New Pure Stock car added to the team

[njsteve]

Keep in mind with Mopars, if you didn't order it with an option, they didn't build it with the option. The tachometer was definitely an extra cost item, so was the radio and most likely the heater, too. So they are not deleted items. It's kinda like saying a 6 cyl Satellite has a hemi delete option.

Awesome car by the way. I love that QQ color. Have you run it yet?

[MultiMopars]

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Keep in mind with Mopars, if you didn't order it with an option, they didn't build it with the option. The tachometer was definitely an extra cost item, so was the radio and most likely the heater, too. So they are not deleted items. It's kinda like saying a 6 cyl Satellite has a hemi delete option.

Awesome car by the way. I love that QQ color. Have you run it yet?

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I was just about to write a similar post.

I really gets me to see the term "radio delete" because of what you just stated. It was an option, you don't "delete" it, you just don't ORDER it. The heater WAS standard equipment so you could delete "it."

Yeah, everyone thinks they have a 1 of 1 when it comes to Mopars. Galen Govier is guilty of promoting this because he keeps a registry of KNOWN BY HIM cars that he gives statistics of how many of them are optioned as such and MAY be 1 of 1 KNOWN BY HIM. He certainly does not have all the KNOWN cars in his registry.

As I said earlier this is a NICE car, however the 1968 Hemi RR was the single largest number model car with Hemis installed at the factory of ALL cars built with a factory Hemi.

[mfchassisworks]

Really the cool part about the car is the low miles, perhaps the lowest 1968?. I've heard there is a 69 with fewer miles. I have some cool DAY2 pictures of the car in race trim. Stickers and all!! I will post them soon. Also It was ordered with 4.56 in the trunk.

[MultiMopars]

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Really the cool part about the car is the low miles, perhaps the lowest 1968?. I've heard there is a 69 with fewer miles. I have some cool DAY2 pictures of the car in race trim. Stickers and all!! I will post them soon. Also It was ordered with 4.56 in the trunk.

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Maybe.

My 66 Hemi car had 3661 miles on it when I bought it. It had never been titled and was bought new to race.

The 4.56s make sense for racing as the standard gears for a Hemi were 3.23s for an auto car and 3.54s for a 4 speed. No other gears available in a 68 factory installed. 1969 started with all the factory packages that could get you as low as 4.10s.

My 66 has 4.56s also and these cars definately need gears, distributor recurve, carb tweaking for Pure Stock. The Hemis have the advantage of the closest thing to headers with their factory stock manifolds.

Good luck.

[442w30]

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Keep in mind with Mopars, if you didn't order it with an option, they didn't build it with the option. The tachometer was definitely an extra cost item, so was the radio and most likely the heater, too. So they are not deleted items. It's kinda like saying a 6 cyl Satellite has a hemi delete option.

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My tongue was in my cheek, as there's no way to figure out if a car is 1 of 1 except in rare circumstances. Looking at the big picture, this car doesn't seem terribly unique other than being a nice Hemi RR.