1969 Plymouth Road Runner Commercial - Motor Trends Car of the Year

[@gcfifthgear]

Hard to believe this is the very first time I've seen this commercial! Hilarious effects (Coyote whirling around a space capsule, etc.) and clever arrangement of the Plymouth jingle (which started life as "Sunday Will Never Be the Same" from Spanky and Our Gang)!

[@thecolorfriends2thecolorfriend]

ello

[@mucioluizmartinsjr.2334]

What a good time. Good music, good cartoons, good cars with big V8 engines. Today the songs and cartoons are crude and cars are electric.

[@kiethblack3870]

I like many of the newer cartoons but yeah, today's so-called music is crap. [:-)]

[@EliKirkMusic]

There's still good music being made. You just have to go look for it

[@matttravers5764]

Yup, sucks.

[@PSYCHO_THUG]

There’s good music still around ur just too lazy to look for it and u also are nostalgic for the past so u hate the new stuff

[@mahirakalucasahammed2443]

just plug an electric car into an amplifier and listen that the electric car will sound like a classic v8 engine

[@paulbroxon4626]

Yes, a reminder when America was number one!

[@jacksonpb]

This was drawn at the Seven-Arts studio by Bob McKimson's unit.

[@MrMenefrego1]

This just makes me feel good!

[@kc-6837]

My favorite car.

[@wretchedone2970]

One of my dream cars. And my Dad was quite fond of the Road Runner. He came to the U.S in 69. GOD bless 🇺🇸. We have always had problems, but what a truly blessed country. Psalm 33 comes to mind. May the LORD GOD Almighty have mercy on us, for we have strayed so far from Him. GOD bless everyone. Matt. Ch.24/ John 3:16. Come LORD, come!

[@brandonbell5357]

God bless the USA military!

[@David-lo1fo]

My 68 ( first year RR ) was fast as A 18 year old could handle ,especially after a 4:11 posi - rear end, and 2grand in moter modification by a professional Racing mechanic. He worked for Art Ward. Owned and drove the first funny car to break 200mph In quarter mile. The Assassination!

[@edgardiscoman]

The song is Sunday Will Never Be The Same

[@brandonbell5357]

Not in the mess were in

[@douglasstark1657]

Even the bare-bones version in bright metallic blue with dog dish hubcaps would make this twelve year old car nut "freeze" in awe every time it rumbled by. I have to wonder if there's ever been a case where a Prius or Volvo had a similar effect on anyone? Heck, have they ever had ANY effect on anyone for that matter?

[@patrickmichaellangan576]

I wish I could drive this car!

[@r.r.hughes9808]

My first car when I was 16 in 1985. 440 4-spd

[@melrose9252]

R.R. Hughes The 440 was not available in the 69 Road Runner. A 383 or 426.

[@r.r.hughes9808]

@@melrose9252 Who said it was? The previous owner put one in it. I looked up the VIN and it was originally a 383 car

[@williehill47]

@@melrose9252 440 six pack in 69

[@williehill47]

Only 2 engines for 68 383 and 426 hemi

[@r.r.hughes9808]

@@williehill47 Tell me you're not a car guy without telling me you're not a car guy. My VIN said the car originally came with a 383. So we can come to the conclusion that someone swapped motors before I bought it. We can also come to the conclusion that my 150 mph Speedometer was swapped out with one from a GTX as well. It's crazy people had the technology to swap engines back in the 80's!!!!!!!!!!

[@joeylawn36111]

0:44 Driving by itself????

[@racer67]

Such a great time to be an American! Shame i missed it!

[@racer67]

@Steve Silvas awsome! Your lucky u lived in a great time! I wish i was an old man today and lived in that time when these cars were just the everyday cars and were everywere! Consider yourself lucky and blessed to experience it all!

[@brandonbell5357]

Move to Australia

[@SputnickSpooner-jg5gi]

It WAS an incredible life. Had awarded going on, but other than that, it was awesome.

[@MamonFighter2ndChannel]

Warner Bros. Seven Arts did this that year.

[@litlgrey]

Yep. You're correct about that. Maybe directed by Bob McKimson. Maybe.

[@jon-jonguevarra72]

Now under Warner Bros. Animation.

[@ZakWolf]

@@litlgrey, definitely looks like McKimson's work, given how Wile E. is drawn.

