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Dodge Charger Daytona Tribute Looks Like a Drag Racing Cheese Wedge

Nowadays, if a car gets a big wing bolted onto the back, people call it a "ricer." But Dodge did that with the Charger Daytona, and the result was amazing.
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Although it was a low-volume car made for a few years, the Daytona will forever occupy a spot in car culture. "What is this, and what kind of crazy people make something like that out of a muscle car?" is the reaction it usually triggers the first time.

The proportions are impossible to forget. It's not only got a wing that's as bold as a Power Ranger's costume, but also a pointy nose and 226.5 inches (5,753 mm) of bodywork, rolling around on some pretty small alloys. Over the years, these features have inspired many renderings, and this is one of the most interesting.

Pixel master wb.artist20 decided to pay a modern tribute to the legendary Dodge racer and started out with a modern-day Charger. Unlike the Daytona rendering we shared last week, this still has the front end features of the sedan, but they've become a little elongated. The way the headlights point down is very reminiscent of the last Dart sedan.

Other changes were made, of course. The 4-door sedan body has been changed to a 2-door with the square roof shapes taken from a 1969 model. It's giving us cab-forward design vibes, while the color reminds us of TheSketchMonkey's modernized Chevy Monte Carlo and all the "melted cheese" jokes. So, in a way, this would work as a 2001 Daytona rendering too.

In case you're wondering, the old Daytona in these photos is one of 503 produced in 1969, and it was auctioned off by Mecum this summer. We think that unlike a normal Charger or Challenger, there's no way to do a good modernized rendering or even a restomod of these pointy-nosed cars. It just doesn't sit right with lowered suspension and big wheels.

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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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