I have heard it said that it was "Float like a butterfly and sting like a Super Bee"  There were plenty of Chevys and Fords that were stung by a Hemi Super Bee.The Dodge Super Bee was Dodge's answer to the Plymouth Roadrunner.  Engine options and transmission options were basically the same for both cars. The Super Bee had the choice of a 383, 440, 440-6pac and the mighty 426 Hemi. You could get either a four speed manual or the 727 torqueflite automatic.

MOPAR and the Hemi pretty much dominated the racing circuits in the late 60s and early 70s. Owning a 426 Hemi was every boys dream .  I know that I wanted one and finally got one and sold it for what I thought was a big profit. I should have my butt kicked for ever getting rid of it.. I saw one just like mine on E-Bay a few months ago that was buy it now priced at $550,000. If you went to the drag races back then Super Stock was dominated by the 426 Hemi.

There were only 15506 Super Bees made in 1970 and only 32 of those were Hemis two door hardtops and 4 coupes with the post. So 36 out of 15506 were Hemis. Twenty six were four speeds and ten were automatics. There were concept 1970 Super Bee convertibles and nobody seems to know where they are or if any of them were Hemis. As I remember a new 1970 Super Bee with a 426 Hemi would probably have cost less than $4000 and today if even restorable would probably bring $50,000. A nice fully restored one would be at least $100,000 and would maybe be as high as a quarter million.

The 1970 Super Bee was available in some pretty wild colors. There was Plum Crazy Purple, Sublime which was a chartreuse metallic, Lemon Twist Yellow, and Go Mango Orange.  There was a pink and a loud blue on the Roadrunner.. Of course the normal colors were available too  I would love to have a Sublime 1970 Superbee with a black vinyl top and the white bucket seat interior..

The 426 Hemi was the engine to have in 1970. Some specs:

90 degree OHV cast iron V-8 

Hemispherical heads
4 bolt cross-bolted main bearings
Forged aluminum hemispherical pistons
4.25" bore and 3.75" stroke
426 cubic inches
425 horsepower
10.25:1 compression ratio
The 1970 had hydraulic  lifters
2 four barrel Carburetors
Dual point vacuum advance ignition

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It was a real horse of an engine. Dodge has come out with a new Hemi Super Bee that they are only going to make 1000 of.  I have a friend who has a SRT 8 Challenger and it will flat go but somehow it just isn't the same.

Right now on ebay there are no Hemi 1970 Super Bees.  A 1969 Hemi Roadrunner for $105,000. If you happen to be lucky enough to have one of those 36 1970 Hemi Super Bees you had better put in a locked fire proof monitored storage  because you have one very valuable car.

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