I searched the name on Google and got an address. Eventually, I got a name and number on a bit of a whim. He continues to say, “Somebody told me about it but couldn’t exactly remember where it was. I told him ‘BS!’ I didn’t believe such a loaded Super Bee existed,” says Rick. When I was told about it, I couldn’t believe it. “I heard about this car through word of mouth in November 2016.
We must say, this ‘Bee is truly even cooler in person! Upon seeing the pictures he sent us, we couldn’t believe it so we decided to head over to his place and check out the car for ourselves. That being said, we personally feel the 1970 Dodge Super Bee you’ll see below is one of the most loaded ones out there especially in post/coupe form!īack in the summer, we received a text message from our good friend Rick Boux from British Columbia, Canada sharing a car that he had managing to track down and buy.
1968 super bee full#
When it comes to Super Bees, finding one loaded full of options is as rare as hen’s teeth. A lot of Super Bees came from the factory as pretty bare bone stripper models with bench seats, column shift automatic transmissions and hubcaps. With the 383 Magnum standard under the hood and a number of other higher performance engines available, one could pack a ‘Bee full of power for pretty cheap. When the Super Bee came out in 1968, it quickly gained credit on the street for being the average Joe’s muscle car. When you think of the Dodge Super Bee, you think of a bare bones street brawler. Needless to say, they are one of our favorites. There a quite a few die-hards that absolutely love them and a number of others that passionately hate them. The front end on the 1970 Coronets and Super Bees are truly a love it or hate it thing. We currently have two in our fleet, with Editor-in-Chief’s Kevin Shaw owning a Super Bee better known as ZomBEE (you’ll be seeing lots more of this car in the near future) and Associate Editor Cody Cole owning a Coronet 500. And hopefully, we'll see this Superbird up and running soon enough.It’s no secret that us here at Mopar Connection love 1970 Dodge Coronets and Super Bees. It would all be perfect if the original 383 V8 would be around (there's no info on whether it survived or not), but that's still great news. The owner recently expanded his shop and finished restoring other cars he had sitting around, including a Plymouth Superbird, and this Super Bee is on the shortlist for an overhaul. Well, I think it actually looks better than it should, given that it sat outside, fully exposed to the elements, for so many years, but that's not the best news surrounding this classic. Based on the info he got from one guy at the yard, the muscle car spent some 40 years waiting for a second chance. YouTube's "Auto Archaeology" has been documenting it for almost 20 years, but this Super Bee has been sitting for longer than that. But that's because this Mopar has been off the road for a few decades. The paint has seen better days, the interior is just as weathered, and the engine is missing. Numbers aside, this 1970 Super Bee is in pretty rough shape.
However, the Super Bee Registry includes only 12 383 V8 cars in white as of this writing, and only eight of them have automatic gearboxes. Then there's the white exterior / blue interior combo that likely makes this Super Bee one of fewer than 50 made, but there are no official records based on color combinations. What's more, the 383-cubic-inch (6.3-liter) V8 engine and the automatic transmission narrow it down to only 1,710 units. Of the 15,506 Super Bees built in 1970, only 3,630 were coupes, according to the Super Bee Registry. Because this specific Mopar is a post car (coupe), which isn't as common as the hardtop version. The 1970 Super Bee you're about to see below is not one of those impossible-to-find HEMIs (only 42 built), but it's not exactly common either. And needless to say, they're quite expensive in 2022, fetching six-figure sums when in Excellent condition and with numbers-matching engines. And yes, I'm talking about 355 cars sold across four model years. That's because only 355 customers ordered the muscle car with the mighty 426-cubic-inch (7.0-liter) V8. What's more, the Super Bee is also among the rarest HEMI-equipped classics. For its final year, when it was based on the Charger instead of the Coronet, the Super Bee moved only 5,054.Īs a result, it's one of the rarest nameplates produced during the golden muscle car era. And even though deliveries grew to a more impressive 27,800 examples in 1969, they dropped to about 15,500 in 1970.
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