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Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival Bristoe #7981287 08/14/13
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota N northern_dave OP Campfire 'Bwana
OP northern_dave Campfire 'Bwana N Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota	Lowered the beak on the bird. Crappy cell phone pic but I think it kind of gives a fair look at the "new stance" anyways. Came down about 2" up front. Something clever here.

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Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northern_dave #7981299 08/14/13
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 18,005 Gone To Texas D DocRocket Campfire Ranger
DocRocket Campfire Ranger D Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 18,005 Gone To Texas	Looking good, ND!! It has a more aggressive look with the beak lowered. "I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival DocRocket #7981343 08/14/13
Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,306 NW MN White_Bear Campfire Regular
White_Bear Campfire Regular Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,306 NW MN	Did you get the rear-end aligned yet. It's terrible how much faster the rear tires are wearing than the fronts! Do not feed the bear! White Bear sometimes treads on thin ice...

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival White_Bear #7981391 08/14/13
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 46,745 Just The Tip T tzone Campfire 'Bwana
tzone Campfire 'Bwana T Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 46,745 Just The Tip	Camp is where you make it.

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival tzone #7981409 08/14/13
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 15,652 North Flint Hills O oldtrapper Campfire Ranger
oldtrapper Campfire Ranger O Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 15,652 North Flint Hills	Dat is NICE! https://postimg.cc/xXjW1cqx/81efa4c5 Soli Deo Gloria democrats ARE the plague.

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Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northern_dave #7981697 08/14/13
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 86,328 Likes: 32 In the shadow of the Kenai Mtn... ironbender Campfire Oracle
ironbender Campfire Oracle Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 86,328 Likes: 32 In the shadow of the Kenai Mtn...	Dat's a good looking moe-chine! If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival White_Bear #7982235 08/14/13
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota N northern_dave OP Campfire 'Bwana
OP northern_dave Campfire 'Bwana N Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota	Originally Posted by White_Bear Did you get the rear-end aligned yet. It's terrible how much faster the rear tires are wearing than the fronts! I have still not solved that issue. 2nd gear in particular was very tough on the back tires on this little run. You can hear where I lifted to try and hook up before hitting 3rd, at that point I was like "awe hellz, that sucked bad". Something clever here.

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northern_dave #8164191 10/16/13
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota N northern_dave OP Campfire 'Bwana
OP northern_dave Campfire 'Bwana N Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota	One last rinse and dry, put the new cover on and she's gonna rest through the winter now. Something clever here.

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northern_dave #8164206 10/16/13
Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 73,096 Punta Gorda, FL T LEE Campfire Kahuna
T LEE Campfire Kahuna Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 73,096 Punta Gorda, FL	Man, that was a great project Sir. George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you! Old cat turd! "Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison. I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival T LEE #8164216 10/16/13
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota N northern_dave OP Campfire 'Bwana
OP northern_dave Campfire 'Bwana N Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota	Thank you, sir. Hey T... I got a rescue cat update for ya.... Damn thing is still alive. Something clever here.

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Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northern_dave #8164225 10/16/13
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 7,735 Alabama 4 444Matt Campfire Outfitter
444Matt Campfire Outfitter 4 Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 7,735 Alabama	What a beauty!

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northern_dave #8164254 10/16/13
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,634 North to Alaska N northwestalaska Campfire Outfitter
northwestalaska Campfire Outfitter N Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,634 North to Alaska	Very nice! Mopar!

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northwestalaska #8164690 10/16/13
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,933 PPosey Campfire Regular
PPosey Campfire Regular Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,933	My mom has a 69 roadrunner that she bought new back then,, I will have to send her a link to this thread,,, nice car BTW Location Western NC, after alot of other places

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival PPosey #8613356 02/23/14
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota N northern_dave OP Campfire 'Bwana
OP northern_dave Campfire 'Bwana N Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota	The original owner of this car.... has been looking for this car. The second owner of the car got in contact with me yesterday (after lots of leg work). He was the second owner, it was his first car (he got the car slightly used in around 72). The original owner contacted him and the search ran forward from there. I got a lot of history on the car during our conversation yesterday, and I expect a call from the original owner soon. It was his first car as well, he was the first owner, and it was his first car..... And I have it, 45 years later, in restored condition. What are the chances? To be continued. Something clever here.

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northern_dave #8613377 02/23/14
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 47,257 Likes: 13 south texas-Corpus Christi stxhunter Campfire 'Bwana
stxhunter Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 47,257 Likes: 13 south texas-Corpus Christi	cool God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival stxhunter #8613397 02/23/14
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota N northern_dave OP Campfire 'Bwana
OP northern_dave Campfire 'Bwana N Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 35,293 Minnesota	It was very cool, Iowa car. Lots of drag racing at a little 8th mile strip I guess, the white paint job was out of necessity to disguise the car after a wild night of shenanigans. It was an overnight color change, an honest to god "we need this car to be a different color before the sun comes up" story. The murals came later on, eventually the car went into storage, it basically slept through the 80's entirely. Miles are supposedly actual. Can you imagine? Your first car? You track it down after 45 years. Amazing that it's still here, not crushed and recycled into a honda civic... It's still here, and it's back to it's original color... still has original engine, trans, everything. That doesn't happen every day. No sir. Something clever here.

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northern_dave #8613426 02/23/14
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 5,749 Likes: 1 North Carolina C colodog Campfire Tracker
colodog Campfire Tracker C Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 5,749 Likes: 1 North Carolina	With all the sentimental attachments and your restoration work that's a pretty valuable ride! Heck, with no sentimental attachments that's still pretty valuable. You thinking he may want it back?? It just seems he's gone to a lot of effort after all this time to find it again. A buddy has a blue '68 RR, they're "Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend." Isak Dinesen

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival northern_dave #8613492 02/23/14
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 18,215 OK Deerwhacker444 Campfire Ranger
Deerwhacker444 Campfire Ranger Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 18,215 OK	There's your new business model.. Tracking down an owners first vehicle and restoring it to original specs...for a tidy sum of course...

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival Deerwhacker444 #8613587 02/23/14
Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 10,958 Likes: 7 B bbassi Campfire Outfitter
bbassi Campfire Outfitter B Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 10,958 Likes: 7	It could be a new History channel mega-hit. They say everything happens for a reason. For me that reason is usually because I've made some bad decisions that I need to pay for.

Re: 1969 Roadrunner revival bbassi #8613832 02/23/14
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,452 north central PA S shootinurse Campfire Outfitter
shootinurse Campfire Outfitter S Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,452 north central PA	Really cool story, Dave. "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard

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