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1970 Roadrunner

I just want to show the story from finding the car to restoring it. The restoration will take a while, building a house first!

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So I found this car on Craig's List. The guy had three and this was the worst of the bunch. I loved it! The first pics are all I had to go by before my buddy John and I went to see and pick up the car.
No engine, tranny, bumpers, grill... but if you look close at the pics, the seats are there, with the headrests, and there looks to be the back window in the front seat.
Got there to see it and, wow! It was rough but lots of extra parts in the trunk. No side scoops but the back window was in the front! We found the back seat in the bushes and they threw in a few extras from the other car they had left.
Got it home and tried to clean it out. Many patches are needed but no biggie!
Ok, here we go! The motorcycle is what I traded for the car!


Update on the car. I have been gathering many parts since getting the car. I have 3 440 blocks from bare, to short, to full that Only had 10k miles on it!
Started trying to stop rust on the trunk and get a dent out of the hood. Here are the pics.

Comments

congratulations man! thats really great and im glad for another mopar find and project. it fuels me on in my project to wanna keep trucking little part by little. i would have traded that motorcycle for a roadrunner if i owned the motorcycle as well, good trade off. im sure he benefited as much as you felt you did. great score. and i agree, post many progress pics and updates.
 
Something kind of interesting happened. I mentioned above that the owners had three cars up there. I just put a posting on Craig's List for some parts. I mentioned a few details about the car and asked if anyone out there were the other two buyers. I have a few extra parts and I'm still trying to find the set of side scoops so I thought that maybe one of them had the extra parts in their car. One of the guys actually contacted me! He didn't have the side scoops but I do have some interior parts that he needs.
Kind of fun finding a guy that bought one of the other cars. It's like extended family of sorts because the cars were "related". I of course told him about this site so hopefully we will see him here shortly!
 
Last two pics are treasure found under the seat when cleaning out the car! Not really worth much but pretty cool. It cleaned up nice too! This is going back in the car for sure!
 
Congrats on the rescue. Glad it was saved. Great story. Needs a lot of work though. Tell me the stupid side moldings are going to go away? Best of luck with the resto. Please keep us posted.
 
Life has been crazy here. Trying to get permits to build our house and now thinking about moving out of state. I have only been able to collect parts for my poor neglected roadrunner. Yesterday I pulled the hood off and cleaned out the empty engine bay. Found one of the bolts that hold the hinge for the hood is broken off in the hood. That is going to be fun to remove! Ok. Not much progress but for where my life is right now it’s not too bad.
 

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