History

Ron Slobe, the owner of R&R, traveled all over collecting rare Mopar parts and cars for his collection/yard. This Road Runner was bought from guy in Texas that had bought and sold many cars over the years.

The cars home had apparrently been Texas all along. The trail gets real cold real quick when trying to trace the car before the guy who sold it to R&R.

From paper work recieved from the Texas DMV I can go back to '78 or so. That name, unfortunately, is that of a women. The odds of tracing her are very remote. The Texas DMV has no records before that... period.

The curiousity is killing me about this cars past and I'll tell you why. In the upper corners of the windshield are stickers similar to inspection stickers. These stickers are dated 1972 and are some sort of border access stickers issued in Reynosa, a common border crossing town in south Texas. Also, under the black paint on the rear bumper are two bumper stickers from an agricultural fair in Nuevo Leon,Mexico, 1973. While cleaning out all the crud I found 4 coins, all Mexican.

This cars original color is B5 with a B5/B7 interior but some one went to a lot of trouble to paint everything black. There is black paint in places that are very difficult to reach, but its there, and I mean everywhere, on the headliner, dash, all interior trim, everywhere. I posted a plea for help with all the on-line Mopar clubs in Texas that I could find. One response was from a fellow who used to live in south Texas and worked for a bodyshop for years there. He said that they received "thft recoveries" regularly completely painted exactly the way I descibed. I guess a car would be stolen in or taken to Mexico and disguised by a total, quicky paint job.

I will continue to do what I can to track down little pieces of information with the hope to at least pin down where the car was sold originaly.