My mom bought one in 77 off the showroom floor... Still has it... Needs a little TLC but she only has 76k miles on it. She has the 1977 Plymouth Volare Roadrunner 318 in a very rare yellow color with the orange and black stripes... It also has the T-tops on it... Even when searching them online I can barely find a picture of one in that yellow color. It was the family's daily driver until around 1999-2000... I absolutely love that car.
Steve obviously does his great research IN ADVANCE. So, he's full of information, when he makes his videos on location, in real time. Looking back in hindsight, I think Chrysler would have been better served saving hundreds of millions of dollars creating the Aspen/Volare, and instead modernizing the Dart/Valiant for the late 70s. The differences between the Dart/Valiant and Aspen/Volare were not enough, to justify all the money Chrysler spent. They could have updated the Dart/Valiant with modern styling details, etc. When you look at the Ford Fairmont and Chev Malibu, they made the Aspen/Volare seem obsolete quickly. Chrysler needed to push the envelope further with new lighter and efficient compacts. The Aspen/Volare used the old big car design formula. In a newer looking luxury package. A polished, modernized Dart/Valiant would have bridged the gap to the K-Cars. As AMC managed with the Hornet/Concord.
Based upon the grille/parking lights, this Volare Road Runner is either a '76 or '77. At 1:45, that's a '76 or '77 grille/parking light design. The '78 Volares got new grille designs, with a larger egg crate design.
I would love to be transformed back to the 70s and 80s junkyards I recall from my childhood. The 60s and 70s gold was amazing. All those tacky 'Macho Power Wagon' trim packages, and faux woodgrain wagons. And gaudy 'Spyder' Chev Monzas, were EVERYWHERE!
@@mikehewson7057 🤣 That is so true! I lived within walking distance of a smaller scrap yard that allowed me to walk around when I asked for permission (couldn't do that today). I also was only a bike drive away from another larger yard that also allowed us to roam when we asked. They would tell us where we would be safe to go and we respected that so we were allowed back in the next time. They even allowed us to have emblems/nameplates as a souvenir once in a while. Definitely my "good old days" heh, heh. 😎👍
My friend had one in high school. 1988. It was considered junk but even back then I knew it was pretty rare. I saw it in the junk yard like a month later. Fully intact. I considered rescuing it. I should have.
Great history lesson, but he should have taken a power probe or something out there and done a “Will it Beep?” Video. I’d love to see if that thing would still work.
They came with 340's before that, but by the year you mentioned if you couldn't order an E58, about the best Mope you were going to get had a bed on the back and chromed stacks. Still, if this thing had been salvagable...an LA is an easy engine to warm over, and skip the Gen Three Hemee swap.
Thanks Steve. I’m a 70s teenager and My buddy Bobby had one of these and we beat the Snot out of it , chasing girls and back woods parties . I never knew about the horn bracket. I do remember his horn though with the beep beep. Thanks for another part of history!
I love listening to you. It breaks my heart to see these cars in junk yards. I remember these cars brand new and seeing them out on the roads. Your car knowledge is incredible.
“A natural scavenger, the mags is most at home feasting on the carcasses of birds. On its abdomen it reveals an ostentatious display of its authority over its peers. Should another scavenger appear, the rival must wait til the mags has eaten his fill.”
When you get the VIN you can win: H for Plymouth Volare, L for low price class, 2 for two door, 9 for special coupe, G for 318 V8 with two barrel, 8 for 1978 model year, B for Hamtramck, MI assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Hamtramck, MI plant was known as "Dodge Main" or "Factory Zero" and operated from 1911 to 1980. GM's Hamtramck, MI assembly is on part of that property now. In 1981 when officials were looking to demolish the old Chrysler plant and take over surrounding land due to eminent domain, there was a group of citizens that barricaded themselves in one of the churches and refused to come out, but eventually did. The area was called "Poletown" due to the high concentration of Polish residents in the area. With the tag, you can brag: A57 for Roadrunner package sales code, possible M43 for grille trim moldings, E44 for 318 V8 with two barrel, TX9 would be Formal Black exterior paint, and the others are hard to read, but 411 might be 4/11/78 production which was a Tuesday.
