Every car guy or girl has a list of dream cars that they would want to park in their garage. Usually you’ll find cars like a ’69 Camaro, a Shelby Mustang or even a new Corvette ZR1 among the cars listed that most gearheads aspire to own. But each and every one of us as another list; cars we’ve always wanted to own, but examples many of us may be embarrassed to share with our peers.

Imagine being with a group of your muscle car buddies when you tell them you’ve always had a thing for a classic VW bug or even a DeLorean. The conversation would usually end with a calamity of laughter with you being the butt of every joke for the remainder of the evening.

However, the same could be said if you confess your fascination with Chrysler’s wing cars of ’69 and ’70 to your tuner or exoctic car buddies. You could imagine that Joe Dirt would be the first thing you would be called.

Our advice? Get new friends. Because the ’69 Dodge Charger Daytona and ’70 Plymouth Superbird are among the coolest muscle cars ever made. Superseding the ’80s NASCAR-themed GM G-bodies by almost a full fifteen years, Chrysler’s wing cars had what it took to win on the banked ovals of stock car tracks nationwide, setting records left and right, while making drivers like Bobby Isaac and Richard Petty look like superheroes.

Unfortunately, while they were a hit on the stock car circuit (so much so that they were banned for the ’71 season), due to their very unique styling, they weren’t quite a hit on the sales floor.

During a time when most people still drove cars from the ‘50s and early ‘60s, the winged Chrysler B-bodies looked like something from outer space, and the casual consumer disregarded them as nothing more than a gimmick and perhaps even a joke.

As a result, many dealers were stuck with examples of these cars for many months –sometimes even up to a couple of years as we’ve heard on a few occasions.

But because of this rarity muscle car collectors have been scrambling to get their hands on these pieces of NASCAR history since the ‘80s –some paying as much as close to $1M on a few instances, they’ve become one of the most sought-out muscle cars of all time. We stumbled upon an example identical to the one pictured here on eBay the other day, but when we went back to check up on the auction a few hours later, the seller removed the ad completely.

Maybe it had something to do with the fact that his “Buy-It-Now” was $600k. Yeah, after the recession of 2008 the market sort of tanked slightly, and we don’t think the seller got the memo right away. So here’s another example we found with a much more realistic and much more budget friendly price of $180k on the same auction site. Not cheap, but considering what some were able and willing to pay just a few years ago, it looks like a bargain.