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A movie-pedigree Eleanor tribute, a one-of-503 NASCAR homologation Daytona, and a heavily customized Road Runner all crossed the same Mecum Las Vegas stage in one weekend, selling for a combined $995,500. Each car represents a different reason bidders pay six figures instead of five — provenance, rarity, or pure taste. Watch to see which one drew the fiercest bidding, and which one is still splitting opinion in the comments.
This 1970 Plymouth Road Runner was bought to be wrecked on camera — positioned as the car Letty rolls in Fast and Furious. The crash scene never happened, and the car disappeared until builder Jamie, who got a Road Runner tattoo at thirteen, brought it back as what one host calls one of the best restomods he’s ever filmed. See how a movie stunt double became a driver’s car.
Plymouth built the 1970 Superbird specifically to win Richard Petty back from Ford, and only 135 of the 1,920 cars built that year got the 426 Hemi under that towering nosecone. This particular car belongs to Mike Fitzgerald, who bought it in 1972 and still gets emotional describing its restoration. Read on to find out what it took to bring one of the rarest aero cars back to factory-original condition.
Earle’s Classic Cars tracked down a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner — 383 big-block, 4-speed, one-year-only styling — abandoned outdoors in Canada for decades, exposed to freeze-thaw cycles far harsher than a typical Southern barn find. Viewers call it heartbreaking to see sitting in the weeds. See what decades of Canadian winters actually did to this big-block survivor.
A handful of factory Mopars slipped through Mecum Kissimmee 2026 for prices that left the room stunned — a letter-series 300 for around $30,000, a 440-powered ‘Cuda, a Coronet R/T one viewer called the best deal of the weekend. Dealers noticed first, and they’re already marking these cars up. Which ones got away, and what should have sold for twice as much?
Frank Chicherchia owns one of the very few Mopars Chrysler built a genuinely strange factory hood for, and outside its Dodge Super Bee twin, nobody else got one quite like it. Underneath that fiberglass panel sits an engine Chrysler cooked up to poach buyers who wanted more than a 383 but weren’t ready to pay Hemi money. Read on to find out what made this hood different from every other muscle car hood Detroit ever built.
Legendary Motorcar’s Dream Car Garage tracked down a pristine 1969 Plymouth Road Runner for a segment that still draws comments from people who owned one the first time around. The story behind the car runs deeper than its cartoon-licensed horn: a no-frills muscle car built to undercut its own siblings on price, and the rare A12 “Six Barrel” package that made it one of the most feared cars at any stoplight. Watch to see why the Road Runner still commands this kind of loyalty decades later.
A 1967 television commercial for the Pontiac GTO sold horsepower the way modern car ads almost never do – through swagger, identity, and a voice actor’s delivery that viewers are still praising decades later. One commenter even traces BMW’s Ultimate Driving Machine slogan back to what Pontiac was already doing here first. Watch to hear the pitch that built a legend.
Buried inside the largely forgotten 1994 film F.T.W. is a car chase sequence that has taken on a life of its own online: a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner driven hard through real stunt work rather than sanitized for the camera. Viewers in the comments zero in on the Shaker hood and the rare 440-cubic-inch four-speed combination, calling it one of the best-optioned Road Runners ever put on film. Watch the full clip to see genuine period-correct Mopar muscle pushed to its limits.
The 1968 Plymouth Road Runner was built to bring performance back to buyers who could not afford a GTX, which makes the 426 Hemi option one of the strangest contradictions Detroit ever offered. A stripped-out car with rubber floor mats and a cartoon bird on the fender could be ordered with the most feared engine in America. Car and Driver clocked one at 13.54 seconds at 105 mph straight off the showroom floor. Read on for what that combination actually cost and how few buyers took it.
Plymouth built just 2,128 Road Runner convertibles for 1969, and only 769 came with a four-speed manual behind the 383. This one’s got both, plus the Air Grabber hood and a full options list that shows exactly how fast Road Runner buyers dressed up Plymouth’s bare-bones performance idea. Here’s the full story behind the rarest configuration of the model’s debut convertible year.
By 1973 the Road Runner had a five-mile-per-hour bumper, a catalytic-converter-ready exhaust on the horizon, and horsepower ratings that had switched from gross to net. It also had a 440 four-barrel and the last 340 small block Chrysler ever built. This is the year everyone skips, and it is the year that quietly offers the best value in the entire Road Runner run.
1974 marked the final year Plymouth built the Road Runner on its original mid-size platform, with engine options still ranging from a mild 318 up to a 440 big block wearing GTX badges. Production had fallen to 11,555 cars, down from 19,056 the year before, as the muscle car era wound down. The Road Runner nameplate held on one more year on the larger Fury-based B-body before being reduced to a Volare trim package in 1976.
Plymouth built the Road Runner on a contrarian idea: strip out the luxury everyone else was adding, keep the price low, and let an enormous engine do the talking. Sales projections were in the low thousands. It sold forty-four thousand in its first year. Read on for the cartoon licensing deal, the horn that cost ten thousand dollars to develop, and the mid-year option package that turned a budget muscle car into a Hemi hunter.
Chrysler had a problem in 1968: the Plymouth Road Runner was selling so well that the Dodge division was watching the money go past its own showroom windows. The answer arrived at the Detroit auto show wearing a bee on its tail and carrying the lowest price tag in the Dodge lineup. Only 125 buyers ticked the one box that turned it into something else entirely. Read on to find out which one.