(first posted 6/30/2012) When I found this car a few months ago, I really wanted to like it. Truly, I did.
I’ve always been a fan of the ’71 Road Runner (and its Satellite coupe siblings). The Road Runner / Satellite / GTX was new for 1971, and much rounder than the previous generation of Road Runner. As a child of the ’70s and ’80s, I think one reason for this affinity can be easily ascertained. Remember this?
Perhaps I was unduly influenced when I was young and impressionable; it wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened to a youngster. I’m also partial to Dodge’s Monaco of 1977 and 1978 (also seen in the clip, in white), which is a cousin to this Road Runner since the Monaco evolved from the ’71 Satellite sedan.
So why didn’t I like this particular example of the 14,218 Road Runners built for 1971? It wasn’t the near mullet it sported, with the skinnies in the front and fatties in the back. On Road Runners and Satellites of this era, that seems to be as routine as ’57 Chevrolets at car shows.
Was it the color? Far from being anything I would pick, it does appear to be close to “Amber Sherwood Metallic”, which was a factory color in 1971. I cannot imagine anyone choosing this color for a color change, so I’m speculating it might be the original color – dare I suspect even the original paint?
Might it have been the white interior? In these days of gray interiors, seeing a white interior is as refreshing as a glass of sweet tea on a hot day. The white interior was only enhanced by bucket seats with a pistol grip shifter for the four-speed transmission. There is nothing about it I find unsavory.
Did the spoiler ruin the look of the car? It didn’t do the Road Runner any favors in appearance, nor did its visible signs of separation. Still, it wasn’t repellant – nothing that couldn’t be corrected if one was so inclined. It also seemed to indicate a degree of originality, much like the color.
Was it the 400-cu in (6.6-liter) V8 advertised on the front fender and hood “scoops”? I think we have a winner! There was no 400-cu in V8 available in any 1971 Plymouth. If you bought a Road Runner, a 383 was standard and a 440 V8 or 426 “Hemi” V8 were optional. One possibility that comes to mind is that someone at some time modified the stroke of the 383 to achieve 400 cubic inches, but I am skeptical of that theory. My money is on the engine having been swapped at some point. Road Runners were never driven harshly to warrant such a thing, were they?
After further thought, I think I do like this Road Runner. I’m suspecting it may be highly original, a trait that is becoming quite popular – as well it should be! It just needs those dumb 400 stickers removed from its front end.
Here’s a more extensive look at the design (and its influences) of the 1971 Sebring coupe by PN
My first thought was of Daisy in satin hotpants. Amazing stuff for a 12 year old kid as I was when this show was on…
Thought two was of the 1971 GTX I almost bought in 1984. 440 6-Pack, Hemi pistol grip 4 speed, Dana rear end. $1200. Yup, twelve hundred bucks, that’s the one that got away.
Talk about the “one that got away” . . . in October of 1976, while shopping for new wheels, there was a black vinyl roof over orange 1970 Road Runner Superbird . . . . but the dealer was asking $2600.00 for it !! In decent shape, and yes, it had an all-white vinyl bucket seat interior, four-speed pistol grip shifter and obviously, a 440 under the hood. The “Bank of Dad” was financing and the response was a flat out “no.” In hindsight, a good thing as I will be 53 years old this fall . . . . if I had the Superbird, I might not have made it this far.
BTW . . . the ultimate selection that fall of 1976 is the 1974 Ford Courier pictured in my avatar. It too, paid off as lots of girls thought it was “cute” and wanted to go riding in it! Bwahahahaha!!
> One possibility that comes to mind is somebody at some time modified the stroke of the 383 to achieve 400 cubic inches. Yet I am skeptical on that theory. My money is on the engine having been swapped at some point.
It’s very easy to swap a 1972+ 400cid Mopar big block in place of a 383, since externally the engines are identical. Like yourself, I probably wouldn’t have advertised this particular swap with the custom-made engine callout decals though.
BTW, the stroke of a Mopar 383 and 400 are identical. The only difference is the 400 has a larger bore (4.34″), in fact the largest standard bore of any Mopar big block.
The thing I hate about this car is my first thought that it was a green 318 Satellite with a bench seat and an AM radio and those flying saucer wheelcovers. Maybe not, but everyone seems to have found all of those and turned them into Road Runners and GTXs. Grumble Grumble.
