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A homemade video shot at a small Michigan dragstrip in 2001 captures something the big-budget car shows almost never do: what grassroots Mopar racing actually looked like when nobody was performing for a camera crew. Pat Muscle Car Fan’s footage from Ubly Dragstrip is a time capsule of a scene that shaped how an entire generation of Mopar owners learned to race.
A retired drag racer, a beat-up project car, and a continent he’d never driven across probably wasn’t the recipe anyone at Plymouth had in mind when they built the 1973 Road Runner. Al Young drove his Road Runner through Europe and the former Soviet Bloc three separate times, turning a fading muscle car nameplate into an unlikely international traveler. Read on to find out how a detuned ’73 Mopar ended up touring a continent.