Had my R/T out this week-end...

richRTSE · June 22, 2009, 12:39:28 PM

Had my '69 R/T out this weekend, and while we were on our way to my daughter's soccer tournament in Avon Lake, Ohio I saw this in my review mirror on I-480 at the Stearns Rd exit. We went in different directions, so I never got to talk to the owner. It was B5 (or maybe B3?) with a white stripe. I'm pretty sure the car belongs to one of the local news casters in the area, and I believe it is a clone. My wife only got one picture, but it was a nice looking car.

Anyone know the car/owner?

69bronzeT5 · June 22, 2009, 12:55:43 PM

All I know is that car is SWEET

hemi68charger · June 22, 2009, 01:00:02 PM

Cool image in the rear view mirror............... Wow !!!!

I bet that was an eye-opener when you looked in your mirror and low and behold, a Daytona behind ya.

pettybird · June 22, 2009, 01:28:35 PM

so dumb question which car is yours? i can't tell by color. I live at 480 and Tiedeman rd with the blue Superbirds.

the car is definitely a clone and it's done well. I don't think the guy's a newscaster, though. either that or i don't watch his program!

richRTSE · June 22, 2009, 01:39:46 PM

My car is black with white R/T stripe. It's an R/T SE, originally triple green stripe delete car. I've had it around 8 yrs. I think I've met you a couple times. I know I remember the superbirds. You used to live over by the kiddy park?
I used to drive a '70 Charger 500, red with black top and a black sixpack hood. I still have it, but it's in pieces right now. Here's a picture of my car...

tan top · June 22, 2009, 03:59:17 PM

nice looking Charger Rich

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nascarxx29 · June 22, 2009, 04:35:04 PM

Let me think a newscaster with a B5 blue daytona .Could be Gary Mendelow the same guy I got a 69 charger 500 for sometime ago

moparmendy · June 24, 2009, 01:44:55 AM

hey rich, great pic is right!!! ...that was crazy that you were on the road going by the german club car show on father's day..300+ cars and the "blue car" as my young kids call it got a top 20 people choic award!...in a way you are all right...the car is a clone and i was tv sportscaster in the area for 5 years on cbs 19 woio...changed careers and now i am in financial services..i am working at lorain national bank..
anyway, great car and i would like to meet you and talk about my idea of a local charger club..are you interested??your car is beautiful too..
drop me an email if you want...garymendy@yahoo.com

moparstuart · June 24, 2009, 08:39:18 AM

Quote from: moparmendy on June 24, 2009, 01:44:55 AM
hey rich, great pic is right!!! ...that was crazy that you were on the road going by the german club car show on father's day..300+ cars and the "blue car" as my young kids call it got a top 20 people choic award!...in a way you are all right...the car is a clone and i was tv sportscaster in the area for 5 years on cbs 19 woio...changed careers and now i am in financial services..i am working at lorain national bank..
anyway, great car and i would like to meet you and talk about my idea of a local charger club..are you interested??your car is beautiful too..
drop me an email if you want...garymendy@yahoo.com

very cool

richRTSE · June 24, 2009, 06:04:07 PM

Quote from: moparmendy on June 24, 2009, 01:44:55 AM
hey rich, great pic is right!!! ...that was crazy that you were on the road going by the german club car show on father's day..300+ cars and the "blue car" as my young kids call it got a top 20 people choic award!...in a way you are all right...the car is a clone and i was tv sportscaster in the area for 5 years on cbs 19 woio...changed careers and now i am in financial services..i am working at lorain national bank..
anyway, great car and i would like to meet you and talk about my idea of a local charger club..are you interested??your car is beautiful too..
drop me an email if you want...garymendy@yahoo.com

Gary, congratulations on the award!

Sorry I missed the show. I sent you a message (pretty long).

Rich

Long Island RT · June 24, 2009, 08:41:35 PM

Jeez I must really like Black...
Rich - You're charger looks absolutely awesome!

richRTSE · June 25, 2009, 07:57:36 AM

Thanks Long Island RT. Everything they say about black cars it true, but they sure look nice when they're clean.

Hey Gary, have any pictures of your car you can post?

69 OUR/TEA · June 25, 2009, 03:35:52 PM

Quote from: richRTSE on June 22, 2009, 01:39:46 PM
My car is black with white R/T stripe. It's an R/T SE, originally triple green stripe delete car. I've had it around 8 yrs. I think I've met you a couple times. I know I remember the superbirds. You used to live over by the kiddy park?
I used to drive a '70 Charger 500, red with black top and a black sixpack hood. I still have it, but it's in pieces right now. Here's a picture of my car...

Wow!!! it was changed from a nice color combo like that

I geuss I like the new combo though.

Nice car Rich !!

Sergeant · June 25, 2009, 07:06:17 PM

Excellent looking car. Can you add some more pictures of it?

moparmendy · June 25, 2009, 09:51:18 PM

i have tried..how do you resize a pic..they are all saying mine are too large?

bearbqd · June 25, 2009, 09:59:33 PM

Pretty easy to resize with this site.

http://www.resizr.com/

Sergeant · June 25, 2009, 10:21:12 PM

If you can mail me the pictures, I can resize them for you and send them back

moparmendy · June 26, 2009, 05:50:43 PM

just tried again with the resize site..
send me an email..and i will send you the pics!

pics have been sent to below and should be on shortly, thanks!

