My favorite car of all time.....I had a '70 Roadrunner and hate myself for ever letting it go....especially for a Nova! Youth and judgement don't go hand in hand. Kevin, you always have a great show. Wish you guys could drive the cars, tho. Keep the Faith
Tom Nekuda thanks for the kind words! We did not drive the cars in some of our earlier episodes, but as the series goes on, we drive the cars and sometimes pretty hard! We invite you to check them out. Thanks for watching!
The Wile-e coyote in this case, Lester, is my dad! He is STILL a car fanatic :) Although he's had MANY cars since then, this seems to be one of his favorites. He drove this car to Florida for a family vacation when I was about 2 years old. Apparently I was teething and bit the dash, leaving bite-marks. He and mom never let me live it down and always teased me about that. It became known as the Road Runner that had Laura's teeth marks in the dash LOL! If I was rich, I'd buy this car for him today. If only I had money instead of good teeth. :)
in 1985 my math teacher owned a 1970 dart swinger 340 4-speed which he bought brand-new. In the classroom he had a wall which had stacks of Cars Illustrated & others from the late-50s to the early 70s. I never forgot this 69 A12 car in its testing. He would let me go home with 5-6 old magazines at a time. Needless to say I'm not that good at math. Thanks Mr. Boldock.
The 12.9 second A-12 440 Six Pack that everyone is so fond of quoting was a ringer. Years after the test, in Hot Rod December 1999, Ro McGonegal who tested the car for Super Stock Magazine with Ronnie Sox, admitted that the car was modified. It had a 276/292 degree camshaft, carburetor and ignition tuning, port matching, 3 angle valve job, pocket porting, higher compression pistons and combustion chambers cc’d. That being said, in my opinion the A12 was the baddest and most intimidating muscle car built back then.
My dad had a 1968 Plymouth GTX basically the same body just different trim and stuff. His was a 440 super commando auto car. He ran a 10” inch slick on it and ran 12’s with it. Wish he would have held onto it.
A guy that worked at my Uncle's gas station bought one of these new. I was there one Saturday afternoon when he was putting a fresh set of plugs in it. He set the hood on it but didn't pin it. Backed out on the street and nailed it. The hood flew up over the car and floated perfectly to the ground right side up. He stopped and backed up 30 ft or so and ran over it. He ordered a new hood. That car was orange. He had it until the snow started falling and traded it for something else. His had a pistol grip handle in it, first time I ever saw one, first 6pack car, first burnout, first attempt to put a hood into orbit.
if you have ever owned and driven one you would be hooked. i had a a12 superbee 4spd in hemi orange. every time I took it out I jumped on it. most unreal car I owned and I have had aclot of cars.
I take mine off by myself easily. One hand on the front edge, one upside down inside the scoop against the bottom of the scoop. It IS fiberglass, but it isn't real light, right around 35lbs, about half of a steel one.
***** Right built for one thing only to kick ass. A lot of people think these cars were boats and heavy there actually not heavy at all and that 440 6 pack motor was faster than the Hemi!
