PLAYBOY DAYTONA

[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?

[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? 

[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

[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]

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!

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?

[73rallye440magnum]

i think the daytonas sold okay... that had a problem with the superbirds i think...

[TheGhost]

i think the daytonas sold okay... that had a problem with the superbirds i think...

Yes.

[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

[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.

[resq302]

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.

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

[SeattleCharger]

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.

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.          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.

[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

[hemigeno]

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

[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)