My New Ride

[James Doyle]

After going to Barton Bridge meet the other week and impressed with cars and the friendly vibe I've decide yo join my brother and buy an American I've gone for a 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner 383 in hemi orange, purchasing it from Paul Lawrence in Colchester and he couldn't be more helpful, I'm sure with yhe amount of cars he has you've come across him but can't recommend highly enough.

[Pete]

Welcome!
Very nice and a good choice!

[cadboy]

Good choice and welcome

[James Doyle]

Thank you for your comments I'm very happy needs a little doing to it headliner rear bumper chroming and upgrade to disc brakes but my cars are drivers not concourse as I want to get out behind the wheel and not worried about stone chips.

Hope to be at the next meet in it

[Stu]

Looks good, welcome to the club.

[Blue]

Like it!

[Charger]

hello there , nice car , great colour

[Mark B]

Great looking car. And Hemi Orange .

I got my car off Paul too. He was right, 100% rot free car. Very honest and easy to deal with.

[James Doyle]

Mark is that your orange challenger absolutely love them such an iconic car but I love all American cars really.

[Mark B]

Yep. A Roadrunner’s iconic too.

[Steve]

Hi James....what a stunning car. Looks very straight and glad to hear you will be using her. Love to see more pics if thats ok please?

Cheers Steve

[James Doyle]

Thank you for the kind comment , she turns heads but still needs a little work will be at oulton next weekend I've attached the complete picture folder with everything in ot needs a boot floor but that's it for rust thankfully.

[James Doyle]

more pics

[Steve]

Thanks for the pics, she really is a beauty. Looks very straight and original. My stupid fixation on all things original says debadge the battery and apply a Mopar battery decal kit, painted valve covers and an original aircleaner but she is great as she is.

Love the colour coded steels and dogdishes, a great look. Satin black wheels are great to in my opinion but that look and stance you have is just superb.

Im sure you have a list of stuff you want to do to keep her running well but if you havent considered it, I would recommend splitting your bulkhead connector and spending a good afternoon cleaning it all out (both sides) and packing it with Dow Corning dielectric grease. You wont regret it as they are a bit of a weak point.

Just looking at the pics, does she have electronic ignition? I ask as I can see the ballast resistor is bypassed but theres an old style black voltage regulator. If you are still on points, a good upgrade is to GM style HEI (again just my opinion). Its easy to do and relatively inexpensive. A few people have had issues with Mopar period style electronic ignition modules, hence the GM suggestion.

Another good idea is to do a bulkhead bypass in the charging system (plenty of instruction on here) and also to convert your headlights to a relay system. You can make this up with just a couple of relays and some new wires. Just takes the headlight power out of the switch / dash and the switch is just used to trigger the relays.

Im very average at best with stuff but managed all of these conversions with help from the experts on here.

That bulkead connector can be a big problem point so if you only do one thing, I would suggest a meticulous clean etc.

Would love to see some pics of her out and about as and when you get a chance and once again, a superb car!!!!

Cheers Steve

[Charger]

James, just putting 2+2 together here, I might have got 5 … ??

Is this your brothers Barracuda?? Was at Barton beginning of June …



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