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Old 01-08-2003, 11:11 PM
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Default Re: COPO vs M & O Mopar

The 69 six barrel road runner tested in SSDI had 2 drivers an amatuer and a pro, the pro of course was Ronnie Sox who posted the 12.91 et on street tires no headers. By the way, Roland McGonegal was the amatuer, I think Ronnie made 5 passes in the car and Ro made 3, they used the average of both in an advertisement in several magazines in 69, the 12.91 was the best pass of the 8 made during the day of testing, there were several Chrysler engineers on had to help monitor the test, one of them was a carb expert. The 69 6bbl/six pack cars were M code only for 69, in 70 the code changed to V. The 70 cars came with cast iron intake manifolds instead of Aluminum like the 69 cars did. From the 2002 pure stock shoot out I think the Road Runner and Super Bee both gave good account of themselves being a 12.40 for the Bee and I think a 12.8 for the Road Runner both just a hair off the ZL1 and the Yenko but good close racing none the less. It is always good to see these cars doing what they were intended for.
Larry
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