69 Hemi Daytona seized by IRS up for auction

**bashton** · #1 04-24-2009, 03:08 AM

And on the subject of Hemi Daytona's, I am hoping to find one for our "Class of 69" special display at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals.

Anyone...anyone?

Bashton
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**njsteve** · #2 04-24-2009, 03:16 AM

Here's my old one, circa 1990:

69hurstSC · #3 04-24-2009, 03:33 AM

got that Turqoise version in 1:18 scale

**markjohnson** · #4 04-24-2009, 05:36 PM

Steve, I absolutely love those full-size wheelcovers on your yellow Daytona! WOW!

BUIZILLA · #5 04-24-2009, 05:42 PM

SO THE CAR WAS SIEZED FROM JACKSON?

**njsteve** · #6 04-25-2009, 04:15 AM

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Steve, I absolutely love those full-size wheelcovers on your yellow Daytona! WOW!

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It was an original deluxe 15" wheelcover car. I searched in vain, all over the country for those caps for 2 years. I ended up finding 8 of them at the local "Hub Cap Store" franchise 10 miles from my house when I walked in one day on a whim. They had them listed as 1969 15" Dodge Pickup Truck hubcaps (which is actually one of the other applications besides the 1969 HEMI B-Body Dodges)

**bashton** · #7 04-25-2009, 05:16 PM

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Steve, I absolutely love those full-size wheelcovers on your yellow Daytona! WOW!

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It was an original deluxe 15" wheelcover car. I searched in vain, all over the country for those caps for 2 years. I ended up finding 8 of them at the local "Hub Cap Store" franchise 10 miles from my house when I walked in one day on a whim. They had them listed as 1969 15" Dodge Pickup Truck hubcaps (which is actually one of the other applications besides the 1969 HEMI B-Body Dodges)

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This car is amazing and the 15" wheelcovers really make a statement.

Steve; Any idea of where this car is now?

Bashton
MCACN Managing Member

**njsteve** · #8 04-25-2009, 06:20 PM

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:

**bashton** · #9 04-25-2009, 05:12 PM

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And on the subject of Hemi Daytona's, I am hoping to find one for our "Class of 69" special display at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals.

Anyone...anyone?

Bashton
www.mcacn.com

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Let's check that one off the list;

Look for a beautiful freshly restored T5 Bronze Hemi 4-speed Daytona at the show!

Our Thanks go out to LQuam.

Bashton
MCACN Managing Member

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