The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona exists because Dodge needed a faster car on NASCAR's superspeedways and the rules required it ...

The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona occupies a singular place in American performance history, a road‑legal oddity created for one purpose: to win on high‑speed ovals. Its towering rear wing and ...

Out of all the muscle cars from the late 1960s, the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona might be the most ostentatious. The front half was a Dodge Charger with a big nose cone, and the back half had a spoiler ...

In 1968, Dodge tackled the NASCAR series with the then-new Charger R/T. The muscle was unable to beat its Ford rivals on the high-bank oval tracks, so Dodge developed the more aerodynamic Charger 500.

In the fall of 1971, a NASCAR team that had just been rule-booked out of a job loaded a winged Dodge onto a trailer and pointed it west toward Utah. What happened over the following days on the ...

The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona remains one of the most outrageous cars ever built by the American auto industry. It was not created to be subtle. Dodge developed the Daytona as a NASCAR weapon at a ...