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1969 Dodge Super Bee A12 440 Six Pack
The A12 Super Bee arrived midway through 1969 with one of the era's most recognizable factory performance packages. Dodge paired the Coronet-based Super Bee with a 440-cubic-inch RB V8, three Holley two-barrel carburetors on an aluminum intake, and a factory rating of 390 horsepower and 490 lb-ft. The package was offered on the WM21 coupe and WM23 hardtop.
The rest of the A12 package was just as purposeful. Buyers chose an A833 four-speed manual or a heavy-duty 727 TorqueFlite automatic, both backed by a 9-3/4-inch Dana 60 Sure-Grip with 4.10 gears in the checked references. Heavy-duty suspension, 11-inch drum brakes, 15 x 6-inch black steel wheels, G70-15 redline tires, and the pin-secured flat-black fiberglass lift-off hood completed the factory combination. Disc brakes, air conditioning, and cruise control were not offered with the package.
Registry figures cited by Hemmings and Hot Rod account for 1,907 U.S. A12 Super Bees: 420 WM21 coupes and 1,487 WM23 hardtops. Their transmission rows total 1,093 four-speed cars and 814 automatics. Export and Canadian records are not consistently included, so those figures should be read as the documented registry scope rather than a worldwide total.
An original A12 car should have an M in the fifth VIN position and A12 evidence on the fender tag, supported by the broadcast sheet, body stampings, engine and transmission numbers, axle evidence, and ownership records. The lift-off hood, black wheels, stripes, badges, and Six Pack induction can all be added later, so appearance alone does not establish a factory A12 build.