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>, "Deke" <no
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> "BDK" <BDK@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article <78c45246be0349703e9631e2ba5efc65@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> > > "They were the first generation to come of age with their own cars,
and
> > > now they want them back. Across the country, middle-aged men are
going
> > > to extraordinary lengths to locate the actual vehicles they drove
> > > decades ago..."
> > >
> > > Wall Street Journal article: http://xrl.us/OldCars
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I know where my 74 Roadrunner is today. I couldn't possibly afford it
> > now...It's probably worth more than the new Charger sitting in my
> > garage.
> >
> > BDK
>
> My 74 Road Runner, forest green, white vinyl top w/sunroof, white
interior,
> was stolen off the dealers lot two days after I traded it in, and
totaled.
> MEEP MEEP!!
>
> D
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That's sad. I saw my old T/A rot into a beater from 1987 until about
1995 or so, on an almost daily basis. That guy loved that car, but he
didn't seem to fix the dings it got, and that's mostly where the rot
started. Last time I saw it, it was sitting with a for sale sign, and it
said "Runs" on it. Pretty pitiful. I would have rather it died a quick
death, like yours did.
The Iroc Camaro that replaced it is alive and well, with a 383 stroker
in it. I sold it to a friend, who traded it in for an insanely low price
after I told him I wanted it back. It was 6 years old, and had 15k on
it. One of the service writers grabbed it up, and as of a year ago, he
still had it. Last time I saw it, a kid was driving it, and I think it
might have been the writer's kid.
My RR was if not THE last one, it was like on the last day they built
the 74 body style. It was dark silver with red stripe, 360 Hipo engine,
3.55 posi (The tiny one they put under Dusters, it broke very quickly),
I replaced it with a 8+3/4" from a freshly wrecked 72 400 Charger, and
solved the problem forever. A bonus was a huge increase in rear brake
size.
Your RR sounds a lot like the one that was sent to the dealer with my
order number in July, but that one was a Satellite Sebring, Frosty green
(Damn, I hate that frosty green) with a white vinyl top, a 440 and white
and green checked interior! Even after repeated pleading and discounting
to try to get me to take it. The order was placed again, and after a 3
month wait, it finally showed up. The dealer had started to look for a
car to swap for by the time it showed up. Chrysler kept sending sheets
saying the car was built from Labor Day on, but it never showed up, and
the dealer promised they would get me a 74 with a 360, 400, or 440 with
no extra charge if they never sent it, or sent a 75 instead. He found a
white 440 about 100 miles away, that I almost took instead, but I didn't
want a white, green (sorry, not my color), brown, tan, or beige car. It
was a very cold rainy Nov morning when I picked it up. I think it came
in on like Friday afternoon, and I had to wait all weekend to get it at
about 10 Monday morning. I put 400+ miles on it the first day, and it
was in the shop by Friday for wheel bearings, and a spindle. The factory
had installed the wrong bearings and I drove around with the wheels in
danger of flying off, until the bearing stunk so bad it was obvious
there was a problem. The left wheel bearings had eaten up the spindle,
and they took a spindle off a new Sebring to get me back on the road
that day. I had very few problems with it after that, except the window
cranks broke in a matter of days, again and again. I finally put bolts
and nuts on them instead of the "breakaway" rivet they originally had.
A year later, I saw some neat looking ones on a 71, and the guy who made
them made me a set out of aluminum bar stock, and anodized them a silver
color. They were on the car when I traded it in, on April 77. I was an
idiot for trading it on the POS Power Wagon..
BDK
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