1969 Plymouth Roadrunner Color Commercial

[@curtismills1612]

My older brother had a road runner and put racing slicks on it. Man he stayed in trouble the entire time he owned that beast. Think fast and furious but it's the early 80's.

[@mariomedeiros6706]

I remember those days everything was great Archie Bunker All in the Family Show and I could go to bed with a smile

[@nojunkwork5735]

No Archie Bunker when this Roadrunner was built in 69. All in the family didn't come out until 71.

[@mattshansen9814]

Get your dates right before you post so you don't look like a moron. Archer Bunker didn't air when this came out. 🙄

[@barrylonyai1530]

@@nojunkwork5735 Archie Bunker was his stage and actor name his real name is Carroll o Connor. in all in the family R.I.P. show a great respect for him thank you it was normal Lear very hard works and efforts to have him star in all in the family . and Archie bunkers place. and later on in the heat of the night .

[@nojunkwork5735]

@@barrylonyai1530 I'm well aware of who Carrol O'Connor was. And it's not normal Lear it's Norman Lear. And everything you wrote has nothing to do with what I commented on. Learn to read what is actually being said before you go shooting your mouth off.

[@barrylonyai1530]

@@nojunkwork5735 so I was incorrect about 1 letter just very very tired after working a very long and tiring weekend !! Norman Lear worked very hard to convince Carroll o Connor to play the part of Archie bunker it is called a comment! you sound like a Racist your running your mouth !! have you ever heard of Free speech !! my older family thinks he was and still is a great great actor and Norman Lear is a great great and very very smart man and he is still working today and he has helped T.V. and cable educate people old and young ! so do your learning MR. racist !

[@Wildstar40]

Wile E. Coyote should have gave up on ACME and bought a Plymouth Roadrunner, then show him chasing the Roadrunner in his Roadrunner, then showing him preparing the Roadrunner for dinner and holding up a sign that says: 'It takes a Roadrunner to catch a Roadrunner.'

[@Mike-bx4ww]

Good day, That would've been an excellent ad 😃

[@jorgejefferson8251]

I am pretty sure that the background music is "Sunday will never be the same" from 'Spanky and our gang'.

[@DTD110865]

Yep, and they used that song in a lot of Plymouth commercials at the time. There was one with footage of Penn Central car carriers on the New York Central Hudson Division with loads of Plymouths near the Bear Mountain Bridge. CORRECTION: That was the West Shore Line near Kingston. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHelgWNsaNqHnbM

[@ZakWolf]

Note that the Road Runner never did his tongue thing in these commercials. I'm guessing it could be because WBA did not have the "cork pop" sound usually associated with it in their limited sound effects library at the time.

[@racerj2.03]

I tried to catch the Roadrunner in 1968. I needed my father to cosign. We went to the dealership and the car was on the showroom floor. He took one look at it, he wasn't a car guy, and he said start it up. I said I can't we were inside the showroom. He said start it again. I did and it fired up and he said turn it off we are leaving. I didn't get my Roadrunner! I fact I was grounded! And so goes life.

[@user-dw2tm3jm5h]

$ 3500 ?

[@wyo1446]

Ahh, the good old days, when cars showed their stuff on the back roads, and girls showed their stuff in the backseats

[@markstench4470]

When the back seats were big enough for that.

[@barrylonyai1530]

there are still good old days where we live classic car shows classic street fairs classic cars and even classic farm equipment going very far back in time and Antique car swap and motorcycle meets and auto swaps meets long weekends classic car shows during the week in the long spring and summer Evenings now and on weekends and classic trains classic buses classic boats everybody has great fun great great times and great food and learn a lot of info . and people mouths drop on the ground when they see and hear there motors . and the very hard labor and works and love for there classic vehicles .

[@67stingray1]

Seems like yesterday that I was watching this commercial and wishing fot Motor Trends car of the year.

[@LVVMCMLV]

Back in 68 when I was 13/14 years old my father bought a blue 68 Road Runner 383 four barrel… That summer my parents went on vacation and I drove the car up to the pool every day for a week giving all the girls a ride around the block.

[@davestewart2067]

There are real roadrunners near my rural property in southern New Mexico. The birds are aggressive and are carnivores they eat small lizards, birds, eggs, and insects.

