Dodge is celebrating the now-iconic
Winged Warrior with the 2020 Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody Daytona 50th
Anniversary Edition. The new model goes without a nose cone and vertical
stabilizers, but it does loose 717 horsepower from its 6.2-liter supercharged
V8, which is 10 more than the standard car.
The grunty sedan will be available in four colors:
Pitch Black, Triple Nickel, White Knuckle, and B5 Blue exclusive to this model.
B5 was the original paint code for a Blue Fire Poly hue available on Dodge and
Plymouth products built between 1969 and 1972. Evoking the original as well as
highlighting the decklid spoiler on the new Charger, the black, nickel, and
blue sedans get white "Daytona" decals on the rear quarter panels and
a white spoiler, matching white Hellcat badges on the front fenders. White cars
get blue "Daytona" decals and spoiler, and Hellcat badges in a bright
finish. Twenty-inch Warp Speed wheels finished in Satin Carbon on all-season
Pirellis and black Brembo brakes complete the exterior overhaul.
Inside, heated and cooled 12-way adjustable
performance seats are trimmed in Nappa leather and Alcantara, with blue
cross-stitching joining seatbacks embroidered with the word
"Daytona." The flat-bottomed, suede-wrapped steering wheel with
silver stitching and "velour-bound" floor mats will only come in this
model, the festival of special appointments also including the dynamica suede
headliner, carbon fiber instrument panel and bezels, light black chrome trim
pieces, and blue stitching on the dash, shifter, center console armrest, and
door panels.
Dodge will only produce 501 units, said to match the
number of cars necessary for NASCAR homologation at the time, and each wears a
plaque identifying it as "X out of 501." NASCAR rules in 1969
demanded 500 units, actually — the car Dodge built in 1968 to race was called
the Charger 500, in fact. Also, Creative Industries built 503 1969 Charger
Daytonas for the U.S. and another 40 for Canada, but who's counting? Another
thing about the original car: They were expensive, they didn't like street
duty, and dealers couldn't give them away, often resorting to removing the
nosecone and wing to get the cars off lots.
Dealers begin taking orders for the Charger SRT
Hellcat Widebody Daytona 50th Anniversary Edition in the fall, deliveries to
commence in early 2020. Before then, visitors to this weekend's Woodward Dream
Cruise in Pontiac, Michigan can check out the sedan at Dodge's display at the
Modern Street HEMI Shootout.
