1969 Dodge Daytona Original Preview Article; CARS Magazine

Last time we reminded you of the up coming Aero Car Reunion at the Tim Welborn Museum in Alexander City AL and at the Talladega Speedway. This time we want to give you a peak at our ride for that event, our 1969 Dodge Nuremberg Daytona. This is the car restoration you have been following for the past couple of years on this web site. However, we also wanted to show you what the media was saying about these cars back in 1969.

Below are some copies of an article that was published in CARS magazine in September of 1969. The story is about a pre-production prototype Dodge Daytona. It reveals some details about the new car that are far from what the resulting production car incorporated. Some of these “specs” remain as unfounded misconceptions about these rare cars today.

Read the text below and see if you can spot the errors. Let’s see how well you know these cars.

Here is another part of the article.

Here is more.
