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PLAYBOY DAYTONA

Started by 65post, February 06, 2006, 11:43:28 PM

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65post

What ever happened to it? Is it still out there? I read some years ago it was in an accident and rolled several times then was repaired ! Also read it was destroyed in a fire. Whats true?
Previously owned Daytona XX29L9B423239 - f8 - white int. - power windows.

Charger Aficionado

  I don't know, but I sure wish I was buds with old Heff so I could ask him, and maybe pick-up some left-overs... lol  Damn that's Gross.  I saw some 20y.o. the other night on T.V. saying she was his girlfriend.  RALF.

SeattleCharger


  Isn't he sort of like their   great grandfather   figure at this point? 


Why would you want anything else?  Just give me a Charger and I'll be happy.

69_500

I have always wondered about that car, as it doesn't have the fender scoops on the front. Seems that no one knows what happened to it, or what became of it. Maybe they added the scoops later and it was sold.

Just 6T9 CHGR

IIRC my friend Pete Veight with the 'vert Hemi Daytona creation owned it for a while.  The scoops were added back on.
He sold it a while back to pick up a Hemi Superbird ;)
Chris' '69 Charger R/T


ramit

I always wondered what the story was with that car.  My dad had that ad hanging up in his garage since about 1970 because he always wanted one but could never affored it.

Charger Aficionado

Quote from: Just 6T9_CHGR.... on February 07, 2006, 09:07:36 AM
IIRC my friend Pete Veight with the 'vert Hemi Daytona creation owned it for a while.  The scoops were added back on.
He sold it a while back to pick up a Hemi Superbird ;)

  So... Any newer pics???

Brock Samson

 Looks great!.. ;) for a green car!
prolly the mid-Yr spring green eh?.

BigBlackDodge

Hey! That guy in the background is walking on air! :o

I would be to If I had that car!

BBD

Big Lebowski

Get this, nobody wanted them in '69, the dealers couldn't sell them. I heard a rumor some Daytonas were changed back into regular Chargers just to sell them? Anybody else hear that?
"Let me explain something to you, um i am not Mr. Lebowski, you're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the dude, so that's what you call me. That or his dudeness, or duder, or you know, el duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."

73rallye440magnum

i think the daytonas sold okay... that had a problem with the superbirds i think...
WTB- 68 or 69 project

Past- '73 Rallye U code, '69 Coronet 500 vert, '68 Roadrunner clone, XP29H8, XP29G8, XH29G0

TheGhost

Quote from: 73rallye440magnum on February 07, 2006, 11:03:17 PM
i think the daytonas sold okay... that had a problem with the superbirds i think...

Yes.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.  Especially if they have access to the internet.

69_500

Some dealerships had problems with the Daytona's too, but I don't recall any of them being sold as chargers. Just sitting on dealership lots for years. There was a Daytona still on a dealer lot here in Indy in 1977.

nascarxx29

This is the car we discussed earlier .But had no picture .As possibly being the 287970 .Dale Reeker daytona.I wonder if it possible the green daytona used in sept 69 playboy recharging the charger article .Was the early 287970 daytona .For one it has MI manafacture plates it appears. 2 lack of fender scoops .3 black handle door buttons.That or not usually on a daytona.I see alot of the chrome door push buttons on daytona.Not the black ones
1969 R4 Daytona XX29L9B410772
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23UOA174597
1970 FY1 Superbird RM23UOA166242
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23VOA179697
1968 426 Road Runner RM21J8A134509
1970 Coronet RT WS23UOA224126
1970 Daytona Clone XP29GOG178701

69_500

Ah the door handle buttons question. I posed that same question on another board, but never got a definative answer on what they should be black or chrome. figured it was just meerly two sepearte suppliers.

