Exterior Color: Yellow
Interior Color: Black
Transmission: Torque flight 3 speed automatic
Vehicle to be offered for Auction sale January 16th – 20th, 2013 at Russo and Steele's 13th Annual Scottsdale Arizona Auction. Please contact us for more information. Spearheaded by Plymouth Division’s Bob Anderson, Joe Sturm, and Jack Smith, the Belvedere-based Road Runner was a bare-bones muscle car inspired by Car and Driver magazine’s Brock Yates. Aimed straight at the fast-growing youth market, built to a price under $3,000 and mandated to produce 14- second quarter-mile ETs at 100 mph, the car was a runaway success exceeding the most optimistic forecasts to generate sales of nearly 45,000 units for 1968. Emblazoned with Warner Brothers’ famous coyote-evading cartoon bird and complete with an outrageous “Beep-Beep” horn, the cheeky Road Runner tapped into America’s counterculture. At once, the Road Runner transformed Plymouth’s once-stodgy image and redefined the American muscle car concept. In recognition of its success, the Road Runner was named Motor Trend Car of the Year for 1969. Since Plymouth controlled some 50 per cent of America’s police cruiser market during the late 1960s, Road Runner engineering was relatively straightforward with an abundance of heavy-duty parts and underpinnings available for the car’s midsize B-body platform from the Plymouth parts bin. The Road Runner’s standard 383 cubic inch engine received many upgrades from Chrysler’s 375-hp 440 V-8, including the big brother’s cylinder heads, camshaft, and windage tray. These items, along with an unsilenced air cleaner and a four-barrel carburetor, resulted in the Road Runner 383’s strong output of 335 hp and 425 pounds-feet of torque. Easy to maintain and docile on the street, the Road Runner 383 turned into a beast simply at the command of the driver’s right foot. Fast, fun, and surprisingly affordable, the Road Runner continues to captivate legions of muscle car fans today, just as it did during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Finished in Sunfire Yellow with a black vinyl top and black performance hood stripes, this outstanding 1969 Plymouth Runner is fresh from a painstaking and complete “nut and bolt” rotisserie restoration to original specifications. A rare matching numbers car including the engine and transmission, it also retains its original California “black plates”. In addition, the original 383 Road Runner engine and TorqueFlite automatic transmission were rebuilt to original specifications and operate as new. Sensible upgrades include the addition of disc brakes for improved stopping power and electronic ignition for enhanced reliability. Retaining its original build sheet and data plate, all of the Road Runner’s original parts are present, numbered, and date-coded from the radiator to the original carburetor, the date-coded original bumper jack, and all hardware in between. Attractive, authentic, and complete, this 1969 Road Runner is, simply put, a proper “no excuses” example and a truly outstanding find in today’s collector-car market.
Interior Color: Black
Transmission: Torque flight 3 speed automatic
Vehicle to be offered for Auction sale January 16th – 20th, 2013 at Russo and Steele's 13th Annual Scottsdale Arizona Auction. Please contact us for more information. Spearheaded by Plymouth Division’s Bob Anderson, Joe Sturm, and Jack Smith, the Belvedere-based Road Runner was a bare-bones muscle car inspired by Car and Driver magazine’s Brock Yates. Aimed straight at the fast-growing youth market, built to a price under $3,000 and mandated to produce 14- second quarter-mile ETs at 100 mph, the car was a runaway success exceeding the most optimistic forecasts to generate sales of nearly 45,000 units for 1968. Emblazoned with Warner Brothers’ famous coyote-evading cartoon bird and complete with an outrageous “Beep-Beep” horn, the cheeky Road Runner tapped into America’s counterculture. At once, the Road Runner transformed Plymouth’s once-stodgy image and redefined the American muscle car concept. In recognition of its success, the Road Runner was named Motor Trend Car of the Year for 1969. Since Plymouth controlled some 50 per cent of America’s police cruiser market during the late 1960s, Road Runner engineering was relatively straightforward with an abundance of heavy-duty parts and underpinnings available for the car’s midsize B-body platform from the Plymouth parts bin. The Road Runner’s standard 383 cubic inch engine received many upgrades from Chrysler’s 375-hp 440 V-8, including the big brother’s cylinder heads, camshaft, and windage tray. These items, along with an unsilenced air cleaner and a four-barrel carburetor, resulted in the Road Runner 383’s strong output of 335 hp and 425 pounds-feet of torque. Easy to maintain and docile on the street, the Road Runner 383 turned into a beast simply at the command of the driver’s right foot. Fast, fun, and surprisingly affordable, the Road Runner continues to captivate legions of muscle car fans today, just as it did during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Finished in Sunfire Yellow with a black vinyl top and black performance hood stripes, this outstanding 1969 Plymouth Runner is fresh from a painstaking and complete “nut and bolt” rotisserie restoration to original specifications. A rare matching numbers car including the engine and transmission, it also retains its original California “black plates”. In addition, the original 383 Road Runner engine and TorqueFlite automatic transmission were rebuilt to original specifications and operate as new. Sensible upgrades include the addition of disc brakes for improved stopping power and electronic ignition for enhanced reliability. Retaining its original build sheet and data plate, all of the Road Runner’s original parts are present, numbered, and date-coded from the radiator to the original carburetor, the date-coded original bumper jack, and all hardware in between. Attractive, authentic, and complete, this 1969 Road Runner is, simply put, a proper “no excuses” example and a truly outstanding find in today’s collector-car market.