14 seconds is right awful.

Probably had 3.23 gears and wasn't tuned properly