'69 Dodge Charger Daytona (Fast n Furious)

With Furious 7 hitting theaters April 3rd, now we talk about a special Hot Wheels.  It's '69 Dodge Charger Daytona, a part of Fast and Furious Hot Wheels Edition. :)  I bought it from a reseller (also a collector) of Hot Wheels.  It's hard to find even one of the edition in the market.

It made the debut at 2013 HW Showroom - HW Garage.  This car was used with the same color in the 2013 movie Fast & Furious 6.

Dodge Charger Daytona was a modified version of Dodge Charger.  The name is taken from Daytona Beach, Florida, which was an early center for auto racing and still hosts the Daytona 500, one of NASCAR's premier events. The Daytona was the performance model of the compact Lark and it was produced from 1963–1966.

With the failure of the 1969 Dodge Charger 500 on the highbanks of the superspeedways (tracks of a mile, or more in length), the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona was created. It was intended to be a high-performance, limited-edition version of the Dodge Charger produced in the summer of 1969 for the sole purpose of winning high profile NASCAR races. 

 Body and Chassis :

Class	: Muscle car
Body style	: 2-door coupe

Powertrain

Engine            : 426 Hemi 426 cu in (7.0 L) V8, or 440 Magnum 440 cu in (7.2 L) V8

Transmission  : 4-speed manual, or 3-speed automatic Torqueflite 727

The Dodge Daytona is now a very rare and valuable collectible, with 440-powered Daytonas reaching into six-figure territory and 426 hemi-engined cars passing $300,000

Vin Diesel's Latest Charger Is a Daytona

In Fast & Furious 6,  Dominic Toretto (played by Vin Diesel) drives a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona. It's the right car for the evolution of the Toretto character from a street racing punk in Los Angeles ripping off semis full of electronics in the first Fast & Furious movie, to the natural leader of a multiethnic family of highly competent international heist-meisters. It's a more sophisticated and sleeker machine for a character who has grown more sophisticated and sleek (in a Diesel-like way) over the 12 years since the series started.

The Non-Daytona Daytona

With its extremely long nose and ridiculously high rear wing, an original 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona would be ill suited to cinematic stunt work, and at more than six figures for a good example, way too expensive. So picture car coordinator Dennis McCarthy built a variation on the Daytona with a slightly shorter nose, a slightly less elevated rear wing and slammed it over a set of custom-made 18-inch wheels wearing 275/40R18 and 315/40R18 Nitto tires.

In fact, the entire front clip of Toretto's Daytona is one piece of fiberglass fabricated at McCarthy's 20,000-square-foot shop in Sun Valley, California. Compared to a production '69 Daytona, the Toretto Daytona's nose is almost 12 inches shorter overall and somewhat taller in profile. And the movie car's nose has fixed headlights under Plexiglas covers instead of the original's pop-up units.

 

And of course, you won't forget the outstanding stunt by Dom in the movie.  :)