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Plymouth built the Road Runner as a bare-bones budget muscle car for 1969, then midway through the model year quietly dropped in a 440 Six Barrel engine and a fiberglass hood under the A12 option code. This Vitamin C Orange example, sourced from the Brothers Collection, represents one of the most aggressive running changes of the entire muscle car era. Few A12 cars survive with this level of documentation. See what made the mid-year package so different.
Dennis Ermi has owned this 1968 Plymouth Road Runner since 2009, but the car that rolled through Wisconsin’s World of Wheels show barely resembles what he started with. A 472-cubic-inch big-block making roughly 1000 horsepower and a custom Pearlescent Orange paint job turned it into Old Runner. Hear Dennis explain the build in his own words.
Muscle car or pony car — the two get treated as interchangeable, and most of the time nobody notices the difference. Car Throttle breaks down where the terms actually came from, why a mid-size Chevelle and a compact Mustang aren’t technically the same species, and how a handful of big-block pony cars blurred the line for good. It’s the kind of debate that gets people talking at every cruise night. Watch to see which side of the argument you land on.
Plymouth needed an answer to the Pontiac GTO, and in 1967 they built one by dropping a standard 440-cubic-inch, 375-horsepower Super Commando V8 into a dressed-up Belvedere and calling it the GTX. Unlike most muscle cars of the era, buyers didn’t have to option their way up to big power – Plymouth handed it to them standard, with the fabled 426 Hemi waiting as an upgrade.
Plymouth licensed a cartoon character’s name and horn sound for a production car, then built an entire ad campaign around selling speed without the luxury price tag. This period commercial for the 1970 Road Runner captures the muscle car boom at its confident peak, years before insurance hikes and emissions rules changed everything. It’s a glimpse of exactly how Plymouth wanted buyers to see the car the moment it hit showrooms.
A Dodge Charger and a Plymouth Road Runner — two of Chrysler’s most storied B-body muscle cars — squared off in the latest matchup from the Search for Speed amateur racing league. One built its reputation on style, the other on stripped-down value, and both have loyal followings who’ll argue their case at any car show in America. Watch to see which Mopar cousin came out on top.
The 1969 Plymouth B-body lineup packed four distinct personalities — Belvedere, Satellite, Road Runner, and GTX — onto a single shared platform, and mixing them up is easier than most Mopar fans want to admit. SuperBeeRegistry breaks down exactly what separates a budget Satellite from a numbers-matching GTX, badge by badge and engine option by engine option. It’s the kind of detail that turns a car show guess into a confident answer. Watch to see if you’ve been misidentifying one all along.
Plymouth built the 1968 Road Runner to be cheap and fast, then let buyers pile a $714 Hemi on top of a car designed around a stripped-down budget pitch. Only 1,019 out of roughly 45,000 Road Runners built that year got the big engine. Here’s why so few buyers took Plymouth up on its most contradictory option.
Spy photographers caught a camouflaged Mustang prototype hiding a supercharged V8 back in 2017, and the internet spent years guessing what it meant. The answer turned out to be one of the most powerful factory Mustangs ever built. Here’s how those grainy spy shots turned into the 760-horsepower Shelby GT500, and why a new generation of prototypes is already back on the road.