I had to check out the rear perspective styling, which clinched the win for the Super Bee. Although I do like the Merc it looks a bit chunky by comparison.
I had to check out the rear perspective styling, which clinched the win for the Super Bee. Although I do like the Merc it looks a bit chunky by comparison.
By gosh, Jack; you're right!!
Both cars are pretty sweet, but the athletic Dodge is more like a Twixt, while the chubby Merc is more like the Chunky!!
Don't worry about me, guys. I'm OK. I'll be alright. I'll just sit over here, all by myself, loving the Cyclone...just me and the Cyclone...all alone...over here...in the corner....
@jkuvakas John! John; is that you way over there? John, can you hear us; you don't have to sit in the corner, in the back, in the dark! Just cause you like the Cyclone doesn't mean we don't want your company here in the light. Belly up to the bar - have a margarita, a taquito and some salsa. We still love you man!
Both are good-looking (and powerful) muscle cars. I only have diecast models right now of the 1969 Dodge Coronet and the 1969 Ford Talladega. Very nice automobiles !
The car I enjoyed/most fun in was my '68 Super Bee.
Bought it new. Kept it for, can't remember the exact number, around 96,000 miles [in one year], set the clock back and traded it for a '69 Coronet R/T. 3 years later bought it back as it was traded in. Kept it a year and gave it to my cousin Fred who kept it to it rusted away 5 years. At 9 years old with no floor or trunk floor or lower quarters or rocker panels or bottom of doors or front fenders top & bottoms or around rear window the bellhousing shattered and Cousin Fred called and asked what I wanted to do? I told him to bring me the engine & trans and junk what he could not sell, the hood & trunk lid were about all that was left. So here sat an engine & trans hanging from a beam in my garage for another 5 years. When I sold it to buy a new bike [82 Yamaha Maxim]. The car, pure stock with the Wide Ovals at best turned [2:23 sure grip] 14.7 sec in the quarter and was able to hit 148 mph on the speedo. It would beat Road Runners by 2 car lengths in the Quarter and stay with 440's. WHY my cousin Fred & I often wondered, we knew nothing about engine #'s back then. The guy who bought the engine bought it knowing it had around 190,000 [we knew it had well over 200,000] miles on and burnt oil. He had a couple of books and checked out the numbers and from that he TOLD me, it was originally in an early '68 Super Bee with a standard trans and the first few of them has 350 horsepower instead of the 335 other 383 magnums had. Explained why it was faster than other 383's. Most MOPAR big blocks had hydraulic lifters that floated out at around 6300 rpm where as mine would do 7200 rpm. Wish I had been told that before I sold the engine.
The '69 R/T I traded it for did not handle half as good, bad under steer due to a few more lbs and the R/T was a hardtop and the Bee was a coupe. And the 440 was virtually no faster than the Bee 383 and topped out at 138+-.
My, by then Fred's, Bee in 1975 with my wife's/family '72 Sport Suburban Plymouth in background, I had a '74 Ford F250.
