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Re: RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM --Plymouth Makes It !
[Re: bigdad]
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10/22/22 04:07 PM
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I love that poster and always wanted one!
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Re: RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM --Plymouth Makes It !
[Re: Redbird]
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12/01/22 06:26 PM
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1970 Plymouth Trouble Shooting National Finalist jacket. A lot of the jackets from the period just had rubber bands sewn in at the bottom of the sleeves. When the rubber bands break or crack that's it. I don't know how to replace them.
1970 NOS RTS jacket came in the original bag. These came lined and just a nylon shell. I have seen 3 different left side patches. This one which is in the ad. A second one that resembles the patch in the 1990's reproductions, Plus an oval patch one.
1972 NOS Wet look lined jacket in the original bag. I am not sure when they first came out. However, they were advertised in the May 1972 Plymouth Traveler Magazine, so it makes it as RTS Based on my research of the factory backed drag/NASCAR/Trans-Am drivers, I believe the RTS jacket you are showing is from 1970 and one with the patch that was replicated in the 1990’s is from 1971. I’ve never seen the oval style patch.
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Re: RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM --Plymouth Makes It !
[Re: Jeffaary]
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12/02/22 09:41 AM
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At Steven Juliano's Mecum sale, There was a 1970 style round patch RTS jacket on day 2 item #309. I believe it the same style jacket that I have and I show in the attached 1970 literature above. Steven's had some other patches sewn on it so I wouldn't call it NOS. In 1970 plenty of people sewed so it was easy enough to to get a mom, girlfriend, or wife to add something on a jacket. My jacket, the literature I attached, and Steven's jacket have the same collar, pinstriping, and arm cuffs.
At Steven's sale on Day 2 item # 307 his estate sold a 1971 RTS Jacket. I don't recall having seen literature advertising this jacket, but I may have seen it somewhere. So I'm calling it a 1971 jacket purely for organizational purposes. I believe this style patch is shown being worn by one of the male models behind a 1971 Road Runner or GTX in the 1971 Satellite dealer literature brochure or the 1971 full line literature brochure. The 1971 jacket from Steven had the collar, pinstriping, and arm cuffs to match the 1970 RTS Jacket. I think it is easy enough to document this style of jacket. The RTS patch on this jacket resembles the patch used on the 1990's reproduction jackets. If I recall. the 1990 reproduction jackets also had a heart patch and a stripe motif.
Finally at Steven's sale on day 4 item #343 they sold a jacket with an oval RTS patch. This jacket had a collar, pinstriping, and arm cuffs to match the 2 jackets above. I have never seen this elsewhere. Jackets of this period were sold by the Plymouth dealers, at speed shops, and probably at other stores. I think one would want to look at the tag at the back of the collar for more information. I've never seen one of these jackets up close so my knowledge is limited.
Back in the 1970's oval RTS patches were available at car shows for probably a quarter. I have a couple that I got then. I've seen a couple of different proportion oval RTS patches over the years.
This past year I even saw a 1970 round RTS Jacket patch and I have no idea of where it came from.
Today I think you need a little more careful because there are old jackets that contemporary people sew patches on to resemble old jackets.
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