eBay Find Of The Day: 1984 Dodge Daytona Pace Car

The 1980’s were a strange and unusual time: we had an actor in the White House, a video camera in every household, and rocks for pets. It was also the era of the turbocharged performance car. A few of the more well known examples were the Buick Grand National, Mustang SVO, and the Shelby-tuned Chrysler K-cars. Built as replacements for the bygone big-block muscle machines of yore, they wrote a new chapter in the history of American performance cars.

The '84 Daytona Pace Car featured a unique one-off body that was unlike the production version.

There were the one-off’s too, such as the Indy Fiero and the car that helped Charlie Sheen’s character seek revenge in The Wraith. The latter was a turbocharged prototype built by Chrysler and was never deemed to be a production car. But it wasn’t the only unique car that 1980’s Chrysler produced. Check out the 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo pace car seen on this page.

We ran across it on eBay of all places, and the seller is looking to get $350,000 out of this thing. Now before you laugh and look at something else on our website, you need to know the history on this car. It was entirely built by hand alongside the aforementioned Wraith movie car, and features totally unique body panels from that of a production Daytona.

Nothing on the outside will interchange from the standard car, and it was specifically used as the PPG Indy Pace Car for three consecutive years. It packed 250hp, enough to make this thing see a top speed of 173.222 mph -very impressive for a front wheel drive 4-cylinder car in those days.

According to the seller, everything’s still intact and working as it should be. However, we do find it slightly odd that almost every picture of the car in the ad is of one that can easily be found elsewhere on the internet. For someone asking the kind of cash that would buy a very decent house, or roughly three brand new ZR1’s, we suggest bidding with caution.