“My brother bought a 1968 Dodge Superbee his first week back from Vietnam. It was 1 of only 7 made by Dodge.”
Dodge produced almost 8,000 SuperBees in 1968 and over 100 of them were 426 Hemi’s.
“Fastest car I have ever been in.”
(Most SuperBees were 383’s)
1969 Plymouth Road Runner (Speed & Supercar)
426ci/425hp, 3spd auto, 4.10, 0-60 - n/a, 1/4 mile - 13.32 @ 107.65mph
2016 Mustang GT 13.0 @ 112 mph
His wasn’t, thus the letter from Dodge. It was sold to him as a 383 hipro. but when he reported to Ft. Rucker after driving it from San Francisco he went to tune it up. Bought new plugs, wires, and rotor for the 1968 383 hipro. But the plugs weren’t the same. So he took the parts back to the gas station (yes in those day you could buy auto parts as gas stations) and they sent him to the Dealer. The parts guy at the dealer gave him the same parts he had just returned. So they took the VIN number and that’s how they/he found out it was some specialty car. Dodge was changing body styles and falling behind Ford and Chevy/GM muscle cars so they built 7 of these to hit the streets and take on the Fords and Chevys/GM. That is whey then sent him the letter to sponsor him at the drag races.
Car would probably be worth several hundreds of thousands of dollars today with that pedigree...