Well first off the car was 30 years old so anything that went wrong with the car was ages fault in my opinion.
About half of my trunk had rusted before I repared it, half of my rear quarter pannels had rusted out.
The air and heat and defroster never worked when I got it, but that was because the guy before me disconnected it and I removed it all together except for the heat.
One of the freeze out plugs gave way in my driveway a week after I got it from rust and the windshield wiper fluid holder craced from age.
What finally put christene in the showroom in the sky was I couldent afford new tires and my master cylinder was going too and on the way to school in febuary on an s turn in ice I lost it and after trying to correct (AND DOING IT WELL I MIGHT ADD) twice I turned too far out of the skid and the car just slid foreward on my bald tires and hit a tree doing 40 mph. The frame bent and I hit the motor so hard that it knocked the transmission off its mounts and put the rear axle through the gas tank.
That car was my first car and probably my greatest memory to this date. I loved that car more than life itslef.
I was in the long island mopar power club eventhough the car was a work in progress when I had it.
I upgraded the 2 bbl manifold and carb up to a 4bbl 600 cfi holly with an LD4B edlebrock aluminum manifold. I removed all the smog equipment and air conditioning and any other weight the car had to speed it up. added m/t valve covers with valve extentions so I could adjust the valves if need be.. What a beauty it was.
The suspension even for being 30 years old handeled like a dream. chrysler really knew what they were doing with torsion bars.
If you have one of these beauties don't be stupid and leave the car at home untill you can afford some tires and a master cylinder for me please.
A Roadrunner with a 318?
I don't think so.
Smog equipment on a 70?
I could see the sport satellite having a 318 2bbl though.
The guy had a Sport Satellite (same body, no performance) but pretended he had a Road Runner and probably drove it that way.
First of all I wrote this, It was a 1970 Sport Satellite and that is how I submitted the entry somehow it got put up as a Road Runner, but that wasen't my intention. (Same thing essentially except for the front and rear dressings and the performance parts, Same frame, same body, same engine mounting openings in the frame and you could mount a Dana under there very easily. Trust me I thought about it and I knew exactly what I had, it was a family car that looked like a sports car. You could swap all those parts and essentially make it a Roadrunner, what I really wanted was a 69 440 charger (which I did find for 8 grand) that my father wouldent let me buy because he said id kill myself. Looking back he probably was right!!) As things turned out a month before I wrecked it a friend of mine found a 440 4bbl with a 4 speed pistol grip that I intended to put in and would have if I had not wrecked it. (The 318 4bbl was shamefully slow in what was looked upon as a muscle car, trust me I took my fair share of abuse for that!!).I removed all of the PVC equipment because of lack of fittings in the new manifold and valve covers. I messed up and called it smog equip. However I did intend to show the car as being a Sport Satellite with a Road Runner 440-4bbl if I ever did it. Wouldn't you be upset when a kid driving around in a Sport Satellite "Driving it like a Road Runner" ate your lunch for you?
No 2bbl on the runner.
Thanks for letting me know did you read the above?
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