All 100 1969 Plymouth Road Runner Trouble Shooting cars identified!

[69hurstSC]

It took a lot of research and confirmation paperwork but I've been able to identify the 100 cars that were sent to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 1969 Trouble Shooting Contest. I've been reaching out to current owners of these cars and informing them of what they have. They've all been thrilled to know they have a piece of Mopar history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGWoEamHeQs&t=2s

[66cayne]

very cool! anyone here have one? Also, I wonder what the fault was that needed to be fixed on all 100 in the contest and who the winners were?

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by 66cayne

very cool! anyone here have one? Also, I wonder what the fault was that needed to be fixed on all 100 in the contest and who the winners were?

My old mechanic buddy participated in one. His had a dummy condenser in the distributor that was inert: no spark. Another car had a flat piece of gasket with no holes in it, for a carb baseplate gasket: no fuel/air flow.

[flyingn]

in my high school in 78, our auto shop team tested to be in the Chrysler trouble shooting contest. We as a team did not score high enough to move on to do the actual hands on., They were Aspens from what I remember

[lbnaz]

I competed in the 1973 Tucson event through Pima College our high school had sent us there since we did not have an automotive program. We finished first working on 72 Duster's but got disqualified because I forgot the gasket between the carb and the air cleaner. You pop the hood the carb was in a bag and had wiring and spark issues. I was carb guy and other guy was wiring. Car started drove around the track but disqualified. The instructor was pissed.