My high school art teacher bought one brand new, and it was pretty cool. He only had it a few months before totaling it! I've never seen another one in person.
wow, great info on the horn...never knew about the differences to make that awesome beep. I was a lot boy at a Chrysler Plymouth dealer in 1978-79, and we had a couple Volare RR's on the lot...a 360 4barrel auto, and a 360 2barrel 4speed...they made an impression so still remember. these Volare's were actually pretty cushy...nicely trimmed...a 360 in a Volare actually made a pretty nice driving car. Even at the tender age of 17 I knew these were super unusual, and also a little disappointing to me, a serious hotrodder, because at that time the streets were still littered with (well) used original RR's with big blocks
Interesting! I just love the Plymouth Volare, as well as for the Dodge Aspen. In 1978, Chrysler Corporation was downsizing their car models and they were facing a major bankruptcy, until Lee iacocca came along and took over the company, as he launched the arrival of the new K car model series edition, in 1980. Thanks for this marvelous presentation. Johnny, Montréal, Canada.
Watching the old ones and praying for Mr Magnante. But even on a re-watch - he really gets the Road Runner's "beep beep" down perfectly! He could do voice over work if they bring the cartoon back. ~ Chuck
Back in 87 I worked at a restaurant and one of the hostesses had a first year volare road runner, it was orange, had the black stripes, blackout hood treatment, side window slats and ducktail spoiler. It was completely stock except for a set of little red chrome slots. This car was weird, it was a slant six, three speed overdrive on the floor, with bench seat and was all manual with drum front brakes, when I saw the drums on the front it blew my mind that by 75-6 that it wasn't disc. Her oldest brother bought it new and gave it to her for her sixteen birthday, what was funny was she let me take it for a spin around the parking lot and with manual steering it was a pain at that low speed but she being kinda tiny had no problem whipping that car around and shifting that three speed as fast as Ronnie Sox.
Wow that brings back memories Steve Mopar guy Glen Henderson here in ottawa had the 78 r/t model that had a 360 I'd run 12's he always had fast mopars his 76 duster went 12's with the 360 then he put the 440 in it started running tens lots of other cars got to see tail lights from that mopar
Never had that body style Roadrunner but l had a 76 Volare t top 4 speed slant six and a 79 Dodge Aspen R/T that was made for export no Lean Burn and it ran well.
I’m surprised that horn was still intact and there after all that time.. valuable gold ... should have tested it.. I would have loved to hear it. Graphics on that fender was great too...original ones like that are hard to come by. All that stuff could be saved and brought back to life, we have the technology now. I bet someone got a really good deal on this car, if it ever sold.. parts alone on it was worth it. Original motor with tags., I mean wow, what a true find. Thank you for showing us, the knowledge that I gained from this makes me a better car fan
I miss hanging with you back in the day at the Fudruckers cruises in Pasadena. I still have my Lemon Twist 71 Roadrunner that I used to street race in Arcadia and Covina back then as well.
That's really wierd. I'm pretty sure all Road Runners got that horn. I mean why would they have a Road Runner package and then make you pay extra for the beep beep horn. That's strange.
My dad bought a Volare Road Runner new in 1977. Red with the red / yellow sticker package. Dont remember if it was a 318 or 360 car. About six months later a dealership mechanic totaled it trying to diagnose a drivability issue. Car would cold start and drive fine until you got to the first stop, then pulling away it would sputter, misfire and die. Then after a few tries it would start up and drive normally. It was just that transition from cold to operating temp where it had problems. 40+ years later I'm pretty sure it was a choke adjustment issue. Dad was planning to have a neighborhood shade tree guy remove all the (CA) emissions equipment and put an aftermarket carb / intake on it, maybe headers, after giving the dealership one more chance to fix it. Service mgr kept saying the mechanics couldn't duplicate the problem, until one morning it died when the tech pulled out of the dealership in front of a dump truck.
@@clunkersandclassics I was under the impression Lean Burn wasn't introduced until 78 or 79, but a quick google shows 1976 as the rollout year. So you may be right. Shame the car got totaled though
Right about 1977-78 Direct Connection put together the Volare/Aspen race car kit for Sportsman type racing that you could buy at several levels of completion. It was an interesting idea but I've never seen one and don't know if any were actually built and raced successfully. Chrysler was having so much financial trouble at the time and was busy selling off assets like Airtemp and Chrysler Marine and their military contracts for tanks and missiles.
so we'll never know if it still went beep beep... Steve, you should have hooked up a battery to it. Still good video, very informative! I love my non-roadrunner 76 Volare, always nice to learn something new about the model!
