Video of Bobby Isaac driving the #71 Daytona to the landspeed record at Bonneville

http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/bonneville/video/xcbo8_dodge-charger-bonneville

How NASCAR improved production cars' aerodynamics

This is so wrong

If naming new four doors, after old two doors

If naming new brick shaped cars after old muscle cars that were aerodynamic

If combining options that were never offered together -the R/T and the Daytona.... if any of this made a bit of sense, than why complicate matters by offering the same name Daytona, as a truck?

Big Willie and his Dodge Daytona, President of the Los Angeles Street Racers, circa 1970

Shelby's at Escondido's cruisin Grand

I believe this year Shelby hood is unique among car makers in the number of scoops

For Tere's photos of these Shelby's, and she really nailed the c pillar Cobra emblem: http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2009/09/cruisin-grand-in-sept-09_05.html

eye candy from Hot Wheels tumbler

always finding cool stuff: http://hotwheels.tumblr.com/

2011 Del Mar Goodguys

Replica

Amazing, only 2 Dadge Daytona's are still in the possession of their original owners, here's one from Car Lust (cool website)

read about it: http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/05/a-very-special-dodge-daytona-500.html

A new take on what you can make from a new Challenger, a Daytona tribute!

For a write up on the Heide Performance Products (HPP) “Daytona” concept, read: http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/05/sema-2009-hpp-daytona-is-one-big-hot-wheels-toy/

but for a better gallery see: http://www.auto-car-shop.com/2009/11/hpp-daytona-dodge-challenger-concept-at-sema-2009/

Just in case you thought the world was making sense... I find a 1976 Charger Daytona, and Richard Petty selling it

The above ad is Richard Petty as the spokeman for the Dodge Charger Daytona... ( really? Anything no matter how beneath your dignity, for a buck?) and below, the same car, where an editor captioned it and inferred Petty would have nothing to do with it

For more on the 1977-78 Charger, see; http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/1977-78-van-advertising-now-that-was.html

Spring Fling, best place to find Superbirds and Daytonas

I thought it would be interesting to look at the breakdown of what the options were on a bird

There wasn't any way to photograph the above display board without all the reflections obscuring the text, but at the angle I took the photo, all you have to do is click on it for the full size version to read most of it

Superbirds, Daytonas, and winning at Nascar

The Dodge Charger Daytona was a design for peak aero efficiency on the superspeedways of Nascar, and it worked. Even Richard Petty left his Ford Sponsor when he saw the writing on the wall of how much easier it would be to win in something that had half the drag and more downforce than anything Ford or Chevrolet had in production, plus it had the 426 hemi. Winning combo. (The one year production had the Chrysler camp whipping up a Plymouth Superbird for 1970, which fixed the slow speed ((55 mph)) overheating problem the Daytonas had).

The '69 Charger Daytona set speed records at Nascar and Bonneville. First car to top 200 (Buddy Baker) at a Nascar track, and Bonneville clocked it at 217.368 in the flying kilometer. (Hot Rod fall 2006 Archives # 4 page 75). Great pictures on http://speedzone70.tripod.com/wing.html and a good brief history at http://www.allpar.com/model/superbird.html

The wing was so strong, many adults climbed on the middle of it for photo oportunities, startling pictures when that wing looks so thin, and wide, but it was built strong enough to push the rear of that 3400 lb car down at 220 miles an hour, and that is mighty strong.