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1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor #188559
01/09/09 02:56 PM
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My 1968 R/T ragtop Survivor. It is the little old lady from Wisconsin car. I have owned it now for 13 years. I am the third owner.

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Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188560
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Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188561
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Looks great. Has it ever been in any magazines? I seem to remember one just like that in an old copy of Mopar Muscle or Mopar Action or something. I'll have to look for it. More pics please!!!

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188562
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My 1968 R/T ragtop Survivor. It is the little old lady from Wisconsin car. I have owned it now for 13 years. I am the third owner.




I got three words for that car...Ho Lee CRAP!


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Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: 4speeds4me] #188563
01/09/09 07:38 PM
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That is really something there.

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: 69Cuda340S] #188564
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Beautiful R/T. Take good care of it!

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: NV69B7RR] #188565
01/10/09 01:18 AM
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Very neat car. Just wondering... should it have a stripe or r/t emblem on the back? dont get me wrong. i still love it

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188566
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Very nice R/T.
Scott


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Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: 68KillerBee] #188567
01/10/09 05:10 AM
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Very neat car. Just wondering... should it have a stripe or r/t emblem on the back? dont get me wrong. i still love it




68 had the R/T emblems on the front fenders, grill & tail panel...With that panel its either gonna gave an R/T or a 500 emblem..The tail panel at that angle won't show the emblem...Stripe Delete was pretty common...

69 has R/T emblems on the rear quarter panel...


BTW Very Nice R/T... Would you mind giving the Scheduled Production Date??

I'm restoring a 68 R/T vert with a 9/11/67 SPD

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188568
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My 1968 R/T ragtop Survivor. It is the little old lady from Wisconsin car. I have owned it now for 13 years. I am the third owner.




LOL how many little old ladies ponied up for the vert.....RT to boot.....awesome car !!!!! I am guessing she wasn't old when she bought it ?

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188569
01/13/09 11:29 AM
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Where is WI did the car hale from? Very nice.


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Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188570
01/13/09 03:07 PM
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Was that the one in Mopar Action around 1989-1990? Owned by a little old lady named Mildred?


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Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: YGBSM] #188571
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Needs a stripe! Needs a stripe!

Beautiful ride!

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: Mopar1] #188572
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Very Nice. Is the color dark turquoise?


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Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188573
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Beautiful car!


Kayse can't keep up at all now. lol
Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188574
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What color is that?

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: gomopar426] #188575
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My 1968 R/T ragtop Survivor. It is the little old lady from Wisconsin car. I have owned it now for 13 years. I am the third owner.




And you shall NEVER let it go! (Unless you call me first !)

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: etek] #188576
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It has a stripe......the upper body pinstripe in black.Looks like it's UU1 blue.


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Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: Stewpar] #188577
01/21/09 12:36 AM
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Where is WI did the car hale from? Very nice.




I think it was originally owned by a lady who bought it when she was in her late 30's early 40's, up north , Appleton, Green Bay area? Quite a story even back then. It was at a few of the local Mopar shows in the late 80's with the second owner. He had steelies with dogdish hubcaps on it briefly for a time but I think it looks better with the magnums. Nice R/T.

Re: 1968 Coronet R/T Convertible Survivor [Re: BIGHOOK] #188578
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Hi everybody.
Thanks for the comments.
To answer a few questions, the color is UU blue and it does have the factory pinstripe down the side. The SPD is 905. It came with deluxe wheel covers and F70x14 red stripe tires. I have had a set of vintage Ansen Slots with Good Year Eagle ST tires on it forever. The history of the car is as follows. Purchased new on 01/12-1968 by Mildred Hinz of Osh Kosh WI. She paid $3296.00 cash out the door from Liberty Dodge in Osh Kosh. That was $3200.00 for the car and $96.00 sales tax. I would say she got herself a good deal because the window sticker is $4018.05. It was never used in winter as they spent their winters out west and the car stayed garaged. The second owner, Jeff Baker of Franklin WI bought it from Mildred in 1988. While he had the car it was featured in Mopar Action 02/1990, Mopar Action Tech Special 1994, Muscle Hustle twice, Chrysler Performance News and a whole bunch of Krause Publication Guide series books. I bought the car from Jeff in early 1997. It was advertised in Hemmings and I was the first caller. If I remember correctly I was getting HMN via Priority Mail back then, it was before the internet was very common and that was the only way to have a shot at the good deals. It really has been off of the grid for quite some time. I did drive it to the Mopar Nationals to be judged in the Un-restored class back in 1997. I then showed it locally for the next few years but it really has not been out much at all since 2001 or so. I actually did have the car for sale a few years ago. At that time I also owned the Survivor 1970 R/T convertible shown here:
http://www.andy440.com/70rt9zb.htm
I could not keep them both and I decided to let the buying public decide which one I would keep. I thought I would keep the one that did not sell right away and the orange 1970 sold almost immediately. I am really glad of that because this is probably one of my favorite cars ever.
I sometimes forget that there are a lot of younger guys in the hobby now that were not around back in the late 1980's and 1990's. Having been around myself for what seems like forever I just assumed that everyone would remember the Little Old Lady story. I am sorry for that assumtion.







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