Mopar started as a brand name for Chrysler antifreeze in 1937. Within three decades it was the rallying cry of an entire car culture. By 1969 and 1970, Dodge and Plymouth muscle was running quarter miles in the low 13s right off the dealer lot, while Ford and GM were still chasing them at 14 seconds. The 426 Hemi. The 440 Six Pack. The Road Runner at a price almost anyone could afford. The Hemi ‘Cuda, built in such low numbers it’s worth more now than most houses.
Then emissions regulations hit in 1971. The oil crisis arrived in 1973. The Charger Daytona, the Super Bee, the Plymouth GTX, the whole lineup got strangled by the same decade that created it. By 1979, it was over. The cars that survived became relics, then legends, then the subject of Hagerty auction reports every fall.
“Vintage Soul, Modern Muscle” is the right phrase for it. The soul of that original iron doesn’t disappear when the cars get parked. It lives in the guys who rebuild them every weekend, in the people who can identify a Super Bee by exhaust note before they see the badge, in anyone who says “Mopar or no car” and actually means it.
The design is a full back oval badge, teal sunburst, classic B-body Mopar lines front and center, with 1969 and 1979 flanking the car the way bookends hold the best decade in American horsepower history.
Panda Prints is a custom print shop in Kennesaw, Georgia. This one comes in black.
Product Specs
Material: 4.2 oz., 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
Fit: Unisex retail fit
Decoration: DTF, full back
Available in: Black
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