Daytona Charger's

[thrashingcows]

Good friend of mine...he's passed now...was a new car hauler back in the day. He remembered the wing cars well....but not with fondness. He said they were a major PITA to load on the trailers, and they would take up extra space that would affect the load, and another car could have been squeezed into. He also hated the 426 Hemi cars....said they were temperamental and would stall and shudder alot while trying to get them on/off the trailers. BTW he was a diehard mopar man. ;)

 

[MoPar Maniac]

Most of the Hemis werent set up properly until they got to the dealer and then not many dealers had guys who were any good at tuning them.
My brother worked at the STL assy plant back then. He told a few good stories about guys driving the cars around.

 

[polara71]

So many stories over the years its hard to know fact from fiction.

 

[sixpkrt]

@ 1978 NYB, thanks for the screen saver!
For info on the winged cars, go here: www.wingedwarriors.com

 

[crv]

Some people used them as daily drivers.

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

View attachment 115954 Some people used them as daily drivers.

modern picture, towing car is not a real Daytona just a clone

 

[crv]

modern picture, towing car is not a real Daytona just a clone

It's a real Daytona, is/was (?) owned by Joe Machado, there's a write up about him on the Imperial Club.
Online Imperial Club's Monthly Member Spotlight

 

[bluefury361]

modern picture, towing car is not a real Daytona just a clone

SO.........? Who cares. It's a great picture.

 

[1978 NYB]

I would love to have both of those cars!

 

[78Brougham]

It's a real Daytona, is/was (?) owned by Joe Machado, there's a write up about him on the Imperial Club.

Wow that's quite a collection!

 

[Moparmat2000]

503 charger daytonas made for sale to the public in 1969 to qualify it for homologation for nascar use.

In 1970 the rules changed to where 1 car was to be made for every dealership that sold that particular car. So for 1970 approx 1800 superbirds had to be built and sold to the general public to qualify its body for use in nascar.

And the rest is history.

 

[odcics2]

@ 1978 NYB, thanks for the screen saver!
For info on the winged cars, go here: www.wingedwarriors.com

TONS here: Aero Warriors

 

[odcics2]

Built to race!

 

[70bigblockdodge]

1935 is the official accepted number. 2 for every dealership. They had very limited options, all vinyl tops (black), a handful of colors, no A/C. Almost all are sales bank cars to be able to hit the number (to homoligate) for beginning of 70 season, and to beat the feds rule change on headlight door activation (no vacuum operation after 1/1/1970). They were done in house at Lynch road and finished at Clairmont pilot plant.
Good article in this months Mopar Action

 

[odcics2]

Another vintage pic

 

[detmatt]

At the Nats this year.

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

It's a real Daytona, is/was (?) owned by Joe Machado, there's a write up about him on the Imperial Club.
Online Imperial Club's Monthly Member Spotlight

a little late. Just read your post.

I know Joe and his son Sean Machado.
I have visited them in Palm Desert, too.

The white "Daytona" is a 1970 Charger RT u-code 440 car.
They do have genuine Daytonas and more Daytona clones as well as a bunch of other Chargers and rare Forwardlook Convertibles, too.

Carsten