{"id":69622,"date":"2023-04-07T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=69622"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:51","slug":"a-mothers-memory-lives-on-with-her-charger-super-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2023\/04\/a-mothers-memory-lives-on-with-her-charger-super-bee.html","title":{"rendered":"A Mother’s Memory Lives on With Her Charger Super Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Self-described Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> fanboy Bobby Rowlett was 19 years old when he, his mom and his stepdad (Anna and Harold) drove from their home in Harlan, Kentucky, to Warsaw, Indiana, so that his mom could buy herself a 2013 Dodge Charger Super Bee. Although her son was fairly young, she wanted a Charger rather than a Challenger because it had plenty of room for her grandbabies. Bobby explains that his mom \u201cloved and cherished\u201d her Charger Super Bee, as she had never had a new car that was so nice and so fast. Sadly, Anna passed away in 2015 and an emotional Harold sold the car shortly after her death without talking to anyone else in the family about the decision to sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fast forward to early 2019 and Bobby Rowlett is flipping\nthrough the local Facebook Marketplace listings when he found a 2013 Dodge\nCharger Super Bee that looks just like his mom\u2019s. The car was at a local\ndealership, so he hurried there to check it out, but the VIN revealed that it\nwas not Anna\u2019s Charger. However, the excitement of possibly finding his mom\u2019s\nSuper Bee led him to begin hunting for the actual car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the help of a friend who works in the dealership world,\nRowlett located his mom\u2019s Dodge Charger Super Bee at a dealership in Kentucky\nin March of 2019. He immediately contacted the dealership, only to find that he\nwas too late. Someone had called before him and bought the car over the phone,\nwithout even coming in to see the car first. Rowlett was crushed, as he figured\nthat someone who bought the car sight unseen obviously wanted the car very\nbadly, so they likely wouldn\u2019t be interested in selling it right away. As a\nresult, he didn\u2019t try to find the buyer and he gave up his quest to buy Anna\u2019s\nCharger Super Bee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On December 25, 2019, Rowlett\u2019s stepdad, Harold, came over to Bobby\u2019s home to celebrate both Christmas and his stepson\u2019s birthday. When he got there, Harold had some exciting new \u2013 he had located the person who owned Anna\u2019s Dodge Charger and he wondered if Bobby would be interested in trying to buy the car. Bobby was so excited that he quickly said that he would sell the 1975 Corvette he had in order to raise the money to buy his mom\u2019s Super Bee. Harold suggested that they go look the Corvette over to further discuss the prospect of selling the classic Chevy to buy the modern four-door muscle car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Bobby and Harold opened the garage door, it wasn\u2019t his\n1975 Corvette on the other side. Instead, Anna\u2019s black Dodge Charger Super Bee\nwas parked in Bobby\u2019s garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n