Most $ & optioned 69 4 speed Hemi Daytona

[abebummy26]

Sorry my fault  .

[nascarxx29]

The green hemi daytona earliest owner was a Pat Harper

[learical1]

The green hemi daytona earliest owner was a Pat Harper

Yes, that's Pat Harper's Daytona, and the pictures were taken in my driveway.  My next door neighbor was a Corvair fanatic, and if you look carefully in the background, you'll see several Corvairs.  (my brother actually bought a turbo corvair from the guy, but wound up selling it back.)   Pat was a photographer, and he did run for Congress on the Libertarian ticket.  Pat died of a brain aneurysm, not a heart attack.

[learical1]

The same day those pictures were taken, we (Jim R, Joe M, Pat Harper, my brother, me and a couple other guys who drove over from California) drove around Phoenix to all the Aero Cars that us locals knew about.  One was a 500, brown with a vinyl roof, 440 auto and air.  This would have been 1975, maybe 1976. 

[pettybird]

two's ok  but those horders with three and 4 that need to stop ha ha ha I know several

 

BOOYAH

[Moparmatty]

Is the Canadian car you are talking about stripe delete and in Ontario Gene?

It's not the same car -- maybe I should be asking you where the one in Ontario is...   

Glad to hear it's not the same car.  LOL!!!!!!  I think you'd have to pry the keys to the car I'm talking about from the owner's cold dead hands.  It is a truely beautiful car.

[moparstuart]

two's ok  but those horders with three and 4 that need to stop ha ha ha I know several

 

BOOYAH

you horder you

     

[moparchris]

Bruce,
Am I correct then that Pat purchased the car from the English teacher at my old high school?  My friends who graduated before I got there were adamant that that Daytona resided in the faculty parking lot in the early to mid 70's.

[learical1]

Bruce,
Am I correct then that Pat purchased the car from the English teacher at my old high school?  My friends who graduated before I got there were adamant that that Daytona resided in the faculty parking lot in the early to mid 70's.

Unlikely.  When I first met Pat Harper, he owned the Daytona. That would have been 1975 or 1976.  I remember looking at the car before Pat bought it, some guy in his early '20's owned (and drag raced) it; this was before I bought my first SuperBird in 1974.  I didn't have the money to buy a nose, so I passed on it.  

[69_500]

Even then it wasn't cheap to find a nose cone. I know my dad paid almost as much for a spare nose cone in 1982 as he did for an entired Daytona.

[nascarxx29]

Somewhere in the mid 80-s I found a NOS daytona nose cone $3000.00.  ;DHeres the number

[moparchris]

Bruce,
The history of this Daytona is starting to baffle me.  The guys that went to my school before me are car guys and at a later date owned (among other cars) a 71 Hemi cuda convertable.  They described this Daytona to a tee.  Dark green, white top, black wing as sitting in the faculty parking lot.  Obviously there were not two green hemi Daytona's with no nose running around the valley in the early-mid 70's.  Was Pat Harper married?  Perhaps his wife drove the car from time to time?

[learical1]

Don't think he was married.  Girlfriend maybe?

[learical1]

BTW, everybody, sorry about the hijack of the thread.

[nascarxx29]

No problem whatsoever we  welcome collaberating facts on a car in subject

[69_500]

This is far from a hijack. As far as I can tell you two are talking about the same car, not definate but odds are. I mean how many green HEMI Daytona's were in that area at the time that were minus a nose cone?

[hemi-hampton]

Wonder what it's worth now with this bad economy? LEON.

[C5X DAYTONA]

Bruce,
Am I correct then that Pat purchased the car from the English teacher at my old high school?  My friends who graduated before I got there were adamant that that Daytona resided in the faculty parking lot in the early to mid 70's.

Here is a pic of it when Bruce Lear took my dad (Joe Machado) and Jim Radke and a few others to see it..  There is the Corvair that Bruce really wants...

[C5X DAYTONA]

This is also the same IRS car that was seized from Phil Jackson a while back.  There is another thread about the story. 

[Dave Kanofsky]

Do I spy a '66 / '67 Coronet wagon in the background?

[hemigeno]

This is probably just an optical illusion, but does that wing look to be painted F8 Green in Sean's last picture rather than black?

[Ghoste]

It does appear so doesn't it?

[moparstuart]

It does appear so doesn't it?

    black stripe but green wing

[learical1]

I grew up in a house at the end of a culdesac.  My neighbor 2 doors down did have a mid 60's mopar wagon.  My next door neighbor had more Corvairs than my brother and I had Mopars.  Good thing we had large yards back then!  I do recall the wing on Pat Harper's car being body colored instead of black (I see the wing and stripe are white now).  The guy who owned it before Pat bought it told me that the wing was there to prevent anybody from drafting off the Daytona.  But when he drove it without the wing, he noticed a difference above 80MPH. 

[hemigeno]

It does appear so doesn't it?

   black stripe but green wing

Alright, if that's the case, here's some more grist for the mill...

If you look at the black stripe, it appears to have been installed too close to the rear valance corner seam for how Creative Industries normally installed the stripe.  Add to that the fact that the reflector bezels also appear to be green - and you have to wonder if the car could have been one of the very few which may have come from Creative Industries without a Daytona stripe and with a body-colored wing.

Now, before the thought police swoops in to drop the hammer on me, let me add that it's VERY apparent that significant body work has been done to the car.  After all, we know (I'm convinced even if others aren't) it didn't roll out of Creative Industries with a '70 Charger front clip OR the vinyl top.  Perhaps without DayOne photos it may be hard to prove/disprove this, but it's food for thought anyway.