1971 Plymouth Road Runner 426 Hemi Muscle Car Of The Week Video #63 

I agree.

Kevo Suss Except that it’s not a Fuselage,that name belongs to C body cars

@@mikeroberts5646 Exactamungo!

I like the 71 Charger R/T and Super Bee too. There was no more Coronet R/T in 1971 and the Super Bee moved over to the Charger lineup for that year. I guess Dodge figured there was no point in having two different B-Bodies with the R/T package available anymore. The Coronet R/T and Charger R/T were probably hurting each other's sales because they came with the exact same options from the factory. The styling was the only real difference between the two cars

@@mikeroberts5646 It's a general styling term; it does not belong to one line of cars. It was started by GM in 1968 (GTO, Chevelle, etc.).

I love the 71-72 Roadrunner body style. It sucks how the 383, 440/6, and the Hemi were all gone for 72 and the 340 4 4bbl and 440 4 bbl were de-tuned quite a bit beginning in 72. But you could still modify them very easily to make power numbers closer to the earlier high compression engines. Plus cars still had a pretty decent amount of power anyway in 1972-74. The new net horsepower ratings made them seem alot less powerful than they actually were but they still weren't quite as powerful as the earlier high compression engines. 1975 is the year that muscle cars officially died with the new law mandating catalytic converters

Absoloutely...and the meanest .....

WileERobby the hemi, cuda and '70 challenger are the KINGS

E type Jag.

Sorry JagUAR XKE.

Sorry!! 1971 Firebird Formula 400, silver body w/black vinyl roof, rally ll mags. Hey just my 2¢!! Also 1968/69 Charger!!

+Richard Venticinque TECH sheet updates gave serious LOCK tips on tune.Rocker arms, CAST six inches long didn't help.

those pauses between starter winds on a hot day & a hot engine

The 1970-71 hydraulic cammed 426 Street Hemi was a much more refined street engine than the 1966-69 solid lifter Hemi's were. But even with a milder emissions friendly camshaft they were still the baddest big block on the street and better yet you didn't have to pop the valve covers off and adjust the valves every couple thousand miles like you had to do with the earlier Hemi's. This car is one of my absolute favorites in the Brother's collection and my favorite Roadrunner ever other than a 69 1/2 A12 440 Six Barrel. The 1971 GTX/Roadrunner and Charger R/T/Super Bee were better cars overall than the more boxy 1967-70 models

2x4s had a hardtime at low revs fighting each other and fouling plugs........people trying to use this engine for everyday driving drank more gas than driving

Absolutely!! 😜

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How much would you want for your car

+Robert Taylor I remember back in 1977 there was a white '71 RR HEMI with a blue bench seat interior and a blue full vinyl roof. 4-speed car. In Greenfield Mass. The engine spun a bearing and the owner at the time had it in a plastic crate in Amherst Mass. Any body else remember this car?

+Robert Taylor 28 four speed 27 automatics, (supposedly only two of those were COLUMN.) Buddy Allison got one, as knees going away back then...and kinda had dibs.

+Lee Crt Blue plastic crates make FINE furniture with a simple layer of tempered glass on top. Price / part inventory sticker on top looks right. FORMAL (full) vinyl top mandatory for sunroof crank or power.

55, really??? Wow

+daniel p Experience.....NEVER let go. searching ever since.

thank you sir !

daniel p DO tell...waiting.

S Wylie the difference between the 230 and 150 hp was just cross hp rating vs net hp rating. It’s the same engine.

+SVT777 IT hasn't come close. In May of '96, I went TO Indy 500, to pick up my Indy Special Ram 1500....IT was close to Experience, but NOT car.Daughter kept saying "Daddy, people are staring at your truck."That's what the payments are for.

