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My 70 year old mother still takes her 1969 roadrunner that she bought new in 69 out for a hard run on nice days, Dad rebuilt everything a few years ago but kept everything factory spec,,,,, thinglooks new

Almost bought a '69 Road Runner back in the day. It was a hair out of my price range at $2500.

Ended up "settling" for this one. Dad found a screaming deal for me at $1200. It is exactly as mine was, except mine was a 350, not a 396. Oh, and the flip headlamps.

OO, I had a lot of the same reaction about that GN and the V6 - until - in the early 90s I got the only Ford I've ever bought. It was a 3.8 V6 - but with a great supercharger, lots of boost and a 5 speed manual trans. That 89 Supercoupe was very, very fast - and nimble. Wonderful road car, especially for the many uncluttered open roads in the SW. I always ran "Z" rated tires on that thing.

My 70-440 Cuda

Purchased from a friend in 2000

Black Imron with cherry pearl and gold metalflake. If you look close you can see the cherry hue on the rear quarter panel above the rear wheelwell, and it transitions in the right light to a gold metalflake rootbeer color, acting similar to Chameleon paints.

I took off the STR-14 3-2 manifold to drive it the 200+ miles to Hot august nights, the original ( to the purchase) chromed air cleaner is huge, but I never did get the sixpack to work right so I put a big 4bbl 930cfm on it for the drive, 9 mpg going from 500 feet to 6000+ doesn't sound too bad.

This was a fun car

The year I graduated from high school (1974) I bought a '69 383 Roadrunner for $800 from a city cop who lived around the corner. Even had a new Ice Blue paint job.

About two years later when I was stationed in upstate NY, I picked up a '69 Camaro SS350 in Rallye Green with a white vinyl top and a white interior. Same price. Those were the days!

Boy Howdy, they sure were. You can't even get a sniff of these cars for less than $30K these days.

Character of that magnitude does not roll out of the American auto industry anymore.

Tell the truth...you runnin moonshine in the white Fury...

Selling the 65 fury111 was a mistake, I pulled the engine ( 440) and sold it with the 4:30 suregrip and push button transmission for $600. It was a blast to drive, but I picked up a 74-360 Challenger to put the 440 in, but still need to put that back together.

But I also have regrets selling my first Hemi car, a 1957 imperial 4 dr, then sold a 1960 Sanger V drive with a Mondello built 392 hemi also, but both were sold to buy the Cuda.

Met a guy at gas station once who's daily driver was a FuryIII like yours only a wagon. Bad old car, unrestored with no rust, white with red interior and red stripe inside the chrome trim on the side. Had a mean sounding exhaust and I think a set of Cragar mags. Can't remember what engine he told me it had in it but I know it wasn't a 318.