JC B You have a couple things right. The 6 bbl 69 Road Runner A-12 was/is a very fast car. It's also one of the coolest cars to come from ma mopar. Also..... The Road Runner was much lighter than it looked and then most people think it is. The one thing ill have to disagree with.... It's not faster than a HEMI Car, atleast most of them. How do i know? I still own one. It does NOT have the original engine it when racing today though. I pulled the 6 bbl and have it resting nicely unharmed with fairly low mileage on it. I had it documented when i pulled it out. I have a max wedge ( 426) built in there now. Anyhow i got the Runner when i was 16 for 3,500.00 Very low mileage and she just went a 1/4 at a time for a good while. Then prices just kept climbing on mopars and the rarer ones like crazy. Just incase someday i wanted to sell it, I wanted it all original and a non rebuilt engine with low mileage on it. I have that now BUT..... im 53yrs old and if i have not sold it by now, doubt i will, actually i know i wont My boy will get it. Ok thats the cars story. The Hemi cars and this Road Runner. I started racing this when i was 19. I also had been given a 1970 RT/SE Charger 440 From my grandfather which i still have. I raced /race that too but i also Daily Drove it except for Chicago winters. Anyhow the Road Runner became my 1/4 track car. I ran ALOT OF RACES with the 6 bbl in it and i was lucky enough to get alot of HEMI competition as well as other 6 bbls and 6 packs ( same thing for those who dont know) one is a plymouth and one Dodge. I also ran some crazy fast 6 bbl 340s, 340s, 440s and built up 383s as well as the other mentioned engines. Even ran max wedge cars ( both 413 and 426) CROSS RAMS and a very few 392 HEMIs ( original ones) and 354 HEMIS ( original) Back in that day, mid to late 70s THERE WERE still PLENTY OF HEMI Cars around on the streets of Chicago and at great lakes dragaway and the now gone US 30 Raceway. I would race anything. Even a 318 if they pulled beside me but i tried for the heavy hitters. Stock and built. I have pictures of me racing i believe 17 HEMICars and slips where i wrote what kind of car i raced. That i have documented I raced 31 HEMI CARS stock. I was stock as well. Anyways i got beat a total of 22times. I won 9 times. Remember i had the good rear and gearing and the car is built for racing like the Hemis. At that time, people had more than figured out how to adjust the carbs the way the Hemi's liked, set the timing and figured out that the plugs had to be changed alot. Those cars stock like that were running mid 12's- 13 flat on those tires and nothing else. Then you would get the people that just didnt keep up on them and that engine would run mostly the magazine times or even a little slower. 13.2 ( Cuda) to 13.65 Charger which was heavy. So.... No the 6 bbl was not faster than the HEMI unless you just kept running and running the Hemi no matter how poorly it was running
Holy cow 22.90s on shit tires. Imagine that brute with headers and soft compound N40 mickeys. Pulling up next to you on the dragstrip any camaro' chevelle or nova owner would shit themselves when they saw that lift off hood. Translation. Im gonna get beat BAD. LOL
Actually the coolest mopar is the belveder's with the aluminum front ends with the stickers on the fenders saying don't lean on fender aluminum! Those cars if you can find a real one,i can't even begin to imagine what that things worth . I know there's not many.
My name is Leonard Henderson that is a cool car my uncle had a road runner I love that thing it was orange and it was all based out of Atlanta Georgia I couldn’t tell you how much I love that car it had a horse in the floor it was so cool from this day I’ll never forget the car and I’m 72 years old I sure wish I had one this old man well could never get one but I can keep dreaming so thank you watching this video it takes me back to the day maybe one day before have any father call me oh well thank you
SanFranciscoBay - The Hemi engine refers to the shape of the combustion chamber being hemispherically shaped which put the valves at opposing angles instead of parallel like all other engines. This allowed a more efficient combustion airflow which when tuned correctly was the fastest production engine made. It was also very heavy and the block was thicker than a regular engine because it was made for racing. And could be supercharged stock and used in drag cars. So efficient that NASCAR banned them, the NHRA gave Pro Stocks running it at the time a weight penalty of a pound per cubic inch. It is the architecture of ALL Top Fuel engines today. The 440 on the other hand was a big block normal or flat combustion chamber engine that was in street trim just as fast. It took a real mechanic to make a Hemi run on the street, a 440 could be tuned by anyone. I grew up in that time and was a Mech. Engineer that's how I know....
That red is so bad a$$ n better than the orange n green! Awsome! N 2 add i didnt notice but it has the turn signals on top the fenders above the headlights also i have 2 sets of them for sale!
I think they mentioned how roadrunner got horn on graveyard cars TV show. They asked manufacturers if they had beep beep horn it was pulled off stock deuce and half truck.
