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68 roadrunner ash tray?

Posted By: 440challenger

68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/22/09 10:32 PM

Trying to finish up my dash. Started with a bare frame so i been searching for an ash tray aseembly. I have a NON rallye dash(sweep gauge) .
I see some have a knob on the front and are metal ,and some slide out and look to be padded?

Are all B bodys trays the same 68-70? Charger ones work same too?? Anyone have a pic of the one i need? Thank you!!!

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Posted By: MoparforLife

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/22/09 11:06 PM

68 and early 69 road runner ashtrays did not slid out or tip out of the dash. The front was on a slid and it dropped down.
Posted By: Dougsmopars

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/23/09 12:18 AM

68 is paded and slides down. 69 is metal and tilts out.
Posted By: Chi_Town_Runner

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/23/09 02:21 AM

Quote:

68 is paded and slides down. 69 is metal and tilts out.



Welllll,
Not entirely correct.

I was doing a little research (not scientific) on this very issue. I currently have 26 '68 B'-Bodies" in my data base and here's what I have found so far:

Of the four plants ("A" Lynch Rd, "B" Hamtramck, "E" L.A., and "G" St. Louis)all "B" bodies in my data base (Coronets, Road Runners, Satallites, Beleveders and Chargers)of the 26, 9 had Flippers and the remaining 17 were built with "Slider" Ash Trays.

The first appearance (in my data base) of the flip ash tray is a '68 Beleveder built at St. Louis on 6 Apr 68. A Lynch Road RR built on 4 May 68 had the flip ash tray.

Of the 10 cars in my data base built after 6 Apr 68 all had flipper except 2 with sliders from the St. Louis plant.

By no means should this be considered "gospel" but I do have examples of 10 Flipper ash trays on 68 "B" bodies.

Not to muddy the waters but another example of Ma Mopar doing things a little different.


Frank
Posted By: sthemi

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/23/09 04:39 AM

I just put mine together this spring and agree with Chitown... I have a Jan build RoadRunner and I used a slider tray.I cannot veirfy what was originaly there..
Anyway,
I wound up with an extra blue and black slider trays if you need one.

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Posted By: johnedod

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/23/09 01:26 PM

My 68 road runner has a flip out. Built in July 68 in St Louis.
Posted By: dinty68RR

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/23/09 01:36 PM


Both ash tray styles were used on 68 RRs - my LL1 68 RR has a padded slider-style, built in December '67 in Michigan; friend's 68, built in June '68 has a flip-out style ashtray, and was built in St. Louis. Both cars have original dashes...

Glenn
67 Barracuda Convertible (PP1)
68 Road Runner (LL1, 69,000 Original Miles)

Jim's Auto Parts, Legendary Auto Interiors, Coker Tire
Posted By: hemirdrnnr

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/23/09 02:00 PM

I have a 68 road runner that was built in Oct of 67 and it is a slider I was told it had something to do with 4-speed or auto trans.
Posted By: dinty68RR

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/23/09 04:54 PM

Both cars that I mentioned above are 4-speeds...

Glenn
67 Barracuda Convertible (PP1)
68 Road Runner (LL1, 69,000 Original Miles)

Jim's Auto Parts, Legendary Auto Interiors, Coker Tire
Posted By: topside

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/23/09 07:36 PM

SPD 9/30/67 St. Louis Roadrunner here, slider. I can remember 6 of my original '68 Roadrunners, all St. Louis except 1 L.A. car, and it seems to me that the slider was the early design and was changed to the tip-out style about midway through the '68 run. Trans had no bearing on it as far as my cars were concerned.
The sliders were prone to problems opening/closing, so my theory is that the change was likely driven by warranty claims.
Posted By: Dougsmopars

Re: 68 roadrunner ash tray? - 07/23/09 09:28 PM

Change came late in year over complaints. The slider tray was a pain to empty you had to stick your fingers in there and pull out the tray. Same as 0to 150 speedos. They were changed early over complaints that it was hard to tell exdactly how fast you were going because speedo cluster looked to busy with all the zero's. went to 1 to 15 after that. Bigest difference between 68 and 69 trays is the finish. 68 was padded and 69 was metal. There are 90% of 68's with slider tray. I've owned around 15 over the years and never saw a correct 68 with a flip tray. It's been 42 years and who knows what got changed by owners in the early 70's
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