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Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454436
06/18/13 01:56 PM 06/18/13 01:56 PM
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Btw you can see the orginal Challenger style exhaust tip on the car.
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: burdar] #1454437
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I love those cars. Most of them rusted back into the earth. Although I've never seen a picture of it, those cars were supposed to have come with 70-74 Challenger exhaust tips. Thanks for sharing the pics. I'd love to see more.



My Dad sold Plymouths in the mid seventies and I specifically remember these exhaust tips as a kid. For some reason he brought a lot (4 or 5) of these '75 Road Runners home as demos and I remember thinking (as a kid) that they must be way faster than the last ones ('74s) because they had 4 exhaust pipes instead of just 2!

I remember that most had the "tunnel" decal on the trunk, don't remember the hood blackout treatment, and I'm thinking that most were 400s, but that was a long time ago...

I'd love to find a nice survivor '75 like this some day as they bring back good memories...

Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: EK2Runner] #1454438
06/18/13 07:54 PM 06/18/13 07:54 PM
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Very nice car . Interesting , I've never seen the hood blackout on one of these. Is that a factory option ?



...from the infamous (CLICK HERE) V21 thread showing this performance hood treatment on many models. This threads been running since Sept 2007...to the O.P. add your Road Runner pics, and a copy of your fender tag to the thread




Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: ChryCoGuy] #1454439
06/19/13 09:55 AM 06/19/13 09:55 AM
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I love those cars. Most of them rusted back into the earth. Although I've never seen a picture of it, those cars were supposed to have come with 70-74 Challenger exhaust tips. Thanks for sharing the pics. I'd love to see more.



My Dad sold Plymouths in the mid seventies and I specifically remember these exhaust tips as a kid. For some reason he brought a lot (4 or 5) of these '75 Road Runners home as demos and I remember thinking (as a kid) that they must be way faster than the last ones ('74s) because they had 4 exhaust pipes instead of just 2!

I remember that most had the "tunnel" decal on the trunk, don't remember the hood blackout treatment, and I'm thinking that most were 400s, but that was a long time ago...

I'd love to find a nice survivor '75 like this some day as they bring back good memories...



That is a great story about your dad. I did buy the car last fall off of this sight. I had never seen a nice 75 Roadrunner survivor for sale so I thought why not. It is really a nice driving car. I do believe if your dad's demos had dual exhaust they would have to be a HP 400. I think the regular 360 four barrel and the regular 400 four barrel on the 75's were single exhaust. I think you could get a dual exhaust on the 360 but with an air pump so it didn't need converters? I am not real sure on that last bit of info if someone knows more please let me know. I know if you look at the spec books from 75 it looks a little confusing about engine choices etc.
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454440
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Glad to share!

I may be wrong on this, but in Canada I seem to recall that Chrysler didn't install cats 'till a few years later than the US due to our different pollution laws. Don't know the specifics, just recall hearing that at the time.

Maybe this could have had an effect on which engines had duals or not (?), but again I don't really know for sure, as I wouldn't consider myself an expert on these cars.

Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: ChryCoGuy] #1454441
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a rare and uncommon car these days.

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Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: fc7_plumcrazy] #1454442
06/20/13 12:18 AM 06/20/13 12:18 AM
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I bought a 75 Runner brand new, 400, 4 bbl with single exhaust and the Challenger exhaust tip. You could also get a dual exhaust 400, 4 bbl but it had a smaller gas tank. None of the Canadian cars had cats in 75 and I don't think the US ones did either but I could be wrong. All 75 GM's had cats though I think.

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Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454443
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Beautiful Road Runner.
I rode around in a silver '75 back in high school. It was my buddy's car with a wimpy 318 2bbl. He wanted to put a 360 in it but his Mom said "no, it runs just fine". One night he kept it in low gear running as fast as possible trying to blow it up. When we got back to the house, there was an orange glow from under the hood, the manifolds were glowing cherry red, but that was it. I told him it didn't make enough power to blow up.

Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: RUNCHARGER] #1454444
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It is interesting that the dual exhaust cars had smaller gas tanks. The cars with the worse gas mileage got smaller tanks! That was true through the years of the Cordoba also. Thanks for the stories.
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454445
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One final picture with my 82 911sc

7749049-RRandPorschhe.JPG (422 downloads)
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454446
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And all of my grandkids riding toys! Btw the 911 leaks a little oil but the Roadrunner doesn't leak any oil as you can see by the mat under my Porsche.

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Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454447
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Which car gets the most ?

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Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: GOLDMYN] #1454448
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Which car gets the most ?



It is probably about even. They 82 911 is a 50K original car and it is pretty pristine. Both fun in different ways
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454449
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Great car. Congratulations!

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Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: DynoDave] #1454450
06/20/13 10:12 PM 06/20/13 10:12 PM
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A kid I went to high school with had one. It was a maroon color with maroon interior if I remember right. It was a 318 car. The quarters were shot. They flapped in the wind. I think it had the cool trunk graphic though.

It was handed down from his parents and had never been off the road. I still saw it around in the late 90's but there wasn't much left.
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: burdar] #1454451
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A kid I went to high school with had one. It was a maroon color with maroon interior if I remember right. It was a 318 car. The quarters were shot. They flapped in the wind. I think it had the cool trunk graphic though.

It was handed down from his parents and had never been off the road. I still saw it around in the late 90's but there wasn't much left.



I love the Challenger and the the thin wsw's with the road wheels.
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454452
06/21/13 03:37 PM 06/21/13 03:37 PM
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Does the Road Runner have the original spare in the trunk? If so what is it, got pics?
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: 6bblgt] #1454453
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It has an original G70X14 RWL. I will post some pictures this weekend. Thanks
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454454
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My 75 Runner also came with a G70x14 Polyglas on a rallye rim complete with centre (but no removeable circle in the centre) as a spare.

Sheldon
Re: 1975 Roadrunner Survivor [Re: drodg] #1454455
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Here is a photo

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