Even if a genuine Road Runner, these don’t look right without that bright blue paint that Richard Petty made famous. I recall builing more than one model kit painted with genuine Dupli-Color in that shade (my memory says it was Super Blue, but it has been quite awhile). And white interior was required. To me, this was the car that screamed “The 1970s are HERE.” Clearly, Plymouth was the place where the 1970s were really happening.
The mother of my sister’s best friend was married to a Mopar guy. She had been driving a gold 66 Satellite convertible for several years, and finally traded it on a red 72 Satellite coupe with black buckets and a floor shifter. Truthfully, I always liked the 66 better, but the red one was sure cool in 1972. When she sold it years later (maybe 1980 or so) a family friend bought it for his son. I don’t even rembember what engine it had in it, probably a 318. It was a little newer than my interests ran at the time. I would sure like it now (although I would still prefer one of the pre-71s for its much higher quality subjective feel.)
A final note on these – I am really torn. I can’t decide if I like the 71-72 better or the 73-74. I guess that means I like them all.
I’d take the 71-72 over the 73-74 refresh. I prefer the loop bumpers, and the 73-74s were starting to look a lot like Torinos.
While it didn’t show much, 1973 marked a MAJOR chassis revision for the B bodies. Mostly, a bunch of NVH-reduction that also dorked the chassis stiffness.
I noted this too, in the 1974 Dodge Coronet that I occasionally drove on duty. It was a “low profile” patrol car with “only” a 318 and mostly driven by a lieutenant and its body felt “looser” than the 1972 Satellites still used as non enforcement utility vehicles. The next Mopar B-bodies that department had, after a succession of Fords, were 1976 Plymouth Furies with 360s and their bodies were palpably stiffer.
I had the same thought. I’ve been unable to find any Plymouth coupe of this vintage on the street. Yes, they did herald a new decade quite successfully, and I was pretty impressed at first glance.The ’71 coupe is the purest expression of the loop bumper.
I for one, dug the ’71 “flying saucer” wheel covers, seen on Plymouth Valinats, Scamps, Barricudas and Satellite/Satellite Sebrings (optional, of course). Consumers must not have liked ’em ’cause they were gone for ’72 . . . .
These? One of the best designs ever in my opinion.
One of my favorites!
I had these on my 71 Scamp. I loved them too. These were notable in that they had no car identification on them at all, but were only used for a single year on a single brand – Plymouth Valiant/Duster/Scamp and Satellite in 1971. To me, these were the only covers that really looked perfect on the 71 Satellite. That car just needed these to look right. The covers on the 72 were a step off from perfection.
I think these were also available on low-end Barracudas that year.
Here are some ’71 Satellites with those great wheel covers, for your viewing pleasure.
Makes me think of Mr Mann’s red Valiant in 1971’s The Duel.
Peter Yates underrated film ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ has a 383 Satellite of this vintage which sadly gets wrecked.
According to the window sticker, My dads 71 Satellite had these “deluxe” wheel covers. I was 5 when we got the car. so I dont have a perfect memory. but I do not remember them ever on the car. it always had Mopar Dog Dishes. My guess is they got stolen (he worked in NYC as a port auth cop) and he replaced them with the dog dish caps. The wheels did have evidence of wheel cover hook marks. I still have the spare that was on the car at some point still has the dual stripe firestone.
We really had very little trouble with that car. mostly maintainance, by my dad ordered heavy duty everything Brakes, suspension. Car handled well , decent power. We had the 4 dr Satellite custom , His partner had a GTX
The wheel covers on my ’72 were like these:
http://meadville.craigslist.org/pts/3148598250.html
Far and away the most common I saw on these.
Oh, ’71-’72 hands down over ’73-’74.and not just because I had one.
One of the fugliest cars ever made. Period.
Strikes me as a car very much worth having.
Otoh, had a roommate in Panama with one of these. Seemed like a troubled car. It couldn’t have been later than 75 and I still gave him a lot of rides. His was bright yellow and he never was happy when I called it tweety bird. Appropriate color for a lemon.
Even with that history I like this car. Not a lot of difference between 383 and 400 unless one is really a purist.
Good story
Interesting to note then the short-lived Road Test magazine chosed the Satellite as “U.S. Car of the year” as mentionned in this vintage commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7n_znPqW_k
And here one more vintage commercial transfered to a black and white film featuring Road Runner and Will E. Coyote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_ZORhst9M
The trouble with this generation Road Runner is that it came out after the party was over for the “muscle car” market.
