69 Hemi Daytona seized by IRS up for auction

[bashton]

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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]

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:

[njsteve]

Looks like Hemmings picked up on the story and has some more info. I guess it was seized from a collector car dealer that owes back taxes:

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2...ose-your-hemi/

[Les Quam]

I have Cal Anderson's old car and I think the one you mentioned is Tim Wellborns car?

[quick-bowtie]

Ventura was only asking 267k for the car?? It must be a pile or have alot of issue's because that is give away money for a real Hemi Daytona and a 4 speed to boot! I would bet it brings more than that at the IRS auction.

[agtw31]

at the 92 Moparnationals,there was a T5 Bronze Hemi 4-speed Daytona for sale with the same full size wheelcovers on it.

it was rough but all there.

asking price was 24k.

[bashton]

Does anyone know the results of the auction?

Maybe an sYc member is the new owner?

Bashton
MCACN Managing Member

[al8apex]

according to the HMN blog, the IRS sale was stopped:

"June 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Just so you all know, the sale was stopped by court order. It is hard to seize and sell a car the tax payer does not and has never owned. We will see what the outcome is in court."

[Les Quam]

The one at the Mecum auction is probably mine? It never sold at the Mecum auction and I bought it with Colin's help several months later from Dana. It is now being re-restored properly by Midwest Muscle car at a considerable and never ending expense. Dana bought it at BJ along with another Daytona from Bill Wieman

[Verne_Frantz]

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according to the HMN blog, the IRS sale was stopped:

"June 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Just so you all know, the sale was stopped by court order. It is hard to seize and sell a car the tax payer does not and has never owned. We will see what the outcome is in court."

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That means he was just flipping the title, as many do, so the IRS made a mistake. They never checked "ownership". OF course, that just means they'll be more interested in finding something else they can attach themselves to.