New Convertible Super Bee Alongside Yellowish Stripe Tires, The 1968 Exhibit Circuit Car

The source of the name, "Super Bee", has its reason inwards the "B" Body designation pertinent to Chrysler's mid-sized cars, including the Road Runner as well as Charger.

Plymouth's Road Runner sales were plenty to accept Dodge Division General Manager, Robert McCurry, asking a like model from the Dodge Styling office. Senior designer, Harvey Winn, won a studio blueprint review with the bring upwards "Super Bee" as well as a novel logo blueprint based on the Dodge "Scat Pack" Bee medallion.

The logo was used unchanged afterward he hand-cut the blueprint on his dining room table. It went on to last the centerpiece of what industrial designer Mack King called "a to a greater extent than graphically stated musculus machine than the Plymouth Road Runner."

The blueprint of the kickoff Super Bee was influenced past times the 1968 Coronet convertible as well as the present car's interior was built past times the Alexander Brothers. The present machine was introduced at the 1968 Detroit Auto Show.

This belatedly laid about past times Dodge meant the Road Runner was cleaning upwards inwards sales past times the fourth dimension Dodge had the Super Bee ready for production. In an endeavour to spread publicity, Dodge blitzed the media volition full-page coloring spreads inwards the pop machine magazines as well as 250 college newspapers.

Although the 2 cars are like inwards external appearance, the Super Bee was slightly heavier (approx. 65 lb (29 kg)) as well as rode on a 117-inch (3,000 mm) wheelbase compared to the Road Runner's 116 inwards (290 cm) wheelbase.

In improver to small-scale fry external differences, such equally larger raise cycle openings, the bumblebee tailstripe as well as fancier grille, as well as the taillight ornamentation, the Super Bee besides used actual diecast chrome-plated "Bee" medallions. These three-dimensional medallions were prominently mounted inwards a raised position inwards the grille/hood expanse as well as the trunklid/taillight expanse of the machine throughout the kickoff 3 years of production.

The Super Bee used the dash cluster from the Dodge Charger, piece the four-speed manual cars received a Hurst Competition-Plus shifter amongst Hurst linkage, this shifter outshined the Road Runner's less expensive Inland shifter as well as linkage.

Due to the higher-quality accessories attached to the Super Bee, the machine was sold at a higher cost inwards comparing to the Road Runner as well as this had a negative upshot on sales. Only 125 Hemi Super Bees were sold, equally it was 33% to a greater extent than expensive than the 383 Bee.