{"id":67970,"date":"2023-01-14T06:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T11:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=67970"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:55","slug":"buzzing-across-the-auction-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2023\/01\/buzzing-across-the-auction-block.html","title":{"rendered":"Buzzing Across the Auction Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mecum Kissimmee is stuffed full of American Muscle this year. Daytonas, \u2019Cudas and Challengers are around every corner, but this 1971 HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Orange Charger Super Bee has caught our attention. But what makes it super? The 426 HEMI V8 engine with dual four-barrel carburetors and hemispherical cylinder heads under the hood, of course. This Super Bee is souped-up with almost all the factory options and is one of only nine that came outfitted with a four-speed transmission for the production year. The Dodge Brand was still paying homage to the Super Bee 50 years later, offering a Dodge Charger Super Bee as one of the seven Last Call models. Here\u2019s why some say <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the 1971 Dodge Super Bee was the Challenger Hellcat of it\u2019s day (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topspeed.com\/the-dodge-hemi-super-bee-was-a-predecessor-to-the-challenger-hellcat\/\" target=\"_blank\">the 1971 Dodge Super Bee was the Challenger SRT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat of its day<\/a>. Let us know in the comments your thoughts on the return of the Bee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mecum Kissimmee is stuffed full of American Muscle this year. Daytonas, \u2019Cudas and Challengers are around every corner, but this 1971 HEMI\u00ae Orange Charger Super Bee has caught our attention. But what makes it super? The 426 HEMI V8 engine with dual four-barrel carburetors and hemispherical cylinder heads under the hood, of course. This Super Bee is souped-up with almost all the factory options and is one of only nine that came outfitted with a four-speed transmission for the production year. The Dodge Brand was still paying homage to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":67972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[1939,2948,1144],"class_list":["post-67970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage","tag-auctions","tag-dodge-classics","tag-mecum"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1971SuperBee_Feature.png","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1971SuperBee_Social.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67975,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67970\/revisions\/67975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}