This is my Pittsburgh-Themed 1974 Plymouth Roadrunner.
About this Mopar:
This garage is for my Pittsburgh-themed 1974 Plymouth Roadrunner. This car was purchased by a Marine at the Chrysler Overseas Sales Office at Danang, Vietnam and was picked up at a Chrysler-Plymouth dealership in Buffalo, NY when he returned to the US. He took the car to Jacksonville, NC while he was stationed at Camp Lajeune, NC. The car went through several owners in the Jacksonville, NC area until it was purchased by the father of a young Marine who had been wounded by an IED in Iraq, and working on a car was recommended as physical therapy. The father picked up the car and brought it to Hawthorne, FL where he worked on it with his son. The car was originally a 318/Auto B5 Blue/B5 Blue car, but at some point over the years the 318 was replaced with a 360. I purchased the car from the Marine in 2013 after he decided he needed an off-road 4x4 truck more than a muscle car. The car had been damaged in a severe storm. The windshield had been shattered, the fenders damaged, and the passenger-side quarter dented when a tree fell on the car.
My wife and I wanted to buy the car after years of hearing how expensive getting an old Mopar back on the road is. We wanted to prove that it could be done with ebay, Craigslist, forums, and common sense and set a budget of $8,000 to get a car bought and back on the road. The rules were we could do all the work that any Average Joe in a garage could do, but we had to farm out more complex things like engine rebuilding or paint and body. The car had a good body except for the tree damage. It had no interior aside from two bucket seats of unknown origin and a back seat. The car ran and was driveable, and all the lights worked, which was a plus.
We've done a complete color change to black/black, replaced the interior, replaced the 360 with a 440, and the 8.25 rear with an 8.75.
My wife and I wanted to buy the car after years of hearing how expensive getting an old Mopar back on the road is. We wanted to prove that it could be done with ebay, Craigslist, forums, and common sense and set a budget of $8,000 to get a car bought and back on the road. The rules were we could do all the work that any Average Joe in a garage could do, but we had to farm out more complex things like engine rebuilding or paint and body. The car had a good body except for the tree damage. It had no interior aside from two bucket seats of unknown origin and a back seat. The car ran and was driveable, and all the lights worked, which was a plus.
We've done a complete color change to black/black, replaced the interior, replaced the 360 with a 440, and the 8.25 rear with an 8.75.
