Road Runner Nest

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.

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.

Awsome mouldings - those are pretty rare

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

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!

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.

a 1971 ssp come with M25 rocker panel mouldings
and they are not same as 71 gtx too

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.

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?