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1969 Dodge Super Bee 426 Hemi
This page covers the factory-built 1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee ordered with the 426 CID Street Hemi V-8. The Super Bee was Dodge's lower-priced B-body performance model within the Coronet line; reference material lists the standard Super Bee equipment as the 383 high-performance V-8, heavy-duty 11-inch drum brakes, Rallye Suspension with sway bar, firm-ride shock absorbers, Power Bulge hood, Bumblebee stripes, F70 x 14 red-line wide-oval tires, and a four-speed manual transmission. For the Hemi configuration, the sourced powertrain table lists the 426 CID Hemi at 425 horsepower, with four-speed manual and three-speed TorqueFlite automatic pathways and different standard axle ratios by transmission. Because the checked source coverage is strongest for model-line equipment and weaker for factory identity markers, exact clone/fraud checks are held in coverage gaps rather than asserted. Production is reported here only as a secondary-reference figure: one source reports 166 1969 Super Bees with the 426 Hemi, while more granular body-style and transmission splits still need primary registry or factory-document confirmation.