Calling all NASCAR and Dodge fans! In 1970, Buddy Baker drove this Cotton Owens #6 Charger Daytona to a second place finish in the Firecracker 400 at Daytona in July, to fourth at Atlanta in August, sixth at Michigan on August 16, and fifth at the Talladega 500 on August 23. Powered by a 426 Hemi, this 1969 Daytona achieved speeds exceeding 200mph on the superspeedways of Talladega and Daytona. Watch the original race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VXG1ZKVmWY | Petersen Automotive Museum

The 1970 Plymouth Superbird became one of the most legendary muscle cars in NASCAR history thanks in large part to Richard Petty, who returned to Plymouth after a season with Ford specifically to race the radical aero‑car. Built as a modified Plymouth Road Runner with a long nose cone and a towering rear wing designed to generate clean‑air downforce, the Superbird was homologated into NASCAR by building roughly 1,920 road‑legal examples for the public. Petty used the Superbird’s speed and stabil