OWNERS NAME: Thomas Kosky

YEAR: 1969

MAKE: Plymouth

MODEL: Road Runner

SUB MODEL: Convertible

BRIEF MANUFACTURER DETAILS AND SIGNIFICANT HISTORY OF CAR:

The Plymouth Road Runner is a muscle car introduced by Chrysler in the United States for the 1968 model year and marketed under its Plymouth brand. Initially based on the Belvedere, the brand’s basic mid-size model, the Road Runner combined a powerful engine with a spartan trim level and a price that undercut increasingly upscale and expensive muscle cars such as the Pontiac GTO and Plymouth’s own GTX. It was initially a sales success.

The Road Runner was built in three generations on the mid-size B platform. Like most muscle cars, its performance and sales declined in the 1970s due to an increasing focus on fuel economy and the adoption of more stringent U.S. emission standards.

Plymouth paid $50,000 to Warner Bros.-Seven Arts to use the Road Runner name and likeness from their Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoons (as well as a “beep, beep” horn, which Plymouth paid $10,000 to develop).

BRIEF STORY OF THIS PARTICULAR VEHICLE:

The Plymouth Road Runner was named Motor Trend’s Car of the Year for 1969. A total number of 84,420 were produced in three body styles: 2 – door coupes ~ 33,743 (40.0%); 2 – door hardtops ~ 48,549 (57.5%); and convertibles ~ 2,128 (2.5%). All convertibles were equipped with a 383 CID with the exception of 10 that were equipped with a 426 CID Hemi. Of the convertibles produced 769 were equipped with 4 speed manual transmissions!

This 69 Road Runner is one of 769 Road Runner Convertibles produced, equipped with a 383CID engine, a 4 – speed manual transmission, an air grabber hood, and a 3.55 rear axle. The car is matching numbers and was assembled in St. Louis, MO,