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The Perfect Bare-Bones Muscle Car
In 1968, the first muscle cars were moving away from the true spirit of muscle cars, which was a fast car that was affordable for the common man. So the folks at Plymouth Cars, a division of Chrysler, even though they already had a high-performance car out in the market (the GTX), went back to the drawing board. They wanted to build a car that was not only fast and powerful but one that wouldn't burn a hole in an ordinary worker's pocket. These goals were met, and then some. This new car that was able to do the quarter-mile at 14 seconds and costs just under $3000. This is how the Plymouth Roadrunner was born.
Plymouth paid Warner Brothers a large amount of money just so they could use the name and image of their famous fast-running cartoon character. They even spent $10,000 (an exorbitant amount in the 1960's) just to develop a horn that made noises like the "beep-beep" sound made by the Roadrunner in the cartoons.
When the boys at Plymouth said they were going back-to-basics with the Roadrunner they weren't kidding. True to the essence of muscle cars, anything that wasn't essential was left out. The interior was very sparse, with just a basic cloth and vinyl bench seat; they used a bench seat because the shifter was just basically a metal rod protruding out of the floor. The shifter only had a rubber boot to cover it and there was an a centre console to raise it. And in the earlier models there wasn't even any carpeting. There weren't many options when it came to the Roadrunner, just the basic AM/FM radio, air-conditioning (except for the one with a 426 Hemi engine), and automatic transmission, power steering, and front disc brakes; it's was as basic as you could get.
Plymouth concentrated on the thing that really made a muscle car, the engine. Although they put a smaller Hemi engine in the Roadrunner, it could still go as fast if not faster than the high-end GTX. This is because the Roadrunner had a better power-to-weight ratio; since everything that was not needed for the car to go fast was omitted, it made the car lighter than the GTX.
The Plymouth Roadrunner was truly a testament to the saying "less is more."
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Is there a plymouth roadrunner gtx hammer on tokyo drift for ps2?
the HENCH car that dom toretto(vin diesel) uses to race against Sean at the very end of the film. is it in the video game?
No there is not.
1973 Plymouth Road Runner from North America - Comments
I also own a 73 roadrunner restored it myself and with the limited parts availability is one of the nicest and rarest made.
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