it's a surprise to see that they raced this Road Runner without a hood scoop!

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122173721612640485&set=pcb.122173721630640485

Pure Vision is bringing a Road Runner and a GTO to SEMA

https://www.facebook.com/PureVisionDesign

if it works, it ain't crazy

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10164115250446708&set=gm.27485301451165156&idorvanity=996045710517424

officially, 1971 was the last great year for the Hemi and 440 Six-Pack. The factory moved the few left overs out the doors anyway. A small number of Charger Rallye and Road Runner GTX cars slipped through in 1972 with 440 Six-Pack/6BBL

There weren't supposed to be any Mopars with killer engines in 1972, but sometime in the early 1980s, a Road Runner GTX 440+6 was randomly found in a junkyard, and it had the V-code in the VIN, so it was a legitimate 440 6BBL car. 

Until that point, nobody even thought such a car could exist, but it turns out that 3 were actually built, and it's likely that only tin the Brothers Collection still exists.

More common than the '72 Plymouth Road Runner GTX 440+6 is the '72 Dodge Charger Rallye Six-Pack, but only two have ever been identified, and nobody has seen either one in a decade

That car pictured above was listed on Mecum in 2013 and billed as a 1972 Charger Rallye with a 390-horsepower 440ci Six Pack V-8.

https://www.hotcars.com/mopar-unicorn-eluded-collectors-for-generations/

This home made display is just awesome

I previously posted about this cool stuff, before it was finished https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/12/maybe-its-mopar-thing-but-we-got-lucky.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=35468622689395145&set=gm.25867402462955071&idorvanity=996045710517424

it's not easy to find a great burnout photo

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1290555493101191&set=a.556433073180107

If the photographer had been closer to the car, and let it fill more of the frame, and had a little more smoke? It would have been twice as good

Maybe it's a Mopar thing, but, we got lucky with cartoon muscle car representation more than anyone else (Twister Fords, I can't think of any others) and though rare, sometimes some inspired owner makes a piece of art to bring to car shows

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=33725770820347016&set=pcb.24961965140165479

I don't think I can recall seeing a convertible Road Runner before, they only made 1100 of them

Amazingly, this is not the only 68 Road Runner at SEMA....

a 68 Road Runner that is destined for Pikes Peak... how do I know? I talked to the owner/driver/pilot/awesome guy, and he's got one hell of a story - and a cooler job. He's on the Pikes Peak tech crew at the start of the race!

Richard and his buddy Ben, both grew up with a 68 383 4 speed Road Runner... how unreal is that? But their dads also both died when these guys were young. Tragic, and just unreal coincidence. Now they have partnered on this Road Runner to race on Pikes Peak next year, June 21, 2026

Ben's father passed away in 2023 three days before he was set to race for the first time at Pikes Peak. 

The first car he built with his dad was a 68 Road Runner and when Richard asked him if he could drive any car in Pikes Peak race, what would be? 

Ben responded "a road runner " 

Since Richard's father also had a Road Runner, things got really interesting. Richard lost his father in the Oklahoma City bombing and had been holding on to his dad’s car ever since. And both of their dad's cars were 68 383 4 speed cars!

That day the idea was born to build it for Pikes Peak. With some amazing help, the Road Runner was built in only 94 days to make SEMA. 

The team at Apex Auto Works absolutely crushed the build.

hear the story in a podcast at https://www.inwheeltimepodcast.com/restoring-a-roadrunner-a-fathers-legacy/

Richard's hoping to get Isky to sign that decal, it's been on the car forever... I hope he takes the window off the car and finds Isky and gets it autographed! 

I'm loving the wing, and how it attaches! When you figure that adding a wing is going to damage the original body, or the trunk lid, and try to figure out a way to get one on a classic Mopar without damaging anything? Brilliant

Starting with a Nascar chassis, removing 208 pounds of lead ballast in the frame, dropping the body of his dad's 68 Road Runner over that race car chassis, and getting the result that Plymouth was trying for in 1968 - a car ready for racing on the Nascar / Grand National tracks

https://www.facebook.com/ApexAutoWorks/

https://apexautoworkstx.com/our-work

https://www.instagram.com/wrenchrally/

https://www.facebook.com/ben.ryan.35175633/

Last night a drunk driver lost control of his 1970 Roadrunner, and drove through the front of a house

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1778961052993741&set=pcb.1778962919660221

when non car enthusiasts in advertising hype something, it's annoying how many things they screw up.

Richard Petty's number on the door, but it's a 69 Road Runner, and not a Super Bird, yet the word Daytona is in the background. Plus the text says it's a 383 Road Runner, but the hood has 426 on the hood inserts

https://www.peculiarmanicule.com/day-glo-guide

Seriously, what the hell, is the marketing moron unable to read, confuses Pontiac and Plymouth, or are that many AI bots making up website posts now?  

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/vintage_flashback_inducing_psychedelic_ads_from_the_60s_and_70s_that_will_g/

this Nov, these raffle cars will have their drawing, and someone wins this AAR Cuda, or A12 replica Road Runner and cash to cover the tax bill from the govt

https://www.dreamgiveaway.com/dg/super-mopar

the Facebook page "Lost Muscle Cars" just made national news for coming to the aid of a guy looking to find, and buy, the Road Runner his dad sold decades ago when the family needs trumped the joy of a fun car. They succeeded in locating and buying the car to surprise the guys dad!

Wes Eisenschenk runs the Facebook page "Lost Muscle Cars" and it's his extremely helpful site that has reunited a LOT of cool musclecars with their former owners, it's been able to find 1,600 lost muscle cars since it started.

In 2003, Pete Glass sold his 1970 Plymouth Road Runner to pay for his son Jake’s education. Jake never forgot that car… and decades later, he tracked down that very same muscle car and bought it back for his dad.

"It's always something I had in the back of my mind. Ever since he had to get rid of it, I wanted to get it back," said Jake Glass. For five years Jake Glass searched for the car on his own, with little luck.

Two weeks ago, father and son flew halfway across the country to bring the Road Runner home.

Now, it's back on the Maplewood streets it used to roam.

The plan now is to keep the car in the family for as long as they can, so that future generations can enjoy it.

"Definitely a core memory of mine growing up that I'm looking to repeat with my kids," said Jake Glass. "I don't think I've seen him smile like that in a long time. So, it was awesome."

 https://www.facebook.com/lostmusclecars

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/car-detective-lost-muscle-cars/

believe it or not, a 16 year old ordered this hemi Roadrunner new, from his grandfather's dealership in Nebraska, and didn't wreck it or sell it until 1996

the sixteen-year-old Mopar enthusiast ticked all the right go-fast boxes, he ordered the hemi, the 3 spd auto, bucket seats with the driver's side 6 way adjustable seat, AM FM, rocker panels

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/16-yo-ordered-new-5000-1969-hemi-road-runner-rarity-current-owner-had-to-buy-it-twice-254283.html

a behind the scenes interesting Mopar management directive found at the Conner Ave museum

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10236742594730578&set=gm.9510997769022133&idorvanity=996045710517424

You might recall how the Mercury pr dept used real cougars in events and commercials

one of the most amazing promotional displays ever put on a car, the 1970 Rapid Transit System Road Runner

I know I posted about this years ago, but this is the first time I've seen it in person

Early 70s GTX and 74 Road Runner