[@sidwalker6902]

:44 they already had self driving cars way back then.

[@fundaknc352]

Super car delivery in the 1969s for Wile E. Coyote!

[@danielvergara2901]

Believe it or not, this car was also made in Argentina under the badge Dodge Polara GTX Coupe ´til year 1978 with the same shape and minor cosmetic liftings .

[@spankynater4242]

Did it have the same engine?

[@danielvergara2901]

@@spankynater4242 if i am not wrong , the USA' s regular engine was a 383 . The Argentinian engines were only two : the slant six 225 cubic inches ( 3688 cc ) and the V8 known as the 318 cubic inches (5220 cc )

[@anthonyguarino4242]

0:54 reminding me of Denzel Crocker from “Back to the Norm” when he held the tiny umbrella and then big boulder crushed him after he painted a tunnel and Trixie Tang with ice cream.

[@jameslakes5019]

😊 was made 1969

[@jelanimclean6326]

Road Runner "Car Of The Year."

[@SonnyGTA]

Yes. That’s what the commercial said.

[@brandonbell5357]

Nah

[@richieray3382]

BEEP BEEP

[@brettkoeshall2325]

I really to have a Roadrunner.

[@SonnyGTA]

Then time you buy have to one.

[@r.r.hughes9808]

time go and very mopar day yesterday anyway to for car

[@sheilaanderson8033]

Wylie Coyote and the roadrunner cartoon characters Speedy Gonzales so when I heard they got a car I just had to find one someone on Facebook Marketplace was selling a 1979 Roadrunner but unfortunately it was decked in a forest said nope

[@LolganSaucey]

When it was “low priced” lol

[@thechuckjosechannel.2702]

This is the closest will get to seeing a Warner Seven Arts Roadrunner Cartoin just like those dreadful Larriva Cartoons.

[@JENDALL714]

Weird, how a stripped down version of a car could win Car of the Year? The Road Runner was a bare bones version of the Belvedere model, it was such a budget model that it could be ordered with no radio and cheap rubber floor mats. The only thing that made the Road Runner unique was the name and the beep beep horn. It you wanted a nicer car, you ordered it as the Belvedere model, but I guess Belvedere doesn't sound as cool as Road Runner even though you got a lesser car with the Road Runner name.

[@ceemurray8704]

As a Road Runner owner, I can tell you that your assessment of the car is ALL WRONG. First and foremost, what made the Road Runner TRULY unique in that era was that it was the VERY FIRST mid size car that had a special and unique to that model ONLY, HIGH PERFORMANCE big block engine/ a four speed trans/ heavy duty suspension and brakes/ dual exhausts/ ALL for UNDER $3000 bucks. By keeping the STANDARD OPTIONS low, Chrysler was able to produce a musclecar that the AVERAGE guy could afford and could insure. This was a BIG DEAL for the times. PLUS, many of those muscelcars weren't just "weekend warriors", they were also used as family cars and grocery getters. So size was an issue also. HOWEVER, Road Runners had an extensive option list just like every other car so one could "doll it up" as much as one could afford. A step up from the Road Runner was the GTX which came with a bigger standard engine/ was plusher/ and came with more standard options. And the upgraded engine option on both models was the 426 HEMI, which was a SERIOUS exclamation point!! And to name a car after a CARTOON, was revolutionary/ brilliant/ funny, all at the same time. Just having the cartoons on the body was something that soon ALL other companies copied. And street image was EVERYTHING then and still is today. And to have the car horn MIMIC the Road Runner cartoon was itself revolutionary/ brilliant/ funny, all at the same time. In fact, the horn ITSELF was so popular, that guys were stealing them from Road Runners and putting them on their own NON Road Runner cars. That '69 model also came in three bodystyles and a special model with a lift off hood and three carb engine. So there was more than enough to justify a Car Of The Year award.

[@fast03vette4me]

Can I just move up a little then, to a 69 GTX 440 stick, since they are so reasonably priced? YES for $3,800 new? I'll take two then, and save one mint with 017 original miles for 2021 A.D.

[@wileecoyote5749]

I haven't had any year that was bad. Fake news

[@brandonbell5357]

Sounds like trump

[@jiggyriaxn3457]

69 btw

[@user-ul3lx2sl1q]

These Arnie n seal psa’s were one of the few gross things in the 70s.