Thanks Steve I checked on Alpar and they show a e58 option @ 220 hp. If that's true, it would be about the quickest thing out there for '78....of course these days a mini van could blow it off
Chrysler actually did not have the rights for the Warner Brothers roadrunner when it debuted in 1968. That's the reason the roadrunner emblems are black and white in 1968. Once they purchased the rights, the emblems went to the color Warner Brothers style. As I recall, I think they also spent about $50,000 developing that horn. The horns were actually black in 1968 also, then changed color for 1969.
Although that generation of RoadRunner was lacking by comparison with its ancestors it was still a cool car for the time. As a 9 year old car crazy guy I thought they were "wicked cool". Believe it or not; on the shortest street in a small town in rural Nova Scotia 2 (TWO!) of these cars lived from when they were brand-hammerin' new (some would say their "birth"). They were right around the corner from my house so I felt lucky. That same family also had a Warlock and a L'il Red Express" and they were not connected to the dealership in any way, but that's a story for another time heh, heh. Diggin' the content Steve!
I had a roadrunner just like this but a '77 that I was going to restore. Sadly I was never able to as I joined the military and came home one summer 5 years after I joined and found out the whole floor disintegrated and the k-frame had also rotted away. 😪
I had the Aspen RT with a 360, somebody had robbed for 340 out of it. It was OK... you could actually get rubber with it even with the posi-traction. It was definitely fast enough to get me in trouble with the local police!
I guess the aluminum wire explains why i've never found a working voice of the roadrunner horn over the years in the wrecking yards . Most still had the purple paint and paper voice label but i could never get 1 to Meep . I did have my garage fridge decorated with a spoiled dust stripe and headless bird from my brothers 76 that he upgraded to a 360 with cam and Holley spreadbore before emissions testing started up.
That is sad. I have a friend who owns two '76 Road Runners, both Spitfire Orange, both A66 Super Pak cars, (flares, spoilers) and both 318s. One is nice, the other is a decent project. The one in the video may be a '78, but it has what's left of a '76-'77 grille, a near-impossible grille to find in intact condition.
Great to see you attempting to monetize yourself on the 'tube, all the best in this endeavour. I think you should have added ~20s into explaining the "Super Coupe" a tad more. Thanks and best wishes on this new channel.
My father had a 76 manual trans 318 what i remember my dad wanted an offenhauser. 4 barrel intake but couldnt get one but the guys at king speed shop custum made one from a 360 ? that and hedders really woke that car up ! and the meep meep horn was funny !
Wait... I vaguely think I thought I remember these now! So this kind of means in a crazy wacky round about way, I grew up and learned to drive in dad's green/green 77' Plymouth Volare' Slant 6 wagon "RoadRunner"?! We just needed the horn and stripe kit to be cooler!
A kid in Highschool had one of these but my brother had a 1972RR so we thought these stunk back then. Shame that one is sitting like that. Can it be saved I wonder.
Steve, you should have brought a small battery with you to see if it would still work. That would have been super cool! My brother had the Aspen RT. It was a great looking car. Smog dog 360.
This and graveyard cars are my favorites on cable, and Steve has a great wealth of Mopar knowledge in his head. As far as I'm concerned, they stopped making roadrockers after 74 and all American automobiles pretty much sucked at that point..Volare is that example and are fugly..With that being said, I can appreciate what it is considering the times in which we live. My 3rd Mopar was a 70, which was the last year of the better looking body style and don't really care for them much after that.
My mom bought one in 77 off the showroom floor... Still has it... Needs a little TLC but she only has 76k miles on it. She has the 1977 Plymouth Volare Roadrunner 318 in a very rare yellow color with the orange and black stripes... It also has the T-tops on it... Even when searching them online I can barely find a picture of one in that yellow color. It was the family's daily driver until around 1999-2000... I absolutely love that car.
If that story is true mate u need to keep it dry and alive! Mopar is the best.
That is so kewl that it's such a rare color. I hope you keep and NEVER sell it.
That was a perfect Roadrunner 'Meep Meep" impression.
Exactly!
That's not a " Road Runner " that's a Volare with a Road Runner decal ! Putt Putt .
Keep em coming Mags!! Only thing that would be better is longer videos, could listen to you all day
Steve obviously does his great research IN ADVANCE. So, he's full of information, when he makes his videos on location, in real time.