6pkrunner

There are several stories of Superbirds sitting on lots until 1974 before being sold and several being returned to regular road runners just to move them. They were not well recieved at the time. At he university I went to a guy had a black/black white stripe Daytona and was laughed at on a regular basis. And not one or two people - most pedestrians would gawk and laugh.
The Superbird was viewed a notch lower. What a difference 30 plus years make. ;D

resq302

Quote from: 6pkrunner on February 08, 2006, 05:37:46 PM
There are several stories of Superbirds sitting on lots until 1974 before being sold and several being returned to regular road runners just to move them. They were not well recieved at the time. At he university I went to a guy had a black/black white stripe Daytona and was laughed at on a regular basis. And not one or two people - most pedestrians would gawk and laugh.
The Superbird was viewed a notch lower. What a difference 30 plus years make. ;D

And how many people are kicking themselves now that used to own one?
Brian
1969 Dodge Charger (factory 4 speed, H code 383 engine,  AACA Senior winner, 2008 Concours d'Elegance participant, 2009 Concours d'Elegance award winner)
1970 Challenger Convert. factory #'s matching red inter. w/ white body.  318 car built 9/28/69 (AACA Senior winner)
1969 Plymough GTX convertible - original sheet metal, #'s matching drivetrain, T3 Honey Bronze, 1 of 701 produced, 1 of 362 with 440 4 bbl - auto

SeattleCharger

Quote from: resq302 on February 08, 2006, 09:46:41 PM
Quote from: 6pkrunner on February 08, 2006, 05:37:46 PM
There are several stories of Superbirds sitting on lots until 1974 before being sold and several being returned to regular road runners just to move them. They were not well recieved at the time. At he university I went to a guy had a black/black white stripe Daytona and was laughed at on a regular basis. And not one or two people - most pedestrians would gawk and laugh.
The Superbird was viewed a notch lower. What a difference 30 plus years make. ;D

And how many people are kicking themselves now that used to own one?

Wow, I did not know that, very interesting, hard to believe, really.     :iagree:     Prob. one of the most $ appreciated cars in last thirty years, I don't know.    Except for a few low numbers "other" manufacturer's cars that I wouldn't trade ten of for a Superbird.


Why would you want anything else?  Just give me a Charger and I'll be happy.

Ghoste

Was the car ever actually in the possession of anyone at Playboy?  We always refer to it as the Playboy Daytona for the obvious reasons but since they didn't actively do road tests I doubt anyone on their staff ever saw the car.  I would bet the story was put together by a freelancer.  There is a photographer credit there.  Now if we could track THAT guy down, we might have a lead.

nascarxx29

The photographer shouldnt be hard to trace.I recall his name from this article called recharging the charger as Kermit something
1969 R4 Daytona XX29L9B410772
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23UOA174597
1970 FY1 Superbird RM23UOA166242
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23VOA179697
1968 426 Road Runner RM21J8A134509
1970 Coronet RT WS23UOA224126
1970 Daytona Clone XP29GOG178701

hemigeno

Quote from: nascarxx29 on February 09, 2006, 06:04:19 AM
The photographer shouldnt be hard to trace.I recall his name from this article called recharging the charger as Kermit something

Says Kermit Johnson at the bottom of the ad...


69_500

I agree, I think it was a freelance article. I only have that picture, not the rest of the magazine to see if there was an article.

I know that when I was younger my dad would drive his Daytona's around and get all kinds of weird looks from the people out in the country. However the people in our neighborhood thought that Daytona's were pretty common considering there was 5 of them at our house.

Ghoste

If all you have is that one page, then you have the whole thing.

nascarxx29

Thanks Hemi geno I knew it was Kermit somebody.I hadnt seen that ad or magazine article called recharging the charger.In a while but couldnt forget Kermit and green car.It appears to have manafacture front license plate.If someone could ehance the plate and read the numbers. Who knows it might match the plate on other 69 daytonas used for magazine road test articles.Then we might have more detailed pictures to study the interior and the exterior from
1969 R4 Daytona XX29L9B410772
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23UOA174597
1970 FY1 Superbird RM23UOA166242
1970 EV2 Superbird RM23VOA179697
1968 426 Road Runner RM21J8A134509
1970 Coronet RT WS23UOA224126
1970 Daytona Clone XP29GOG178701

Ghoste

Or maybe it went into hiding in the Dodge styling studio's wher it was updated with 1970 model trim and given a funky two tone green paint job and chrome nerf bars on the front? (I'm only half kidding btw)