The Super Bee was ordered in TX9 Black with black interior, white C-stripes and a gator grain top. When ordering the car, the original owner loaded the ‘Bee absolutely full of options. Super Bees were poverty cars the average man’s muscle car,” says Rick. This car is weird because it was supposed to be a lower priced car. Coronet R/Ts are supposed to be loaded and a lot came with gator grain tops but hardly any Super Bees what so ever. “If he didn’t have young kids, he would have ordered a Coronet R/T hardtop and then this car wouldn’t have been as cool. He told the sales guy he wanted a post car because his kids were young and he didn’t want them rolling up and down the back windows so the sales guy pointed him to the Super Bees. On October 4th 1969, he was 25 years old and walked into Lawson Oates Chrysler in Vancouver, British Columbia to order a 1970 Dodge Coronet R/T. When Rick bought the car, the original owner told him the entire history behind it. Every time I need to know something about the car or have a question, he is always very friendly and helpful with answering whatever I need to know.” He was a very nice man he even helped us load it up. He only took it out once in a while just to keep the wheels rolling. Rick teld Mopar Connection, “From the late ‘80s onwards, he didn’t drive it. The mileage on the car is true and the original owner says the odometer was never rolled over. After that, he didn’t drive the car very much. His wife didn’t want it there either.”Īs it turns out, he was lead to believe that his wife was allegedly “stepping out on him” while driving the car. He said it had a lot of bad memories for him and he didn’t want the car in his garage anymore. At the same time, I said if he didn’t want to sell it, I’d help him find someone through my sources to help him restore it or get it at least running again so he could drive it. I told him I wanted the car and wanted to buy it. The original owner was holding the car for him but Mark never showed up. He was supposed to come up and look at the car with the intentions of buying it. Somehow, Mark Worman from Graveyard Carz heard about the car as well and made contact with the owner. The original owner, who is 73 years old, said a cop tried to buy it off of him a little earlier on and offered him $15,000 but the original owner thought he was going to flip it so he said no. “Finally, I got lucky and banged on the right door. The address it gave me was only a few townhouse complexes away from where I had pulled over! It was actually pretty funny I was out looking for the car and pulled over to Google his name. 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. 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. It’s no secret that us here at Mopar Connection love 1970 Dodge Coronets and Super Bees.
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