Greetings from SW North Carolina

[Dejavu1]

Hello and mopar to you from SW NC. I came across the site while researching my most recent A12 Roadrunner. I've had the pleasure of owning two A12s in my life. One I purchased from a local dealership when I was in high school (1972). The car had been owned by a gentleman, who left the car with his mother, when he was called to Vietnam to serve his country. The mother couldn't drive it because it did not have power steering, so she traded it in for a mopar with better manners. I was blessed to have this Vitamin C Roadrunner through high school and into marriage and the early 1980s. With children coming, priorities changed and I reluctantly sold the car (just before the value sky rocketed) in the late 80s. I was sick about it for years; so in 1998, we found a 28,000 mile Medium Green A12 Roadrunner in Greely Colorado (all numbers matching with build sheet). I restored the car over the next year, and have enjoyed it ever since. I'm now trying to determine it's original owner and/or dealership of purchase. I know it was built at the Lynch Road plant in May of 1969; and was originally from Columbus Ohio and came into Colorado in the early 1980s; at which time it wore a gold and brown "Lace" paintjob (popular in the late 60s and early 70s. The painter had signed his name in the doorjamb (as "Chico"). A metal plate had been riveted to the firewall reading "Transmission by Bruce". Someone had replaced the original manifolds with headers and had installed electric fuel pumps in the trunk. It apparently got it's 28,000 mile a 1/4 mile at a time. Otherwise it was all there, and optioned with radio delete, buckets and console, and automatic. If any of this about the Medium Green car rings a bell, please respond. Thanks....

 

[conv67bdere]

Greetings to the best website on the internet - from Concord NC - you'll be meeting up with a ton of great Mopar people on this site, so enjoy ! !

By the way - you better get a couple pictures posted before the natives get restless - they LOVE their car **** !

 

[Riverdawg]

Thanks, that's a great story Dejavu1. Hope that you can come up with some more of the car history. And yes we love pictures.

 

[Car Nut]

aboard!

 

[Budnicks]

Welcome to FBBO from hot & dry NorCal

good luck & Happy Moparing

ya gotta" love any A12 & especially the RR's, I love the greens too...

 

[Dejavu1]

Thanks for asking. These are a few current pics of the car. For you purists, I do have the correct black wheels, chrome lug-nuts, with G70 15 Redlines. But I like the period correct Torq-Thrust on the car. I got tired of explaining to the average guy on cruise-in night, why the car "only" had black wheels, and "did it not even have hubcaps". If I show it at a Mopar or AACA show, I run the original/factory wheels with the G70s.

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Thanks for asking. Here's a few currect pics of the car:

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[eric383]

Welcome. Sweet ride.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Hi and welcome aboard!
Thanks for joining the forum.