Roadtrip Intro - cont.....
Avid mopar fan having owned a few over the years, couple A bodies, a B, but the current ride is kind of special to me and has a good story attached to it and goes like this (Coles notes version):
In 1969 my uncle walked into the Plymouth dealer in Vancouver BC, flush with cash, and left there with the keys to his new 1969 Roadrunner Q5 post car equipped with a 4 spd, 383, and air grabber with the V21 Hood.
Some many years later I became the owner of the Runner, which had some bruises, and a small amount of cancer in the lower quarters and trunk. Flash forward to the mid nineties when I sold it, yes sold it. I was young, and didn't have the foresight to keep it for future. It had a worn out clutch, and everything was pretty ragged, with 69,800 original miles on it. I just didn't see myself ever having the money to restore it.
A few years past when I realized I shouldn't have sold it and wanted it back. I lost my copy of bill of sale so I completely forgot the contact info.........
Cont......(don't know why it cut this part out).......... of the guy I sold it and spent about the next 18 years or so cruising the alleys of where I thought he lived. I delivered the car when he bought it so I had a vague idea of where that was, but no luck.
Another year past and as a last attempt at of trying to reunite myself with the car I went to motor vehicle registries and told the guy my story, gave him the serial number of the car which I had remembered off by heart, and begged him to at least give me his name. Well, 30 seconds later he slipped a piece of paper across the counter with his name and number on it. Viola!!
A few minutes with Google and I was on the phone with him. Turns out he restored the car to a high number 2 almost 1 (I know that number one cars seldom exist so I was reluctant to say number one, but it's nice and I think you get the point) and just completed it in 2014. When I got to see it again for the first time a couple years ago I fell in love with it all over again in a whole new light.
The following year he popped by and took me for a ride and even let me drive it. Wow, what an experience, right down to the redline polyglas tires... Lol. It was something else.
Fast forward to the next spring when I was about to by a rotisserie dart, I decided to ask what if or if he would ever consider selling the runner. He said let me think on it, and a few days passed when I got the email saying it's mine if I wanted it. After getting over the sticker shock and haggling some, I know own the family Roadrunner once again!! So Happy, and get this, the car has only 700 miles more on the odometer of the restored cluster from when I sold it to him back in the 90's.
I'm new to hear so I will try to post some pics once I figure it out.
Thanks
Avid mopar fan having owned a few over the years, couple A bodies, a B, but the current ride is kind of special to me and has a good story attached to it and goes like this (Coles notes version):
In 1969 my uncle walked into the Plymouth dealer in Vancouver BC, flush with cash, and left there with the keys to his new 1969 Roadrunner Q5 post car equipped with a 4 spd, 383, and air grabber with the V21 Hood.
Some many years later I became the owner of the Runner, which had some bruises, and a small amount of cancer in the lower quarters and trunk. Flash forward to the mid nineties when I sold it, yes sold it. I was young, and didn't have the foresight to keep it for future. It had a worn out clutch, and everything was pretty ragged, with 69,800 original miles on it. I just didn't see myself ever having the money to restore it.
A few years past when I realized I shouldn't have sold it and wanted it back. I lost my copy of bill of sale so I completely forgot the contact info.........
Cont......(don't know why it cut this part out).......... of the guy I sold it and spent about the next 18 years or so cruising the alleys of where I thought he lived. I delivered the car when he bought it so I had a vague idea of where that was, but no luck.
Another year past and as a last attempt at of trying to reunite myself with the car I went to motor vehicle registries and told the guy my story, gave him the serial number of the car which I had remembered off by heart, and begged him to at least give me his name. Well, 30 seconds later he slipped a piece of paper across the counter with his name and number on it. Viola!!
A few minutes with Google and I was on the phone with him. Turns out he restored the car to a high number 2 almost 1 (I know that number one cars seldom exist so I was reluctant to say number one, but it's nice and I think you get the point) and just completed it in 2014. When I got to see it again for the first time a couple years ago I fell in love with it all over again in a whole new light.
The following year he popped by and took me for a ride and even let me drive it. Wow, what an experience, right down to the redline polyglas tires... Lol. It was something else.
Fast forward to the next spring when I was about to by a rotisserie dart, I decided to ask what if or if he would ever consider selling the runner. He said let me think on it, and a few days passed when I got the email saying it's mine if I wanted it. After getting over the sticker shock and haggling some, I know own the family Roadrunner once again!! So Happy, and get this, the car has only 700 miles more on the odometer of the restored cluster from when I sold it to him back in the 90's.
I'm new to hear so I will try to post some pics once I figure it out.
Thanks
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