Worse is a nice old solid classic being “restomodded”.

thanks, yea i have boxes of TQ parts, including bodies. i have had good luck with the 625 Demon but was 'not a fan of the 750, even after tinkering with it. but ive installed them in place of TQ carbs on some Mopars over the years, using the factory TQ fuel line and even mounting factory TQ throttle levers on them for a direct bolt on.

@@Fontanamotorsport since I'm down to only 2 A-bodies and I'm running Carter AFBs (Mopar specific ones) I wound up selling off all my Carter TQ stuff a few years ago. Still were fun to play with. Well welcome to YT land... lol. I'll shout out your channel tag you to a few other really good Mopar guy's channels. Great group on here. Nobody is too serious, most of us just here to have fun. And of course there's always a bad egg or two. But I've been at this off and on for the past couple of years. If you're willing to hustle, you'll move up fast. I'm kinda like, meh, I gotta day job and stuff, so I make vids when I can. Looking forward to more videos from you!

thanks! yes, that trim is impossible to find, i was missing 2 pieces of it when i got the car and had to scavenge them from my original 72. the clips are pretty impossible to find also. will check your channel out!

Yeah, most of us would have a nice mix if we won the Lottery. Mopar guy, but there would be a four speed El Camino in the garage, if only……

Awesome! What color is yours?

@@Fontanamotorsport 2013 Dodge Daytona Blue with a Tri-Color Black stripe on the hood.

Did yhu ever build it ?

@@treyhardy9205 I'm pulling the 318 this weekend and am waiting for the block and heads to come back from the machine shops. Once I get the bottom end assembled, I'll plug it in and play. I'm hoping to get it ready to go by this fall!

Agree, my original one was picked up for 300.00 in 82 by my mother, a couple of guys from England bought it when the flew into California and used it for a 4 week road trip across the country and when they got done with it they sold it to us in Connecticut, was a rust free clean car

Thanks! Yes, its a very misunderstood carb…… even Buick guys will use them (1000 cfm TQ)in place of the Q-Jet .

Cool… well the back story is, the car was given to me by my uncle in 1989 3 years after he got it from my mother. In 1990 my mother decided to take it away from me since it was still “her car” (was still in her name) and we had a family friend that had 60 acres on top of a hill, so thats where she “hid”it…. In 1999 i was going to pull it back off the hill but to my surprise the dirt road up the mountain (around a mile long) was washed out badly from a tropical storm we got in 1998.so like kept going and in 2012 , I went back east to visit and me and my buddy hiked 1.5 miles thru the woods to the car, i almost didnt find it ,it was so over grown with trees….. so when i saw how impossible it would be to remove it, i grabbed the tuff wheel, the console and lid and took them back on the plane with me and installed them in this car, so this one has “a piece” of my original car…… when i get in and grab the wheel it brings me back to 82 when i would sit behind THAT wheel and pretend to drive, and when i drove it when i was 15 (illegally) around the neighborhood. Hope that answers your question! I also have a 73 SSP in F8 green with black interior, very rare factory 400hp 4 speed car , that I will be doing a piece on in the next month or so, so subscribe and look for it!

Thanks for sharing that! Really interesting! That's really a shame what happened to it. Sounds like it was more out of spite or something. I mean she already 'sold' the car to your uncle. It's good that you at least have something of it left. I've seen a few of the '71's with 383 HP's and one or two with 4 speeds. The '71 I had was GF3 Amber Sherwood green and had a green bucket interior with a console. It was bone stock when I got it with the 'Brady Bunch' wheel covers. I drove it around for about a year and a half with the 318 and the 14" wheels. I saw a couple 'Regent's which were the 4 door version. I probably should have kept that Red '72 I bought but it was an ebay deal I got burned on and I could never come around to being happy with that car. I could have cleaned it up and restored it but somebody just threw it together to flip. It did have the original drivetrain but around 150k miles. Everytime I start looking for another one the prices get more crazy. You're lucky you got yours when you did. @@Fontanamotorsport

It will never be turned into a Road Runner clone!

Yes, the fuel wells were issues, ive repaired a bunch of the bodies over the years, i have a stockpile of TQ parts and cores ive been collecting for years, since most people have gotten away from them, they get rid of them for nothing. Other than a Accelerator pump every few years this ones been perfect.

I feel the Mopar old car bubble is about to burst. Could be mistaken

Yep! You know the whole story since the beginning! Even the owner of the property cant get their stuff out either due to the growth.

Yeah, regardless whether you drive it, or park it, there's a good chance New England will eventually consume your car. I don't know if you see it this way, but the dreams we had about our first cars were, in themselves, worth all the trouble, even though they never materialized. RIP (rot in pieces), 1967 MGB.; hope parts of you are once more on the road somewhere. Next time I'm adding oil to the thirsty T5, I'll spill a little on the ground for ya. @@Fontanamotorsport EDIT: Of course, yours eventually did materialize. Just not how you planned it.

Correct, as i said in the video.

Yea, that car is inaccessible now, the road that went to it is washed away and the amount of trees that have grown over 30 years is insane…. The car was “rust free” when parked there but when i was up there 11 years ago it had no floors anymore.

mine was built in St Louis.

not a kit, bolts right in where the clock was. hardest part is removing the cluster. just have to run 1 wire from the negative of the coil to the interior to the tach terminal

@@Fontanamotorsport The cluster removal does not look fun. I was considering pulling the whole dash and then doing a rebuild while it's out. Thanks for the info!

no, this and the GTX were built at the same time, in 72-74 the Road Runner could have the GTX package that included the 440, which was only available on GTX and 72-74 with the GTX option. before 71 the Sport Satellite was the same as a 71-74 SSP

@@Fontanamotorsport Slight correction, there never was a “GTX package that Included the 440” or a GTX option that could be ordered for ’72-74. Other way around, if one of the 440 engine options was ordered on a Road Runner the model name changed to Road Runner GTX.

@@72roadrunnergtx yes, but the road runner GTX package came with the 440 since there was no GTX after 72 (no longer a RS , just a RH with the U code) thats what i was saying.

@@Fontanamotorsport GTX package? There was no such thing, engine option only, mandating a model name change. U-coded 2dr Plymouth B-bodies in ‘72-74 have an RM vin prefix, not RH.

yep,its never left the state.

@@Fontanamotorsport had a '66 I purchased and bought/brought out of the state for the First Time in 2003 (I wish I never had!)

thanks! yea, was pretty new at editing when i did this video.

Nah, i will never sell it..its been outside for a bit covered up,I do take it out a few times a year , just not that often. Also no body really wants these cars anyways everyone wants Road Runners..lol

Lmao. It’s a car. My 69 Buick sitting on the curb getting snowed on right now, who cares!!

thanks!