Nostalgia can be a very expensive drug
Advertised as a “Joe Dirt Daytona”, the machine is said to have been one of the vehicles used in the 2001 movie starring Spade, built on the base of a restored XP29-era Charger and dressed up (or down, as the case may be) for filming duty. The coupe was modified back in the day to look like a real high-wing Daytona, then painted and modified to appear rusty for the movie.
Under the hood is said to be a 440 cubic-inch V8 mated to a three-speed automatic transmission. In other words, it ain’t no numbers-matching Daytona. But the buyer is unlikely to care much about that detail, given the car retains classic cues from the Joe Dirt movie such as the footprint accelerator pedal and that chain-link steering wheel. All this certainly padded the selling price; while numbers matching original Daytona coupes of this era command big bucks, a spec of this sort tends to bring a bit less money. In fact, this exact movie car is said to have traded hands for less than $20,000 back in 2002.
For readers not familiar, the car appeared in Joe Dirt after the comedy film’s eponymous character fails to have enough cash with which to collect his Plymouth GTX from an impound lot. Why was the GTX impounded? Because its owner got caught up in a thunderstorm whilst aloft in a hot air balloon. If only we had a dollar every time that happened to us.