Chrysler’s financial troubles at the end of the 1970s began with the enormous amount of money it spent on sporty coupes in 1970-71. Both its mid-sized coupes and pony cars never came close to living up to expectations. Ironically, the dowdy Valiant/Dart turned out to be Chrysler’s big money maker in those days.
As you can tell by my nick I was a “proud” owner of said rolling pile of loosely associated parts known as a GTX. I am embarrassed to say it was the second one I owned. I also had a 1969 GTX.
Both cars were purchased new from the same dealer. A family friend was the sales manager and we got the cars at true dealers cost plus $100.
The 1969 was IIRC Turbine Bronze and the 1971 was Tawny Gold. Both were 440 4 barrel carb.
The ’69 was a fairly reliable car that was much better built than the ’71. The ’69 was faster than the ’71 because I believe the ’71 440 was detuned somewhat from what the ’69 produced. When they both ran well, which wasn’t often, they were fun to drive.
The ’69 had to be tuned up every four or five thousand miles to keep it running any where close to it’s potential. The ’71 started out bad then got worse.
The night we picked it up from the dealer we went across the street to have dinner. when we got back in it to go home it wouldn’t start. Dead battery. Walked back across the street to the sales guy. He sent a wrecker to retrieve the now dead GTX. Gave us his demo to get home. Came back the next day to pick it up with a replaced voltage regulator and a new battery. After a little more than a year of fried voltage regulators, alternator replacements and never knowing whether it would start or keep running we got rid of it. A lot of the repair attempts were done under warranty and all were done at the dealers. Have never purchased a Chrysler product again except for the ‘ 74 Dodge truck bought at a government auction. It did it’s job well for years.
My 71 Scamp was Tawney Gold as well, so I know exactly what color your GTX was. That would have been a really sharp looking GTX. I never bought any of my Mopars new. Your story confirms my long-held belief that buying a new Mopar in those years was like buying a raffle ticket. Sometimes you won, sometimes you lost. There was assuredly some other guy out there who could truthfully say that his 71 GTX was the best and most reliable car he ever had. The swings in quality were truly frightnening.
Your 71 probably had a bad ground connection or bad connection in the bulkhead connector on the firewall.
Those 400 badges appear to be from a later `70s Firebird. Also, I cannot stand those wheels. Blech.
Pontiac 400 FONT in any case, on Bonnievilles as well. I miss those cars. Even the earlier 68 Firebirds had 400 emblems at times that looked just like this.
“…skinnies in the front and fatties in the back”
This was “Pro-Street” look pushed by Hot Rod, Car Craft, and other mags back in the day. Was just to look like a NHRA Pro-Stock car.
Oh, and “400” seemed to be a popular engine size to brag about, next to 455/454/440. See the CC discussions in the 1970 Caprice 400 post.
“It’s got a 400!”
In Mopar circles the 400 is considered a dog because, by the time the Mopar 400 big block came out (1972) it had low compression and was strangled with emissions equipment. 400’s also came with cast crankshafts, which were not as the forged crankshafts used in almost all 383s. In stock form the Mopar 400 is nothing to brag about.
I like the side profile, but the front end looks heavy with that horse-collar wrap-around “bumper”. A co-worker years ago had a 1973 Satellite Sebring and I wanted to buy it very much, but no-sale.
My dream of owning a pillarless hardtop are pretty much done with, unless I buy a newer Mercedes – which is highly unlikely!
Great looking car, but like any old Mopar it cant take a corner without scraping the door handles and it cant stop without the rear axle wanting to jump off the car. A friend of mine had one of these with all the right gear inside and a 383. It all looked right til ya drove it. Despite that, I’d still have one in a heartbeat. Of all the cars in the early 70’s, this was definitely the mullet of the bunch. Bad ass, as the kids say.
Very true. Rear axles on that vintage Mopar did an early ’70’s version of “at the hop” . . . . there’s one of those vintage road test films on YouTube from 1971 where they test a ’71 New Yorker and they slam on the brakes, the rear axle looks like it’s going to jump out from under the car. . . Step Mom’s ’72 Scamp with 318 required a delicate touch when “accelerating rapidly” off the line as the axle too would dance if you tromped on it. Many experiments were conducted at age 18 to come to this conclusion . . .
