Ok im back/Mopar story

Last year I sold My 1969 RoadRunner and bought a 73 Dart Sport. I got a lot of flack about that at the time. Guys were saying how I wa taking a step back and how could I trade a B Body for a A body. And about how a RoadRunner IS a real muscle car and A bodies are not etc......

I never really liked that RoadRunner got it as a spur of the moment thing ....wife said she wanted kids I said no kids before I get my car :) if we do kids first I will NEVER see a car becuase she would say we dont have the $$$$......she agreed to let me get the car first......in a hurry to get a car before she changed her mind :) I basicaly picked up the first Mopar I came across that looked like a good deal. I got the RoadRunner....but never really fell in love with it and just never really liked that body style(not B bodies but just the RoadRunner I love the 71 RoadRunner and 68-70 Chargers etc).

So when I found out my wife was getting laid off from work it came to me pretty easy to sell the RoadRunner to pay off some bills so we could make it on just my check alone. Well after getting the RR mostly restored I actually made enough off its sale to have a little $$$ left over. So that sat in the bank till she got lucky and immediately(she just had the weekend off) found a new job. After that She told me not to worry about the extra $$ and go get something.

Well it was definately NOT enough for a finished B Body but......My wifes dad had just got a SMOKING deal on a 1970 Coronet R/T 440 completely done needing nothing Burnt orange on Burnt orange white R/T stripe White top capable of 12.9-13.2 on BFG radials(from the time slips in the glove box) Govier documented(papers also in the glove box) every nut and bolt was accounted for in the paperwork 3 years ago at Carlisle he paid $11,500 cash for it :) all he has added since is a set of Torque Thrust D's(im place of the magnum 500's) and new BFG tires......

Well he just happened to have a 73 Dart Sport that he said he could not drive 2 cars at once....so a Deal was done for the Dart Sport. Its a Much better driving car than the RoadRunner was, its just as fast. Ive always liked the Demon/Dart/Duster style and the 340 that is in the car runs sweet too. From what I saw at Carlisle this year and what they wanted for junk 1/2 as nice as the Dart Sport is I got a deal at $4500 for the car(after seeing the prices at Carlisle in certain the Dart Sport would bring 2X its purchase price). Nice thing is all ive had to do to it in 2 years now is general upkeep/maintainance and thats it. So do I look back and miss the RoadRunner some ask.....? Not on your life! I've got a car now I like even better!