Plymouth Road Runner

That means it's Jay and Joe's Motor Monday, the day we look at horsepower one Monday at a time.

Now, you know, when we think about the muscle cars of the 1960s, well, names like the Pontiac GTO or the Plymouth Roadrunner, Chevy Chevelle, well, they often come to our mind.

But let's not forget the cars that were the bread and butter of the American automobile market.

Full-size family cars like Chevrolet's Impala and the Ford's Galaxy.

So right now I have...

Well, I, I guess I have a '69 Plymouth Road Runner right now-

Mm-hmm

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But yeah.

Um, Bosco said his favorite car is a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner.

I don't even know what that is.

That's a muscle car.

A customized 916th box-in wrench from, oh, about 1978.

And I had a 1970 Roadrunner 446-pack car that, well, yeah, I kind of wish I still had it now.

It was a real, honest-to-God, V-code, super-track-pack car worth, oh, who knows nowadays.

Yeah.

And it went to Roadrunner Heaven in 81 or something like that.

Anyways, the wrench came in really handy when I put an aftermarket clutch in the car and I put a Lakewood steel bellhousing on it.

And it was already real tough to get to one of the bolts properly.

wasn't the only one.

He was a mechanic, and he taught me basically how to work on cars and change transmissions and build motors and all kinds of stuff.

Well, I had a '73 Plymouth Road Runner was my first car, and he loved that car 'cause he had a Road Runner too back in the day, but now he had, had a Charger.

So he helped me, you know, fix transmission on it.

We were really good close friends, drinking beer all the time when we were young and stupid.

And, you know, the Roadrunner was so popular at the time, it also became a highly coveted Mopar Roadrunner.

Plymouth Roadrunner, next to the Charger, was one of the most famous cars.

Still are.

They're worth a fortune.