# Total for XX cars

[41husk]

How many total 500s and Daytonas were produced in 1969?

[Troy]

Last I heard was 392 + 503.

Troy

[nascarxx29]

Well the 69 daytona shipment list shows 501 cars just for the daytona.It has a a few errors but has given vin for the cars.Starting with the lowest vin daytona XX29L9B287970 .And I broke that list down as the following

I did this a while ago using the daytona shiplist that was in my newsletters

69 Daytona list per state totals going from the current standing list number to date #501 cars from pages supplied in my club newsletter that shows the new car shipments for 69 daytonas and locations shipped to Including serial numbers and dealer number and dealer location. Also shows what states did and did not recieve a 69 daytona .Starting with the 440s AL-11 AZ-5 AR-2 CANADA 45 CA-38 CO-12 CON-2 DE-1 FL-16 GA-16 HAWAII-2 ID-1 IL-22 IN-21 IA-3 KAN-7 KEN-5 LOU-7 ME-1 MD-2 MASS-5 MI-26 MINN-3 MISS-1 MO-21 MONT-1 NEB-4 NV-2 NH-2 NJ-6 NY-26 NC-13 NDKT-1 SDKT-4.OH-25 OK-9 ORE-7 PA-23 RI-3 SC-4 TN-5 TX-20 UT-1 VT-1 VA-13

WA ST-7 WA-DC-2 W VA-1 WI-9-The 426 states AZ-1 CANADA-5 CA-7 CO-3 GA-1 IL-1 IN-1 KAN-1 MD-1 MI-2 MO-1 NY-1 NC-1 OH-3 PA-1 SC-1 TX-3 WVA-1 WI-1 .Total #501 465- 440 Hemi-36 for the 47 states 1 line was unreadable unknown state. 2 cars were 440 dodge exec cars with no dealer location in house cars and figured in with the MI total.Only #3 states didnt recieve 69 Daytona on this current list Alaska-New Mexico-Wyoming

[41husk]

Thanks! so just under 400 Charger 500s and just over 500 Charger Daytonas.  Why were there so many more SuperBirds built?

[Dave Kanofsky]

NASCAR changed the rules for '70.

[hemi68charger]

NASCAR changed the rules for '70.

and then again in '71 !!!!

[nascarxx29]

Superbird was 2 or so for every dealer.Thats how it got the #1920 number.The 500s the story was 392 and cars run by the inspectors twice.

[69_500]

I was figuring someone would throw out the other number for Charger 500 production as well. Another number thrown about as a possible production # is 584.



Side note the reason that NASCAR (Grand National then) changed the rule to require more Superbirds to be built in 1970 though was in direct response to a request made by DODGE.

[hemi68charger]

Side note the reason that NASCAR (Grand National then) changed the rule to require more Superbirds to be built in 1970 though was in direct response to a request made by DODGE.

Really Danny? Man, once again,,, learn something new.. I thought it was whining from the Ford and GM camp (i.e Bill France)....

[Troy]

The 500s the story was 392 and cars run by the inspectors twice.

Which I call BS but I'll let others duke that out. I'm reasonably sure that a lot more than half of the 500s are "known".

Troy

[nascarxx29]

The 500s the story was 392 and cars run by the inspectors twice.

Which I call BS but I'll let others duke that out. I'm reasonably sure that a lot more than half of the 500s are "known".

Troy

Its the urban mopar legend that they pulled a fast one on nascar inspectors .
Being as that story goes .They still might have gotten the numbers wrong by these means

Re: c500 on e-bay
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Daytona and 500 Registrations from  1976 wing warrior newsletter.It reads how many of you daytona and chargers 500 owners have the problem of possesing a registration slip showing maybe XS on the paperwork instead of XX.Well if you want to correct this error.Then heres what Mike Mcguire says you have to go through to straighten the matter out.As he had the same problem with his daytona.You write to James H Kilroy chrysler corporation office of civic affairs P.O. Box 1919 Detroit Michigan 48231.Include a copy of the title and picture of the car.And if possible a picture of the serial number on the dash.Or from the engine compartment plate.We recommend you use the dash.As we have seen a case where they even put XS on the engine compartment plate instead of XX as was on the dash.Mr Klilroy will inturn respond with a letter to your state DMV notorized stating he correct serial number.And they will in turn change the registration.Most of these problems were caused by an erroneous statement on the the factory title of origin.And in this case the mistake was made on Mikes Daytona.

[hemi68charger]

The 500s the story was 392 and cars run by the inspectors twice.

Which I call BS but I'll let others duke that out. I'm reasonably sure that a lot more than half of the 500s are "known".

Troy

Troy, the folklore is that some were counted twice, not all, which would equate to 250.. It was a much smaller number, maybe 54 of them......

Edit 392 of which 54 of those 392 were counted twice...  392 + (54 of those 392 counted twice).

Troy

[moparstuart]

The 500s the story was 392 and cars run by the inspectors twice.