Of course they were. To come to a truly scientific conclusion, the result had to be repeatable…
Mopars seemed to be well regarded when it came to wheel hop under hard acceleration, which was by design with the axle located off center forward on the leaf springs where they were less prone to twist, effectively accomplishing what aftermarket slapper bars did on other conventional leaf spring cars like Mustangs, and Camaros. But in typical fashion of the times little thought seemed to be put into what happens when the opposite force is applied, as now there’s an even longer spring section to wrap between the axles and shackles!
as a kid growing up in the 60s and 70s my older brother had several roadrunners,a 1971 wich he went to california to purchase,it was curiouse yellow in color which i like very much and a big fan of that color,it came with a 383 factory motor,we took that out and replaced that with a 440 double 4 barrel,man could that thing run,and he also had 5 other roadrunners,1973s and 1974s,but my favorite was the 1971,i wouldnt mind finding another 1971 to bring back old times,those were the days back then
Pablum. Rick Ehrenberg has a Valiant pulling 1G in a turn, using 100% stock geometry! That car has dusted many megabuck cars using stock Chrysler engineering and parts, down to the brake pads and wheel bearing grease!
His Road Runner handles superbly, despite an all-iron 440.
700-13 bias ply tires too?
Fairly small tires, especially by today’s standards: 225/50R15.
“Can’t take a corner” is correct!
I used to go to local dirt track that had “Spectator Racing” class. Cars were stock with windows/headlights removed [broken out] One kid brought a ’71 Satellite, and his buds were in stands cheering him on. It was 1980 so this was one of the newest cars in the field, most were late 60’s
But, once race started, the Plymouth was fish-tailing all over the place. While less ‘muscular’ looking Impalas, Chevelles, and Fairlanes were lapping the Mopar. Poor kid wrecked the car hitting the wall. His friends went from ‘GO!’ to dead silence.
Could mostly been inexperienced driver, but the stock Satellite couldnt handle the track, too. Other makes off the street could run on dirt tracks better.
The old Hawaii raceway on Oahu’s Campbell Industrial Park thirty plus years ago was a fun place to hang out . . . the “street” cars were the “bomber” class. Althought I don’t remember any spectacular crash n’ burns with Mopar bombers in the day, I do remember a spectacular six turn end-over-end flip of a ’65 Galaxie 500 sedan (bomber) . . . As they say in Hawaii, “Okole Maluna” (bottoms up!)
Suddenly its 1968…….
I always thought these were a “me-too” Chrysler copy of the 1968-1972 GM intemediate A-body cars, this car has alot of 68 GTO in it, 70’s-ed up a little more for the “ME” decade, but the elements are still there, the “loop” bumpers, the lights integrated into the front and rear bumpers, the fastback-ish roofline.
After Lynn Townsend took over at Chrysler in the early 60s, he concluded that Chrysler had been burned too many times by trying to lead, and decreed that Chrysler would follow trends that others would set. From that point on (at least until his 1975 retirement), almost everything Chrysler did in styling was about 3 years behind GM.
Same for the 1968-1970 Intermediates which look like 1966-67 GM Intermediates.
I had never connected the two cars many similarities visually.
It’s ironic then that they had a GTX. Or was it intentional… I wonder.
The GTO came along in ’64; the GTX in ’66. Coincidence? Never mind the GTS, GTR, GTH, GTA, and other such combinations that appeared all over the world a year or two after the GTO arrived. It was one of those few true game-changer cars.
Ironically, when Bud Lindemann tested the 1971 Charger for Car & Truck, he said “…somebody finally had enough originality to build a car that doesn’t look like it came off a GM drawing board.” I guess the Charger was the exception to the rules. Here the vintage test-drive clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSd2QvY7wQ
That’s exactly what I thought when the 71 RoadRunner/Satellite/Charger came out. And I always thought the 70 Cuda and Challenger were large scale copies of the 67-69 Camaro and Firebird F bodies. JP’s thoughts on Mr Townsend illuminate what this young kid in 1970 thought at the time. And by the way, aping the GM intermediate and pony car stylings were not a bad thing. Mopar created some iconic designs by doing so!
Just another great write up and astute comments from all!
F-3 Amber Sherwood is a much lighter green than this. This is closer to the F-7 Sherwood Green on the linked page, but it’s noted as “Fury Only”. A friend had a ’72 Satellite coupe very close to this color from the factory, which was F-8 Forest Green.
My first thought was the Sherwood Green, also. Yet for enough green, Chrysler may have given you any green you wanted…
27 different colors available ( 18 if you count the “Fury only” colors ). I wish we still had this array of color options today……
The 71-74 Runners are my favorite B cars, it was a horrible case of bad timing with them. The new Emissions regs and Insurance companies really feminized the majority of the “Muscle Car” market.
