Medina, a 1971 T-code Monaco

ayilar said:
Thank you! Today was a nice fall day, with afternoon temps in the mid-70s: the gauge barely budged even when @sixpkrt and I kept up with the fast traffic on the highway back from the CATL. I put close to 400 miles on Medina this Sunday, she performed like a champ: I think she’s ready for even bigger trips next spring :steering:
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Excellent! Glad you guys had some nice weather and a great time.
 
Medina turned 50 on Nov. 16. For her half-century b-day, I bought her a locking NOS cap (P/N 3583561) from @marty mopar. Here she is, two weeks before her big day, celebrating with friends and family (pic courtesy @71Polara383).

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Out of curiosity, what does that year locking cap currently cost?
Wish I could find one for my challenger. They are 600 bucks plus.
 
cuda hunter said:
Out of curiosity, what does that year locking cap currently cost?
Wish I could find one for my challenger. They are 600 bucks plus.
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Depending on how "original" youd like to go, I got a locking one for my 68 Dart from pep boys, it was Stant brand. I found years ago one for my 70 charger on ebay. I had to modify the cap on the car a little bit to get it to work, but with the cap closed you cant tell. Stant has one for a 74 challenger p/n 10571. But idk if it will work for earlier years. They do list the same part number for a 71 charger, and I believe at that time there were a lot of interchangeable parts between the B bodies and E bodies at that time.
 
Indeed, time flies. Thanks again to @polara71 for alerting me to DH23T1F143293, to @71Polara383 for helping me pick her up, and to @'69FuryIIIConvertible for braving the snow and inspecting this Monaco in Medina, NY during a (very cold) lull in Great Lakes storms, so that I could make up my mind and swoop in right between a snow storm and an ice storm and buy her. Wyatt and I hightailed it out of town right before the ice!

Nick's inspection of/in Medina on January 26, 2019:
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And here she is right before I paid for her and Wyatt drove off with her on February 5, 2019. A few hours later, the place was covered with heavy ice.
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Ripinator said:
The right front tire is dirty. . .
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71Polara383 said:
Blame the guy that painted the stripe on. I dont think that was us.
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The snow was melting that day (ten days after Nick inspected the car) and you can see some wet/muddy spots on the photo I took of Wyatt and the Monaco at Culvert Road under the Erie Canal. So, I can't completely absolve myself (if memory serves, I drove to the Culvert and Wyatt drove back to the seller's house before loading the car -- so if either of us is to blame, it would be me) but the mud seems dry and so the evidence suggests that someone else is indeed to blame for the dirt :)
 
ayilar said:
The snow was melting that day (ten days after Nick inspected the car) and you can see some wet/muddy spots on the photo I took of Wyatt and the Monaco at Culvert Road under the Erie Canal. So, I can't completely absolve myself (if memory serves, I drove to the Culvert and Wyatt drove back to the seller's house before loading the car -- so if either of us is to blame, it would be me) but the mud seems dry and so the evidence suggests that someone else is indeed to blame for the dirt.
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Yeah, yeah. . . Sure, Sure. . .
 
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