I'm looking at the very article and Ronnie never got into the twelve's. Out of 10 runs, his best was a 13.00 @111 MPH..."air cleaner and mufflers operating, street tires only"
Very nice choice for car of the week roadrunners are in my top five of most favorite cars ironically except for what is probably the most popular de 1970 I just don't like what they did with the grill anyway do you have any good say 1969 GTX cars to show that's easily in my top five as well and you may have already done a video on them and I missed it if so I apologize
I'm the third owner of my 68 Roadrunner, my dad was owner number two . He bought it in 73 . My Roadrunner was his daily driver . He gave it to me and I drove it thought out high school and college before I stoped going . When I see how beautiful my car can look with time and alot of money it completely demoralizes me. I'm a regular guy who has been blessed with good sense and the ability to work hard . But realistically it would take atleast $25,000.00 dollars to get my car in a local car show let alone like the one the guys selling , even in the good shape it's in now . I guess if I can't do a complete rotisserie build on it I can atleast drive it like a bat out if hell when ever I want lol. By the way I would take donations to restore my car if you guys dont mind , Lol just kidding..... or am I. Hehe
That car has to be worth some serious money. You can't put a price on it! Imagine having a custom sheet metal intake to take them three carbs and put a vortech t-trim or ys-trim under there right into to the 10's!
Who are "The Brother's" and how is it they have the best of the best. Money talks, I get that part. And apparently, "they" are some rich boys that don't want anyone else to play with their toys. They will show you some of what they got but you can't have it. This is the sort of thing that fuels resentment towards the rich. I personally have no such resentment, well maybe a little. They are preserving some of the best cars ever produced.
probably the fastest ? Yah right ,Dodge couldn't even tell ,no Rolling Road Dyno Print outs, Cheap Dodge ,Same goes for today 2016/17 Dodge still Would'nt Confirm official Engine #'s Torque & Useless hp.
Chrysler under rated their engines so much, we all know a Hemi makes more 425 horsepower and that 440 six pack….lol trying to tell me it makes less than 400 horsepower makes me grin.
My favorite car of all time.....I had a '70 Roadrunner and hate myself for ever letting it go....especially for a Nova! Youth and judgement don't go hand in hand. Kevin, you always have a great show. Wish you guys could drive the cars, tho. Keep the Faith
Tom Nekuda thanks for the kind words! We did not drive the cars in some of our earlier episodes, but as the series goes on, we drive the cars and sometimes pretty hard! We invite you to check them out. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for these videos. To me this is the ultimate muscle car.
The Wile-e coyote in this case, Lester, is my dad! He is STILL a car fanatic :) Although he's had MANY cars since then, this seems to be one of his favorites. He drove this car to Florida for a family vacation when I was about 2 years old. Apparently I was teething and bit the dash, leaving bite-marks. He and mom never let me live it down and always teased me about that. It became known as the Road Runner that had Laura's teeth marks in the dash LOL! If I was rich, I'd buy this car for him today. If only I had money instead of good teeth. :)
Nice choice! Just love those Road Runners. Thank You for highlighting this beautiful car.
what is this, its no exist, is the legeng, beautfull everything beautfull history, beautfull collor, beautfull restauration no have more words
It can be my muscle car of the week any time! How nice is this... 440. Six Pack. 4 speed. Wish it was mine. Beep Beep!
Yeah I used to owned 69 Roadrunner
Paint mine black.
John D. Falcone Do you have any photos of your Roadrunner? I've seen your Dart and Challenger, but not your Roadrunner…..
What about your Roadrunner Paul, I've seen photos of your Super Bee, but not your Roadrunner, do you have any photos of it?
Ty Turco. No picture... I just brought and took 440 out then the body goes to junk. Very bad body. I brought for $300.00. That 440 goes to Dart. :)
in 1985 my math teacher owned a 1970 dart swinger 340 4-speed which he bought brand-new. In the classroom he had a wall which had stacks of Cars Illustrated & others from the late-50s to the early 70s. I never forgot this 69 A12 car in its testing. He would let me go home with 5-6 old magazines at a time. Needless to say I'm not that good at math. Thanks Mr. Boldock.
