69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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I drove it yesterday which I hadn't done since October 4, 2004. This was a long time coming but very well worth it. Thanks again to Paul Jacobs and Troy Angelly for a job well done.
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Re: 69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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How do you like those wheel covers? I have mixed emotions but that is the way the car was ordered.
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Re: 69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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Very nice. I like the wheelcovers.
Steve
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Re: 69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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Your car is beautiful; you should be very happy! Obviously a great job was done on the resto. I love the color and the wheel covers. If it was mine, I would probably have another set of wheels and tires for a different look now and again (something stock or period correct: no "foose" wheels for me!!) Thinking of getting a set of full wheelcovers for my 'Bee too......I dunno, just screams "showroom fresh" to me. Dave
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Re: 69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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They look correct to me, unless it is a silenced California exhaust car, and it isn't. No way Paul Jacobs would have used incorrect ones. Great car, enjoy it.
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Many Kudos to you keeping it 100 percent original. I restored my best friends car identically, hubcaps and all!
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Re: 69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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The wheel covers look good on the 69's! A lot more RR's and Barracudas came with them than what you see at the shows. Is your air cleaner pan red or orange? It's hard to tell in the photo.
Orange. I questioned the color but Paul said orange is correct.
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Car looks great but it appears to have incorrect exhaust tips.
I did not have Paul go to the expense of finding a NOS exhaust system as I'm not going for OE Gold. I trust Paul's judgement as his (and Troy's)cars seem to have won an awful lot of Gold at the Nats over the years. But thanks for the observation. Maybe one of the Mopar judges can shed some light here.
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The wheel covers look good on the 69's! A lot more RR's and Barracudas came with them than what you see at the shows. Is your air cleaner pan red or orange? It's hard to tell in the photo.
Right on John....here's my '69 road runner circa Summer 1969 and if you look close (stop looking at the girl for a second ) at the rear.......wheel, that's the very same wheel covers that came on my car new....
MikeR
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The wheel covers look good on the 69's! A lot more RR's and Barracudas came with them than what you see at the shows. Is your air cleaner pan red or orange? It's hard to tell in the photo.
Right on John....here's my '69 road runner circa Summer 1969 and if you look close (stop looking at the girl for a second ) at the rear.......wheel, that's the very same wheel covers that came on my car new....
MikeR
Mike: Unfortunately the girl is young enough to me my grandaughter, hence my Moparts name. What is circa? I really don't remember these cars with the full wheel covers but then again I didn't make too many mental notes back then. ( I was 19 years old and had a new daughter in 1969)
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Re: 69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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It's a nice car. Don't be offended by any comments. There is a lot of combined experience on this forum!
No offense taken. I really appreciate the comments as that is how we all learn new things about these old classic cars.
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Re: 69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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that car is fantastic. I have full caps on my 69 Coronet 500 and I was the only b body with them at the Narts at Carlisle last year. Keep'em and enjoy
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Re: 69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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Nice Car !!!!!!!!! love the color and hub caps! here are the original tips on my 68
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Re: 69 Road Runner Has Been Brought Back To Life!!!!!
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The wheel covers look good on the 69's! A lot more RR's and Barracudas came with them than what you see at the shows. Is your air cleaner pan red or orange? It's hard to tell in the photo.
Right on John....here's my '69 road runner circa Summer 1969 and if you look close (stop looking at the girl for a second ) at the rear.......wheel, that's the very same wheel covers that came on my car new....
MikeR
Mike: Unfortunately the girl is young enough to me my grandaughter, hence my Moparts name. What is circa? I really don't remember these cars with the full wheel covers but then again I didn't make too many mental notes back then. ( I was 19 years old and had a new daughter in 1969)
Gramps,( ) that photo was taken back in the Summer of 1969 and that's my older sister and she was 21 years old back then in '69 so she was and is older than you. She used to wait for the mail to show up everyday in hopes of getting a letter from her then boyfriend and now husband who was in Vietnam in the U.S. Army back then. Seeing that he is now her husband he did make it back but a lot of our friends didn't from our small steel town in Western PA . That was my first car and I too was 19 back then in 1969 so you and I are the same age there "Gramps" and now I feel really, really old thanks...... I sat down with my dad at the local Plymouth dealer in the Spring of 1969 and ordered that car new with a 383, Torqueflite, 3.91 Suregrip/Super Track Pack, bucket seats, console, black interior with F5 limelite GREEN paint and hood stripes, Air Grabber, power steering and the A01 light package and full wheel covers (just like yours) because I wanted a set of Ansen Sprint slotted aluminum wheels with a set of Goodyear Raised White Letter Polyglass tires in G or H 70 14's for it. I put a set of Hooker Headers on it before the year was up and cooked probably five or six starters and changed every one of them in my parents driveway for the next few years and never did realize what was making the starters go bad until I came on here three and a half decades later or circa (around) 2000. I owned that Road Runner for ten years until 1979 and regretted selling it everyday after I sold it and swore I'd get another......which I did and then some.
As John said lots of Plymouths had those same wheel covers as on your Road Runner back then and my '69 Road Runner was one of them. As for the exhaust tips Plymouth's signature tips were oval and Dodge's signature tips were rectangular or more square in shape. MikeR
Nice Road Runner BTW, love the GREEN on a Mopar always have for some reason and love the wheel covers too, brings back "old" times MikeR
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the car is stunning!!! I love the painted top and full wheel covers. Im sure I would have a second set handy as was mentioned earlier but man does that look so cool with the red lines and wheel covers! the restoration looks amazing, I was talking with Troy(I think) at Carlisle last summer and was actually considering having them take on my stalled project. (fortuantly my friend TC hooked me up with someone local!)
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