Chrysler made things harder on themselves by letting people check the right boxes on an A body order form to build a car capable of putting a serious scare into the owners of their Big Block powered machines.
Got to say I loved my ’73 Satellite Sebring (nice juxtaposition!). It only had the 318, but as a replacement for my ’71 Vega (world’s worst- blew up twice in 24 k miles), it was heaven. Besides the Sebring had a nice black vinyl roof……
“unduly”, “might”, “dare I…”, “refreshing as a glass of sweet tea on a hot day…”, “repellant (sic)…”
Your writing style and flourishes perfectly match the baroque, bordello-like, Spanish hacienda-inspired auto styling and general style of the US in the 1970s, and Chrysler Corporation specifically. Well done.
“unduly”, “might”, “dare I…”, “refreshing as a glass of sweet tea on a hot day…”, “repellant (sic)…”
Your writing style and flourishes perfectly match the baroque, bordello-like, Spanish hacienda-inspired auto styling and general style of the US in the 1970s, and Chrysler Corporation specifically. Well done.
These are nice but I’ve always been more of a fan of the 68-70 Road Runner/GTX than the 71-72s. The earlier ones just have better proportions, at least to my eye.
A friend had a 1973 Sebring Plus that looked a lot like this car, and had a factory 400 engine. His was a nasty avocado color, a metallic brownish green, but had a nice black and white interior. Once I parked my 1980 Firebird beside it, and we walked around the cars and noticed how much they had in common – very nearly the same height, length and wheelbase, bucket seats and consoles, about the same-size interior compartments. No surprise, as they were built for the same market.
Pontiac 400 font decal aside, how do you know that this isn’t a 72? They were virtually identical like the 71-72 Mustangs, hard for me to tell!
The front marker lights and some grille details are different on the ’72.
Oh, that’s right. They had the cool flush tri-lights for 71. The 72’s looked kind of cheesy.
Taillights were also changed for ’72.
Never liked the later Mopar intermediates. The 68-70’s were nice, but after that, I can’t say I liked any. The Cordoba was the nicest of the later ones, but only with the single headlamps. (Jaguar wannabe?) The vertical quads ruined the classic look.
Liked most of the big Chryslers, except for the 76 (?) and later Gran Fury with the single lamps. Single lamps did not enhance the big Fury’s looks, in my humble opinion. It made the car look like a big Valiant.
Ever since I was a kid, I liked the front ends of these cars a lot but didn’t care for the “crammed-in” look of the rear bumper/taillight area. The ’71 wasn’t bad but I loathed the ’72 model taillights. And Chrysler went to those awful cheap-looking “stick-on” side markers in ’72 too. What a disappointment after being spoiled by some of the prettiest past designs like the ’68 model Mopars (& the feature car) sport.
Those nasty wheels & engine callouts would have to go. That spoiler is aesthetically awful to me & would be on E-bay unless it was factory-installed piece on that car.
The redundancy thing is really a pet peeve of mine. Are the fender callouts there to let extremely short people know what’s under the hood? This may step on some toes but it’s as tacky as those store-bought front license plates with a bowtie, blue oval, etc. on them when the vehicle already sports the same emblem on the grille or header panel. Same thing for the receiver hitch fillers with the same logo as what’s on the tailgate, rear window, etc.
wow , I am with u just about word for word.
I bought my blue ’72 Satellite coupe in 1980 when I was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. A sergeant who was about to get sent overseas sold it to me for $275.00. He was the only owner, and showed me the paperwork from the dealer in Fayetteville, NC to prove it. Thanks to its southern military life, it was really clean and solid, but it was partially in primer.
It was a total stripper – ribbon speedometer, textured rubber flooring instead of carpet, Duster steering wheel, fixed rear windows. Interior was a sea of blue. It did have a 318 and AM radio. No matter, I had lusted for one of these since I was 10, and I was thrilled to own this one.
Sadly, I sold it a few months later for the same reason as the sergeant I bought it from – I was headed for Germany that fall. That’s one I really wish i could have kept.
A college roommate had a total strippo 74 Charger. All of the features your Satellite had (lacked?) plus slant 6, three speed on the column, and not even a radio. The black interior had seat inserts of some industrial grade gray vinyl. His was bright red and looked quite fast from the outside with those black tires and dog dish hubcaps. It was nasty to park with that manual steering, too. I think that Chrysler sold a higher percentage of total strippo specials than anybody else at that time.
