At the Mecum Monterey auction on Saturday, Aug. 16, an extraordinary piece of American motorsport history will be offered: ...

Hawkes is here at Texas Motor Speedway exercising his Hemi Orange 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona—Chrysler’s wingman, so to speak, ...

With the regular Charger and the more aerodynamic Charger 500 unable to outgun the Ford Torino Talladega, Dodge went all-in and developed the radical Daytona in 1969.

Both confirm it to be a factory XX29 Charger 500 with the J-code Hemi option. It's one of only 67 produced, but the three-speed TorqueFlite automatic gearbox narrows that number to just 40 units.