Remembering the 1969 Roadrunner

[Narragansett]

My first new car. A pale yellow with the wide flat black hood stripes. Mine was 2975.00 OTD including the the sales tax and registration. Mine had the following options: black vinyl top, power steering, torqueflite transmission, and rugs. The standard interior had rubber mats. 3:23 gears in the rear end. 4 speeds had 3:55 gears as standard. It was fast and pretty. Wish I still had it, but I do know what town it is in, and it has been restored.

Road runners had a wiring flaw. If you turned on the radio, pulled down the directional signal, turned on the flashers and stepped on the brake the radio would play with the key absent from the ignition.

The only issue I have with the ad is the red line Firestone tires were used on GM muscle cars. The Roadrunners came standard with Goodyear F70-14 raised letter polyglas tires

 

[kraynky]

But the most important part,........ what engine?

I miss seeing those old cars on the roads!

 

[yaktamer]

But the most important part,........ what engine?

Horizontally opposed four.

 

[DeplorabusUnum]

Wow, I have not seen one of those in decades. A guy on my high school football team had one. It was Orange, and it was fast. Beautiful looking car in the day, and I was a bit jealous.

 

[poprivit]

Mine was a 383 with a four speed, and side pipes on headers.

 

[Yaworski]

Mine was a 383 with a four speed, and side pipes on headers.

OK, I'm confused. You have the army logo displayed but there's two sailors posing with your car.

 

[Narragansett]

But the most important part,........ what engine?

I miss seeing those old cars on the roads!

The 383/335hp. I test drove a used 426 Hemi 1968, but did not end up buying it. Awesome engine!!

 

[Onomea]

OK, I'm confused. You have the army logo displayed but there's two sailors posing with your car.

So poprivit must be the attractive and future army vet in between the two sailors...?

 

[Yaworski]

So poprivit must be the attractive and future army vet in between the two sailors...?

Maybe so. I guess that I'm being sexist by assuming that a Roadrunner owner on a gun forum would be a guy.

 

[Breakaway500]

MOPAR: move over..people are racing!

 

[armadillo]

Me too moment - also my first new car. Mine was a hard-top, metallic brown with a cream color roof. I remember the sticker being about $3,200.

It actually had the 330 hp police interceptor 383 and a 4 speed with the 3.23 rear end. It would fly on the long straight Texas highways.

I got married the next year and my new wife couldn't drive a stick. Bye-bye Roadrunner.

 

[Doug M.]

Good grief. Should have taught her. I taught mine on a manual, and my mom learned to drive a manual in her mid-40s. My wife bemoans the fact that getting a car with a manual now is just about impossible.

 

[notsofast]

I had a Mopar in high school too, a '64 Plymouth Savoy 4 door. Slant 6 motor, typewriter transmission selector, no air, no power, but it did have radio delete

 

[m75rlg]

In '69 I had a 1960 Plymouth Valiant, slant 6 with a Holly one barrell carb, pushbutton transmission selector that wouldn't always go in reverse. Also had an 8-track tape player in it.

Had it painted Petty Blue, crome reverse wheels, and replaced the hood release in the center of the grill with a carved walnut piece that my sister painted Wiley Coyote on. (That was the year Richard Petty was driving a Road Runner on the NASCAR circut and we both lived in Randolph County.)

Wish I had a photo!

 

[MSgt G]

OK, I'm confused. You have the army logo displayed but there's two sailors posing with your car.

Army. Navy. They're both four letter words.

 

[4barrel]

Lots of lug nuts were twisted off. The left side was left hand threads.

 

[Retired W4]

Hard to make it out but it's back there. Bought this one new while in flight school. 383/335, 4-speed, And it had the GTX interior, white buckets w/console. Excuse the ex-wife sitting on my 1970 BSA 441 Victor Special in the foreground. They are all gone now. I miss two out of the three.

 

[quikdraw67]

Good grief. Should have taught her. I taught mine on a manual, and my mom learned to drive a manual in her mid-40s. My wife bemoans the fact that getting a car with a manual now is just about impossible.

Even the new C8 Corvette is automatic transmission only.

 

[Catwrangler]

Roadrunner of that era are hard to find. Too many were driven off a curve, stuffed into the woods or rolled into a field. Muscle cars of that era all shared a common trait.
Fast in a straight line, but don't expect it to change directions or stop! Friend had a 67 SS 396 that had a 409 motor and he went wide in a turn and rolled it twice. It was a closed coffin service....

 

[jbtrucker]

1970's my cousin in Detroit had a Green 69 383 4 speed my other cousin in ST Louis had Orange Coronet Super Bee 440