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Propwash

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Well Gentlemen,

After a few fruitless trips, trying to find my dream car, Victory is Mine!!! I picked up this 1969 Roadrunner in B.F.E. Minnesota over the weekend.

The car is not no rust free new mexico barn find, but actually a Wisconsin car, so needless to say there is some rot in the trunk area..Moving forward from there, it gets pretty clean. It needs the back 18" of the rails and shackle mounts (they are still there but could be smashed in pretty easily by a hammer), trunk pan/extentions, quarters, and a new rear crossmember are needed.

The dash is pretty much flawless (could wash up and show it) beside a couple cracks in the steering wheel. As far as the engine, they guy (total chevy nut) had it advertised as an non-original early 70's 383. When I got there, it sure didn't look like a 383 (too big). Scrapped and sanded of the pad/block and figured out it was a 1968 440. I'm not going all numbers crazy with the car so the more cubes the better.


After decoding the VIN/fender tag/broadcast sheet, I found out it is:
383 HP 4 barrel 335 horse
727 torqueflite
Factory B5 Blue with black hood dress
Black interior/ factory buckets with console
742 case 8 3/4" rear end sure grip 3.23 gears
Built Jan 9th, 1969 ...Lynch Rd MI
Vinyl Top car

With my dad having a 69 Roadrunner, this model of car is what definitly got me into mopars. After selling his years ago to do the "family guy" thing, I've watched his penstar ambition slump no almost nothing with time, age, responsibility. So, in an effort to revive the mopar roots, I not only bought the car because it is what I always wanted, but also to get my dad involved and return the favor he gave to me years ago.

So gent's, got to get to work....see you around and i'll keep the you all up to date with pic's and info as the restoration begins.

Prop

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Congrats, Prop - and good luck with it. B-5 is probably my favorite Mopar color.
 
Congrats Will!!!, looks to be a little more solid then the one you passed on in the D.:rolling: Really nice!!.:grin:
 
Thanks for the kind words boys.....Yes Matt, a heck of a lot more solid. Plus an engine/tranny, all the interior, and pretty much everything else is there. Only 1 grand more!

Gotta go gent's...Time to dismantel!!

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Wow great find! That looks like an awesome car to build!
 
Nice! how much did you get it for and does it run?


Ended up paying $3500 for the car...She fires right over. Not for long though....Engine will be out by this weekend. The thing is loud as heck!!!Straight pipes into glass packs some yahoo put on there. For the brief moment I had it running in my driveway, my buddy a couple blocks away could here her running Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe......
 
Ended up paying $3500 for the car...She fires right over. Not for long though....Engine will be out by this weekend. The thing is loud as heck!!!Straight pipes into glass packs some yahoo put on there. For the brief moment I had it running in my driveway, my buddy a couple blocks away could here her running Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe..Po-Tae-Toe......

You say Po-Tae-Toe, I say Po-Tah-Toe.:grin:
 
that is a nice car for what you paid.heck of a deal.can't wait to see pics as you go and when it is done.
 
you thief, you!!!

Tom-mat-toe tom-mat-toe...

Holy Crap Prop! you totally stole that car!!! :tongueflap: The guy have any more of 'em??? :rolling: Figures a chebby guy wouldn't know what he's got!!!

I've heard that there is a way to check the diff. between a 383 and a 440 is that the 440 has a flat pad on the drivers side just behind the water pump?? anybody hear of this???

Either way, Congrats Prop! and get to work!!!! :grin:
 
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Nice deal on a nice Mopar!
 
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