zippyRR
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Hello to the B-body fans! Always admire the classics, but never thought I would be the one who was tearing one down and starting from the ground up. Guess life had different ideas for me and now my daily thoughts are consumed by a 1969 Roadrunner, with a 440 and a 727 trans.
I will give you a background on the car. My Wife was raised in a small town in Northern Idaho called Kellogg. During her teenage years her dad started collecting a few cars here and there. When I say collect he had everything from a ’71 bug, ’50 Willeys, 78 Corvette, 67 GTX. His true love though has always been Mopar. So my wife started working on a 1969 GTX with her dad in high school. They spent most of her high school years working on it. The summer of 95 just before my wife’s senior year, her mom decided she was fed up with my father in law and wife always working on the car and she wanted one to work on and fix up. So out of spite my mother in law, found this roadrunner on EBay in Las Vegas, bid and bought the car. The auction said the car was drivable and running strong. When they flew in to LV to pick up the car, it was not as advertised. So my in laws purchased a dodge diesel truck, rented a Uhaul and towed the car home. As you can imagine the competition between the in-laws and their cars was intense to say the least. When my wife graduated high school and joined the military her parents found that they did not have the time to put into the cars and they were parked and forgot about. About 2006 her parents moved to Southern California to help take care of her father-in-laws mom, and so the cars were all passed around to family and the rest were sold. My Wife’s sister took the GTX (it was rare and worth more money to her….sad to say). Her dad towed the RR down to Utah and dropped it off at my Wife’s, but she had little kids, a farm, Military career and no extra time or money for the car. So it spent 10 more years parked in a barn.
Last year we had very little snow for skiing and snowboarding so we had a lot of extra time with nothing to do, and decided to put our efforts into getting this classic dusted off and worked from the ground up. So we had the car towed out of the barn and brought into the garage. I have to say I was pretty excited to take the pressure washer to that dust covered wonder…..
I will give you a background on the car. My Wife was raised in a small town in Northern Idaho called Kellogg. During her teenage years her dad started collecting a few cars here and there. When I say collect he had everything from a ’71 bug, ’50 Willeys, 78 Corvette, 67 GTX. His true love though has always been Mopar. So my wife started working on a 1969 GTX with her dad in high school. They spent most of her high school years working on it. The summer of 95 just before my wife’s senior year, her mom decided she was fed up with my father in law and wife always working on the car and she wanted one to work on and fix up. So out of spite my mother in law, found this roadrunner on EBay in Las Vegas, bid and bought the car. The auction said the car was drivable and running strong. When they flew in to LV to pick up the car, it was not as advertised. So my in laws purchased a dodge diesel truck, rented a Uhaul and towed the car home. As you can imagine the competition between the in-laws and their cars was intense to say the least. When my wife graduated high school and joined the military her parents found that they did not have the time to put into the cars and they were parked and forgot about. About 2006 her parents moved to Southern California to help take care of her father-in-laws mom, and so the cars were all passed around to family and the rest were sold. My Wife’s sister took the GTX (it was rare and worth more money to her….sad to say). Her dad towed the RR down to Utah and dropped it off at my Wife’s, but she had little kids, a farm, Military career and no extra time or money for the car. So it spent 10 more years parked in a barn.
Last year we had very little snow for skiing and snowboarding so we had a lot of extra time with nothing to do, and decided to put our efforts into getting this classic dusted off and worked from the ground up. So we had the car towed out of the barn and brought into the garage. I have to say I was pretty excited to take the pressure washer to that dust covered wonder…..
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