No, the price I remember was for a *1966* Plymouth Belvedere II that I
was reminded of by the original posting. The Daytona and/or the
Superbird had not yet been introduced when I was in high school.
The 1966 Belvedere II with a 426 Hemi preceded the Dodge Charger Daytona
model by three-and-a-half years (four years for the Plymouth Superbird)
and was simply a very plain, bare bones, 2-door automobile with a big
ass engine shoe-horned in under the hood.
According to what I read today, the 426 Hemi was introduced to NASCAR in
1964, but Chrysler was not allowed to use it for the 1965 season because
it wasn't available in a production vehicle.
Chrysler fixed that in the 1966 model year by offering the 426 Hemi as
an option on the 1966 Belvedere II and the low price I saw may have
reflected something of a loss leader to sell enough of them in a short
enough time to meet NASCAR's requirements.
By the time the Charger Daytona and Plymouth Superbird came along,
Chrysler didn't need to encourage those sales to meet NASCAR's
requirements; the "muscle-car" phenomenon had caught on by then.
On 2/22/2014 3:54 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
That price is wrong. Here’s a marooned sticker from a Dodge Daytona with the
less expensive 440 engine. It’s well over 4K. This car was an OE restoration
winner at the Mopar Nationals a couple of years back. You can back up to the
folder if you want to see it. Not very pretty. The nose is correctly mismatched
and the assembly is appropriately shoddy. That’s the way it came from the
factory, so that’s the way the OE resto boys finish them.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16382240
On Feb 22, 2014, at 12:07 AM, Ken Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
For reference, in 1966, my 1966 Shelby GT 350 was only $4200, new out the door.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Franklin" <do...@nutdriver.org>
Subject: Re: Daytona Superbird
On 2014-02-21 19:35, Ken Waller wrote:
Sticker price as equipped $2400 including optional heater & AM radio.
Seems remarkably low.
In '67 my dad bought a brand new Plymouth Barracuda Fastback for about $3,500.
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