The Super Bee was Dodge's budget priced muscle car in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Essentially a stripped-down version of the Coronet R/T, it was a slightly more upscale answer to Plymouth's Road Runner. The name was derived from the fact that, like the Coronet R/T and Charger, it was based on Mopar's midsize B-body platform.
While the Coronet R/T came with the four-barrel 440 Magnum as the standard engine, the cheaper Super Bee's base powerplant was the 383 Magnum. The hood badges on the Plum Crazy 1970 model in the photos indicate it has the 383, which had a 9.5:1 compression ratio and was rated at 335 gross horsepower. Transmission choices were the four-speed A833 manual or a Torqueflite 727 three-speed auto.
Car and Driver tested a 1969 Super Bee with a 383 Magnum, Torqueflite slushbox, and 3.55:1 limited slip rear end and recorded a 5.6 second zero-to-sixty blast, while a trip down the quarter mile took 14.04 seconds at 99.55 miles per hour. Price as tested was $3,858 on the fairly well-optioned test car (in addition to the limited slip rear and automatic, it had power front discs, power steering, styled steel wheels, and more), which is almost $34k in current dollars.
The one in the picture was photographed with a Hasselblad Lunar and 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens outside of Trinidad, Colorado in October of 2016.
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