Looking back in hindsight, I think Chrysler would have been better served saving hundreds of millions of dollars creating the Aspen/Volare, and instead modernizing the Dart/Valiant for the late 70s. The differences between the Dart/Valiant and Aspen/Volare were not enough, to justify all the money Chrysler spent. They could have updated the Dart/Valiant with modern styling details, etc. When you look at the Ford Fairmont and Chev Malibu, they made the Aspen/Volare seem obsolete quickly.
Chrysler needed to push the envelope further with new lighter and efficient compacts. The Aspen/Volare used the old big car design formula. In a newer looking luxury package.
A polished, modernized Dart/Valiant would have bridged the gap to the K-Cars. As AMC managed with the Hornet/Concord.
Based upon the grille/parking lights, this Volare Road Runner is either a '76 or '77.
At 1:45, that's a '76 or '77 grille/parking light design.
The '78 Volares got new grille designs, with a larger egg crate design.
I agree. I miss the Junkyard Gold 30 minute series. I love all the info Steve shares!
@@kenlloyd8640 77 had different stripes. I had one. Maybe it's a 76?
love the junkyard crawl keep it up Steve!
I love going through old Junkyards
All the junk yards around me have closed or transformed into something you can’t walk around in anymore.
I would love to be transformed back to the 70s and 80s junkyards I recall from my childhood.
The 60s and 70s gold was amazing. All those tacky 'Macho Power Wagon' trim packages, and faux woodgrain wagons.
And gaudy 'Spyder' Chev Monzas, were EVERYWHERE!
@@mikehewson7057 🤣 That is so true! I lived within walking distance of a smaller scrap yard that allowed me to walk around when I asked for permission (couldn't do that today). I also was only a bike drive away from another larger yard that also allowed us to roam when we asked. They would tell us where we would be safe to go and we respected that so we were allowed back in the next time. They even allowed us to have emblems/nameplates as a souvenir once in a while. Definitely my "good old days" heh, heh. 😎👍
My friend had one in high school. 1988. It was considered junk but even back then I knew it was pretty rare. I saw it in the junk yard like a month later. Fully intact. I considered rescuing it. I should have.
That a bloody amazing story mate
So glad you’re doing this Steve!! This is what I miss from roadkill extra.
I had a 1979 Road Runner with the E58 360, black with gold stripes and black interior. These cars are increasing in value, wish I never sold it!
Perfect tidbit with coffee this morning. Thanks Steve
Thank you Steve! Man I'd love to roam around these yards with ya! I'd learn so much! Keep them coming!
Great history lesson, but he should have taken a power probe or something out there and done a “Will it Beep?” Video. I’d love to see if that thing would still work.
Thank you for that roadrunner information.. I did not know valari was part of the roadrunner package
I just restored a 78 R/T that sat since 87, has the E58 360 high performance engine.
guy is a wealth of knowledge. Great video Steve
I love Steve. Pretty sad what the road runner evolved into in 78.
the 70s were not kind years to vehicles. the performance or styling .
While visiting a Chrysler/ Plymouth dealer showroom in '88, I saw a Sundance coupe with Roadrunner decals
@@benjaminbellamy7207 the Sundance lol Chryslers geo
They came with 340's before that, but by the year you mentioned if you couldn't order an E58, about the best Mope you were going to get had a bed on the back and chromed stacks.
Still, if this thing had been salvagable...an LA is an easy engine to warm over, and skip the Gen Three Hemee swap.
@Midwest Maffia especially if it had the Shelby prepped 2.2 turbo
Thanks Steve. I’m a 70s teenager and My buddy Bobby had one of these and we beat the Snot out of it , chasing girls and back woods parties . I never knew about the horn bracket. I do remember his horn though with the beep beep. Thanks for another part of history!
Already miss you on motor trend. Please keep going with you junk yard video’s here. Thanks for all you do
I love listening to you. It breaks my heart to see these cars in junk yards. I remember these cars brand new and seeing them out on the roads. Your car knowledge is incredible.
A long time ago, I had a 77 Aspen R/T with a 360 4 barrel. I wonder how many were built vs Road Runners vs total Aspen/Volare production numbers.
I have an unexplainable love for f-bodies, namely the two door coupes, especially the Road Runner, Duster, and Super Bee (Mexican) variants.
When the vid started, I immediately heard David Attenborough's voice say:
"And here we see Steve Magnante in his natural habitat..."
“A natural scavenger, the mags is most at home feasting on the carcasses of birds. On its abdomen it reveals an ostentatious display of its authority over its peers. Should another scavenger appear, the rival must wait til the mags has eaten his fill.”
