Danbury Mint 1969 Dodge

The following definition best fits this stunning model from Danbury Mint.

bad • ass Slang: Vulgar.

–adjective Also, badassed.

1.(of a person) difficult to deal with; mean-tempered; touchy.

2. distinctively tough or powerful; so exceptional as to be intimidating.
–noun

3. a mean-tempered troublemaker.

Take your pick, of one, two, or three; they all work for me. If you are into muscle cars this one is it; it's clean, simple, and powerful while still being eerily beautiful. You could say this car had it all.

This would not be the car your father would have enjoyed seeing you pull up to the front of the house and yelling: "Hey pop, do you like my new wheels?" Trust me; this would have been a Kodak or Maalox moment for dad for sure.

The Danbury Mint really has to be commended for reproducing these old classics with minute accuracy. No matter how critical a collector you are, you will enjoy having this "Bad Ass" model on the shelf just because you can, and you have a little of that "Bad Ass" attitude still flowing through your veins too.

All panels lineup perfectly, and so does the chrome what little there is of it. Hey, this is what a muscle car was supposed to look like wasn't it? Simple, powerful and built for speed, works for me. Let's not forget it had to make a lot of noise or we modified them so they did, and I can still hear the sound this car made. I never had the pleasure of owning a Dodge Super Bee and honestly I don't remember any of my friends having one either but I do remember seeing them around and drag racing against them on more than one occasion. For the most part I always came out in front but then remember I am writing this article so why wouldn't I.

Dodge's 440 Six Pack cost $463, about $500 less than a Hemi. That outrageous hood did bait cops, and made any engine service a two-person job. The Danbury Mint included hood extension pins allowing you to display the replica with its hood raised for show if you like. I did find the lanyards a little difficult to clip into place so I didn't install them on my model. I hope in the future they make the lanyards a simple piece that can be slipped over the hood pins instead.

The power-plant was a 375-bhp 440-cid Magnum V-8. It received a time-honored hop-up of more carburetion, replacing the single Carter quad with three Holley two-barrels on an Edelbrock Hi-Riser manifold. Under normal driving the engine ran on the center carb; punching it opened the two outboard Holleys that delivered an astounding 1375-cfm charge. Hemi valve springs, a hotter cam, magnafluxed connecting rods, and other fortifications helped boost output to 390 bhp.

Danbury Mint knows what it takes to "pop my cork" and that is what I like to call "bling". Bling is those little touches that make you stop everything your doing and droll over what you are looking at. The Danbury Mint Super Bee does just that.

Detail, detail, detail that's what Danbury Mint is all about, and this model attest to that fact. From its rims to red lines, and the stripe across the trunk, you won't find a better representation of this model in 1:24th scale from anyone else.

The bottom line was this car was built to strike fear amongst its competitors and it did. With its matte-black finish and NASCAR tie-down pins, the fiberglass lift-off hood said this car meant business, a message reinforced by standard steel wheels unadorned except for chrome lug nuts. In other words this was one "BAD ASS" car and the Danbury Mint recreated it to be one "bad ass" replica just for you.

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