1969 Hemi Road Runner Clone F.A.S.T.

I'm listing this here for my buddy who has the car listed on ebay. This is without a doubt, the best sleeper I've ever seen. It has made 10sec passes on the factory reproduction bias ply tires. The car has been displayed at the Chrsyler heaquaters, as well as the Walter P Chrysler Museum and part of many mopar performance displays at Mopar Nationals and Woodward. Its evey bit as nice as it looks in the pictures and even more so.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=290333978115
 
Posting the listing on the front page of my site now :D

He needs to include MANY images of this car in his listing.
 
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if you are referring to dave dudek, no its not. this car was competitive with both of the dudeks cars before they stopped racing it. As far as I know the car hasnt been raced since summer of 2005. As a reminder it was the first FAST car in the 10s and the first FAST car to break the 130mph barrier and it did it in 2004.

In the ebay listing theres over 100 photos of the car, along with videos of the build and a few passes the car has made.
 
if you are referring to dave dudek, no its not. this car was competitive with both of the dudeks cars before they stopped racing it. As far as I know the car hasnt been raced since summer of 2005. As a reminder it was the first FAST car in the 10s and the first FAST car to break the 130mph barrier and it did it in 2004.

In the ebay listing theres over 100 photos of the car, along with videos of the build and a few passes the car has made.

DOh, I thought it ended after the first video. Guess the page was taking a long time to load first time - looks good :cool:
 
No, this car was and did it in september of 04 at milan. The following week was the Year One Bash in Athens Georgia. There was much drama at play here, and basically the main reason the car stopped racing. The car made an 11.07 pass hard on the brakes for at least the last 100 ft, but had a problem, during the 30 mile cruise it burned up distributor cap. During the tech inspection, this was the most stock appearing car within the rules, everyone was bitching about the aluminum heads that were on the car at the time, but this car was one of the originators of the series, and wasnt built for the series so it had been grandfathered in to be allowed to use the heads. The other racers with aftermarket oil pans, non standard fuels, non standard pulleys and other stuff were bitching about these heads. The non bias tech inspector put a magent on the heads and it stuck because the aluminum had been spray welded on the outside, and he said "good enough for me" the second time the wanted to tech the car, but the year one organizers decided to not let the car compete. Just to put this car in perspective, its the biggest car, the heaviest car, and runs very mild compression compared to ther cars, and was at the time, the quickest, and still one of the fastest, the fastest car now, is only doing 133, 5 years later, and its an L88 vette with 14:1 compression, and nearly 800 pounds lighter.

basically it was everyone else trying to push them out at the event, because no one else was even close to being that quick, i think the fastest cars there were running in the 11.1x area around 125mph. and everyone saw the shakedown pass on the brakes.

http://moparmuscle.automotive.com/83996/mopp-0502-1969-plymouth-road-runner/index.html

first in the 10s, and first to break 130mph

The rules at the time were 100% stock appearing, besides brakes, and roll bars as dictated by safety speeds. No gauges above the dashboard. No nitrous, 1 tire size wider than factory, very mild sounding, ie no lumpy idles. although there were many guys who were very lumpy. there was also a rule about fuel, but i cant remember the exact details, but there guys who were mixing some very potent additives to keep their shit together, although they kept buring through pistons........

the thing was about those heads, is they were a mopar performance casting, so the casting was identical to the iron factory casting, so within the rules they looked stock, and passed tech inspection.i could go on and on about major violations from other racers but, the fact is, this was the first car to run 10s and break 130. while being the heaviest.
 
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Yeah Dudek. But now that I'm thinking about it wasn't his car black? That Challenger of his was bad ass. Dave was working at the same place as me but I haven't seen him in about 3-4 years now.

Nice looks Runner. I know Dave got like $100k for the Challenger so I'm sure this car will pull some big coin
 
If you worked with Dudek do you know Jack Irons? I'm still waiting for an email back from Daren who listed it, but I know its a lot less than 100k, much less. Dudeks old car was a purple cuda with a white roof, and white interior. IIRC he's racing his dads roadrunner and I dont know what color it is now, it used to be red, but im sure its been painted since then.
 
If you worked with Dudek do you know Jack Irons? I'm still waiting for an email back from Daren who listed it, but I know its a lot less than 100k, much less. Dudeks old car was a purple cuda with a white roof, and white interior. IIRC he's racing his dads roadrunner and I dont know what color it is now, it used to be red, but im sure its been painted since then.

Yeah Jack works there too. Detroit axle. Those guys are skilled trades. I'm just a grunt worker. I never saw Daves E-body just heard about it. I seen the Runner once at Ubly. Think he made 2 passes and broke the motor. I've seen pictures of the Runner at his work station. Cars bad azz on that little tire. Someone should right a book on how those cars are built. I've heard a few ways to save weight but not sure if it was true or not. Like a small battery inside of a hollowed out stock looking battery. Pretty slick ideas for sure
 
Yeah Jack works there too. Detroit axle. Those guys are skilled trades. I'm just a grunt worker. I never saw Daves E-body just heard about it. I seen the Runner once at Ubly. Think he made 2 passes and broke the motor. I've seen pictures of the Runner at his work station. Cars bad azz on that little tire. Someone should right a book on how those cars are built. I've heard a few ways to save weight but not sure if it was true or not. Like a small battery inside of a hollowed out stock looking battery. Pretty slick ideas for sure

haha ya, most of the stories are true, my favorite is the 5 gal fuel cell on the top of half a gas tank. theres guys with nothing inside their dash panels, im pretty sure daves new car has about 10 stages of acid dip on it lol.

iirc what happened at ubly was a valve lock pulled through the retainer but the valve got wedged in the spring somehow and mangage to not do any damage

a book would be sweet. if you could get everyone to come clean. i think it was 131 in 03 where a guy with a small block nova almost won, but near the end someone pointed out the fact he had non stock exhaust manifolds on the car and he got dq'd. it was the only small block car that was competitive.
 
Yeah I've heard about the acid dipping too. It's just crazy the $ spent on these cars to get them to run on that bias tire. This is just like back in the days of grumpy jankins with all the ideas these guys come up with to cheat and not get caught. Really cool stuff for sure. I know a guy with a GN that is the same way. Very stock looking and stealth. It runs like mad too
 
thats what made this class so exciting, was that competitive edge driving everyone to go faster, and it was all unexplored areas, where no one was doing this yet. im going to go out on a limb here and say that this car was making more power 4 years ago than anyone who is still racing this class is today.
 
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