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1970 Road Runner Convertible Saved

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This was one that almost got cut up. It was at Imperial Motors in the Carolinas, Rustfree, original paint, 383 Automatic (trans was gone)Black Bucket seat interior. Purchased it in the mid 80's. Car was later sold & restored.

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Nice save! With only about 824 Road Runner convertibles made for 1970 and even fewer (about 701) Satellite convertibles for 1970, the Mopar hobby can't afford to loose any of the few remaining 1970 Plymouth B body convertibles. And by the way, because they are so rare, I hate to see any of the 1970 Satellite verts or Road Runner verts cloned into something they aren't, like making a Road Runner vert out of a Satellite or a Superbird vert out of a Road Runner. I would like to see all that are left restored to original factory specs.
 
Nice save! With only about 824 Road Runner convertibles made for 1970 and even fewer (about 701) Satellite convertibles for 1970, the Mopar hobby can't afford to loose any of the few remaining 1970 Plymouth B body convertibles. And by the way, because they are so rare, I hate to see any of the 1970 Satellite verts or Road Runner verts cloned into something they aren't, like making a Road Runner vert out of a Satellite or a Superbird vert out of a Road Runner. I would like to see all that are left restored to original factory specs.
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its all bolt on and nothing that cant be changed back . But it will stay this way as long as I live

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its all bolt on and nothing that cant be changed back . But it will stay this way as long as I live

That car is frickin' beautiful!, no harm, no foul there.:grin:
 
the car came from long island and the sea air had taken its tole

The u shape channel that supports the whole rear upper sheet metal on the rear of a b body convertible was rusted away. No one makes it so we had to fab one up from scratch. The rear panel inner and outer dutchman between the rear window and trunk was swiss cheese too . No ones makes them either just the corners . That was a huge job .
 
You did good. Nice save! If you hadn't saved it, it likely would have been lost forever. It does look great, and of course its your car, so you build it the way you want. I do hope that some day it will be a Road Runner (or Satellite) convertible again. But in the mean time you do have a beautiful convertible to enjoy. I'm guessing that there are likely no more than a couple hundred 1970 Road Runner convertibles and maybe 150 or so 1970 Satellite convertibles left in existance. I'm guessing many, if not most, of those remaining Satellite convertibles are already Road Runner clones.
 
The 1970 Satellite convertible was available with everything from a slant six to the 383 4bbl. (no 440 and no Hemi available). Big blocks would be rare though.
In 1970, the Only B-body Plymouth convertibles were Satellites and Road Runners. The GTX and Sport Satellite convertibles were discontinued after the 69 model year. In 69 the convertible was available as a Satellite, Sport Satellite, Road Runner, and GTX. A 69 B-body Plymouth convertible is rare, but not as rare as a 70 convertible.
The Sport Satellite in 1970 was available as a 2 door hardtop, 4 door sedan and faux woody wagon. The Satellite was a bench seat model, the Sport Satellite came standard with bucket seats. The Satellite shared the vertical bar grille with the Road Runner though the tail panel between the tail lights was painted silver on the Satellite, and the tail lights didn't have the horizontal split in them. The Sport Satellite had the honeycomb grille like the GTX and the tail lights were split horizontally like those on the GTX, Road Runner and Superbird. The Sport Satellite also had the rear trim panel painted silver between the tail lights. The Satellite had a full length body molding near the very top of the fender line, while the Sport Satellite had very little side trim other than wheel lip moldings and maybe rocker moldings. Maybe they made some 1970 Sport Satellite convertibles for the export market, but I've never seen any mention of a Sport Satellite convertible in 1970.
 
VIN ID first two digits =

RL would be a Belvedere
RH would be a Satellite,
RP would be a Sport Satellite,
RM would be a Road Runner & Superbird
RO would be a Super Stock
RS would be a GTX
RK would be Fleet/Police
 
Another clue is that the blue interior door panel seen in the photos of the rusty floor, is a blue door panel that was used on the 70 Satellite and Road Runner, but not on the Sport Satellite.
 
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