[quote=fc7_plumcrazy]The Q5 Hemi Runner is a D32 automatic car not a 4-speed.
It was a condition #4 driver in 2000 when it was for sale on Heminet for roughly 90k $ IIRC.
The 69 RT vert in Q5 didn't have its matching engine anymore and was partly disassembled
Carsten
The 69 RT was very rough as were all the cars that Dave M had, it was also born with a black gut not white which it now has.
& is/was advertised as the only "matching numbers" '69 HEMI 4-speed Coronet R/T 'vert
When Dave had it the motor was missing, he said the car was sold new in Duluth and later on the motor was pulled and the story goes it may have been put in another car that was raced in the Brainerd area, guess they must have found it.
never say never, but it has a VIN stamped 1966 cast block in it - without a VIN pad
The engine is a January 1968 casting date in the 69 Q5 Coronet R/T and it is the original engine.
It has all the correct original assembly stampings still on it.
The engine has an assembly date of August 1968 wand the car was built in November 1968.
Hemi's didn't start having the cast in machined VIN pad until March 16th 1968. There were January 1968 blocks used in early 1969 Hemi cars.
The original engine was bought by Scott Dahlberg in 1978 after it spun a bearing in the R/T.
A 440 was installed in the car at that time and prior to the car going to Arkansas for a debt owed to the car owners brother.
Scott never raced that block, he knew what he had right from the start (that the car it belonged in was rare).
Scott owned it for 25 years, Dave knew that Scott had the original engine was but wouldn't pay the $10,000 that Scott wanted for the bare block.
It was bought from Scott Dahlberg in 2003 by Dennis Phelps who is the guy who bought the car from Dave M.
Dave told Dennis that Scott had the original engine.
The current owner Bob B. paid the $3k for a Dave Wise inspection to have everything verified.
I'll post more of the cars history later, I need to get back to work in the garage right now.
Greg, the guy that restored the 69 Q5 R/T conv. is also the one that restored the Green 69 GTX conv for Steven Juliano (who owned it at that time).
