That's awesome! (not the draft part) Classy lookin lady too.
Thanks! That's my older sister and thankfully her friend took that and another photo of her next to my RR. About ten or fifteen years ago (?) she (my sister) asked if I wanted a couple of photos of her next to my car? I just about fell over as I never took, had or saw any photos of my Road Runner. When I got them what great memories.....for the most part. She used to wait by my RR for the mail to arrive hoping for a letter from her "boyfriend" and now husband who was in Vietnam with the 25th Infantry. They got married when he got back. She would wait by the car until the mail came and then I would take her to work and pick her up later and bring her home. There were seven kids in the family and my parents never had a new car and always drove older used cars so when I told my mom that I was looking at buying a new car and told her I was looking at a Dodge Dart she told me it would be better to get a car that was bigger and not a "compact" (yes a Dart was a compact back then
). Well I knew she was right and the fact about the co-signing and the insurance I decided to get the Road Runner. One thing that had my dad give me the dad look was when I optioned the bucket seats and the console instead or a front bench and column 727
. My mom didn't really know the whole story on the Dart "compact" car as I was really first looking at a Dart GTS with a 383 and then found a magazine test on the 383 GTS with a short sidebar story on how there was going to be a Dart GTS with a 440 (M-Code). Went to the local Dodge dealership and got laughed out of it when I asked two sales guys that didn't have a clue about info on the 440 Dart GTS,
When I got home and mom asked why I was so down I just told her that I was looking at a Dodge Dart and no other details and that's when the "Why a compact car with six brothers and sisters?" so being still being mad and the reality of the Dart 383 or 440 co-signing, insurance, seating, etc., Yep got a B-body midsize still with seating for five comfortably and not so bad for the smallest of the family to sit on the console for a not so long ring burning rubber and racing Chebies and Forf from the traffic lights with the car full of family.........except for dad. Mom was always for the racing and she could lay down a half of a block of two black tire marks anytime the brothers or sister coaxed her into........oh she was the reason I got the power steering she was pretty small but knew how to drive a stick and really well. More on the 440 Dart GTS years later and a WWYD if someone were to ask you about trading your RR 383 727 for a 4-Speed A12 Road Runner + $500 ?
Mike