Hey guys just curious, I was talking to my dad a couple days ago about some of the cars he has had in his younger years. And one of them was a 1968 R/T coronet that had a matching number daytona 500 440 in it. It wasn't a 440 magnum or comando it was a daytona 500 440. And from what I understand that is extremely rare. The car was white with a red racing stripe around the rear end. Anyone know what that car would be worth now? He had the car back in the early 70's when they weren't worth squat, and it was just a car.

 

Come on I know someone here has to know!? lol help me figure this out so I can smack him around for getting rid of it lol. No just kidding he already kicks himself in the a$$ for getting rid of it. But even if he still had it he would still be upset about it. Cause he was trying to see what it would do and said he believes he was doing well over 200 miles per hour cause he broke the speedo and he still was nowhere near its peak power. While doing so he broke the tail shaft on the tranny, (he put a new tranny in it). Then his friends barrowed it from him and were racing it and blew the motor, they put a new motor in it for him. ( it seemed like a good favor at the time I guess but they just ruined it even more) lol I guess thats just a good example of how cars were ruined back in the day. I guess its understandable back then nobody cared about them or knew what they were worth.

 

For a Coronet R / T with the original 440 probably around $30,000 to $40,000, just to throw out a figure. It all depends on condition, options, etc.

 

i saw 1 for sale that had 30.000 miles asking $60.000 most were around 20.000. again these were asking prices. not what they are worth

 

Don't know if the 440 being a daytona 500 440 4 barrel would make a difference?

 

don't think it would
it just sounds like another catch phrase kind of thing to me

 

it would probly add a grand or more too the price.

 

What would make it a "Daytona 500" 440??

 

I'm honestly not sure, when I was talking with my dad about it he said he had a friend who was a mechanic do some work on it for him. When he went and picked it up the guy acted somewhat surprised and asked him did you know your car has a daytona 500 440 in it? Dad says no. He told him it was pretty rare and a bad A$$ motor. This was probably 1974 or 75. My best guess would be (don't quote me on this cause I dont know anything about daytona chargers or superbirds) that a daytona charger came with a daytona 500 440. But I honestly have no clue, don't know if they all had the same motor put in or if they had different options. I'm guessing a daytona charger was meant for daytona performance, so maybe that is where the daytona 500 440 thing came from. But again I have no clue. But that is honestly what I thought at first, and if that was the case, it would seem to me like that motor should be worth quite a bit seeing as how much a daytona charger or superbird is worth........like way too much lol. No I'm kidding but, I'm sure your guys know they are probably worth a 1/4 of a million if they are restored.

 

i dont think the 500 refers to an engine or an engine option. the engine is a 440 magnum. i know they had to build and put at least 500 into dealers hands before they could be raced in nascar.

 

With the tail stripe it sounds like he had a Super Bee, they came standard with the 335 hp 383. The only option was a 426 hemi, no 440. I believe the 383 had 440 heads on it, could that have confused the mechanic into thinking it was a 440 in a car that wasn't supposed to come with one? I had a 68 R/T and it had the 440 magnum. I did a bunch of searches and looked in my Mopar engine book and could find no reference to a Daytona 500 440. But many strange things were done back then.

 

true so true

 

I've never heard of a Daytona 500 440... And a 440 out of Daytona prob wouldn't make a difference. Unless you had a Daytona, and needed a date coded 440 for it..

 

18,000 fully restored in fine conditon 12,600 very good 8,000