@@mattskustomkreations this is freaking perfect!
@@projectinlinesix hahaha! Thanks!!!
Love it! I graduated in ‘82..there were a few of these running around my little town in Idaho back in the day..thanks man!
When you get the VIN you can win: H for Plymouth Volare, L for low price class, 2 for two door, 9 for special coupe, G for 318 V8 with two barrel, 8 for 1978 model year, B for Hamtramck, MI assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Hamtramck, MI plant was known as "Dodge Main" or "Factory Zero" and operated from 1911 to 1980. GM's Hamtramck, MI assembly is on part of that property now. In 1981 when officials were looking to demolish the old Chrysler plant and take over surrounding land due to eminent domain, there was a group of citizens that barricaded themselves in one of the churches and refused to come out, but eventually did. The area was called "Poletown" due to the high concentration of Polish residents in the area.
With the tag, you can brag: A57 for Roadrunner package sales code, possible M43 for grille trim moldings, E44 for 318 V8 with two barrel, TX9 would be Formal Black exterior paint, and the others are hard to read, but 411 might be 4/11/78 production which was a Tuesday.
My high school art teacher bought one brand new, and it was pretty cool. He only had it a few months before totaling it! I've never seen another one in person.
Just discovered your channel Steve and subscribed to it.Looking forward to seeing all the videos.😁👍🇺🇸
I appreciate your knowledge Steve
Love the epic historical content Steve. Such a pleasure to watch!
wow, great info on the horn...never knew about the differences to make that awesome beep.
I was a lot boy at a Chrysler Plymouth dealer in 1978-79, and we had a couple Volare RR's on the lot...a 360 4barrel auto, and a 360 2barrel 4speed...they made an impression so still remember. these Volare's were actually pretty cushy...nicely trimmed...a 360 in a Volare actually made a pretty nice driving car. Even at the tender age of 17 I knew these were super unusual, and also a little disappointing to me, a serious hotrodder, because at that time the streets were still littered with (well) used original RR's with big blocks
Great car archaeology, Steve. Really takes me back with all the facts and history.
Love your junkyard crawls reminds me of years ago looking for parts with my brother and working in my uncles junkyard in Indiana
Great content Steve can’t get enough of it
I agree Derek
Always liked these- I had a slant six 2 door 79 Aspen in 1992-1994.
This is Uncle Tony's Garage level of quality Mopar lore
Very cool! But man I gotta say from the title I was lookin for you to try n get a meep meep from that old horn somehow ! Hehe Nice work sir!
Interesting! I just love the Plymouth Volare, as well as for the Dodge Aspen. In 1978, Chrysler Corporation was downsizing their car models and they were facing a major bankruptcy, until Lee iacocca came along and took over the company, as he launched the arrival of the new K car model series edition, in 1980. Thanks for this marvelous presentation. Johnny, Montréal, Canada.
Watching the old ones and praying for Mr Magnante. But even on a re-watch - he really gets the Road Runner's "beep beep" down perfectly! He could do voice over work if they bring the cartoon back. ~ Chuck
Love the video and info Steve! Look forward to more videos.
My best friend in high skool 1984 had a 1976 Road Runner with the 360 - PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS!
love the wealth of knowledge steve!!!!
Back in 87 I worked at a restaurant and one of the hostesses had a first year volare road runner, it was orange, had the black stripes, blackout hood treatment, side window slats and ducktail spoiler. It was completely stock except for a set of little red chrome slots. This car was weird, it was a slant six, three speed overdrive on the floor, with bench seat and was all manual with drum front brakes, when I saw the drums on the front it blew my mind that by 75-6 that it wasn't disc. Her oldest brother bought it new and gave it to her for her sixteen birthday, what was funny was she let me take it for a spin around the parking lot and with manual steering it was a pain at that low speed but she being kinda tiny had no problem whipping that car around and shifting that three speed as fast as Ronnie Sox.
Wow that brings back memories Steve Mopar guy Glen Henderson here in ottawa had the 78 r/t model that had a 360 I'd run 12's he always had fast mopars his 76 duster went 12's with the 360 then he put the 440 in it started running tens lots of other cars got to see tail lights from that mopar
Kool find and info. Drove one of those Road Runners back in the early 90's,when i worked at a lil used car lot.
Wow! Great to know! The little details that made that car a little more special.
Thanks for giving one of these rare Volare's a look at and teaching me something like always. Also someone who knows what a super coupe is? Whoa.