The 12.9 second A-12 440 Six Pack that everyone is so fond of quoting was a ringer. Years after the test, in Hot Rod December 1999, Ro McGonegal who tested the car for Super Stock Magazine with Ronnie Sox, admitted that the car was modified. It had a 276/292 degree camshaft, carburetor and ignition tuning, port matching, 3 angle valve job, pocket porting, higher compression pistons and combustion chambers cc’d.
That being said, in my opinion the A12 was the baddest and most intimidating muscle car built back then.
That being said..if all that work and higher compression were true that A12 would have been faster than 12.9
My dad had a 1968 Plymouth GTX basically the same body just different trim and stuff. His was a 440 super commando auto car. He ran a 10” inch slick on it and ran 12’s with it. Wish he would have held onto it.
A guy that worked at my Uncle's gas station bought one of these new. I was there one Saturday afternoon when he was putting a fresh set of plugs in it. He set the hood on it but didn't pin it. Backed out on the street and nailed it. The hood flew up over the car and floated perfectly to the ground right side up. He stopped and backed up 30 ft or so and ran over it. He ordered a new hood. That car was orange. He had it until the snow started falling and traded it for something else. His had a pistol grip handle in it, first time I ever saw one, first 6pack car, first burnout, first attempt to put a hood into orbit.
man! this car really got a great history , i totally love that Road Runner!
Absolutely the best muscle car of all time!!!!!!
Love your videos! This is my exact dream classic muscle car! One day this will be in my collection! Love the AM radio!
if you have ever owned and driven one you would be hooked. i had a a12 superbee 4spd in hemi orange. every time I took it out I jumped on it. most unreal car I owned and I have had aclot of cars.
Damn those were the days!
Oh ok. Love the show. Would love to see a 1962 galaxie on here. I have an all original 1962 galaxie 406 3 dueces 4 speed car
The look on your faces when you're lifting the hood off is priceless - it's like "DON'T EFFING DROP IT!!":@D
I take mine off by myself easily. One hand on the front edge, one upside down inside the scoop against the bottom of the scoop. It IS fiberglass, but it isn't real light, right around 35lbs, about half of a steel one.
all that and you didn't even start it up...... this is my dream car, One day I will own one
This is the baddest mopar in my book,i like the 68 charger too!
+JC B
I agree.
***** Right built for one thing only to kick ass. A lot of people think these cars were boats and heavy there actually not heavy at all and that 440 6 pack motor was faster than the Hemi!
JC B
You have a couple things right.
The 6 bbl 69 Road Runner A-12 was/is a very fast car. It's also one of the coolest cars to come from ma mopar.
Also..... The Road Runner was much lighter than it looked and then most people think it is.
The one thing ill have to disagree with....
It's not faster than a HEMI Car, atleast most of them.
How do i know?
I still own one.
It does NOT have the original engine it when racing today though.
I pulled the 6 bbl and have it resting nicely unharmed with fairly low mileage on it. I had it documented when i pulled it out.
I have a max wedge ( 426) built in there now.
Anyhow i got the Runner when i was 16 for 3,500.00
Very low mileage and she just went a 1/4 at a time for a good while. Then prices just kept climbing on mopars and the rarer ones like crazy. Just incase someday i wanted to sell it, I wanted it all original and a non rebuilt engine with low mileage on it.
I have that now BUT..... im 53yrs old and if i have not sold it by now, doubt i will, actually i know i wont My boy will get it. Ok thats the cars story.
The Hemi cars and this Road Runner.
I started racing this when i was 19. I also had been given a 1970 RT/SE Charger 440 From my grandfather which i still have. I raced /race that too but i also Daily Drove it except for Chicago winters.
Anyhow the Road Runner became my 1/4 track car.
