The Road Runner — named for the famous bird from "Looney Tunes" — was a hit for Plymouth in the late 60s and early 70s.
In the Modern Age of American Muscle, there has been an absolutely insane horsepower war with supercharged V-8s hitting over 1,000 horsepower, propelling cars to single-digit quarter-mile times.
While there were some outliers here and there in the lineup — early-60s first-generation C-series trucks had square-ish wheel wells — GMC and Chevy wheel ... in the early '70s, did a bunch ...
Cars were different back in 1947 you had to crank them up so I've always wondered what the cars of the future would be like and this is it." He expressed pride at being the first older person to ...