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When you went to the track to watch the drags, there were some really cool Super Stockers with lift off hoods and "steelies" and no options or extras just bares bones cars for drags racing. Just the look alone made the statement that this car is one butt kickin' machine. Despite the Spartan look, it took a bit of work to strip a car down and make it race ready.   Half way through the 1969 model year Mother Mopar decided to help the drag racer out with a track ready, bare bones drag car of their own. Enter the 1969 440 Six Pack Super Bee. The visual impact of the car was immediate and the impression was lasting. It was just what the doctor ordered with a fiberglass hood sporting a large open scoop. No hood hinges, just pull four hood pins and lift it off. Steel wheels with chrome lug nuts, no wheel covers, and red line tires. Over the rear quarters and trunk lid, there's a tail stripe that incoporates the Super Bee logo above the rear side marker lights.   The inside is Spartan with Plain Jane bench seats, base carpeting or rubber mat flooring, column shift for automatics or Hurst shifter for the 4-speed cars, and minimal gauges unless ordered special.   Let there be no mistake, these cars were not "posers". Under that lift-off fiberglass hood was a power plant that was the real deal. The newly developed 440 Six Pack was a heavy duty built big block that sported three Holley two-barrel carbs! The center carb handled the regular driving chores but when it was go time the two out board carbs kicked in under vacuum and you had almost 1400 cfm of fuel and air to do the work. That work measured up to the tune of 390 horsepower at 4700 RPM and 490 Ft/Lbs of torque at 3200 RPM. That backed up by a 727 Torque-flite automatic or the Hurst shited 4-speed channeled through a set of 4.10 gears and your 3800 pound Super Bee would pull low 13's at around 107 mile an hour on street skins through the pipes. Uncork the exhaust and bolt on a pair of 26x9 slicks and you're in the 12's and you haven't even super tuned the motor yet!   With all kinds of action happening on the strip and the street, this was a car that could hold it's own in both arenas with minimal maintenance and could even "hook up" fairly well on the factory tires. With good tuning, deeper gears, and open headers people have been known put these cars into th 11's. The 440 Six Pack Super Bee was propably the best 'out of the box stock' drag racer (along with the 440 6BBL Roadrunner) made during the Musclecar era. Oh sure, the factory light weights and Hemi Darts and Barracudas and Thunderbolts may have been faster, but the Six Pack was a legit fully functioning street car that you could lean on without denting it and pass a state motor vehicle inspection with.   All in all, it was an awesome car. You could buy a factory drag racing car from your local Dodge dealer that you could drive to work, church, the super market and the drag strip and it would hardly give you minute's trouble. How such a magnificent machine could be just a 'one year wonder' is beyond me but I guess it's better one and done than none at all.   - Dan Davis.