Hello all,

It's my first post - I'm allowed to screw it up.

New member here, I have been reading these boards for a couple months now, and I have to say it is a great source of information.

This car has been in my family since 1993-ish. It has recently passed to me so I have been researching more on the car. I was surpised to find that it is a paint code 999. When we bought the car it was missing the orginal drive train and was painted orange with some green and black mismatched interior. We paid around 2k and the VIN checked out as a RR so we didn't think too much about it. It was repainted silver and a crate HEMI was installed.

My main questions are:
Does the number double stamped on the rad support look right?
Where do I look in the trunk for the other VON number?
What would be the best spot to try to find the original paint color?

Thanks all in advance.

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the car as purchased early 1990s

upper radiator support.

I sanded the paint off since there was a thick coat of black paint that made it hard to see. The orange left over in numbers makes em easy to read.

Fender Tag - hopefully

VIN

How the car sits now.
Not too happy with teh wheel choice.

This is how I think the Fender Tag breaks down. It did have the fender turn signals but was missing the vinyl top.

CAR: Plymouth RoadRunner 2 Door Hardtop
ENGINE: 383cid 4-bbl HP V8
TRANSMISSION: 3-Speed Automatic
TIRES: F70x14 Red Side Wall, Steel Belted
BUILD DATE: June 24.
AXLE: 3.23 Rear Axle Ratio
INTERIOR: High Trim Grade, Vinyl Split Bench Seats. Black Interior.
PAINT: Special Order Paint.
OTHER: Black Upper Door Frame Color. Black Horizontal Accent Stripe.

MOLDINGS:
19: Wide Sill Mouldings
25: Drip Rail Mouldings

ABC OPTIONS:
R1: AM Radio
X2: Tinted Windshield Only
Y6: Black Vinyl Top
Z8: Performance Hood Treatment (Roadrunner/GTX)

abc OPTIONS:
h7: Fender or Hood Mounted Turn Signal Indicators
m6: Driver's Outside Remote Operated Mirror
y9: Special Order

Actually a fairly rare car. The original color looks to have been "Ohmaha Orange" a very similar color to what was later called "Go Mango" or "Vitamin C Orange" (EK2) first introduced in 1970. There were a number of cars ordered by one Northern California Chrysler group all in that color. The color was actually an International Harvester color. Yours was probably one of those cars due to your location.

THis is what I am coming up with for the VIN decode

RM 23 H8 E167XXX
Body Type: R = Road Runner
Price Class: M = Medium
Body Type: 23 = 2 Door Hardtop
Engine: H = 383 330HP OR 335HP 1-4BBL 8 CYL
Year: 8 = 1968
Sequence Number: 167XXX

The car is pretty far from stock, but I am amazed what some people on the site are able to do. Actually My dad bought this car in the San Diego area, so although I live in Norcal now, not sure about how it came to be in Socal. We were not able to locate the build sheets or anything else when the car was painted silver. Pretty sure the interior was cobbled together, looks to have a blue lower dash pad, and it had green seats, steering wheel, and A-piller covers. It did had the trunk decor piece, although it is gone now.

Thanks for the info on Omaha Orange - I read through those posts. Very interesting...

I found some numbers in the trunk, but they do not seem right. Are there numbers on both the drivers side and the passenger side? I think I am looking in the wrong place.

Drivers side - 2841301
Passengers side - 2841300

Hard to say where it was sold but a pretty fair number of Ohmaha Orange cars were sold to a dealer in Ukiah, and other Western dealers. I lived in Santa Rosa much of my life, I owned a 68 340 Barracuda back then in the same color. Your car was built at the Los Angeles plant, it's pretty common for LA cars to be missing the broadcast sheets but that's ok, your fender tag gives up most of the info on it, don't lose it! Next time the car needs a re-paint you might consider going back to orange

Nice, another Sonoma Co person.
I have only lived here since 1997.
I love it.
Don't think I will ever move again if I can help it.

My main questions are:
Does the number double stamped on the rad support look right?
Where do I look in the trunk for the other VON number?
What would be the best spot to try to find the original paint color?

*My support is not stamped like that.
*under the weather strip driver side around 5 to 6" to the rear of where the trunk lite plunger switch would be
*package tray, rear wheel wells,under dash

Looks nice, i like the rims

Look up under the dash for original overspray of the original color. Also behind the front kick panels. These area seldom get repainted unless the car has been stripped/dipped.

Although I think it looks great on A12 cars, I will be honest and say that orange would not be my first choice, although silver wouldn't be either.

The car needs some work, so I am at a point where I need to deceid to stay stock on continue with the modifications. I was all set to just keep modifying it until I found the special order paint code...

Issue #1 is that the pass valve cover hits the fender - think that can be sovled by goign back to stock type valve covers.

Well, the nice thing about having a 999 paint code is that you can paint it ANY color that was avalable to the entire auto industry in 1968 and no one can say it is wrong.

i'm not crazy about Ohmaha Orange also i think the orange looks better on 70 and later cars. what color is your interior?

Interior is black.
aftermarket seats, gauges, steering wheel.

Wish it was more original.

Look under the rear package tray you might find some original paint.
The top brace behind the rear seat may have the PPG number of the paint used.

The double stamped core support looks like an appropriate "mistake", I know of a Duster that is stamped 6 times.