OK, so I recently started my mopar project and I am finding out that I need a good amount of parts for a car I thought I didn't need much for. So everything is $50-$100 minimum, need a heat switch $150, need a ash tray $50, pair of vent block plates $40, and thats just the dash board... Not to mention I am now searching for a couple harnesses I swear I already owned! That sucks... I am going to be honest here, I built many chevys and it was much easier, lol...
So my father is a Mopar man and he had some of the parts I needed in plastic bins in his basement {seems a lot of mopar guys have parts tucked away for a rainy day}, while I was over there searching my father said to me "I have a couple roadrunner/sats at my friends house", I was like "WHAT, since when?" he told me they have been there for about 20-25 years, lol, I of course asked when the last time he seen them was and he said in the 80's when he put them there, lol!!! So I said they are probably not there and asked him when the last time he talked to his friend was, he said a long time, and I asked him when he last talked to his friend about the cars was, he said the day he put them there!!!
So I said "give him a call", he of course replied that he had no idea what his number was, to save my some typing, after about 10 more minutes of me asking questions he said "its only 40 minutes away lets run over there", so I was game, and we hopped in my truck....
We get there and I know the place, I was there a lot when I was a kid, he sees his old friend and they start chatting back and fourth, what seemed to be 2 hours went by and he finally asked, "hey, member them cars I put up the back there, did you ever move them", and then it happened, the answer to the legend of if these cars still sat back there....
He replied "Yah, they are still back there, do you know where they are?".....
I was shocked, granted there is a lot of land there but you let someone store cars on your property for a couple decades with out touching them, lol????
I will agian skip ahead in the story because there was a lot more talking, a half hour later me and my father are walking throuugh 5 feet tall pricker bushes, 7 minute rash brush, weeds, grass, trees, just a jungle of growth, I was ready to give up and hire a hellicopter when I heard my dad "Found them!!!" and there they were, a 69 and a 70, lol, one has a 440 and the other a small block, I got my ash tray, my heater and the 70 has a nice harness I can use some of the plugs off , I am going to go back for that and I need the regualtors for the quarter glass, which is also in good shape!!!
I am going to bring my skid steer over there this week and pull them out, I may just take the parts i want and leave them where they are, or I may put them on the trailer and tow them home if it seems worth it... I have to say we had a fun day, I may wake up with poison ivy and I did get stung by a couple bees today, but I will go back, I may be covered in pink lotion but I am going to go back there and get the rest of the parts, there are some other good parts too, taillights, grilles, bumpers, etc, the cars are well rotted, BUT not as bad as I thought they would be, I thought I would see the earth swallowing them up, but where they are parked is covered by trees and the ground is very dry, they are on the top of a hill so that may have helped.... My father still has the paper work to the 2 cars, so they could be redone, not that it would be worth it by any means, lol...
These pics are after I cleared them out a bit, lol!!!!
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So my father is a Mopar man and he had some of the parts I needed in plastic bins in his basement {seems a lot of mopar guys have parts tucked away for a rainy day}, while I was over there searching my father said to me "I have a couple roadrunner/sats at my friends house", I was like "WHAT, since when?" he told me they have been there for about 20-25 years, lol, I of course asked when the last time he seen them was and he said in the 80's when he put them there, lol!!! So I said they are probably not there and asked him when the last time he talked to his friend was, he said a long time, and I asked him when he last talked to his friend about the cars was, he said the day he put them there!!!
So I said "give him a call", he of course replied that he had no idea what his number was, to save my some typing, after about 10 more minutes of me asking questions he said "its only 40 minutes away lets run over there", so I was game, and we hopped in my truck....
We get there and I know the place, I was there a lot when I was a kid, he sees his old friend and they start chatting back and fourth, what seemed to be 2 hours went by and he finally asked, "hey, member them cars I put up the back there, did you ever move them", and then it happened, the answer to the legend of if these cars still sat back there....
He replied "Yah, they are still back there, do you know where they are?".....
I was shocked, granted there is a lot of land there but you let someone store cars on your property for a couple decades with out touching them, lol????
I will agian skip ahead in the story because there was a lot more talking, a half hour later me and my father are walking throuugh 5 feet tall pricker bushes, 7 minute rash brush, weeds, grass, trees, just a jungle of growth, I was ready to give up and hire a hellicopter when I heard my dad "Found them!!!" and there they were, a 69 and a 70, lol, one has a 440 and the other a small block, I got my ash tray, my heater and the 70 has a nice harness I can use some of the plugs off , I am going to go back for that and I need the regualtors for the quarter glass, which is also in good shape!!!
I am going to bring my skid steer over there this week and pull them out, I may just take the parts i want and leave them where they are, or I may put them on the trailer and tow them home if it seems worth it... I have to say we had a fun day, I may wake up with poison ivy and I did get stung by a couple bees today, but I will go back, I may be covered in pink lotion but I am going to go back there and get the rest of the parts, there are some other good parts too, taillights, grilles, bumpers, etc, the cars are well rotted, BUT not as bad as I thought they would be, I thought I would see the earth swallowing them up, but where they are parked is covered by trees and the ground is very dry, they are on the top of a hill so that may have helped.... My father still has the paper work to the 2 cars, so they could be redone, not that it would be worth it by any means, lol...
These pics are after I cleared them out a bit, lol!!!!
