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Tim Wellborn built one of the deepest private Mopar collections in the country, including a genuine NASCAR Daytona raced by K&K Insurance and a limelight-green Hemi four-speed he refuses to restore. When Rocket Restorations’ Tom mentioned he was a fan of the channel, Tim didn’t just say thanks — he flew him down for a personal tour and a drive. Watch to see what fifty years of collecting looks like from behind the wheel.
Plymouth built only 824 convertible Road Runners for 1970 before killing the body style for good. A clean survivor hardtop, featured in a recent walk-around, carries all the same oddball 1970-only details: a licensed cartoon bird, a vacuum-actuated hood scoop, and a facelift that lasted exactly one model year.
Somewhere out there is a 1970 Road Runner that looks like a steal – low price, “runs when parked,” a seller who swears it just needs a battery and a little elbow grease. What that ad rarely mentions is what four or five decades of sitting actually does to a Mopar: a seized engine, a carburetor gummed solid, brake cylinders welded shut with rust, and a frame that may have taken a hit long before it ever went into storage. One shop’s rebuild of a Road Runner wrecked back in 1977 and parked ever since shows exactly what that repair bill looks like in real time – and what to check before you fall for the same “it just needs a little work” pitch.
Plymouth only offered this exact combination for a few months before moving on, which is precisely why the A12 Road Runner remains one of the most talked-about mid-year muscle cars ever built. Wearing Vitamin C Orange paint straight from The Brothers Collection, this particular 440 Six Barrel car represents a stopgap Chrysler engineered on the fly to answer a very specific rival. Watch to find out what problem this car was actually built to solve.
When Dennis Ermi bought this 1968 Plymouth Road Runner in 2009, it needed serious paint and engine work before it earned the nickname “Old Runner.” Today it runs a supercharged 472 cubic-inch engine producing roughly 1,000 horsepower under a pearlescent orange-and-black finish. One commenter recognized himself standing next to it in the video and left a promise instead of a caption: “till death do us part.”
Muscle car. Pony car. Most enthusiasts use the terms interchangeably, and most of the time nobody calls them on it. This breakdown draws an actual line between the two categories — one built around a big engine stuffed into a mid-size body, the other built around an affordable, sporty compact platform that started with the 1964 Ford Mustang. The difference turns out to matter more than you’d think.
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.
A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner dealer commercial, built for the drive-in and packed with 440 Six Pack, pistol-grip shifter, and Air Grabber hood details, has been quietly making grown adults tear up in the comments more than fifty years after it first aired. One owner has kept his original example running for thirty-seven years. Another still remembers exactly who lost a street race to one in 1972. Watch to see why a two-minute car ad refuses to be forgotten.
A Dodge Charger and a Plymouth Road Runner faced off in the amateur Search For Speed league, and the fight wasn’t really about horsepower — it was about which Mopar nameplate has earned the right to more respect. Viewers spent as much time debating the Charger’s eligibility as they did praising the Road Runner’s looks, turning a quarter-mile grudge match into a full-blown argument about muscle car authenticity. The burnout told its own story.
Plymouth’s 1969 B-body lineup put the Belvedere, Satellite, Road Runner, and GTX on the exact same platform, yet gave each one a completely different personality, from budget cartoon-branded performance to Plymouth’s self-styled gentleman’s muscle car. This feature walks the full range, explaining what actually separated a base Belvedere from a Hemi-equipped GTX. Watch to see all four side by side.
Plymouth expected to sell about 20,000 Road Runners in 1968 and moved more than twice that, building a muscle car around the radical idea of removing everything a buyer did not need. Fewer than one in forty buyers paid the $714 premium for the 426 Hemi, which cost roughly a quarter of the car’s base price. This restored blue example carries that exact rare combination. Read on for why the cheapest Mopar got the most expensive engine.
A camouflaged Mustang mule caught testing on public roads turned out to be hiding a supercharged version of Ford’s 5.2 litre Voodoo V8. Three years later the production Shelby GT500 landed with 760 horsepower, no manual gearbox, no convertible and no sunroof. Here is what the spy shots were actually pointing at, and why Ford made every one of those decisions on purpose.