Love the videos Steve. Keep it up. Big fan.
Never had that body style Roadrunner but l had a 76 Volare t top 4 speed slant six and a 79 Dodge Aspen R/T that was made for export no Lean Burn and it ran well.
I’m surprised that horn was still intact and there after all that time.. valuable gold ... should have tested it.. I would have loved to hear it. Graphics on that fender was great too...original ones like that are hard to come by. All that stuff could be saved and brought back to life, we have the technology now. I bet someone got a really good deal on this car, if it ever sold.. parts alone on it was worth it. Original motor with tags., I mean wow, what a true find. Thank you for showing us, the knowledge that I gained from this makes me a better car fan
Oh wow, that gives me inspiration to make a 1/25 scale diorama. 👍🙂
That would be really cool to see Tim!😃👍
That’s crazy I’ve never seen one one the road or at a car show very cool great video as always
Keep up the great work. Love all your shows.
Love these Steve!
I miss hanging with you back in the day at the Fudruckers cruises in Pasadena. I still have my Lemon Twist 71 Roadrunner that I used to street race in Arcadia and Covina back then as well.
Back in the 80s and early 90s my grandfather used to buy and resell Volare and aspen station wagons
Need more and longer videos Steve good stuff north east is dead so this is the only hotroding we're getting so keep em rolling
I had a 1977 Volare RR all bright orange in color ll window louvers 360 trunk spoiler but a regular horn musta been a option?
My '80 didnt have one either.
That's really wierd. I'm pretty sure all Road Runners got that horn. I mean why would they have a Road Runner package and then make you pay extra for the beep beep horn. That's strange.
My dad bought a Volare Road Runner new in 1977. Red with the red / yellow sticker package. Dont remember if it was a 318 or 360 car. About six months later a dealership mechanic totaled it trying to diagnose a drivability issue.
Car would cold start and drive fine until you got to the first stop, then pulling away it would sputter, misfire and die. Then after a few tries it would start up and drive normally. It was just that transition from cold to operating temp where it had problems. 40+ years later I'm pretty sure it was a choke adjustment issue.
Dad was planning to have a neighborhood shade tree guy remove all the (CA) emissions equipment and put an aftermarket carb / intake on it, maybe headers, after giving the dealership one more chance to fix it. Service mgr kept saying the mechanics couldn't duplicate the problem, until one morning it died when the tech pulled out of the dealership in front of a dump truck.
it was the lean burn system
@@clunkersandclassics I was under the impression Lean Burn wasn't introduced until 78 or 79, but a quick google shows 1976 as the rollout year. So you may be right. Shame the car got totaled though
“… dark times indeed…”
Classic -
Great video and car find!😁🛠️🔧
Volare oh oh cantare oh oh oh oh🎃 thanks for the video and enjoy your weekend.
Will the prices ever come down on the Road Runner?
Right about 1977-78 Direct Connection put together the Volare/Aspen race car kit for Sportsman type racing that you could buy at several levels of completion. It was an interesting idea but I've never seen one and don't know if any were actually built and raced successfully. Chrysler was having so much financial trouble at the time and was busy selling off assets like Airtemp and Chrysler Marine and their military contracts for tanks and missiles.
I'm suscribed recently,I love the show this guy is like the Bob Ross of automotive facts
so we'll never know if it still went beep beep... Steve, you should have hooked up a battery to it. Still good video, very informative! I love my non-roadrunner 76 Volare, always nice to learn something new about the model!
Had a 1977 Aspen RT. Bought it for around $750 in 1987. Loved that car had an 8 cylinder engine and 3-speed shifter.
chrysler mopar build quality was juuuunkkk
Thanks Steve
I checked on Alpar and they show a e58 option @ 220 hp. If that's true, it would be about the quickest thing out there for '78....of course these days a mini van could blow it off
Little red express was the insurance beater to have
mini van blow it off?..it's not all just about peak HP numbers...
Chrysler actually did not have the rights for the Warner Brothers roadrunner when it debuted in 1968. That's the reason the roadrunner emblems are black and white in 1968. Once they purchased the rights, the emblems went to the color Warner Brothers style. As I recall, I think they also spent about $50,000 developing that horn. The horns were actually black in 1968 also, then changed color for 1969.