I ran ALOT OF RACES with the 6 bbl in it and i was lucky enough to get alot of HEMI competition as well as other 6 bbls and 6 packs ( same thing for those who dont know) one is a plymouth and one Dodge. I also ran some crazy fast 6 bbl 340s, 340s, 440s and built up 383s as well as the other mentioned engines.
Even ran max wedge cars ( both 413 and 426) CROSS RAMS and a very few 392 HEMIs ( original ones) and 354 HEMIS ( original)
Back in that day, mid to late 70s THERE WERE still PLENTY OF HEMI Cars around on the streets of Chicago and at great lakes dragaway and the now gone US 30 Raceway.
I would race anything. Even a 318 if they pulled beside me but i tried for the heavy hitters. Stock and built.
I have pictures of me racing i believe 17 HEMICars and slips where i wrote what kind of car i raced.
That i have documented I raced 31 HEMI CARS stock.
I was stock as well. Anyways i got beat a total of 22times. I won 9 times.
Remember i had the good rear and gearing and the car is built for racing like the Hemis.
At that time, people had more than figured out how to adjust the carbs the way the Hemi's liked, set the timing and figured out that the plugs had to be changed alot.
Those cars stock like that were running mid 12's- 13 flat on those tires and nothing else. Then you would get the people that just didnt keep up on them and that engine would run mostly the magazine times or even a little slower. 13.2 ( Cuda) to 13.65 Charger which was heavy.
So.... No the 6 bbl was not faster than the HEMI unless you just kept running and running the Hemi no matter how poorly it was running
Great car with a great history. Thanks for sharing....
my friend had one same car but the motor was changed to a 318 thank you for your video and your service
318 thats a shame
Torque rating was actually about 490lb/feet not 420ld/ft.
That is the baddest mopar ever!
I should own that A 12 Road Runner. Just Awesome!!!
Gold, pure gold! Thanks for the upload.
Sweet car.
My dream car since my dad almost bought one when I was 16.
You’ve got my attention
I am a mopar girl
My first car was a matalic green with a vynal white roof with a hood scoop......👍🏼
Holy cow 22.90s on shit tires. Imagine that brute with headers and soft compound N40 mickeys. Pulling up next to you on the dragstrip any camaro' chevelle or nova owner would shit themselves when they saw that lift off hood. Translation. Im gonna get beat BAD. LOL
Great car, great video. Thank you.
Actually the coolest mopar is the belveder's with the aluminum front ends with the stickers on the fenders saying don't lean on fender aluminum! Those cars if you can find a real one,i can't even begin to imagine what that things worth . I know there's not many.
My name is Leonard Henderson that is a cool car my uncle had a road runner I love that thing it was orange and it was all based out of Atlanta Georgia I couldn’t tell you how much I love that car it had a horse in the floor it was so cool from this day I’ll never forget the car and I’m 72 years old I sure wish I had one this old man well could never get one but I can keep dreaming so thank you watching this video it takes me back to the day maybe one day before have any father call me oh well thank you
i think its amazing that willey (wile-e coyote) got the road runner :)
01:11 they seem nervous about lifting the hood, wide eyes and a super serious look.
In general, what made the Hemi engine so special and how does it compare to the 440?
SanFranciscoBay - The Hemi engine refers to the shape of the combustion chamber being hemispherically shaped which put the valves at opposing angles instead of parallel like all other engines. This allowed a more efficient combustion airflow which when tuned correctly was the fastest production engine made. It was also very heavy and the block was thicker than a regular engine because it was made for racing. And could be supercharged stock and used in drag cars. So efficient that NASCAR banned them, the NHRA gave Pro Stocks running it at the time a weight penalty of a pound per cubic inch. It is the architecture of ALL Top Fuel engines today. The 440 on the other hand was a big block normal or flat combustion chamber engine that was in street trim just as fast. It took a real mechanic to make a Hemi run on the street, a 440 could be tuned by anyone. I grew up in that time and was a Mech. Engineer that's how I know....
You really do great reviews!
Luv these cars gtx also
At the 1:03 Mark it says the 440 six pack made 420 pound feet of torque. That's incorrect. It was rated at 490 foot pound feet of torque.
