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My first barn find way back in 1997 , 70 RR

moparstuart

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New member Acme rat killer and his 70 road runner garage clean up project sparked my memory of my clean up ordeal .

Buried under 25 years of parts collecting , this was my late brothers car he bought around 1976 . He passed way in 1997 and it was stored at my mothers 125 year old victorian house .
So i took a week off work and went down to help here clean out the carriage house so she could park her car inside . It was bitter sweeet knowing the car and parts where mine , but my brother and mopar mentor was gone . This car only has 36 k on it but the original 383 is long gone. This is the only old mopar i have that a has manual trans . Its 4 speed pistol grip car bench seat , now the car has cosole and bucket and an air grabber that are not coded to the car but i will keep them anyway . :grin::grin::grin: It will also get a 440 six or Hemi one day . This car has beens alway stored in doors and has been in the family a long time and will stay that way.
ALSO my late brothers 70's customized dodge van

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The cool old house ( money pit ) :grin: It was built by a coal baron of the town . Rich hill missouri , Rich hill being named so for the coal that was mined there and this guy owned the mines . It had very ornate carved wood and cool tiles around all the fire places , The fire places where very small and shallow because they burned coal .

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Out in the sun light , sorry no picture os the inside but it was jammed full of parts also.

I changed out the wheels for some that had tires that held air , the picture further below is what wheels where on the car for years . I had just installed the magnums

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This hood has the corner bent really bad and all the air grabber duct stuff and goodies robbed off it . So i sold it for 500 bucks , still kicking my self .But the red air grabber hood is nice and on the car now . BTW the red car and the white car my brother also owned and parted out around 1977 . The space with the ladder init is where i moved the road runner because it had a wierd sliding door that was a pain to open . That way mom could use the bay with the standard garage door . SO i had to clean out both bays . Thus why it took a week .

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My dads old pedal car , very cool , had a guy tell me it was a 37 ford and another guy say it was a 39 garton ? Dont know what it is but i thinks it worth alot and i will never sell it , it's in my die cast room with my personally used 59 fire engine pedal car with wooden side ladders and a 67 GTX pedal car i bought on e-bay.

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I never took a picture of it but behind that trash pile at the curb there is a conrete two step up, for you to get on a horse or into a carriage. There is also post with little black lawn jockies with rings to tie up your horse .
 
i know my big brother was the reason i am a mopar fanatic and yes i still have it and i plan to restore it also as a tribute to him , he always wanted to put a hemi in it , so thats why i mentions maybe a hemi someday ? if i can afford it .

the birdible is also a tribute to him he always wanted a superbird and had one located here locally in KC .It was lime light his favorite color , but he could not get my dad to co sign on the crazy funky junk car . ? bummer i maybe would have gotten that car also .
 
About three years after all this happened I finally persuaded my mom to move back up here to kansas city , She was about an hour and 1/2 away and all alone in this big money pit. The house was very cool but just not practical. So i had to go back down and move every thing up here to a new storage place . FUN FUN FUN
 
Why are you throwing away a perfectly good white boy............

Quote from the 1990 movie Men at work........

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Thats like dajavu. I own one of those money pits myself. Sorry about your brother. Must of been a real good guy. Im going to try to work on mine in a day or two, I just want to rest after the 4 hour bus ride to Ft Leanord Wood and back, But shootin **** all day with a M16 isnt all bad.
 
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