Posted By: 68jim
68 Hemi Road Runner project update...
Posted By: old_racer
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/15/09 05:04 PM
very nice! must have been breezy driving without a windshield!!
Russ
Russ
Posted By: 68jim
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/15/09 05:08 PM
You're right. I only took the car up to maybe 40 MPH on the street in front of my house. The highway run will need to wait until the glass is in and I get an alignment!
Jim
Jim
Posted By: hemi68charger
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/15/09 07:40 PM
Awesome Jim !!!!!!! Looks great......... 
Troy
Troy
Posted By: pacifica
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/15/09 08:29 PM
Looks great, sounds great !!!!
Thanks for the video.... it is snowing here today
Thanks for the video.... it is snowing here today
Posted By: 426runner
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/15/09 11:59 PM
Awesome Jim!
Posted By: 1_WILD_RT
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 12:16 AM
Looks & Sounds Awesome!! You've got to be pretty excited...
Posted By: NITROUSN
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 12:23 AM
Posted By: ScatPakWarehouse
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 12:28 AM
Nice Ride
Posted By: mickm
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 12:57 AM
looks great!
it's funny that almost every video of someone doing a burnout, there is someone laughing or chuckling in the background
it's funny that almost every video of someone doing a burnout, there is someone laughing or chuckling in the background
Posted By: 1969 HEMI R-T
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 02:47 AM
Looks great!
Posted By: WINGCARS_6970
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 02:50 AM
Looking good.I had a 68 Hemi RR and lost track of it RM21J8A134509
Posted By: migsBIG
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 11:41 AM
Looking nice. Gonna use clear or tinted glass?
Posted By: 70shaker6pk
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 01:40 PM
Very nice!! I really liked the video of you smoking the tires!!
Posted By: 68jim
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 10:52 PM
Thanks for all the nice comments! I got this car 17 years ago and worked on it off and on. I got more serious with it about 5 years ago and started doing all the little items. I got a lot of great advice first from the MML and later from Moparts. Once all the little stuff was done I ran into a road block trying to find a body shop that would do the body to the levels I wanted. I can't say enough good things about the shop I found just a few hours away in North Carolina. The guys at Clark Classic Restorations had the body about 7 months and when I got it back it was just as I had envisioned it. I have had plenty of fun(and fustration) putting it all back together over this last year and now finally getting a chance to enjoy it in a different way by actually driving it...
I am in debt to everyone who has helped me one way or another on this forum...Thank You.
Jim
68 Hemi Road Runner
I am in debt to everyone who has helped me one way or another on this forum...Thank You.
Jim
68 Hemi Road Runner
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 10:57 PM
Wow Jim, it sounds amd looks great! 
Posted By: hemi68charger
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/16/09 11:00 PM
Quote:
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I am in debt to everyone ...
Jim
68 Hemi Road Runner
My unfortunate part of my deal....
Posted By: RP's R/T's
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/17/09 06:06 PM
Jim,
Is the car an automatic on the column?
Taxicab interior
Did you used to live in Iowa?
If so, PM me. I may have some history.
Is the car an automatic on the column?
Taxicab interior
Did you used to live in Iowa?
If so, PM me. I may have some history.
Posted By: cptn60
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/17/09 06:51 PM
Beautiful car! you must feel like a proud papa.
Posted By: moepwr
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/17/09 08:32 PM
Nice Car
Posted By: 68jim
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/17/09 10:08 PM
Quote:
Jim,
Is the car an automatic on the column?
Taxicab interior
Did you used to live in Iowa?
If so, PM me. I may have some history.
Yes, Yes, No. I'm good with the history of my car, with the exception of the first owner who had the car less than a year. (Anyone know Mr. Richard Dick from the Buffalo, NY region in 1968?) The car stayed in NY until '87 or so and then it has been in the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area since.
I'm always game for another story especially if it involves a car that looks like mine...moonshine runner? bank robbery? Hollywood models?
Jim
Posted By: 69Cuda340S
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/18/09 12:39 AM
Sweet car!
Posted By: rrunner
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/18/09 12:49 AM
Sure is nice to see another 68 Chicken going down the road! Hemi to boot. 
Nice job
Nice job
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/18/09 02:46 AM
Quote:Quote:
Jim,
Is the car an automatic on the column?
Taxicab interior
Did you used to live in Iowa?
If so, PM me. I may have some history.
Yes, Yes, No. I'm good with the history of my car, with the exception of the first owner who had the car less than a year. (Anyone know Mr. Richard Dick from the Buffalo, NY region in 1968?) The car stayed in NY until '87 or so and then it has been in the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area since.
I'm always game for another story especially if it involves a car that looks like mine...moonshine runner? bank robbery? Hollywood models?
Jim
jim, heres my 68 hemi RR, 4 speed survivor, bought this car in 1990, in palo alto CA.
never touched it except i had to repaint the left side, the sun bleached out the drivers side it was sitting since 1979. beautiful car you got there.
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/18/09 02:57 AM
Quote:
jim, heres my 68 hemi RR, 4 speed survivor, bought this car in 1990, in palo alto CA.
never touched it except i had to repaint the left side, the sun bleached out the drivers side it was sitting since 1979. beautiful car you got there.
My all time favorite combo and color
Posted By: Troy
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/18/09 03:19 AM
I have a REAL soft spot for red, 1968 Hemi Road Runners. That is a very nice looking car.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/18/09 03:23 AM
Quote:
Quote:
jim, heres my 68 hemi RR, 4 speed survivor, bought this car in 1990, in palo alto CA.
never touched it except i had to repaint the left side, the sun bleached out the drivers side it was sitting since 1979. beautiful car you got there.
scott, you really like RR1 exterior and interior???burgundy metallic
My all time favorite combo and color
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/18/09 03:27 AM
Yes, actually I'd prefer a black interior but I wouldn't kick it out of my driveway for having a red interior
Posted By: Airgrabber
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/18/09 03:31 AM
What a beautiful car. Now that is the true definition of muscle!
Posted By: BarrsRestoration
Re: 68 Hemi Road Runner project update... - 02/18/09 03:55 AM
Jim, congratulations on getting it together, you've truely done a top notch job on it. It looks and sounds awesome (I love the sound of a solid lifter motor).
Also, thanks for the compliments to the shop. I was glad to be a small part of this special project, and it was a pleasure dealing with you.
Now go take some big trophies with it and drive it!
Steve
www.clarkclassic.com
Also, thanks for the compliments to the shop. I was glad to be a small part of this special project, and it was a pleasure dealing with you.
Now go take some big trophies with it and drive it!
Steve
www.clarkclassic.com