69 Dodge Hurst/Dart "Swinging Bee" 383 _Who Knew???

[69NovaYenko]

When I stumble across the odd factoids I like to share:

 

George Hurst had already in the 40's made a name as motor trimmers in Philadelphia, in the 60's when the muscle car era took off so was his Hurst Performance among the most senior in their field. Hurst had the cooperation of many different manufacturers during this hectic time. Swinging Bee was a prototype for Dodge 1969th  This was built along with a Charger who was surnamed Merada and proposed to the Dodge division management as a "package solution" to advertise both models together, which might Kuden be attractive from a marketing standpoint. Swinging Bee whose name was the same set of existing Dodge Dart Swinger and fiercely larger Coronet Super Bee was yellow with black "bee-stripes" across the rear and a small spoiler. 

The engine was a fairly standard 383 "with dual exhaust with four-speed manual or alternatively 727 automatic transmission and additionally front disc brakes. Scoop on the hood was a little more special than it appears, then it will be set a valve was opened at high throttle, so to speak drug cold air to the engine. A simple but quite effective tuning tricks. Swingin Bee and Merada certainly were performance cars, but no killer in the top tier, but was developed by Hurst more given that image-cars, promotional models, and something fixpris what these would the cost could be distributed to client had been no specification. or some performance numbers helelr for that matter, the package Merada / swining Bee jumped Dodge not, and the two cars then disappeared without a trace.

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Edited December 23, 2015 by 69NovaYenko

[6bblbird]

Was the story translated from another language? Weird

[unclescott58]

Was the story translated from another language? Weird

Yea, I too found it a little hard to read. Interesting car. Looking at the black & white photos I didn't like it. The stripes were too much. But, then I saw the color photo. And I kind of like it. It's still too much. But in that yellow, it kind of works.