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Rarer Bird? "Fully-loaded" or "NO options"

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I would be curious to know if anyone has ever seen/found/owned/ordered a factory B Body with no options? And Super Stock don't count because that is an option in itself.

Like a 3-speed manual transmission Road Runner with no radio and no other options. I know, fully-loaded vehicles are always advertised as "rare", but wouldn't a non-optioned vehicle be even more unique? And to take it one step further, I believe in some cases you could delete the heater in some years/models. Thank you.

P.S. Does anyone even have a photo of what a Road Runner factory three-speed manual transmission gear shift knob looked like (could not have been a pistol-grip)?
 
I did find a 1970 RR 3-speed on a quick search:

http://www.nicksgarage.com/70rr_g.htm?load_img=11

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Never ordered one myself. Back in the 70's working at a Dodge Dealership we had a 69 Charger slant 6 three on the tree. Too long ago for me to remember anything else but being in Pennsylvania I'm sure it had a heater at least.
The dealership owner got good deals on factory rejects.Weird color combos such as a yellow paint with a green vinyl top and blue interior. or a 74 Dart SE loaded with every option,but had manual steering box.When the Aspens came out we got a brown wagon with green interior a 318 with A/C and a three speed on the floor. Stuff like that.In 70 Chrysler did allot of 3 speed stick muscle cars because of insurance rates were higher on 4 speed cars.
 
The local High School ordered a 68 or 69 RR with a 3 speed (long before my time). The only option was a second brake pedal. I asked the Driver's Ed instructors and others, but found no trace of it.
 
the roadrunner was a option in itself
most RR that were made had a low amount of options
so one optioned up would be rarer
mainly because it had to be ordered that way.
the rarest cars were the plain stripper models
like a RL 1970 belvedere or a RL 71-4 satellite
3 speed shifters came with a ball even in 71
 
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This car doesn’t have a single option, and sat on the lot for almost 5 months. It was wearing 14” white sidewall tires. It was obviously made to be a sleeper, but by Chrysler, not a buyer. Except for the rims and tires I put on, it was just the way it came. I have been in touch with the original owner, and love to hear the history of stuff like this.

here it is just the way I got it. It had one original tire on the front, and a pair of 1970’s snow tires in the back, on 2 of the original rims.

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There are quite a few in Mopar magazines I have. I could look and get back to you if you'd like
 
Roadrunner was not an option it was the RM car line.

3 speed floor shift manual trans was the "standard" on RR and Bee.
Actually anything IIRC except maybe Charger.

My 73 RL21 has only 2 options.

Body side molding (no other molding)

and AC.

not even carpet, or day/night mirror

A member recently offered a 1970 Super Bee for sale

...with AC and power windows!

I have only ever seen 1 other per-1971 Bee with PW.

I have never seen a pre-71 RR with PW.
 
A small block or 383 factory stick belvedere or satellite, factory stick shift wagon or the factory 383 police belvederes would be rarer then any roadrunner I think.
If somebody wanted a lot of options they would order a gtx, or some of dodges RT cars. The logic behind the roadrunner is a base car to begin with. That being said, finding one with options is not particularly rare unless its 999 code paint or something else weird.

Sold a 68 coronet sedan last summer that was a small block car manual brk and steering factory 3 speed on column with radio delete.
 
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I guess I’m a little confused on what constitutes an “option”. I always assumed that an option would be an item that was selected by the buyer as available but not included in the list of standard equipment. So, making my car as the example, it was not a customer ordered car, and the build sheet is too chewed up to see if it was dealer ordered or factory built and then sent to a dealership as a sales bank car. The particular dealership this car was sent to had a racing program, and maybe was a better place to send higher performance models. I do know that it was on the lot just as it is now, and the original owner walked into the lot and purchased it. When I got it, nothing had been changed on the car except that it has an old Accel dual point distributor. Here is a pic of the bill of sale, I’m hoping to get the window sticker as soon as he finds it. That may shed some light on the subject for me.

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IIRC my older brother bought a base model 68 Charger back in 68 that had no options and I thought was a 3 on the tree car. I don’t think it even had carpet. It’s been a few years and I was pretty young so memory is foggy.
 
hamtramckhistorical is a great place to find out what features were "standard equipment" on what models
 
My friend found a 69 Hemi Road Runner 4 speed car that was under a crushed metal carport for 30 years, and the only options on the car were the super track pack 4.10 Dana, and the tach. I owned two factory 3 speed cars,one was a 70 Challenger R / T 383 3 speed car,the other was an XH 70 Charger 318 3 speed standard on the column.
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