Bought this 1969 Road Runner, RM23H, car about 3 years ago. I bought it off CL less than 25 miles from my house. Looking to put the correct pewter interior in this summer then eventually repaint the correct R4. Luckily the thing seems to be completely rust free.
Here is the run down since I got it...
It is a 383, 727, 8 3/4", MS, MB, R4 Performance Red exterior / A4 pewter interior, bench/column shift. Bought the car with a complete repaint (jams/underhood/trunk) to a Black Cherry color. Paint is about 20 years old. They also swapped the column for a '69 non-column shift & '69 bucket seats which are covered in a Delta 88'ish fabric.
The car was a dedicated drag car w/solid lifter built 440, 8 4/4" rear axle with 4.56 spool, 3800rpm stall convertor, '75-ish disc brakes, manual reverse valve body, electric water pump, 28x11 slicks, VW tires on 3.5" penny wheels, bolt in sub-frame connectors, 8 point roll bar (with no holes in the sheet metal), fuel cell w/12"x12" hole in the trunk. Car had no heater box, no heater controls, no wiper motor, wiring harness in-place but not used, had an aftermarket terminal strip with stand-alone charging/ignition harness.
Got car going & running good & brake lights working but it wasn't fun on the street with the converter plus the big cam & spool was a pain and it overheated easily.
Pics I took when I went to first look at it & video from just getting it home:
http://youtu.be/D_itPgvbV9gAbout 6 months after I got the Road Runner I took it to the Tulsa Raceway to run it a few times & found the carb needed built/adjusted, on the top end it was back firing/popping thru the carb. The car launched really good & would really lift the rear, planting tires & no spinning even launching at 3,800 rpm w/4.56 gears.
http://youtu.be/OkncS2JHRII?list=UUqyHZXPalbgqo2cp_BiUI_AAfter taking the RoadRunner to the drags I took it straight over to a friend who does resto type body work/paint to have him fix the sagging door hinges & busted out sheet metal on the door strikers. They work flawless now. He also fixed the 12"x12" hole from the fuel cell & holes from the relocated battery.
After getting the doors working right & a proper fuel tank in I spent about a year messing with the 440 just around town. I decided to slowly get all the electrical stuff going. Turn signal switch got the brake lights working, dimmer switch got the headlights going, a wiper motor & wiper motor harness got them going. There was a portion of a factory console shifter installed, I removed it & put a Hurst 1/4 stick in.
Now lights are working & it's actually legal to drive just can't far with the 440/4.56/3800 stall. Decided to drop in a stock rebuilt 400 I have had sitting & a 2.90 Trak-Loc & try and do the 2013 PowerTour. Worked out great till I thought the transmission went but it ended up I broke an axle on that 8 4/4" rear end in Birmingham, AL & the motor was using oil a lot of oil. Put roughly 1200 miles on before we broke. I did end up having Wayne Smothers rebuild the transmission which ended up being an old B&M built unit.
It just sat in the garage for a little over a year the I got back around to getting the Road Runner back on the road after the Power Tour.
Figured out the oil consumption issue, turns out the intake wasn't sealed up & it was pulling oil from the lifter valley.
Its pretty fun throttling around town with 4.56 gears so I got a Trac-Lok for it & just kept the low gears.
