Been looking for a nice, original '69 Road Runner since the restoration of my '68 is done.
Wanted a 4-speed car that didn't need too much work.
A Q&A here with "hotairballoonpilot" Corey a few months back led to me hauling out to SD with a buddy to bring this home.
I'm stoked about the car:
17,000 original miles, 3 owners who all knew each other, extremely original & stock, except for some engine work when new for a brief career in F/Stock.
Numbers, codes, original markings, etc, and as tight & snappy as it should be.
It's a freakin' time capsule that just needs a little cleaning & detailing. Not gonna repaint/replate anything, just put its original valve covers back on..
Had to step up, but I'm OK with that to be 18 again
There's a wheel & tire decision to be made, haven't settled on that yet.

That's a cool new toy!

Back in a late 70's my younger brother bought a 69 Road Runner that was that color.
It was a 383 auto a/c car with 50k miles on it that he bought from the original owner.

Wow great looking car! Rare find with the low miles! Congrats!

The original valve covers will look much better

Nice car!

I like that one! Very nice!

A creampuff survivor. Absolutely beautiful. Congrats.

I like it.

15" chrome magnum 500's and redline radials is what I'd do with it.

Mellow yellow .. I'll have to dig up the pic with lettering on it

Thats nice man

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Very cool pic bigdad. I love old pics like that.

Congratulations! Awesome car!

Thanks, brothers; I'm happy to have it.
Cleaned up the tach mount today, fixed the choke, and gave it a bath.
Then went through my 40-year stash looking for stuff like a stock ballast, PCV & hose, VC gaskets.
Naturally, of all my stuff, I don't have any of those items; go figure.
Yeah, thought about Magnums, but my '68 has those.
The Welds in the one photo are a bit too street-rod for me, but came with the car.
Fun fact: its SPD is exactly 1 year after my '68; what are the odds of that ?!

about 1 in 365

Wrong, how many days do the factories shut down for model year end change over how many federal holidays and other holidays do the U.A.W. workers get off when they shut the factory down for those holidays?
I don't think they make any cars in American big three factories from 7/1/ to close to 8/30 of each year
Me thinks they may have around 220 days a year that they actually make cars

Depending on the given year and actual vehicles sales it gets even tougher to calculate.
Some years we worked 6 days a week building production.
Some years model change was nothing more that parts getting swapped out and the production line line never really stopped.

Unless it was a major retool of the vehicle which could take months sometimes most model changes could be no time off to maybe two weeks off.

my answer was more tongue-in-cheek than factual intentionally it would be a needle-in-a-haystack coincidence

but since you went here - many cars built after 7/1 & before 8/30 of each year - zero production was closer to 2 weeks than 2 months, but your 220 days of production is probably pretty close
.....but, since the calendar dates rotate ~20% of the production days from '68 became a weekend non-production date for '69
- - - - - - now we are down to about 175 days that it would be possible (plus '68 was a leap year, does that help or hurt?? )

but it is not an easy feat - I know of a couple people looking for a "cool" car to pick up "scheduled" on their birthdays (one day / one year) & it is not happening

Love that car!