TRICK AND TREAT

AFTER WRECKING HIS ’66 BELVEDERE in a fit of youthful exuberance, Rich Fairservis of Jeffrey City, Wyoming, bought a gently used late-model 1969 Plymouth Road Runner from McMahon Motors in Rawlins. It was a fairly basic machine: A big four-barrel 383 was under the hood, the TorqueFlite 727 was column-shifted, and it was painted F8 Ivy Green. Once he was out of school in the summer of ’72, Rich moved it along in favor of a powder-blue 318-powered Plymouth Duster. Within months, he regretted making the change. A quarter-century later, he managed to track down his old Road Runner — to a barn in Casper, less than a two-hour drive away. The car he looked at was red, with a crunched fender that made it hard to see the fender tag, and it packed a four-speed stick to boot. But a move to the trunk, to peel away the rubber insulation and reveal the factory green paint, convinced him that it was the right car. Later, he would discover that the engine wasn’t original anymore,