+Lee Crt June 15th....Oil Embargo 1979.Paid 3500 CASH consecutives, out of pay window USMC, to US Navy airman, his MOM had made ONE payment. (pay book under rear Salt 'n Pepper cloth inserts black Leather interior, while getting build sheet(s). SHE worked books / financing dept. at Franklin Motors, Noblesville, Indiana. Tor Red, grabber Canada, pistol four speed, PEDESTAL Executive Recorder, no console. Strobe delete, but SMOOTH ROCKER trim ? Wheel Opening trim set, pins...hood paint option BEHIND grabber plastic...tail valence stripes UP into tail light housings...AAR ducktail, " visor applique' " on adjustable front bumper, rear window louver. 426, black wrinkles, framed display posters of paperclip balancing, desert INSURANCE ad, 12 foot tall inflatable chicken feet...FROM ad. (Entire showroom display)Corporate blue / white checkered carpet parking squares. Owner's manual with coupons for BODY and electrical / pneumatic (Air Grabber routings), drivetrain books from factory to SEND five bucks for. (DID that.) Drove all of rest of the year, left for Iran trip prep in January 1980, stored it...after donuts to rid fuel...in view of MPs...girl called Joanie Lauler a corporal then. LATER named Chyna...RIP. SHE had sweet Firebird SHE painted and rebuilt 400 in.She laughed about the donuts....out on street "Dirty Mary / Crazy Larry" was filmed on. ORANGE grove, NOT walnuts...air base was hidden inside.Crossed USA at speed, in 36 hours nearer end of June, (10 days leave)during trucker strike. (Light traffic in the dark, racing sunrise behind me.)DRASTICALLY seek a Sat SEBRING Plus and or +....to make a crate SSX out of, with factory show car mods to body, proven in wind tunnel in 1970 August...part of The Rapid Transit System touring group. Found one gutted / drag NO #s...for 3500, PASS. Want A/C, as couldn't have it, but HAD dash vents OF a/c system.Was parade / VIP driver for Indy 500 duties, never sold, till his mom snagged it off showroom floor. Gift to kid for Navy bootcamp graduation, tech school qualifying. He took cash, bought an Ovation guitar, and a bag of weed. Got busted. I saw again in Japan and Philippines later, as a basic paint chipper, showed all Chrysler stationary THEY sent as soon as title cleared Chrysler of Canada offices. Got ALL Hemi updates, stored with VIN #, as unsold, so never changed hands. Ended up in collection of LA Times owner...RIP Otis Chandler.Bought cars weekends all over California, at grocery stores lots, dumb cheap. Only one 383 car, Butterscotch 3 speed pistol seen.

yup and his compression de-tune for 71 is wrong. they barely dropped comp in 71. hes quoting the drastic changes that came in 1972 not 71. i had a one owner 71RR with 383. The original owner had traded his 70 Hemi Cuda in for the 71RR after his insurance company priced him out of Hemi car ownership.

Not in New Jersey.

Yep. The ad he shows even says 383 and 340. Oops!

+02R96 My 1968, new process Hemi G T X has GOLD w/white bench. NO visible markings, removed day one, bagged in glove box. A third vent black knob on CHOKE cable. Tag says NY ...GLDMINE.

That sounds awesome. I wish you all the luck in the world keeping your Mighty Mopar in full fighting trim!!!

I have a Matt black 1971 Plymouth satellite (looks Identical,) with a 383 bigblock and a 727 auto transmission! my first car! 😎😎😎

Keep it clean / straight. Tough to find body panels. I had mine (Tor Red) in '79 - '83. Only now seeing any more of them. 383 with an Air Grabber is fun. I had "salt 'n pepper cloth insert black leather interior. Even Gull Wings and tail light lenses are high $ today. Mine was Hemi / 4 speed pistol, and even then I couldn't really modify it other than CRAGARS, and buy lots of premium and racing gas mix. BLACK is badness in this shape. Was my THIRD car, second Mopar, of many after. Drive well.

