1969 Dodge Charger Daytona 426 Hemi Owner Interview

An interview with the owner of a F8 green 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona 426 Hemi 4-speed from the 1988 Mopar Nationals. This car was recently for sale for $1,5 million dollars.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 1969
• Dodge
• Charger
• Daytona
• 426
• Hemi
• 4-speed
• NASCAR
• Mopar
• Superbird
• 500
• Talladega
• Spoiler
• II

[AbbeSJK]

this car is RARE

[eerockk111]

Good work.

Musclecar Mopar at its finest!!  Ahhh , the memories.

[olikat8]

@johnpointer Sorry to hear that about your father.

[olikat8]

@johnpointer Cool, cool- thanks for more info on this part of history.

[johnpointer]

p.s. I'm John Pointer, Jr., hence the "johnpointer" user name. I wound up here looking to see what I could find on Daytonas partially because my dad passed away last Friday and I'm spending some time connecting with his legacy.

[johnpointer]

My dad thought, "If we're not winning with what we're selling, maybe we can sell enough of what we'll win with to qualify as a stock car." The answer was a little over 500 units.

Larry was the lead designer. In the meeting, my dad asked, "Do you care what it looks like?"

"Will it be fast?"

"Oh yeah."

"Do it."

Buddy Baker beat 200mph for the first time on an open track, Bobby Isaac set 28 world speed records and topped out at Bonneville at 246 MPH in the #71 K&K Insurance Daytona in 1971.

[johnpointer]

@olikat8 My dad, John Pointer, had been in Chrysler Missile, and designed many of the new pieces of test equipment to get real-world measurements from the cars on the track. He and Larry had two similar ideas, and if you google "John Pointer Sketch Daytona" you'll find the one he made in the meeting with the race team.

The 68 Charger 500 could only make about 184 MPH with two years of work on the body. Fords and Chevys were making 186-188. They needed to do something drastic. (continued)

[68bobba]

The 69 talladega 500 was the first race the Daytonas competed in(and won I might add)....Ford withdrew its cars claiming unsafe conditions....I think in reality they knew what was going to happen....they were going to get their asses whipped

[jbyrd0861]

When the Dodge guys first unloaded this thing at its first race...The competition laughed at them. "You cant be serious" lol they said...That did not last long.

[olikat8]

@GIwillo - I am a Mopar fan- I own a hot rodded '69 Valiant 2-dr sedan and a vintage Fury cop car that was a fire inspector's car. A friend of mine owns a '70 Hemi Superbird w/ a 4-speed; they are neat cars and designed for 1 purpose...but I will agree with you, they are goofy looking aestetically speaking. The are an ultimate expreesion of 'form follows function,' and even the head of Chrysler back at the time (Bob McCurry) thought they were fugly. Badass, but fugly

[GIwillo]

@olikat8

ok, that is some kind of impressing.never seen a car designed by some rocket designers.must have been some of the fastest racecars of their time when they need to get such big wings and panels attached to the body.should be sick to drive in one original race daytona. :)