69 Hemi Daytona seized by IRS up for auction

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I bought the yellow project from Otis Chandler in 1989 while he was redoing his T5 Bronze 4 speed car and he had decided against redoing the yellow car. (Could this be Les's current car?)

I restored it and then sold it to a guy in PA in 1995 (unfortunately, for a huge loss at the bottom of the first muscle car mania). I was changing jobs at the time and needed the funding. I also sold the orange 71 hemi sunroof Charger at that time.

The Daytona sold at an auction in Florida several years ago and a couple of owners later (at the height of the recent muscle car mania) for $630k.

The Daytona did not have it's original block. This was the car that I got the engine for my 70 Charger R/T-SE out of. That engine was 21 digits away from the R/T-SE's blown motor and was from the very next hemi car built about 2 hours after my car on December 8 1969. The mid 1969 dated block in the R/T-SE was swapped into the Daytona.

Here's a shot of that weird cloth insert interior. Not too comfortable but pretty interesting.



And the engine compartment: