1968 Plymouth Road Runner Hemi on 2040-cars
Winters, California, United States
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Galen Govier Registered Road Runner with Hemi
1968 Road Runner two-door pillar coupe with the desired high-performance Hemi
426 Stage II engine (period correct), the embodiment of what real muscle cars should be – no frills and packed
with power.
Not many production cars dominated the street and strip like the Hemi-equipped Road Runner in the late Sixties.
When it first rolled off the assembly line in 1968, the legendary Road Runner with the 425-horsepower engine,
instantly became an icon for everything that was good about the muscle car era.
The first generation Road Runner, as seen, with the fabled Hemi continues to excite astute collectors for its role
in automotive history, including its impressive racing heritage.
Today, 47 years after it first rolled off the assembly floor for the Chrysler Corporation’s Plymouth division in
Lynch Road, Michigan, the Hemi-equipped Road Runner, based on the Belvedere platform, still remains in a class of
its own.
Not content with anything less than perfection, its previous owner took this ’68 Road Runner pillar coupe to JMC
Performance less than two years ago, and embarked on a complete frame-off, rotisserie-style restoration. No less
than $45,000 went into the restoration to bring the car to this level of condition.
However, not before Mopar specialist, Galen’s Registry of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, decoded VIN RM21J8A225551
and the styling tags, which ultimately told the detailed and accurate story of a factory 426 cubic-inch Hemi Road
Runner outfitted with torsion bar and leaf spring Hemi suspension, a Torqueflite automatic transmission and the
nortorious Stage II package. According to Galen’s Registry, this car was the real deal.
It is also a limited-run coupe in automatic trim, in fact, only 390 automatics were produced in 1968, and very few
of those original cars remain – either destroyed by accidents, or have since rusted away.
We learned that Galen’s Registry researched this car’s production history down to its Beep Beep sounding horn
assembly and radio delete, silver and black vinyl interior package with the split bench seat, which were
beautifully restored by JMC.
Now on the road after being meticulously reassembled from tip to tip with a period-correct Hemi, the car looks and
sounds incredible.
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'71 Plymouth Hemi Cuda Convertible sells for $3.5M [w/video]
Mon, 16 Jun 2014
We're plenty used to seeing classic cars selling for millions of dollars. It's just that they're usually European: Ferraris, Bugattis, Mercedes and the like. There are some rare American exceptions, usually wearing the names Duesenberg or Shelby. But what we have here is the most expensive Chrysler product ever sold at auction.
The vehicle in question is a Plymouth Barracuda - specifically a 1971 Hemi Cuda Convertible, chassis #BS27R1B315367 - that Mecum Auctions just sold after eight solid minutes of feverish bidding for a high bid of $3.5 million at its auction in Seattle, Washington. That figure positively eclipses the $2.2 million paid for a strikingly similar Hemi Cuda (chassis #BS27R1B269588) fetched nearly seven years ago in Scottsdale and another that was the first muscle car to break the million-dollar mark in 2002.
SRT belatedly claims Plymouth Prowler as one of its own
Wed, 19 Dec 2012Before Chrysler had Street and Racing Technology, it had Performance Vehicle Operations. What the two entities have in common, before SRT became its own brand, of course, is that each was created to take Chrysler and Dodge (and Plymouth, before it was unceremoniously killed off) vehicles to the next level of style and performance.
We'll leave the question of whether or not the old Plymouth (and later Chrysler) Prowler was ultimately a stylish, performance-oriented car to you, but the boys and girls currently leading the SRT charge at the Pentastar headquarters are keen to accept the retro-rod into the fold.
According to the automaker, all of SRT's current high-performance models owe a debt of gratitude to the old Prowler, due mostly to that car's use of lightweight bits and pieces and innovative construction techniques. If nothing else, the fact that the Prowler's frame is "the largest machined automotive part in history" is pretty cool. Read all the details here.
US Marshal's classic muscle car auction officially in the books
Thu, 25 Sep 2014The US Marshal's so-called Blood Muscle Auction was completed earlier this month, with the prestigious nine-car field (two cars were added following Autoblog's initial story, a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 and a rare, mid-restoration 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda) finding new and hopefully law-abiding owners.
While we'd normally recap the stars of the show, in this particular auction, every car's sale was newsworthy. The full list of sale prices doesn't seem to be published, but according to The New York Times, the auction brought in a total of $2.5 million, or an average of about $277,000 per car.
The king of the contest seems to be a 1970 Plymouth Superbird (above, right), complete with a 426-cubic-inch Hemi V8, which brought home $575,000. The trio of Yenko Chevys, meanwhile, all easily cleared the six-figure mark, with the Yenko Camaro (above, far right) clearing $315,000, the Chevelle crossing the block for $237,500 and the supremely rare - one of just 37 - Yenko Nova (shown above, left) selling for an even $400,000.