Has anyone here got my old car?

[Richard Cranium]

Although I don't know the VIN, it shouldn't be too hard to trace down; red interior with manual trans, brakes & steering (although I converted it to power steering). Non matching engine number & I can't remember about the transmission number.

[Aero426]

Scott Spirakes in Chicago has an R4, red interior with a stick.   Can't be many with that combination.   Was yours R4 or V2?

[Richard Cranium]

It was R4.

[moparstuart]

wasnt r-4 not recommended to have red interior ? wouldnt that have to be special ordered   

[BigBlockSam]

i like that red interior

[A383Wing]

i like that red interior

I like the whole friggin car

[hemi68charger]

         WOW !!!! RC (for the lack of knowing your name), that thing is/was awesome.. What a combo.............. I've never seen one R4/C6R with a fo-speed...

[nascarxx29]

You dont see many red on red daytonas

[nascarxx29]

Found in old 79 club records fits the description

[Daytona R/T SE]

i like that red interior

I like the whole friggin car

[held1823]

When would you have owned it?

the paddock cover car has been in this area for a very long time. Bruce and Christine Carmichael have owned the car for many years. (I last worked with Chris about four years ago, but cannot imagine they would have sold it since then). Prior to their ownership, the car sat next to a small barn west of town for as long as I can remember (back into the 1980's). When Dad asked about buying the car back then, it was not for sale. No idea what circumstances changed, for the Carmichaels to be able to obtain it.

[tan top]

i like that red interior

I like the whole friggin car

good pictures RC thanks for sharing 

[Richard Cranium]

When would you have owned it?

I can't remember the exact year, but it was around 1990-92. I bought the car for about 13 grand & the engine was junk; It burned more oil than gas. Since it was .060 over & not the original block, I tossed it & got another. A couple years later, prices started to go up & I threw it in Hemings just for the heck of it & sold it for 22 grand to a guy in CT who drove to my house in MA in the middle of snowstorm to collect it.

The fenders had been replaced & I drilled the holes under the scoops. The car needed quarters, fenderwells & trunk floor extensions & at that time, aftermarket parts weren't available. So weighing the option of doing the car over or just cashing out, I chose the latter. At that time I thought I had hit the jackpot. What little did I know. 


I believe that the car was R4, but did they make a slightly deeper red also in 1969?

[Aero426]

R6 is the deeper blood red color.

[Richard Cranium]

I think that might have been it, but  almost 20 years later, I'm not 100% sure.

[Aero426]

Your car was definitely not R6.   R6 is much darker.    Even with old photos playing tricks, you can't mistake it.

[XS29LA47V21]

Cool car, great old photos.  For what it is worth I think the photos indicate R4 also, note the engine compartment photo with some of the orange traits of R4 that flops at times to orange tones, especially at night, R6 is a true deeper red. 

[hemi68charger]

Your car was definitely not R6.   R6 is much darker.    Even with old photos playing tricks, you can't mistake it.

I agree.. I good friend of mine has a R6 '69 Charger R/T and it's much darker.....

[Aero426]

This is what R6 looks like.

[nascarxx29]

RC mentioned his daytona was in hemmings.I do recall a daytona ad Attleboro MA.Might be able to find the ad and info on it if thats that car

[Richard Cranium]

Yep, that's where I lived at the time.

[MoparManJim]

Maybe what the car needed was this?   

 

Sorry, I just couldn't resist.   

[69_500]

When would you have owned it?

the paddock cover car has been in this area for a very long time. Bruce and Christine Carmichael have owned the car for many years. (I last worked with Chris about four years ago, but cannot imagine they would have sold it since then). Prior to their ownership, the car sat next to a small barn west of town for as long as I can remember (back into the 1980's). When Dad asked about buying the car back then, it was not for sale. No idea what circumstances changed, for the Carmichaels to be able to obtain it.

Actually it only set out west of town for about 2 years in our yard. Before that we were actually in the town of Fortville and it set in the yard there too. There was a total of 5 daytona's in the yard once we moved out west of Fortville. I have been over to Bruce's a couple of times to see the car. They still have the car. I have tried several times to buy the car but to no avail. My Dad sold that car to them in 1986.

[held1823]

thanks. that better fits the car's background that i was trying to put into a few sentences, but mine didnt come out clear regarding the time frame. i remember the car being there not long after i graduated (1983), and was trying to convey it was not likely the same one that RC owned, unless he had it in the 1970's.

at the risk of derailing this thread, two daytonas were bought new by local owners, one being an f6 440/4speed (from goeke, noblesville) and the other a b5 440/auto (farthing sales/rushville). several other daytonas, and a few superbirds, have been here over the years. even with the presence of a chrysler plant in town, its amazing how many wing cars were found around this immediate area over the years. it was at that plant where i used to work with chris.

[nascarxx29]

I think Steve Klein out of Connecuit had a red on red daytona at one time.Maybe he was the guy who came out in the snow storm