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Nice car collection. (You can skip to the 4:00 mark)
Never Titled Never Registered '69 Daytona
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BeepBeepRR
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What a nice collection of cars.. Even the Chevy/Pontiac stuff is cool.
SgtSuperbird
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Damn...
6PKRTSE
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Nice collection. Awesome Daytona. I even like the Chevy and Pontiac stuff also. I like all brand name musclecar era vehicles. I work on them all and build them all. I just choose to spend my money on Mopars.
XS22J8R
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That Daytona was at Moparty in 2022. Me and Ryan Brutt talked the owner into registering it for the big wing car feature at MCACN 2022 that was happening a few months later, but when MCACN happened it wasn't there so I don't know what happened with that.
I recall another Daytona featured in Mopar Action around 20 years ago that was kept by the dealer and not titled. I don't remember much about that car other than it was a 440 car and maybe it red or orange.
I recall another Daytona featured in Mopar Action around 20 years ago that was kept by the dealer and not titled. I don't remember much about that car other than it was a 440 car and maybe it red or orange.
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The unsold red one from years back was in VA and the dealer wanted 500k for it back then.
Car had been used by the family some and for local parades, had the same mechanic at the dealer for years that kept it up. Had 7500 miles on it when featured. Always wondered what happened to it.
Car had been used by the family some and for local parades, had the same mechanic at the dealer for years that kept it up. Had 7500 miles on it when featured. Always wondered what happened to it.
autoxcuda
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Never sold, but 7,500 miles. ... the "never registered" implies extremely low mileage
To me it goes by condition. Even low mile cars stored in certain environments and look worse than others with higher mileage. Reminds me of the low mile yellow T/A from Chicago that had light coat of rust underneath it. Just not that impressive underneath.
These wing cars were always consider special. I'm sure some had their speedometers disconnected to preserve their low mileage too.
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Good point on the issue of condition versus miles. My GTX had 50,000 after being with the dealer for 15 years. It was a daily driver for the first five. I don't think too many got refurbished with all NOS sheet metal and exterior trim before being sold, like this one did. Climate controlled storage after being sold in 1983. I know the story and the miles are real, because I was there.
XS22J8R
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That T/As story sure seemed suspicious for a car that only had 179 miles in the clock. It was bought at Mr Norms in Chicago and the buyer lived out in Western IL around Peoria or Moline, which is about 100 miles from Chicago. It was hard to see too many original details of the underside as he’d decided it would look nice to spraybomb much of it yellow. Had headers, an alarm, mags, and might have had traction bars too. So he bought the car, drove it home, did some mods, then only put 50 or so more miles on it then let it sit? Or did he disconnect the odometer and put thousands on it? The daughter had the car after he died so the true story went to the grave with him.
I’ve only seen a handful of survivor Mopars in immaculate condition and those were cars the original owners had gone to great lengths to store. The FJ5 AAR and a B3 T/A Tim Wellborn had, and the TX9 hemi cuda convertible that a Texas billionaire bought a few years ago for $4M from the original owner who was a career Mopar mechanic who’d ordered the car at work in 1970, are 3 that come to mind.
But for the most part any car 50-60 years old had some time in its life it was in less than perfect environment storage.
I’ve got a buddy who has a nice collection and money, but always seemed to end up with more cars than garage space.
He had his beautiful Charger R/T garaged at his dad’s, but after his dad passed he put it in his enclosed trailer, which has a leaky vent. In a year sadly that car deteriorated a lot, pitted chrome, surface rust underhood, mice got under the console and set up housekeeping there. So as I said before, it doesn’t take long in a less than perfect environment for a car to suffer a lot.
autoxcuda
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Yea, my buddy Troy had a So Cal Challenger T/A FT6 with under 60K miles. It looked much better underneath than that yellow T/A.
His car had worn paint, sun fadded/cracked light tan interior, and motor ported heads and headers. So he still did a full resto on it. Much better condition than the 73 RR/GTX that's in another post here called a survivor.
His car had worn paint, sun fadded/cracked light tan interior, and motor ported heads and headers. So he still did a full resto on it. Much better condition than the 73 RR/GTX that's in another post here called a survivor.
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autoxcuda
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This low mile Daytona seems to be missing the chrome buttons on the door map pockets
White upholstery does not age well over time. Used or not. I'm thinking some of the white soft trim might be replaced.
White upholstery does not age well over time. Used or not. I'm thinking some of the white soft trim might be replaced.
SgtSuperbird
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Were the chrome pieces on the map pockets only on a certain trim level? My car does not have them, and most, but not all, of the stock pictures on the internet do not have them either.
autoxcuda
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Repro panels don’t have them . You have to put them on.
They tend to fall off too.
Do you have original plans door panels?
My 68 barracuda has same design map pockets with the same chrome ends.
SgtSuperbird
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I assumed they were original, but I can find out for sure.
autoxcuda
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A friend of my friends stored this car in Massachusetts for the family who owned Brockton Dodge for many years. The story that the car was in Florida for the last 50 years is total BS! The car was in Wrentham Massachusetts until the son of the Dealerships owner sold the car about four years ago. I saw the car in person with my own eyes several times over the years. The stripe has been replaced,and wing repainted. I remember the interior yellowing,so the door panels and seat covers were probably replaced. The car had different wheels on it back then,and the original magnum 500 wheels were in the trunk. We used this car to take measurements,and template parts from when we were making Daytona parts.
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SgtSuperbird
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Interesting... and interesting how they attach. I assumed they were pinched on, similar to the small chrome pieces on the sun visors. But, they are fastened by a pin and thread cutting nut. I haven't looked at my door panels yet, but I assume if there's a hole at each corner, the original pieces fell off. If no holes, they are repop door cards?
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The dealer add-on vinyl top is so strange to me...
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The story goes that the original owner/dealer liked vinyl tops. He did quite a few of the cars when they came into his dealership.
Vinyl tops were very popular back then.
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