In 1970, Chrysler built a car so fast and so dominant that NASCAR had to rewrite its own rulebook just to stop it. This is the full story of the Plymouth Superbird and the Dodge Charger Daytona: the winged aero cars born out of a grudge with Ford, engineered by a literal rocket scientist, and banned within a single season after they broke a 200 mph barrier no stock car had ever touched. From Richard Petty’s defection to Buddy Baker’s record run to the strange rule NASCAR used to quietly kill them, this is how the fastest cars in NASCAR history became too good for their own sport.

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