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1971 Dodge Charger Super Bee Six-Pack 440: Ravaged By Rust After 3 Decades.

This specific 1971 Dodge Charger Super Bee was built as a V-code Six-Pack car, but years ago the original owner swapped the tri-power set-up for a single square-bore Holley 4150, setting aside the rare aluminum Edelbrock/Holley Six-Pack induction for safe keeping.

Some quick checking on the interwebs indicates that this car is one-of-66 1971 Six-Pack 440 Super Bees with the 727 TorqueFlite automatic transmission, but more research will have to be done to verify its rarity.

Sometime around 1987, Jeff helped work on a friend’s 1973 Corvette road-race car. The owner of the Corvette never got around to racing it, but Jeff never forgot about it. Occasionally, Jeff would call his friend to inquire about it, hoping he could buy it with the intent of eventually racing it.

Fast forward to 2021 (yeah, over 30 years later!), the 1973 Corvette owner finally relented, and Jeff found himself at a pole barn in Wauconda, Illinois, loading up his “new” L88-equipped C3.

The day wasn’t going well, though. Three decades of sitting on a gravel floor with no moisture barrier to protect its undercarriage left the Corvette ravaged by rust. That’s when the owner of the pole barn approached Jeff to tell him there was another car tucked away in the huge barn he might also be interested in.

A 1971 Dodge Charger Six-Pack Super Bee in B5 Blue. Flat tires, rust-locked brakes, and a seized motor meant having to drag the Bee onto a fresh flatbed.

For the first four years of its life, the Super Bee accumulated 19,532 miles, until it was dinged on the front left fender while parked. The owner feared that the paint couldn’t be matched properly by any of the Chicago-area body shops (a valid concern in 1975), so he elected to store the car until such a time the paint could be handled properly.


What we hadn’t expected is that Mopar experts we’ve spoken with don’t place a very high priority on 1971 Super Bees, even one with 440 Six-Pack provenance.

Of the extant examples of 1971 Dodge Charger Super Bees, the Hemi cars demand the most due to the fact only 22 were ever made.

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