The Most Expensive Dodge Ever Sold

Car	Figure	What kind of number that is
Charger Daytona HEMI, 1969	$3,300,000	Mecum Monterey, 2024. First Daytona past $2m and $3m.
Daytona production	503 built	1969, purely to satisfy NASCAR homologation.
With the 426 HEMI	70 of the 503	And only 22 of those with a four-speed manual.
Chevrolet Corvette C8	$349/day	The nearest American V8 you can book here.

What you can actually have instead Corvette C8 Mid-engined V8, four of them in four colours, and the cheapest supercar shape in the city. Dates and rate →

A two-foot wing, because a rulebook said so

The most valuable Dodge in history is a road car nobody at Dodge wanted to build. NASCAR required a manufacturer to sell a version of whatever it raced, so 503 Charger Daytonas were made and sold to the public with an eighteen-inch nose cone and a rear wing two feet tall.

One of them, with the 426 HEMI and matching numbers, made $3.3 million at Mecum’s Monterey sale in 2024 — a model whose auction record had already been broken once that decade. It is the first Daytona past two million and the first past three, and it went for roughly double the previous record for the model.

The scarcity inside the scarcity is what carries the money. Of the 503, only 70 had the HEMI, and of those only 22 had the four-speed manual. So the car that set the record is one of twenty-two, inside a run of five hundred, built for a reason that had nothing to do with selling cars.

Why the wing was not styling

It is worth being clear about this, because the Daytona is often filed under 1960s excess. The nose cone and the wing were aerodynamic devices developed to make the car stable at speeds that were then unprecedented on an oval, and they worked so well that the class was rewritten to stop them.

That is the same story as the Porsche 917 and the Ferrari 250 GTO in this series: a car built to exploit a rulebook, effective enough that the rulebook changed, and valuable sixty years later precisely because of that short window. The pattern is remarkably consistent across five decades and four countries.

What this means for modern Dodges

The Hellcats, the Demons and the various limited-run modern specials are quick, extremely loud and built in numbers that run to thousands. Nothing about them is scarce in the way that matters here, and none of them was built to satisfy anybody's regulation.

They may well become desirable, and desirable is not the same as valuable. Everything at the top of this series is a car that had to exist in a specific number for an external reason. That is a condition a marketing department cannot manufacture, which is exactly why it keeps producing the records.

We do not have a Dodge, and here is what we do have

No Dodge in this fleet, and saying so is cheaper for both of us than a phone call. The nearest thing is a Corvette C8 at $349/day, of which we hold four in four colours plus a convertible.

The substitution is better than it sounds. The C8 is mid-engined, which the Daytona emphatically was not, but it is the same fundamental proposition: a large-capacity naturally aspirated American V8 in a car built to be looked at. It is also, at $349/day, the least expensive way into a supercar shape anywhere in this city — roughly a sixth of the Ferrari and a fifth of the Huracán.

What it costs, and how it reaches you

Every Corvette here carries a $750 refundable deposit, back 5–7 business days after the car returns. These are the cars where weekly blocks genuinely bite, so the per-day figure on the car’s own page is the one that matters rather than anything typed here.

Collection from our lot on Robertson Boulevard is free and delivery to the partner hotels in Beverly Hills is complimentary. Airport delivery is priced per direction: $75 standard, where the car waits in the airport parking structure and you take the shuttle out to it, and $150 VIP, where it is at the terminal when you walk out. Anything past the mileage allowance is charged per mile at the rate written into your agreement. The rest is in the terms.