I saw that car at the New York auto show in 1969 or 1970 when I was just eight years old. I thought it was the coolest looking car; I still do actually.

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For the 1969 model year, if you ordered a Hemi/4 speed in your Charger R/T or Charger 500 you were required to also order RPO A33: Track Pak Package which consisted of a Sure-Grip Dana 60 rear with 3.54 gears, Dual Breaker Distributor, 7 Blade Torque Drive Fan and 26" High Performance Radiator with Shroud. This all added $142.85. If you wanted the 4.10 rear you had to order the Super Track Pak Package (A34) which also included Power Front Disc Brakes for $256.45. The Hemi was $648.25 and NC for the 4 speed. Same for the Coronet R/T.

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IMO what made the 1969 A12 Super Bee/Road Runner such great muscle cars was Chrysler's no nonsense commitment to performance while keeping the price very reasonable. A truly great formula. Take your budget muscle cars and once again offer a complete package using pre-existing parts with the exception of the intake manifold and fiberglass hood.

The "heart" of the package IMO wasn't the 440 Six Pack. It was the use of either the Super Performance Axle Package (Auto) and the Super Track Pack (4 speed) minus the power front disc brakes. 4.10 gears in a Sure-Grip Dana 60 - bulletproof! HD Hemi Suspension and HD Drum Brakes came standard. A big bonus for the 4 speeds was the inclusion of not only a Hurst shifter but also Hurst linkage which replaced the old Inland linkage, a sore spot for Chrysler 4 speed muscle cars. Then add some G70x15 FGB redlines on Hemi 6" wheels with chrome lug nuts to complete the package. "We don't need no stinkin hubcaps!"

Back in the late 1960's the Hemi ruled the dragstrips. But not the street. Not unless you knew how to tune it and most owners didn't. Few had access to dealerships like Grand Spaulding Dodge. So Chrysler designed an engine based on their very successful 440 Magnum. Just change the intake from a single four to three deuces and add some HD internals. Though not as good as dual quads performance wise, the three deuces were cheaper and had a bunch of under hood appeal especially when the massive air cleaner was removed. Only the Corvette had three deuces in 1969.

So you ordered a Super Bee Hardtop, the more popular body style for $3121 (Coupe was $62 less). Then you ordered the A12 package for $462.80. All you needed as far as additional options was an AM radio: $61.55. Total = $3645.35.

You could order the power booster ($42.95) but you couldn't order power front disc brakes. Power Steering was also available for an additional $100.

Drive around town on the center 350 CFM carb then mash the gas pedal and the outboard twin 500 CFM carbs open.

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A total of 3,516 split-window coupes and convertibles were painted Sebring Silver for the 1963 model year. Considering the 21,513 Corvette split-window coupes and convertibles manufactured in 1963, it is not a rare production color. What makes Sebring Silver rare is that it was only available for the 1963 Corvette model year.

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Coinciding with the 1963 debut of the C2 Corvette Sting Ray, Daytona Blue and Riverside Red remained on the Corvette color chart for 1964, but 1963's Sebring Silver was nixed in favor of producing 2,785 1964 C2 Corvette Sting Ray coupes and convertibles painted Satin Silver, yet another shade of silver that was only available for one year.

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The rarest color for 1965 was 1964 Corvette Satin Silver. This color was used to paint the first 1965 Corvette built, and then Satin Silver Cadillac paint code ZZ was retired forever. In 1965 Glen Green was the one-year-only color; it was used to paint 3,782 1965 Corvette coupes and convertibles. In addition, 7,787 Corvette convertibles were optioned with body-color removeable hard tops.

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If Corvettes were made in England, where keeping production facts and records are important, it would be easy to trace any of the 27,720 Corvette coupes and convertibles made in 1966 to learn a specific Corvette's heritage. Unfortunately, all the records say for 1966 is that 11 Corvettes were painted non-standard colors, and some left St. Louis in primer. The one-year-only color was Mosport Green, named after a racetrack in Ontario, Canada.

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In 1967 only 10 Sting Rays left St. Louis in unrecorded special-order colors. At 815 units, Tuxedo Black was the rarest production color. The one-year-only color for 1967 was Marina Blue, replacing 1965/1966 Nassau Blue, a two-year-only color with the same exact mixing formula as Marina Blue. In 1967, only Goodwood Green, at 4,293 produced, outpaced Marina Blue (3,840). No two-tone colors were reported for C07 optional removable hard tops, meaning 6,880 1967 Corvette convertibles left with matching hard tops or vinyl tops.

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Yup. I remember all the Ziebart and Rusty Jones franchises up north. They destroyed our 1980 Honda Accord in Connecticut. Every place they drilled a hole and stuck a plug into, rusted immediately and the car dissolved into undriveable condition within 4 years. The idiots would drilled a jagged 3/4" hole and not put any paint, primer or anything on the bare metal edges. They'd just stick the spray wand in the hole and spray their "magic goup" inside scamming everybody into thinking this somehow protected the entire car from rust. Then they'd plug the hole with their little plastic cap.

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The “D” in D-Day stands for “Day,” the traditional military protocol used to indicate the day of a major operation. The day before D-Day, June 5, was D-1. The day after, June 7, was D+1.

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Called Exercise Tiger, a D-Day dress rehearsal proved fatal to around 700 Allied sailors and soldiers who died in a training exercise at a friendly British beach. Speedy German attack vessels called E-boats became aware of the maneuver and attacked the Allied flotilla, sinking several ships with torpedoes.

[Pictured: American troops on Slapton Sands in England during a training exercise.]