Lost 1970 roadrunner, odd story! Please help me on this one! :). REWARD!

[440rr]

First off, 200$ for information on wear abouts or history


In the late 70's my grandfather Stanley Scheel who at the time lived in Portland, sold his 1970 Roadrunner to a gentleman who lived in Vancouver. The man who bought the car from him actually broke his leg (or something close to it) on the way into the bank to get funds for the car!


It was originally a 440 six pack car, but before he sold it he put a single four barrel on it because the six pack kept clogging up for some reason. It was orange with the black stripes down the air grabber hood.


I am his grandson and dearly want to find out what happened to his favorite ride! Was it scrapped way back when or is it still out there somewhere? Contact me with information for a reward! Even if the current owner does not want to sell it, we would love to just know it is still out there!




The registration states that the VIN is PM23V0E142089 but since all Roadrunners started with RM I concluded that a typo must have been made at the DMV way back when and it actually is RM23V0E142089


Thank You!

Nick

 

[Car Nut]

Have you contacted the states DMV where the car was titled. They might have records if the registration is current.

aboard!

 

[snakeyes]

hi and welcome to the site ,good luck in your search :headbang:

 

[Budnicks]

welcome to FBBO
cool backstory
good luck finding Grampa's 70 RR,
you'll need it, especially if it went out of country

 

[super-bee_ski]

Welcome aboard!
Thanks for joining the forum.

Best of luck with your search!
It is NOT an impossible task.

Do you have any pics of the car?
If so, post them.

Also, try contacting Graveyard Carz, Mark Worman may have seen the car in the past!

 

[440rr]

the only shot we can find of the whole car, we have found the nose of it peeking out in a few though

 

[Xp29h]

You stated the car got sold to a man in Vancouver. I searched for the equivalent to dmv and found this:
http://www.icbc.com/about-icbc/contact-us/Pages/Default.aspx

May be a wild goose chase but maybe they could search the vin for you. Good luck!

 

[440rr]

Thanks for the info! I wasn't sure
myself, but I just asked him and it was vancouver washington not British columbia. I totally did try to search the vin because it may have been moved up there, but nothing came up! Thanks friend!

 

[440rr]

Bump. Thanks for all the responses guys

 

[norseman426]

Rm23v0e142089

I currently own this car. It was sold on Ebay to the guy i bought it from. I bought it in a private deal. I have pics but cannot seem to upload them.

 

[ZR9B]

WOW...that is pretty cool that it turned up. cant wait to see the pics!

 

[khryslerkid]

Cool! :happy1:

 

[Seventy]

I currently own this car. It was sold on Ebay to the guy i bought it from. I bought it in a private deal. I have pics but cannot seem to upload them.

ARE YOU SERIOUS? That is cool stuff right there...

I cant wait to see pics of this thing...

Does grand pa have the funds to buy it back, that would be cool, maybe we could raise some money for the old boy, he had to be pretty bad *** back in the day to buy an orange v code runner...

 

[68sprtsat383]

Wow doesn't get much cooler than this

 

[norseman426]

The V code

All I have right now is pics of the tags, as car is currently sitting 5 hours from me at a friends house buried under snow. I bought the car from a guy in Quebec. Like i said he got it off Ebay years ago, and has no idea who he got it from. Car is in a horrible state right now, motor and tranny and most everything else long gone, pretty much a shell. Someone sold the dash and removed the vin tag to keep with the car. I accidently stumbled upon this post by just typing the vin into google. This car will be getting restored the coming summer and sadly will not be for sale for a while. Even seats are gone, so build sheet might be floating around somewhere too.

 

[Car Nut]

Wow doesn't get much cooler than this

x2

 

[RT SE 440]

we have a winner congratulations norseman426 not only do you have the car you now have $200 towards the restorationccasion18:imp_daddy::yaayy::congratualtions:

 

[Seventy]

And you got a cool old pic of your car when she came home!! Man I wish I had a few of them, not to mention the history you can get from the OO!! What dealership, his full name, approximate date of purchase, etc etc etc...

ps pretty well option vcode too, IN THE BEST COLOR, looks like fresh air console bucket car, auto, 4.10 gear, and white stripe, very nice.

 

[440rr]

My grandfather and I would love any pictures you would share with us! What condition is it in? If you can't post them here, my email is [email protected], and I will pm you my cell.

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And we can figure out this reward situation

 

[norseman426]

Just sent ya a pm