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1968 Plymouth Road Runner - Green

Hi, my name is Chuck and I love the real American Muscle Cars. The cars that had a character and style all their own. My favorite is the 1968 Plymouth Road Runner but I love them all. Well most of them anyway.

The Road Runner has been my favorite since it came out in 1968 when I saw a review of it along with other great cars of muscle in a Hot Rod magazine in 1968. I was 15 1/2 at the time, and a die hard Chevy lover. The article, if I remember correctly, featured a road test of the GTO, SS Chevelle 396, Olds 442, Ford Torino and a Buick GS. The Road Runner just outperformed the group. Now my first car was a 1960 2 door Chevy Biscayne that I bought with a blown 6 cylinder engine and an automactic powerglide transmission. I put that car on the road with a slightly modified 283 engine and a 3 speed tranny. In 1970 I had a chance to buy my 1968 Plymouth Road Runner and I took it. I took the car off the road in 1977 and it has been in storage ever since with my vow to rebuild it someday. With a set of headers, an Eldebrock Tarantula manifold and a Holley 800 cfm double pumper it turned a 13.99s quarter mile at 99.98 mph on an automatic transmission and 323 rear end. Which really pissed off my Chevy friends and thier big block modified cars.

This site is to talk about all of them. All the showroom stock models and the super tricked out cars that you have out there. The Z28 Camero, GT Mustang, Pontiac GTO, SS Chevelle, Firebirds, Super Bee, Olds 442, even the Buick GS and AMC Rebel. These are the cars I love. You could tell one make from the other and you could make the car your own. A car that had a feel to it. I used to love to see one of these come down the road and you could catch a glimpse of the headers under the car, hear that special deep sound as it rumbled by, and that throat-y accelleration… as the driver saw you checking out his car.

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