
Jack Notman’s 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner 383 V8 Convertible: Going Topless
This Road Runner is one of only 174 383/4-speed convertibles built.
This Road Runner is one of only 174 383/4-speed convertibles built.
Driving a classic is like suddenly hearing one of your favourite songs on the radio after listening to endless nondescript music,”
. If I had Leo Kingsbury’s muscle car, I know my glove compartment would be stuffed with speeding tickets.
Though the Mustang 302 Coupe wasn’t Mustang’s top-of-the-line brand in 1970, particularly beside the sought after siblings, the electrifying BOSS 302 and the BOSS 429 with a V8 the size of an office block, the Coupe still demanded undivided attention.
There’s an old poster with the headline, “If you want to be happy for a day, drink. If you want to be happy for a year, marry. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, ride a Mopar.
Go-karting is not only an exciting means of entertainment for the novice or the expert but for the more serious aficionados, a more affordable entry level to get into proper racing by understanding the ability of racing techniques.
If you are part of the Baby Boomer generation, seeing hot rods on the street was de rigueur.
As Patrick Skene Caling writes in Wheels on Fire (The Spectator, June 2020), “Formula One motor racing is the perennial, worldwide contest that most reliably gratifies hero-worshipping, power-worshipping, money-worshipping, technology-worshipping ghouls, and some others.”
Diane Guindon and her husband, Claude Lozier, own two Plymouth Cuda convertibles from the early ‘70s.
“It is 51 years old, and not a day goes by when I’m driving it that someone doesn’t make a reference to what they liked about the movie,” declares Gary.