Sergeant · June 26, 2009, 06:33:21 PM

Ok sent ya an email. Ya may want to remove your email from the post above before it gets picked up by different spam bots.

Sublime69 · June 27, 2009, 12:17:32 AM

That's an awesome pic of the Daytona behind you.

And that's a sweet Charger Rich, I love the black with the white stripe.

moparmendy · June 27, 2009, 03:16:49 AM

here are some pics of my dayclona!

moparmendy · June 27, 2009, 03:18:35 AM

b-5 baby!

moparmendy · June 27, 2009, 03:27:56 AM

my kids simply call her "the blue car!"

moparmendy · June 27, 2009, 03:32:23 AM

thanks for the help in posting these

moparmendy · June 27, 2009, 03:38:05 AM

thanks for the help in posting these, site seems very particular...

nascarxx29 · June 27, 2009, 06:27:17 AM

Car looks great nice work you did

.Spotted at this event.Tires and chrome magnums are similar .Difference I see is stripe color on this B5 daytona.
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,19608.0.html
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,7984.0.html

Sergeant · June 27, 2009, 11:53:16 AM

Looks friggin awesome.... Im jealous

moparmendy · June 27, 2009, 01:55:18 PM

thanks a bunch...took 6 years and bunch of chasing..and i met the right guy to help me..
you have to will these projects to conclusion...
now i am working a charger convertible..
have also found the right guy to help...
great people in the hobby and mopar side of it..
very greatful..

tan top · June 27, 2009, 03:06:19 PM

Quote from: moparmendy on June 27, 2009, 01:55:18 PM
thanks a bunch...took 6 years and bunch of chasing..and i met the right guy to help me..
you have to will these projects to conclusion...
now i am working a charger convertible..
have also found the right guy to help...
great people in the hobby and mopar side of it..
very greatful..

damn !! awesome job

nascarxx29 · June 27, 2009, 03:47:35 PM

Turned out really nice congrats.It was on a cover of some Ohio auto type magazine.There was another well done daytona clone in Canada as I recall in ? Q5 .that was unreal like yours in detail

nascarxx29 · June 27, 2009, 04:45:58 PM

moparmendy · June 27, 2009, 05:37:18 PM

thanks for posting and for your help along the way too!

nascarxx29 · June 27, 2009, 05:41:43 PM

Thanks Gary

that make all my efforts I invest in this hobby worth it

hotrod98 · June 27, 2009, 06:17:49 PM

Looks good. I like B5 wing cars.

Should have painted my Daytona clone B5.

richRTSE · June 28, 2009, 10:22:25 AM

Gary,

Your car looks awesome!

Hopefully I'll get to see it before the summers over. I like the non-console 4-speed look. Are you planning on going to Columbus in August for the Nationals? or Norwalk in September for the Chrysler Classic?

moparmendy · June 28, 2009, 10:44:49 AM

was planning on quaker steak tonight..we'll see...probably just take the truck to those spots and buy parts and stuff..not a lot of point to having it sit in the field....thanks for the compliment, you really have showstopper too.
are you going to the bay village show? thursday this week.

richRTSE · June 30, 2009, 12:15:06 AM

Gary,

No, I won't make the Bay Village show. I work afternoon shift, so anything during the week is out for me.
If you do make it to Columbus, I'll be in the club parking area with a bunch of guys from Moparts.com, stop by if you get a chance. Last year was the first year I drove the Charger down (usually trailer it) and we had a blast all weekend.
I was just looking at the pictures of your car again and noticed some of them look like they were at Walker Park. Kinda funny, that's where I was going on Father's Day when I saw you.

69bronzeT5 · June 30, 2009, 01:43:04 AM

That Daytona is FRIGGIN' BEAUTIFUL

moparmendy · June 30, 2009, 07:04:05 AM

thanks for the note above...she came out nice..not perfect, but pretty darn nice..
rich, tell me more about where you'll be at the nats?

i am not familiar with the club parking lot???
thanks

Dave Kanofsky · June 30, 2009, 08:05:42 AM

That is a gorgeous car you have there!

Any chance you are going to Talladega with it in October?

richRTSE · June 30, 2009, 10:49:40 AM

Gary, Here is a map from last year showing where the club parking is. For some reason, I think it's wrong and we ended up parking where the arrow is. I know we were pretty close to the fence/grandstands.

richRTSE · June 30, 2009, 10:52:13 AM

Here's the small group from Cleveland that goes down there with me...

hotrod98 · June 30, 2009, 11:12:37 AM

While at the Nats, be sure and check out this 67 GTX hemi, 4-speed car that I just finished for Joe Pittman. It's supposed to be displayed in the "Multiple Carbs Tribute" section. It's a matching numbers, rust free, all original sheet metal car.

richRTSE · June 30, 2009, 11:17:32 AM

I'll keep an eye out for it Larry. I've always liked the '67 X's and R/Ts.

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