‘69 Daytona Rusting In A Barn Could Fetch $180,000

Someday, all of the classic muscle cars stashed in country barns will have either been found or rusted away. Until then, you can only hope to be as lucky as the Alabama man who found one of the rarest Dodges ever rotting in a shed.

The car in question was a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona, a vehicle sold mainly to meet NASCAR rules, with just 503 built. Powered by a 440 Magnum V-8 conservatively rated at 375 hp, and sporting the massive wing that defined the early superspeedway Mopars, the Daytona was a force of reckoning at every stop light.

According to Alabama restorer Charles Lyons, the second owner of this particular car bought it in 1974, and had some flames painted on the fenders for showing off in Florida. Over the years, he drove the car less and less, and it’s been sitting motionless for several years, slowing turning to rust with a topping of moss on the rear wing.