Vehicle Description
Gateway Classic Cars Houston Showroom is excited to present this
very nasty 1969 Plymouth Road Runner for sale. Introduced in 1968
as a trim level for the Plymouth Belvedere, the Road Runner was
designed to be a "no frills" muscle car, just a simple car with a
big engine. Trim-wise, it was fit between the highest trim GTX and
the slightly lower trim-level Satellite. The Road Runner sold
double its expected numbers in the first year, becoming a
tremendous success! This Road Runner is painted a dark purple
metalflake that's so dark it looks black under most lighting, so
whenever you take it to your cruise meets, you'll want to bring
some extra lights to shine on it to bring out that sparkle - it's
quite something! There's even a slightly lighter purple ghost flame
treatment around the blower opening in the hood, which really pops
in bright light. The chrome trim has all been treated to the same
paint, furthering the "midnight assassin" look of this gnarly
street terrorizer.This Road Runner has taken the concept of "giant
engine in a bare-bones performance car" a few steps further than
the norm. For starters, this beast does have the largest
displacement engine that could be had in a Mopar in 1969, but the
massive 440 CID V8 (that sits mostly) under the hood has been
punched out .030", filled with goodies, and topped with dual Holley
4BBL carbs, a giant BDS blower and an NOS plate nitrous system. The
mill is equipped with ported and polished aluminum Edelbrock
Performer RPM heads, a Callies forged crankshaft, Eagle connecting
rods, Diamond pistons, and Clevite bearings. It's kept cool by a
giant aluminum radiator with twin electric fans. Chromed long tube
headers feed into the dual 4" exhaust, providing a very muscular
sound.Although the supercharger is pushing 10psi of boost, neither
we nor its owner know what the NOS system is jetted to (he's never
used it), so getting an idea of what it's capable of putting down
on the dyno will require some fiddling around with different NOS
jets. However, let's just say that this bad boy is already putting
down some serious torque where the massive 33X18.50-15LT M/T ET
Street slicks meet the pavement. Behind the huge blower-topped 440
is a performance built 727 TorqueFlite 3-speed automatic
transmission, which has a reverse manual valve body configuration:
a great setup for those trips down the 1320, which this car has
been built for. Out back, the Dana 60 rear has been filled with a
set of 4.88:1 gears, so this baby's quick off the line when you
drop the hammer!Drivers will immediately recognize the Line Lock
switch and NOS buttons on the shifter, and may find themselves
wanting to see "what this thing feels like at WOT a lot" (couldn't
resist a little rhyme regarding the wide open throttle actuation of
the NOS)...If the driver likes to be running WOT frequently,
they'll be grateful for the Wilwood multi-piston calipers hiding
behind the Weld Racing wheels up front; which, along with the heavy
duty Mopar finned drums out back, help bring this brawling beast to
a stop quickly. The front tires are 28X7.50-15LT M/T Sportsman
skinnies, and with the huge M/T "cheater slicks" out back, go a
long way toward providing that vintage late 1960's muscle car
stance and overall look.Inside, the rear passenger area has been
"reconfigured slightly", because with its tubbed back half and
8-point roll cage, there's no longer a rear seat! Instead, that
area is now nicely carpeted and/or covered in black synthetic
leather. In front, the buckets are done in black woven fabric with
synthetic leather trim and are equipped with multi-point RJS Racing
harnesses. The overhead console area contains all the necessary
switches for starting this beast up and keeping it lit, and a full
complement of AutoMeter gauges (tach, boost pressure, fuel
pressure, oil pressure, volts, and water temp) help the driver
monitor critical systems' status. Out back, a fully adjustable
multi-link Chassis Engineering rear drag suspension helps this
hulking B-body plant all that big 440's blown power to the ground
and keep it pointed down the track. If you're looking for that
classic 1960's era Mopar muscle car that has a little extra
lagniappe, you've found it. Call our Houston showroom to make it
yours!
