Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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Try looking up “Six Pack to Go”. That one was a look back at the original article on the Ronnie Sox A12 test. I’m going to say that one came out 20 years ago.
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Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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Super Stock & Drag Illustrated, June 1969 ==> http://sixpacksixbbl.homestead.com/a12roadtestspage12.htmlI don't have my A12 RR any longer , but I still have a copy of that magazine I picked up years ago which is kept in a Zip-Loc bag Ro McGonegal also wrote an article a couple(?) of decades later giving more background on the whole SS&DI article, including what the factory "may" have done to the pre-production car to give it a leg up on a true off-the-showroom-floor car. I had a copy of one of the magazines in which that article was published, but think it was pitched during The Great Car Magazine Purge years ago... can't find a link online to it, either.
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2021 Challenger 6.4L Scat Pack 1320 100% stock: 1.680, 11.894 at 113.75 (DA 175 ft) weight reduction, wheels, tires, Hellcat air box: 1.661, 11.686 at 115.97 (DA 710 ft)
1973 Challenger 452 ci street/strip [2008] pump gas, DOT radials: 1.454, 10.523 at 126.44 (DA 514 ft)
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Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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Thanks for all the help. The magazine title, issue number and date i'm after is: http://a12mopar.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1232584911. i'm looking to purchase this book and any others from back in the day or recent restoration articles of A12 Road Runners only. If any of you have issues you would sell, let me know, i have already purchased a few featured on the A12 Play Ground through Ebay Cheers
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Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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At one point I had a number of magazines w/ articles on the A12 RR & SB. When I sold the car and then later got rid of years of magazines I'd kept, I probably tossed most of them. I'll look and see if I kept anything besides that one SS&DI issue, for reference, if nothing else.
2021 Challenger 6.4L Scat Pack 1320 100% stock: 1.680, 11.894 at 113.75 (DA 175 ft) weight reduction, wheels, tires, Hellcat air box: 1.661, 11.686 at 115.97 (DA 710 ft)
1973 Challenger 452 ci street/strip [2008] pump gas, DOT radials: 1.454, 10.523 at 126.44 (DA 514 ft)
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Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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If they would just remove those two, 2-SEAT SPORTS CARS from the list guess what would be at the top of the list of quickest MID-SIZE, 5/6 PASSENGER, STEEL BODY, MUSCLE CARS! (Ok, I'm ready for the from you Vette and Dorf Cobra kit SPORTS CAR LOVERS ) (And sure it should "maybe" have been on the bottom "ringer" list but then again so should a lot of those cars on the top list like maybe the TWO, 2-SEAT, FIBERGLASS AND ALUMINUM, SPORTS CARS Mike
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Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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Mike - Yep, that's the other article I mentioned. It was published originally in Hot Rod, but I also saw it show up in another publication some years later. I don't think I have my original any longer, but you got the details right there.
Look at those pics from Cecil County in that article: everybody is wearing jackets and the trees haven't got any leaves on them. It was still late winter or really early spring when they ran that test and I'm guessing the air was killer that day.
That same car was tested later that year by some other long-forgotten car magazine and they were nowhere near the MPH the SS&DI crew saw on that day at CC. The other tests were done at Suffolk Raceway in SE Virginia, which was also right on the coast and had a number of records set there. But if the SS&DI test was Feb / March and the other magazine was in the summer, that's a major difference in atmospheric conditions.
2021 Challenger 6.4L Scat Pack 1320 100% stock: 1.680, 11.894 at 113.75 (DA 175 ft) weight reduction, wheels, tires, Hellcat air box: 1.661, 11.686 at 115.97 (DA 710 ft)
1973 Challenger 452 ci street/strip [2008] pump gas, DOT radials: 1.454, 10.523 at 126.44 (DA 514 ft)
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Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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(((EDIT)))Brad for some reason I think this may have been the very first magazine test or maybe at the least the first to hit the newsstands ?? EDIT I'm wrong about this as I just read where they say this "This was proven LATER at Cecil County Drag-O-Way where in 36* degree weather (proves your point about the temps that day ) , at a weight of 3765 pounds, (now how much do the aluminum Cobra and Vette fiberglass body cars weigh?, another dig sorry ) he cranked 12.98 - 111.66. So this test had to have been after the CC DOW test. Mike
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Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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I'm pretty sure it was Speed and Supercar magazine in their Oct 1969 issue that had the test of the same car used at Cecil County and could only manage a 13.88 at 106.13. I can only find a reference to it, but not the actual article, unfortunately.
2021 Challenger 6.4L Scat Pack 1320 100% stock: 1.680, 11.894 at 113.75 (DA 175 ft) weight reduction, wheels, tires, Hellcat air box: 1.661, 11.686 at 115.97 (DA 710 ft)
1973 Challenger 452 ci street/strip [2008] pump gas, DOT radials: 1.454, 10.523 at 126.44 (DA 514 ft)
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Re: 1969 A12 Road Runner Magazine Articles
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Brad, I think I have it and will post it later.....................(heading to the Penton Owners meeting ) Mike
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