Plymouth Road Runner

1968 Plymouth Road Runner at the Downtown West Allis Classic Car Show in Wisconsin, 2023. Muscle stripped to the bone. Plymouth paid Warner Bros. $50,000 for the cartoon bird, fitted a flat bench seat and a 335-horsepower 383 as standard, and had engineers rework a Belvedere horn to go "beep beep." The 426 Hemi was a $714 option that few buyers checked. The rest got the joke anyway: some 44,599 Road Runners sold in the first model year.