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December 1, 2009
Daytona in the Barn: The Field, Part One
By Ryan Brutt
HemiPwr70
There was more than just the three barns? I didn’t know how that could be. I mean, I just had multiple heart attacks and was pretty light headed. Could I take more? Well of course I could, but it just kept getting crazier and crazier!
My friend Shad asked our host if we could walk down to the cars in the field. I was all set, I had the adrenaline pumping, my jacket off and I was ready to rock. But our host said to jump in the truck. So we obliged and jumped in the bed (well I sat on the tail gate, I’m not one for jumping). And he drove us down to the field.
At first you really don’t see anything other than the fields of corn and the stream bed with a bunch of trees. I’m a camping fan, and this looked like an incredible spot to camp, trees, and a nice bubbling brook. I could spend a summer there… and then we came upon the cars, and what a sight they were.
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November 24, 2009
Daytona in the Barn: Barn Three and Immediate Area
By Ryan Brutt
HemiPwr70
Our little expedition made our way outside of the second barn and were just hanging around. I thought that we had done the tour, gotten the t-shirt and were on the downhill of an adrenaline spike. There was still a few Mopars in the immediate area. So while our host and my friends were chatting I walked around a bit.
Walking around next to the third barn was a well picked over Plymouth Duster. It wasn’t anything special, but it was a old Mopar. So it deserved some attention. It was a green on green car from the looks of it. Has some parts left on it, sad to see it though just sitting there, watching over the fields. Continue reading after the jump.
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November 16, 2009
Daytona in the Barn: Barn Two
By Ryan Brutt
HemiPwr70
Coming out of the first barn, our host led us to the barn directly across from it. A bit smaller, but we didn’t care.
I broke off from the group for a moment and snapped some pictures of the vehicles littering the immediate area. A 69 Charger, 66/67 Charger, a school bus FULL of parts. In front of the first barn was sitting a 87 Dodge Truck and a 69 Satellite 2-door. The truck had 500,000 miles on the body and had seen 2 engines in its lifetime. He hauled most of his stuff with that truck he said.
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October 22, 2009
Million Dollar Daytona
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
I really enjoy getting Michael Sheehan’s newsletter and seeing what he has for sale. I’ll probably never own a Ferrari, but I can dream, right? I really love this 71 Daytona Spyder, one of just 122 Spyders built by the factory. It just underwent a full resto, and the color combo is stunning. Yours for just $995,000!
September 29, 2009
CarDomain Obscure Muscle Car Parking Lot: The 1992 – 93 Dodge Daytona IROC R/T
By Jim Brennan
UDMan
Welcome to another installment of the CarDomain Obscure Muscle Car Parking Lot, a regular feature which aims to expand the definition of what a muscle car is, and to find out if there is such a thing as four cylinder muscle while doing so. The Dodge division of Chrysler had a marketing coup during the early 1990′s because it sponsored a series of races called the International Race of Champions, or IROC. This series was promoted as the equivalent of the all star game for Major League Baseball, or the equivalent of the Masters Golf Tournament. In this series, drivers raced identically prepared stock cars, in an effort to make it a test based on just the drivers ability. The series started in 1974 with Porsche Carrera RSR’s, but quickly switched to Chevrolet Camaros the next season, and was the car of choice for the next 12 seasons. It was Dodge that provided major sponsorship for the 1991 IROC season, and the cars would assume the shape of the Dodge Daytona for the next three seasons. However, since the Daytona was really a FWD Sports Coupe, there was no relationship between race car and production car. But, let’s not dismiss the IROC Daytona R/T, because it was one very potent car.
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September 25, 2009
Do It In Daytona
Grassroots Motorsports
The Rolex 24 At Daytona is one of those must-do motorsports events. The race has attracted some star-studded fields lately, and the action has been terrific. The most recent running saw David Donohue win it by less than two tenths of a second–that’s nuts. We’re hosting a little hospitality package, and of course you’re all welcome. We’ll take you behind the scenes and give you the full Daytona experience.
June 8, 2009
7,000 Mile Dodge Daytona Road Trip
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Now here’s something you don’t see every day: a Dodge Daytona pulling a trailer. Apparently they’d driven from Palm Beach, California to Florida to deliver a Chrysler Imperial, then headed back across the country to make the Seattle Mopars Unlimited Spring Roundup on Sunday. Take that, trailer queens! More pics after the jump, and I’ll have all the pics from the show up soon.
May 18, 2009
Mopar’s Winged Wonders
By Dan Strohl
Hemmings
While it seems perfectly normal for a collector car magazine to feature the Daytona and Superbird nowadays, it must have seemed a little jarring to readers to crack open Special-Interest Autos #45, May-June 1978, and find an article by Richard Langworth discussing eight- and nine-year-old cars. It’d be akin to putting a 2000 model year vehicle in HCC. Yet a club had already formed (the Daytona and Superbird Owners Association), and all of the people involved in producing and racing the cars were still alive and available for Langworth to interview, thus an article that un-self-consciously looked at a relatively late model car as a collectible. Continue reading at Hemmings
April 16, 2009
House of Angry
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Before I left New York, Mike took me out to Westchester, where he keeps the Daytona. It’s probably no big surprise, but this thing looks even more awesome in person than it does in photos. And I’ve seen plenty of wing cars over the years.
If you’ve sat in a B-body, you’ve sat in them all. But of course, being a wing car, you’ve got any extra couple feet of nose cone hanging off the front. You definitely want to leave plenty of room in traffic!
Mike showed me what the Daytona is capable of a the freeway cloverleaf. This big Mopar is impressive, especially when you consider it’s a 40 year old, 4,200 pound car. Unlike my junky old B-body, it corners dead flat. And of course, Mike knows how to drive it.
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March 20, 2009
Nice Photochop!
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
I thought Nick’s clear-hood HEMI idea was pretty cool, and he’s got some other great gems on his ride page–his avatar, for one, is a Disney Cars version of his “Top Banana” Daytona R/T Charger. Other treats include the dragstrip pics on page 3 and the shifter-mod pics on page 2–nice yellow pool ball! Definitely check him out.
