Re: 69 hemi road runner
That's a lot of really bad rust there. Unless the original engine comes with the car and you do sheetmetal work yourself and have the NOS body panels already, I would pass on this one. You will be double-upside down in terms of expenses versus actual value long before the car is halfway done.
Just from the photos, it needs a trunk floor, all interior floors, full quarters, trunk weatherstrip channels, trunk drop offs, rear window filler panel, doors...
Looks like the area on the rear trunk weatherstrip channel where the partial VIN would have been is already rusted away and gone. All those pine needles are a very bad sign. That stuff is like acid when it is allowed to sit on the car and hold moisture.
On the plus side, the VIN tag and rivits look legit and not monkeyed with.
As for the manual drum brakes on these cars - the fact that they had them has far more to do with the expense of the power disc brake option package than any rumors of it being intended as a drag car. Depending upon the model, the hemi engine could have been close to a $900 option. That left little room for anything else if you were on a budget back then. And if I recall correctly, to get the power disc, you had to order the Super Track Pak which included a bunch of other mandatory options raising the option price higher still.
|