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Got me another 'ratster' Mopar
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 12 10:49 pm
by MilesnMiles
Delivered by Jon Connolly last week for which much thanks due. it's a long way from Garboldisham to Newquay
1973 Petty Blue Roadrunner 340 car, built in '72 so tax free! Totally stock with whats left of its original paint which is currently being lathered on Gibbs to keep it fresh.
Motor has about 90% new running gear under the floorboards and in fron of the bulkhead. Correct hippo 340 built to pre smog spec with 727 column change trans and a 8.75 at the fat end.
Interior probably still has racoons and snakes in it along with the South Carolina plates.
I'm currently fettling elctrical and brake parts plus tuning before getting on the road. Better pics to follow in due course... :
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 12 10:55 pm
by Pete
Looking forward to the build up / re-build.....
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 12 11:06 pm
by Adrian Worman
PROPER 70's cool Miles, just clean it a bit and drive it
Love the colour and hood/roof stripe combo, that must have looked the tits years back
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 12 11:27 pm
by Pete
Is it as rough as ten bears inside??
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 12:50 am
by drewcrane
Yea my Mom had a car .almost the same it had 400 auto but loaded,even had the cassette player with the mic, and same color ,stripe
I always liked that car nice looking cool hood ,and my Dad totaled it up in the hills on a skiing vacation in Breckenridge
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 6:23 am
by MilesnMiles
The car is very solid and the paint in about 95% original. MUch of the darker aspects are not rust, but a reddish primer underneath the blue paint.
The inside is rough and needs just about everything, no headliner, collapsed drivers seat and bleached out dash etc...
The motor has close to zero miles on it and sounds very nice. Just need new brake booster to arrive before I can drive it.
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 12:47 pm
by Dave81
Great looking car Miles. Looks like it could be a craking project!
Nothing wrong with a blue patina'd car either!
What are you plans then......
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 1:32 pm
by Dave-R
It was in that shape RoadRunner that I had my first experience of big block performance. It was another 10 years before I got my own big block but I never forgot that feeling.
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 3:57 pm
by Carl
This is the car that was for sale on ebay back in mid Aug, I put a posting up on it.
http://www.moparuk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40365
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 5:19 pm
by Mossy68
Love it Miles.
Keep on the Gibbs and drive as is !!!
Gary
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 5:37 pm
by Blue
Cool, just needs a period set of wheels and a better stance and jobs a good 'un. This one was only 2 years old at the time and got written off a few weeks later...
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 5:40 pm
by MilesnMiles
Yep, wheels are period correct, but a more raked stance would be good and wider wheels.
fancy cop car rims, actually!
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 7:35 pm
by AllKiller
Nice Buy Miles...i saw that in Jons Truck A few months ago....liked it alot, so did my Dad
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 12 8:34 pm
by MilesnMiles
Cheers for comments chaps, i've now done an 'official' thread with better pics in the Members Cars section.
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 12 8:43 pm
by TYREMAN
Nice choice
these and the 71/72 chargers best looking of the BBodys