That red is so bad a$$ n better than the orange n green! Awsome! N 2 add i didnt notice but it has the turn signals on top the fenders above the headlights also i have 2 sets of them for sale!
I think they mentioned how roadrunner got horn on graveyard cars TV show. They asked manufacturers if they had beep beep horn it was pulled off stock deuce and half truck.
5 years ago? Sorry I'm late Kev! Beautiful car and nice video
Six pack was Dodge and Six Barrel was Plymouth
I'm looking at the very article and Ronnie never got into the twelve's. Out of 10 runs, his best was a 13.00 @111 MPH..."air cleaner and mufflers operating, street tires only"
The article claimed it ran 12s after removing the air cleaner assembly.
There's a guy who lives in my town who has the exact same car except it's all original along with two 1969 gtx hemi's
Does that factory tach show a redline of 5,000? I know it's a low-end torque monster, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't at least wind to 5,500.
Factory rated peak power at 4700 rpm. It will go 5500, but power is pretty much done by 5000. A bigger cam made a lot of difference .
Love it!
I'd like to know more about the green Pontiac wagon in the background of this video. Is there anywhere on the net where that car has been shown? TY
Nice
Very nice choice for car of the week roadrunners are in my top five of most favorite cars ironically except for what is probably the most popular de 1970 I just don't like what they did with the grill anyway do you have any good say 1969 GTX cars to show that's easily in my top five as well and you may have already done a video on them and I missed it if so I apologize
I'm the third owner of my 68 Roadrunner, my dad was owner number two . He bought it in 73 . My Roadrunner was his daily driver . He gave it to me and I drove it thought out high school and college before I stoped going . When I see how beautiful my car can look with time and alot of money it completely demoralizes me. I'm a regular guy who has been blessed with good sense and the ability to work hard . But realistically it would take atleast $25,000.00 dollars to get my car in a local car show let alone like the one the guys selling , even in the good shape it's in now . I guess if I can't do a complete rotisserie build on it I can atleast drive it like a bat out if hell when ever I want lol. By the way I would take donations to restore my car if you guys dont mind , Lol just kidding..... or am I. Hehe
I think the torque specs are wrong I think it was 490
That letter is from the late Dick Maxwell... (V)opar
That car has to be worth some serious money. You can't put a price on it! Imagine having a custom sheet metal intake to take them three carbs and put a vortech t-trim or ys-trim under there right into to the 10's!
Nice c a r
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Was Joe Oldham involved with the magazine review?
Wow it has fiberoptics too! Weird
Who are "The Brother's" and how is it they have the best of the best. Money talks, I get that part. And apparently, "they" are some rich boys that don't want anyone else to play with their toys. They will show you some of what they got but you can't have it. This is the sort of thing that fuels resentment towards the rich. I personally have no such resentment, well maybe a little. They are preserving some of the best cars ever produced.
Wasn't this car just sold at Barrett Jackson?
Andy Panter This was not the car that sold at Barrett-Jackson, there was a similar looking green Cobra that sold, however.
60 psi? Way too much.
Paint job is just too shiny. Didn't fire it up.😟👎. Trailer Queen. Bummer. I'll never understand car hoarders. To each his own.
Car hoarder? They bought the damn thing they can do what they want. It's a part of automobile history.
looks like whoever did the restoration was after a 100% correct appearance, but why use a generic neg battery cable with a 2 bolt clamp?
WHERE ARE CHEVY'S ! !
Go to a chevy page beep beep
probably the fastest ? Yah right ,Dodge couldn't even tell ,no Rolling Road Dyno Print outs, Cheap Dodge ,Same goes for today 2016/17 Dodge still Would'nt Confirm official Engine #'s Torque & Useless hp.
Chrysler under rated their engines so much, we all know a Hemi makes more 425 horsepower and that 440 six pack….lol trying to tell me it makes less than 400 horsepower makes me grin.
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