No proof of any dealership involved with the green car wearing Chryslers issued dealer plates,photographed at the Dodge styling studio at Hamtramack. The purple car was sold through a Maryland dealership,but picked up in Detroit by the original buyer. No way two different dealerships a thousand miles apart would build two nearly identical 70 Charger R/T V code Daytona's without factory involvement,the pictures at the Dodge styling studio with the Chrysler logo in the bottom corner prove factory involvement. No one was building Daytona clones in late 1969 when there were plenty of 1969 Daytona Chargers that were sitting on dealer lots all over the country,but Dodge building a few Daytona showcars is very plausable. It is my belief that these two cars and possibly a third one were built to be used as promotional vehicles like the Plymouth Rapid Transit cars were. Chrysler had already built enough Daytona's to make them legal in Nascar,so it wasn't necessary to do the rear window conversion for a few show cars. The original Daytona press car also didn't have the rear window conversion. The green 70 Daytona was photographed at a Dodge display in 1970 at a college near Detroit. At the time these cars were built,Creative Industries was busy building the pieces needed to build 1935 Plymouth Superbirds,so there probably wasn't time to convert the rear windows on cars that were slated to be showcars. It was necessary for Chrysler to produce all of the Superbirds before January 1st 1970 or they would no longer be able to sell them because of the new Federal crash standards. I believe fate interviened and these cars were sold off,like the rest of Chrysler's show cars,which almost all of them have survived to this day. The Federal Crash standards changed January 1st 1970 and Chrysler was no longer allowed to sell wingcars,because the nosecone did not meet the new crash standards. The second factor was Nascar outlawing the aerocars. These two events,changed the plan,and Chrysler switched it's focus to the third generation B body cars that were originally slated to be released in 1970. There was definately factory involvement in these cars. Note the picture below showing the original Daytona prototype press car,note the lack of the rear window conversion. The 500s were long done when this car was built,yet the rear window conversion was not done on this press car.
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