{"id":86577,"date":"2025-03-25T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=86577"},"modified":"2025-03-25T08:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:15:44","slug":"history-made-ultra-rare-1969-dodge-charger-500-breaks-the-bank-at-357k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2025\/03\/history-made-ultra-rare-1969-dodge-charger-500-breaks-the-bank-at-357k.html","title":{"rendered":"History Made: Ultra-Rare 1969 Dodge Charger 500 Breaks the Bank at $357K"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Built for NASCAR glory and blessed with a factory 426 HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> engine and four-speed, this 1969 Dodge Charger 500 just smoked the record books. One of only 15 known to exist in this spec, the B5 Blue beast fetched a jaw-dropping $357,500 at auction &#8211; making it the most expensive Charger 500 sold to date. Forget your run-of-the-mill muscle; this car is pure Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> legend, born in the transition between street machine and aero warrior. If you needed proof that real HEMI engine-powered vehicles still rule, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/rare-1969-dodge-hemi-charger-500-four-speed-sells-for-record-price-248900.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Ciprian Florea | autoevolution.com | Photo credit: Mecum Auctions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Disclaimer: This editorial article contains information and links to a third-party site. We can\u2019t guarantee 100% accuracy (we do our best) or vouch for their other site content (nobody\u2019s perfect) outside of this link. Let us know in the comments if there\u2019s something you think we need to review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built for NASCAR glory and blessed with a factory 426 HEMI\u00ae engine and four-speed, this 1969 Dodge Charger 500 just smoked the record books. One of only 15 known to exist in this spec, the B5 Blue beast fetched a jaw-dropping $357,500 at auction &#8211; making it the most expensive Charger 500 sold to date. Forget your run-of-the-mill muscle; this car is pure Mopar\u00ae legend, born in the transition between street machine and aero warrior. If you needed proof that real HEMI engine-powered vehicles still rule, here it is. Source: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":86579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[2948],"class_list":["post-86577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage","tag-dodge-classics"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HistoryMade_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HistoryMade_Social.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86577"}],"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=86577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86584,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86577\/revisions\/86584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}