Walmart parking lot - 70 RR

Very nice looking car. All original, 40K miles. Very stock looking except for the rims. Under the hood looked like 1970 except for the battery. The guy hasn't changed anything, just drives it an repairs it as needed.

Very nice roadrunner.Thanks for the picks!

Dude must LOVE those turbine wheels, with SOOOO many other options out there today.

Thanks for sharing! I love it when people actually use their car rather than just leave it in their garage.

My only concern in this case are the tires. Those tires are probably 20yrs old.

Yeah, I was thinking "those tires are old enough to vote"...

Really nice car, and cool to see it out there being enjoyed.

Ill take those over 17" 18" 19" and larger status quo Car TV show type wheels.

The guy said he has the original wheels in his shop but evidently he likes the old turbine wheels. The tires did look a little old but I didn't bend down and read the date codes on them.

I had the wider turbine wheels on my 70 roadruner,they were cool enough and they were free I think.

If it's a survivor I'd like to see a close up of the dust trails to see which way the "X's" are oriented.

I tried to enlarge on my phone but still can't tell.

I love it. Green and all! The vintage tires really look cool.

I know exactly what you're talking about. The "X" goes at the bottom. But, I have personally seen Survivors with the stripes correct and upside down. I have even seen some where maybe the fender is correct, the door is upside down and the quarter is correct. My GUESS is that the difference was so subtle that it wasn't noticed at the time and they just put them on. I wasn't there on the line so I don't know.

My other observation with '70 RRs is the headlight bezels. Some Survivors have a screw in the top of the bezel holding it into the header panel and some don't. Just another guess, but I have a feeling that was an assembly line "fix." If the bezel doesn't line up, run a screw in it.

I'd love to hear from anyone who knows for sure. I have this '70 RR that I bought in 1988. It's unrestored but was hit and repaired on the left front. It's hard to tell in this pic (a scan from 1988) but it looks like I have a screw in both headlight bezels. I'll have to check tonight when I get home.

Ed B

There is alot to be said for a vehicle like that, that can be used, enjoyed, and appreciated as a cool old musclecar.

Just think of the fortune saved by skipping all the modifications and upgrades that so many of us have, that it doesn't actually need.

Hey, I RESEMBLE that !

You are so right. That how I have been maintaining by 69 Charger for 50 years now.

I love my modified, bad ass street cars but there is a certain line I don't want to cross for anything I'm going to actually drive and use somewhat normally.

I've already gone over that line with the GTX when it needed the roll bar to be track legal. I like the safety and chassis rigidity aspect of it
but it takes away from the experience of using it like a normal car. A couple hours with a saw or plasma cutter will take care of it if I ever decide I'm done with
all that kind of thing. But other things won't change....the battery stays up front, and I'm probably putting the sway bar and big torsion bars back in it, because it's a street car first.
I've just had all kinds of Sheetmetal off and put all the sound deadeners back on it for the same reason.

I never wanted a race car to drive on the street/that wasn't the idea.

When I re-do the Charger it will be very close to stock and won't have any race stuff on it, at all....

It sure is quick and seems to me you're getting good use out of every modification that you have.
I mean you have an 11 inch converter for gosh sake, how much more "street" can we get.

The only somewhat fancy part I know of is the aluminum front hubs and race brakes you have, everything else I have seen is very standard issue street car circa 1990...exactly
the kind of stuff that got me excited about the hobby in first place.

And those kind of race brakes save alot of weight, look cool, and stop well....plus no scrounging the junkyards for spindles....just order them and put them on. So they have their advantages.

Really though, to each his/her own......but there is alot to be said for a near-stock vehicle especially when it's a very legit musclecar to begin with like that 70 RR.

I've lost exact count of the number of '68-'70 B-bodies I've owned - something like 5 Chargers and I think 14 RRs, plus a Satellite & a GTX.
One '69 RR stands out as one I just drove around in the '80s-'90s; a triple green 383 4-speed HT I took a few road trips in, sometimes commuted, whatever.
What we'd call a very nice driver, a few nicks & door dings, but clean and in fine mechanical shape with over 100K on it.
Drove it anywhere/everywhere, into the city, even rain sometimes...things I'd never do with the restored "monuments" I've owned (and still do).
It was fun just using it, and not worrying about stone chips or the undercarriage getting dusty.
Oddly enough, nobody ever bothered it.

I've also done that with a '65 Belvedere and the Satellite - never had a reliability problem, and didn't miss the modern aspects of newer cars - just enjoyed the sensory experience.

Drivers for me please. I don't drive the Cyclone all that much to start with but...... Anyhow, I did the car the way I wanted. Fuel injection for ease of start ups and no stalls due to fuel perk issues. It is a 351 Windsor and the heads literally had to be the worse flowing design ever made. E-heads made a huge difference. Peg-leg gone. Love the car and love driving it. Never will race it but eventually will pull some burnouts once I have 500 on it. Oh, still has some minor rust on the body and some original paint. Other paint was done before I bought it and looks completely off. Oh well. Got rid of the PS assist also and went with a borgenson conversion. You like it? Great but I don't really care. Barracuda will be the same. Even freaking wrong color as wife insists I keep what it was when I bought it. House of Kolor Blurple. Why? First it's mine, second Barracuda was a /6. The Bee, no tag so will go with bright poly green. That is what is planned at least. Trans Am would probably be worth more taken back as it is a 78 SE, but that horse left the barn back in 83' when I installed RA III heads and tossed the original 8.1:1 heads. That is what we did back in the day and I'm still doing it today. Enjoy your rides folks, no matter what you do with them. 20 years ago I bought the Bee and Barracuda. Neither are finished. Lots of fun working on them though with the goal to get them done before I die.

here are my two daily driver RRs.
Used unless winter (salt on the road)




Carsten

Great looking roadriunners!