[@christophers.o622]

I see them in Arizona as well. Chrysler made the mistake of discontinuing its most popular models, so did GM, AMC as well.

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

Carnivorous birds are by no means rare.

[@jjosephm7539]

My older brother bought one in 1968 on his return from 3 years in Viet Nam

[@derrickjackson6737]

The real Deal 440 V8

[@johnchildress6717]

How about a Hemi.

[@colinspence6383]

440 was NOT available in the RR, only the A12 cars.

[@scootergeorge9576]

@@colinspence6383 - The (A12) 440 Six Pac engine option with 3X2 barrel Holley carburetors was added to the lineup at mid-year 1969 and returned for 1970. It was rated at 390 HP with the same torque as the Hemi but at a lower RPM. Arguably a better engine for the street than the Hemi. www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/what-is-a12.67067/

[@wyo1446]

They were 383s

[@scootergeorge9576]

@@wyo1446 - With the Hemi and 440-6 optional.

[@unclerudy9797]

Sunday will never be the same...

[@johnelliott7375]

Life was good.

[@Grunchy005]

Life is great!

[@cleemccarthy1022]

I had a Ford Mustang that fed on Road Runners and Super Bees..

[@wyo1446]

And I bet it shit chevies. Lol

[@KardboardKenny]

i call bullshit on your delusions. NO ONE calls them, "ford mustangs". anyone w/an iq above 50 knows who makes a mustang.

[@cleemccarthy1022]

I was speaking to the people who can't take a joke.😣

[@harrywinslow3946]

Mustangs were all show and no go.

[@wyo1446]

@@harrywinslow3946 Yeah, whatever

[@afterhourshotrods6882]

Well at least the cartoon was in color!!!! Lol

[@douglasstark1657]

I think anyone who hit the "play" button for this video will agree that it was a fun, memorable commercial for an iconic vehicle (And we were wonderfully blessed with plenty of those from ALL of the Big Three back then). Sadly, the same people who are traumatized by Mr. Potato Head in 2021 would've had this ad pulled because of its "violence". Glad all my friends are bat-shit crazy instead of politically correct!

[@matrox]

I hated those old Road Runner commercials. A cartoon was no way to advertise that car. Ironically the first none hand me down car I bought was a 69' RR in the mid 70s.

[@TheConorsmithusa]

Would've been a better advert if the coyote was driving the car then hit the roadrunner as he goes meep meep!

[@dontgetwellboi1240]

Any roadrunner will do.

[@daveyboy_]

In color ? After they showed the car

[@l.salisbury1253]

Wile E. Coyote- my favorite schmuck!

[@altfactor]

No wonder the coyote had trouble with the dumpster he rented! It was from Ajax Dumping. Normally, he'd order from Acme.

[@barrylonyai1530]

it was a dump truck not a dumpster . and maybe it was free no rent because they always advertised Acme company in all of the series .

[@bigrat4027]

Who would give this a thumb's down ?

[@donaldeverette6498]

Ford or Chevy people!😀

[@pi1797]

Any lefty progressive Democrat in DC…

[@meangene98]

In 1969 that car sold for $3000 - $3500, brand new! 😂

[@gristlepounder]

That would be loaded. Stripped ones around $2900.

[@l__l2328]

Its not like it was $3500 in todays money. It would be like $22000 adjusted to the inflation if they sold them today, but still not that bad.

[@roberthoyt7921]

Could u give it better color?

[@scootergeorge9576]

Never owned a Road Runner but my '67 GTX was fast. 440, headers, 4 speed, and 4.10 Dana 60 posi. I traded a '67 Mustang for it. Straight across. My sisters thought I was nuts. The Mustang was "prettier." Not bad but the 289 and automatic was no muscle car.

[@miguelcastaneda7236]

unless it had a factory 289 ,cibra in it and rockcrusher trans and 5.13

[@jacktorrance2633]

I remember those growing up in the 70s. Those little coupes were hot shit! One of my Dad's friends had one,it was pretty cool.

[@crushingvanessa3277]

Just a beater in those days.

[@colinspence6383]

The announcer sounds like Rosco.

[@williamroberts5716]

Was Morgan Freeman born old?

[@jnucleo]

I can't believe they produced a commerical and then put those stupid looking bumperettes on the rear!

[@danw6014]

Back when cars were cool and cartoons were politically incorrect and funny.