1968 Plymouth Road Runner

[bill dedman]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

Bill,
The same guy that had the '70 RR above also had a '64 Signet. It was a well known early '70's street racer in the Phoenix area. It was built by a guy that cut weight out of everything. A100 seats, home made aluminum single resivoir master cylinder, aluminum nuts and bolts and acid dipped body parts. It was plain silver. When my friend owned it, he had a bone stock '70 340 with cast exhaust manifolds in it with an A833 & 4.56's. It ran high 11's. He added a cam, fenderwell headers, a hi-rise and Holley and it was a 10 second car. This was around 1980 and a 10 second 340 was pretty darn
fast. Neil Smedly owned the car for awhile and he sold it to somebody. The car has completely dropped off the radar. I'm sure it's a roach by now but I sure would love to own that car.

My car was a fat pig, for what it was. I weighed it THREE different places because I could NOT believe how heavy it was! It was a V-100, el-cheapo, 2-door post car with a radio and a heater, PERIOD. All three places said it weighed over 3,100 pounds WITHOUT me in it; the lightest being 3,105, with half a tank of gas. It did have a cast iron 4-speed and an 8.75" rerar, but geeze; the shipping weight was only about 2,700 pounds...

I was bitterly disappointed...