Wow, mine was loaded in comparison! I was so pampered with that power steering and TorqueFlite…
I’m fairly certain mine had manual drum brakes, though (or were power discs standard in ’72?), and instead of dog dishes, I had these:
I was never a big fan of the 71 Road Runners-they seem bloated compared to the late 60s models.
A friend had a crap-brown GTX that was a gas. His big brother swapped in a 440, and it was a real beast. I remember one night we were hooning on the backroads, zigged when we should’ve zagged, and ended up burying the car up to it’s door handles in snow–30 feet off the road. What a riot! The walk home wasn’t so great, thought.
I’d own it, but that spoiler would have to go. It’s not as bad as a tacked-on wing like the wannabe tuners run on their Civics, but it’s still an eyesore.
I have always had trouble with colors. Ran across this after reading that these cars came with 28 or so colors. Finally found this one. It’s called Texas dirt.
There are some ugly rear bumper treatments from the 70’s but that one, plus the unimaginative taillights, has to be the worst.
Thou shalt look upon that awesome Detroit iron and mumble thine reverence for a thing of beauty.
My dad bought a secondhand 1972 Satellite Sebring when I was just out of high school. Had a 400, but with a two-barrel carb and a 2.73 rearend it wasn’t going to win any drag races. On the other hand, it had a top speed that was pretty impressive, though I never pushed it to its limit.
I remember one night I was driving a few of my friends to a junior college near Alton Illinois to see a Buddy Rich concert. The Great River Road follows the Illinois then Mississippi river so it’s quite curvy and the land side consists of steep hillsides and bluffs, so forward vision is sometimes obscured. I’m cranking along, probably at 90, when we round a corner and dead ahead, the reflective sticker on a highway patrol cruiser. I was preparing for the inevitable, but miracle of miracles, he never moved. I have no idea why, but I’m not going to question good luck.
We hung around after the concert to get a glimpse of the world’s greatest drummer, and despite the pugnacious personality he often displayed on the Tonight Show he was surprisingly friendly and cordial. Chatted for a minute, shook our hands and thanked us for coming out, then climbed into a bright yellow Ferrari Dino and drove away.
My favorite muscle car of all time, bar none! LOVE THESE CARS! Yes, the Dukes of Hazzard & Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke in those OH SO SHORT SHORTS were an influence early on, but as time went by I began to appreciate these cars for many other reasons. The looks, the power, just awesome. This one is equipped exactly how I’d like mine; the strobe stripe, the dual scoop hood (proper 440 call-outs & under the hood, please). Mine would have to have the pretty Rallye wheels, trim rings & all, & no rear spoiler. It does nothing for this car. Only reason I’ve never owned one is I could NEVER FIND ONE! There must be all of 3 in the entire state of Colorado. When I do spot a rare sight of one, the price is enough to induce a massive coronary. Saw one about a month ago on Hemmings, Hemi orange, 440, auto, color-keyed bumpers, color contrast interior; asking price? $54K! Yikes!
Stick with your OUTBACK !
I agree they look odd, but I like them.
I always thought of the 71 Roadrunners as retired athletes that quit exercising and gotten fat and slow.
1969, when the Roadrunner kept it itself in shape:
Along with 68-69 Chargers, 71 Road Runners are my favorite cars ever. This is mine
That is AWESOME! Is it a real six-barrel car? (Not that it matters, it still rocks either way.)
Thanks Aaron, much appreciated, and yes its a Six Pack/4 speed car. I would like to do a COAL on it, I just need to find the time
That is 100% badass.
I loved the ’71-74 Roadrunners. The first car I ever bought was a ’74 Roadrunner, an exact duplicate of the “Silver Frost Metallic” car on the right in this pic:
My car is alive and more than well in Las Vegas with a total restore and a 487″ stroked 440 in it. I just wish I would win the lottery, I would make the owner an offer he couldn’t refuse for it. When I want my B Body fix, I go over and take a ride in my friend’s ’71, red with a 383/torqueflite. It’s not as fast as my Challenger, but it’s a lot of fun.
Hey, I spotted this one in Seattle last year:
Here’s a 73-74 that lives in my city
Rear end.
It was a nice try, but that’s definitely not an original side-stripe. Besides just not looking OEM, the bird is running in the wrong direction.
My 1972 Satellite RR tribute….it’s a fun ride !