1970 Chevelle SS 454 4 Speed.

+Gary Williams I had a 70 Hemi Road Runner with a column shifter. Ultimate sleeper since you only saw the Hemi name from inside the car as you looked at the scoop.

no A/C in this car

@@tomtom-pb2cs A/C Vents on the dash were only for A/C cars and no other

@@gevi9080 That is my old car We have traced it's origins from North Carolina where I bought it. I don't recall if it had vents when I sold it. I know it did not have the wing or spoilers. I bought the car in late 1977. Sold it in 1989 maybe 1988 It is a factory hemi car...I have pics from when I owned it

@@tomtom-pb2cs sad all we got left Just pictures , (But great memories!!) :(

No A/C, there is no compressor under the hood... Didn't fit on the Hemi.

+Angie Mulligan Read below. All PETTY SPECIALS sold by SOUTHERN DEALER Sponsors....had A/C. MOST were 383 maxed option cars, in Petty (Corp) Blue and White. Hemi and six packs came later with A/C dashes, to move all the air they could.

The 426 and 440 were too big to have an A/C installed. But the 383 could house an A/C.

That was the Strato-Vent option on 71 and up B-bodies. It used the same vents as an A/C dash but it was not air conditioned. I've a few of those in the flesh.

hemi & 440+6 no a/c 440+4 a/c was ok

4100 pounds

+dougeroo1 Yes they did!

+Oliver Margetin Mine had a 2.08 OPEN rear in a DANA 60.

All HEMI and 440+6 cars with 4 speeds did. You had to get one of the "mandatory option" Dana axles, a Track Pak (3.54) or you could go up to a Super Track Pak (4.10) Dana rear end. If you bought an automatic car without one of the Trac Paks you got an 8-3/4 Sure-Grip rear end.

That ratio was never a used in Dana axles in Mopars and they were all Sure-Grip.

Nicholas Maher No DOUBT you are correct. My car was ordered as VIP / parade duties for Indy 500 by an Indiana dealership. I put MINE in from a Base '70 Challenger convertible six / three speed manual car. It was JUST a redrilled ring gear, LIGHTER, and I was NOT drag racing it . . .just creeping up on speeds on desert flight lines, access roads in / near Southern Cal, Yuma, Arizona...29 Palms, parts of New Mexico known by numbers, Vegas. It lasted maybe five years at speed. Then I used a FRANKLIN QUICKCHANGE, I could just flip the gear set at a track, after driving there.

71 440 4bbl hp are 9.7 71 440 6bbl hp are 10.3 72 440 4bbl hp are 8.1

+Suzanne Barr Correct!

+Suzanne Barr So you’re saying the 440 was still relatively high compression in 1971. I thought so.

Yes. The biggest drop in compression amongst the performance V8s was the 383 Magnum/Roadrunner 4bbl. 8.7 to 1 IIRC.

GM and Ford switched to net ratings in 1971 where Mopar did not.

I used to own this. I bought it in NC and it's been verified. The spoilers and the chin fins are NOT original though. It had 383 in it when I bought it but I knew what R1R meant, I swapped the K member and put a hemi back into it

On four-speed Mopars, 71-74 B-bodies and I believe the E-bodies as well had small orange "REVERSE" lights on the lower part of the dash between the ash tray and the glove box. The function of this small light was to warn you when you shifted into reverse as the reverse is next to first in the Mopar gearbox. Pretty embarrassing when you're ready to drag race someone at a set of lights thinking that you're in first gear only to learn the hard way that you're actually in reverse! The small light on the dash helped to prevent that from happening. There were also seat belt options in which the same light and housing were used but instead of "REVERSE" the light read "SEAT BELTS" indicating that front seat belts had not been fastened. I parted out a 74 Charger Rallye 400-4bbl four speed car that had BOTH the "REVERSE" light and the "SEAT BELTS" lights side-by-side on the dash. The only B-body that I have ever seen that was so equipted. I still have that dash.

Reverse

Force Times Distance Equals ? Torque 71-74 RR and 71-74 Chargers are both similar cars.

114 mph

True now also gov involve ban gas and diesel cars and trucks wonder how much that 3.5 million 71 cuda would be worth with no gas left 🤔