'72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

General Mopar Related Conversation

Moderator: Site Administrators

Post Reply
ILUV72RRs
GTX (RS)
Posts: 226
Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:47 pm
My Cars: 1972 340 Road Runner, 1972 400 Road Runner

'72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

Post by ILUV72RRs » Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:17 pm

Hey guys. You seldom get to see a '72 RR with the optional M25 rocker panel mouldings along the bottom of the car. Check out ebay # 230576082176. As you can see. They're totally different than '71 GTX rocker panel mouldings. There was a guy last year on ebay who was advertising a yellow '72 RR 340 "Rare GTX" model (?) which someone had put '71 GTX mouldings on the car. No, not 440. 340!!! He bought it from someone, and thought it was the real deal. Yeah, it was a real 340 RR. but not a GTX.

User avatar
72RoadRunnerGTX
GTX (RS)
Posts: 594
Joined: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:44 pm
My Cars: 1972 Road Runner/GTX
1972 Satellite Sebring
1972 Satellite Sebring(big block parts car)
Location: Seattle, Washington

Re: '72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

Post by 72RoadRunnerGTX » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:16 am

Mine had them, the moldings are stored away somewhere, they would need extensive finish restoration before I would consider reinstalling them. Left the belt moldings off as well, any trim/molding held in place by screws requiring holes into rust prone areas of steetmetal, I can live without. The 72' version rocker molding is held in place by stud and clips for the most part with a screw at each end. If I ever put them back on, they will converted to stick-on, no holes.
Image
Image

72Satellite440
GTX (RS)
Posts: 166
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:13 am
My Cars: 1972 Plymouth Sebring plus
Location: Ontario, Canada

Re: '72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

Post by 72Satellite440 » Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:44 am

Awsome mouldings - those are pretty rare
72-SaTeLliTe440-Dan

Moparlar
GTX (RS)
Posts: 214
Joined: Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:05 pm
My Cars: 71 drag car, 72 440 6pack roadrunner my kids have a 71 gtx clone
And a roadrunner clone

Re: '72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

Post by Moparlar » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:37 am

My 6 pack car has those on it. I have collected 5 of those mouldings to make sure I have 2 good ones to put on the car.

On another note, do those tank stripes look correct. The ones that were on my 72 Light blue car actually tailed off a little to match the wheel opening not all square as those are. I bought that car in 1985 long before anyone made repo stickers for them, but a lot of the decals i see are square like this.

Larry
1970 440 6 pack 4 speed Superbird
1971 drag car
1972 440 6pack Roadrunner

User avatar
471Magnum
GTX (RS)
Posts: 534
Joined: Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:16 pm
Location: Evansville, IN

Re: '72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

Post by 471Magnum » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:25 pm

I was going to bitch about all the black paint under the hood and in the trunk of that Ebay car.... and then I noticed it was a factory TX9 car. Guess I should be bitching about the blue paint! :lol:
-Jim
"I can fix it... my old man is a television repairman... he's got the ULTIMATE set of tools... I can fix it."
Image

ILUV72RRs
GTX (RS)
Posts: 226
Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:47 pm
My Cars: 1972 340 Road Runner, 1972 400 Road Runner

Re: '72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

Post by ILUV72RRs » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:29 pm

If you bought your car back in 1985. Chances are yours probably were the correct decals. Although there was a source for repro decals back in 1985. The repro guys take the easy way out, and make them squared on the ends. The one I get an amusement about is that there's someone out there who sells them without the space in the middle. So they look like one big track, instead of two. This guy at a car show swore up and down they were correct on his car. Which it did not come with them originally. Fortunately there were two other cars there for him to look at that were done correctly. Guess it probably didn't matter that much. As he put black stripes on a black car. So they didn't stand out that much. It was an original '72 RR/GTX 4-speed car. I saw this blue RR at the Spring Fling Mopar show one year. He said that it's painted Viper Blue. No, that's not a Dana rearend under the car. It's a 9 1/4" rearend.

71440 gtx
GTX (RS)
Posts: 1036
Joined: Tue Nov 25, 2003 2:34 am
My Cars: 71 gtx 71 340 duster
Location: I am here, or is it there? GIF image (animated, 49 frames)

Re: '72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

Post by 71440 gtx » Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:52 am

a 1971 ssp come with M25 rocker panel mouldings
and they are not same as 71 gtx too :beer:
71 gtx 440 4speed air grabber blue on blue with white vinyl roofOption cassette player


Plymouth's gonna getcha!
There are 3 things that will live forever, cockroaches, Keith Richards, & slant 6

User avatar
Dave
Site Admin
Posts: 844
Joined: Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:37 pm
My Cars: 71 Plymouth Road Runner (Project Blue Bird)
71 Satellite Sebring Plus (383/2bbl/auto)
Location: Cleveland, OH
Contact:

Re: '72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

Post by Dave » Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:18 pm

Yea, that 71 SSP pieces are very close to the same width as the GTX ones, but have a completely different style. Here's a quick shot of the leading end of the passenger side from my SSP.
10.jpg
10.jpg (28.26 KiB) Viewed 8977 times
Dave
Founder - The Road Runner Nest

71 Plymouth Road Runner (Project Blue Bird)
71 Satellite Sebring Plus (383/2bbl/auto)

1972rrgtx
Satellite Coupe (RL)
Posts: 4
Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:30 pm
My Cars: 1972 Roadrunner GTX
Location: SE PA

Re: '72 Road Runner M25 Rocker Panel Mouldings

Post by 1972rrgtx » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:27 pm

I am new to the Nest. I have a 72 RR GTX which came with the M25 molding. My moldings are in pretty bad shape. Does anyone know where they can be restored?

Post Reply