The 1969 Road Runner A12 arrived as a blunt instrument at a moment when muscle cars were drifting upmarket, and it forced Plymouth to double down on raw performance instead of luxury. By stripping out ...

The 1969 Plymouth Road Runner arrived at a moment when muscle cars were getting faster, flashier, and a lot more expensive, and it calmly rewrote the rules. Instead of piling on chrome and luxury, it ...

1971 was a big year for several Plymouth models, as the carmaker introduced a major styling update that set the coupes and the hardtops apart from the sedans. The new grille, the redesigned bumpers, ...

The Road Runner made its market debut as a no-frill, skills-and-thrills 1968 model-year B-body Plymouth muscle car. By then, it was already preceded by the Belvedere, Satellite, and GTX, plus the ...

We all know by now that the Plymouth Road Runner came out in 1968 as Chrysler's answer to the GTO. Yes, the Road Runner epitomized the original econo-muscle car and left the competition, including its ...

He's been called the Father of the Road Runner, but Jack Smith prefers to think of himself more as the iconic muscle car'smidwife, because he didn't conceive the B-Body Bird, but, as its program ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...