Which I call BS but I'll let others duke that out. I'm reasonably sure that a lot more than half of the 500s are "known".

Troy

Troy, the folklore is that some were counted twice, not all, which would equate to 250.. It was a much smaller number, maybe 54 of them......  392 + (54 x 2) would be 500.......

Troy

i like to hold to the 392 figure   

[hemigeno]

I'm a total novice when it comes to FoMoCo folklore, but wasn't the whole "running the cars by the NASCAR rep twice" thing something Ford did with the Talladegas?

[hemi68charger]

I'm a total novice when it comes to FoMoCo folklore, but wasn't the whole "running the cars by the NASCAR rep twice" thing something Ford did with the Talladegas?

Folklore has a way of finding itself into other camps as well.

Long story short, we'll never have a clue unless someone surfaces that was actually there......  But, the truth of the matter is, there were very limited production in the overall scheme of things... You don't see C500's running around all the time at your local shows and even with that, your Aero-Meets. Daytonas a little more and Superbirds..... Well, we all know those grow on trees.......   

Troy

[moparstuart]

I'm a total novice when it comes to FoMoCo folklore, but wasn't the whole "running the cars by the NASCAR rep twice" thing something Ford did with the Talladegas?

Folklore has a way of finding itself into other camps as well.

Long story short, we'll never have a clue unless someone surfaces that was actually there......  But, the truth of the matter is, there were very limited production in the overall scheme of things... You don't see C500's running around all the time at your local shows and even with that, your Aero-Meets. Daytonas a little more and Superbirds..... Well, we all know those grow on trees.......   

Troy

except for that very very very rare convertible option   

[41husk]

I'm a total novice when it comes to FoMoCo folklore, but wasn't the whole "running the cars by the NASCAR rep twice" thing something Ford did with the Talladegas?

Folklore has a way of finding itself into other camps as well.



Long story short, we'll never have a clue unless someone surfaces that was actually there......  But, the truth of the matter is, there were very limited production in the overall scheme of things... You don't see C500's running around all the time at your local shows and even with that, your Aero-Meets. Daytonas a little more and Superbirds..... Well, we all know those grow on trees.......   

Troy

Were can I get one of those trees ?

[hemi68charger]

I'm a total novice when it comes to FoMoCo folklore, but wasn't the whole "running the cars by the NASCAR rep twice" thing something Ford did with the Talladegas?

Folklore has a way of finding itself into other camps as well.



Long story short, we'll never have a clue unless someone surfaces that was actually there......  But, the truth of the matter is, there were very limited production in the overall scheme of things... You don't see C500's running around all the time at your local shows and even with that, your Aero-Meets. Daytonas a little more and Superbirds..... Well, we all know those grow on trees.......   

Troy

Were can I get one of those trees ?

They've all been chopped down, just like the jungles of Brazil...... No more trees..........

[41husk]

My wife says I never help her with the gardening.  It appears she hasn't planted the right tree yet

[MsMopar]

My broadcast sheet says XS but my vin code is XX on the tag and the engine. My car was #42 according to Galen.
Isn't it possible some of the 500 ended up being Daytrona's?  MsMopar

[hemigeno]

Isn't it possible some of the 500 ended up being Daytona's?  

Highly unlikely... No Charger500-series VINs show up on the Daytona Shipping List at all, so if such a thing did happen it wasn't documented by Chrysler on anything I've seen.

[MsMopar]

Is there a large gap in the vin numbers between 500's and Daytona's? MsMopar

[69_500]

My personal opinion is that there is too large of a gap in the VIN's for any of the 500's to have been converted. The last batch of C500's rolled off the line in December 1968. First batch of earmarked cars for the Daytona line were not coming along until April of 1969.

MsMopar as far as your car is concerned I'd be curious what other cars Galen has that are "known" in front of your car. In my list of "known" VIN's your car is #17 out of a total known of 262. I see that your VON is 042 but that doesn't necessarily mean that there were 41 other confirmed ordered cars in front of yours. Just my take on it. And with the production date for your car it should read XS on the fender tag, XX on the dash, as well as XS on the broadcast sheet. There are various cut off dates for each of the items that are XS to where they all eventually read XX except for a few odd exceptions which had everything listed as XS. I have not personally seen any C500's that read XX on the fender tag that were built before November 14th 1968. Have not seen all of them before then but of the 60+ I have not seen an original tag that says XX with a production date before then.

As far as the story goes about Dodge requesting the rule change for 1970 I was fairly certain that someone had posted a snipit from the letter on here once before but I can't seem to find it. I thought me and Gene had kicked the story around a time or too in one of our trips to Michigan.

[69_500]

There is a gap between the VIN's actually. 248666 would be the highest known VIN to me, and then the earliest VIN for the Daytona's would be 355101. So roughly 100,000 cars in between the 2.

[MsMopar]

My bad, you are correct, my fender tag says XS also. MsMopar