This channel is addictive,,and I want that
Although that generation of RoadRunner was lacking by comparison with its ancestors it was still a cool car for the time. As a 9 year old car crazy guy I thought they were "wicked cool". Believe it or not; on the shortest street in a small town in rural Nova Scotia 2 (TWO!) of these cars lived from when they were brand-hammerin' new (some would say their "birth"). They were right around the corner from my house so I felt lucky. That same family also had a Warlock and a L'il Red Express" and they were not connected to the dealership in any way, but that's a story for another time heh, heh. Diggin' the content Steve!
I had a roadrunner just like this but a '77 that I was going to restore. Sadly I was never able to as I joined the military and came home one summer 5 years after I joined and found out the whole floor disintegrated and the k-frame had also rotted away. 😪
with 360 it was probably competitive with anything out there at the time.
I had the Aspen RT with a 360, somebody had robbed for 340 out of it. It was OK... you could actually get rubber with it even with the posi-traction. It was definitely fast enough to get me in trouble with the local police!
@@formerpilgrim4934 what color was yours mine was yellow with black and white stripes T-top car
If the roadrunner could talk.. he'd be cussing
That's pretty cool I had 12! road runners when I was young 68 69 how 70 74'roadrunners i loved them
Damn i wanted him to power it up and try to make it go meep meep
Always wondered what happened to the big block Chevette you guys built years ago.
If I catch Steve photographing cars in my back yard, I will make him restore them to new!
Thanks again Steve good video good information
Steve what is the best steal head for 1973 350 Oldsmobile block.iam running a set of 1968 7A heads your thoughts please 👍✌✌✌👍
Keep on doing what you're doing
Those road runners/Aspens had really cool interior options that scream 70s.
I had a 68 Charger (and a 73). The horn quit working on the 68 and I got a Road Runner horn from the junk yard and used it for a while.....
Great video as always thanks
I guess the aluminum wire explains why i've never found a working voice of the roadrunner horn over the years in the wrecking yards . Most still had the purple paint and paper voice label but i could never get 1 to Meep . I did have my garage fridge decorated with a spoiled dust stripe and headless bird from my brothers 76 that he upgraded to a 360 with cam and Holley spreadbore before emissions testing started up.
Why doesn't this guy have 100k subscribers?
I had one in 82 and i live in Mass...could it be?
That is sad. I have a friend who owns two '76 Road Runners, both Spitfire Orange, both A66 Super Pak cars, (flares, spoilers) and both 318s. One is nice, the other is a decent project. The one in the video may be a '78, but it has what's left of a '76-'77 grille, a near-impossible grille to find in intact condition.
Is it still worth restoring
So in 77-78 Chrysler put stripes on a Volare and called it y Road Runner.
Great to see you attempting to monetize yourself on the 'tube, all the best in this endeavour. I think you should have added ~20s into explaining the "Super Coupe" a tad more.
Thanks and best wishes on this new channel.
Wow great video!
I have a 77 road runner spitfire orange I'm currently looking for the grill
My father had a 76 manual trans 318 what i remember my dad wanted an offenhauser. 4 barrel intake but couldnt get one but the guys at king speed shop custum made one from a 360 ? that and hedders really woke that car up ! and the meep meep horn was funny !
Wait... I vaguely think I thought I remember these now!
So this kind of means in a crazy wacky round about way, I grew up and learned to drive in dad's green/green 77' Plymouth Volare' Slant 6 wagon "RoadRunner"?! We just needed the horn and stripe kit to be cooler!
I’d love to have one of these, or the aspen r/T’s or the kit cars with the petty stuff on it
I thought for sure you would wire the horn to test it.
So it didn't beep
A kid in Highschool had one of these but my brother had a 1972RR so we thought these stunk back then. Shame that one is sitting like that. Can it be saved I wonder.
Awesome stuff Steve! 🇺🇸💪🏼
Steve, you should have brought a small battery with you to see if it would still work. That would have been super cool! My brother had the Aspen RT. It was a great looking car. Smog dog 360.
Far, sad cry from the Roadrunner's glory days. Nice "Beep Beep" imitation Steve lol.
Good car information where do you get your hair dye...
This and graveyard cars are my favorites on cable, and Steve has a great wealth of Mopar knowledge in his head. As far as I'm concerned, they stopped making roadrockers after 74 and all American automobiles pretty much sucked at that point..Volare is that example and are fugly..With that being said, I can appreciate what it is considering the times in which we live. My 3rd Mopar was a 70, which was the last year of the better looking body style and don't really care for them much after that.