This 1973 Plymouth Road Runner is listed for sale here on eBay and located in Anderson, California. The bid has 2 days remaining and, with only 13 bids, the price is up to $9,000 but the reserve has not been met. This muscle car has the 400 cubic inch V8 engine plus it is equipped with a 4 speed transmission and 3.55 Sure Grip differential. Despite its rust free condition, this car is still a project and needs some work to be roadworthy.
The interior of the car has been stripped which shows how solid the floorboards are in this Road Runner. Until recently, the car has been off the road since 1996. The seller has not had the car long but did do some work including new plugs, wires, distributor cap, rotor and battery. The body appears to be rust free and most of the work that needs to be done is cosmetic.
The Code E66 400 cubic inch V8 engine was rated at 260 horsepower and could still be ordered with a 4 speed. The small block engine sizes that were available in 1973 were the 340 cubic inch V8 and 318 cubic inch V8. The 440 cubic inch V8 engine was still available in 1973 but only came with an automatic transmission.
The seller is including some parts including new carpet and headliner with the sale. The dash is in good shape but the seats and door panels will need work. The seller installed a new gas tank and did some brake work. Even though the car is located in California, it comes with an Oregon title. Who is a fan of this solid Road Runner?
Oh, the days of the musclecar were fading fast, my friends. You got to give Chrysler credit for milking it to the very end. I think these were the last true Road Runners, as in ’75 they went with the Cordoba platform, and then the Volare after that. While these weren’t the fanciest cars, Chrysler did have a knack for putting inexpensive fast cars in the hands of the paperboy, usually with poor results. This car didn’t have the glitz of the ’69 Hemi RR, but it still rang true to what a musclecar was. A tire smokin’, pistol grippin’, power shifting experience. We had the REAL fun back then, for peanuts, and all your fancy new Chargers, Mustangs and Camaros will never relive that. Great find here.
Have to disagree with your last few lines. A modern Challenger, when done right, can capture some of the spirit of that time, and be within reach financially, High Impact colors and all if you wish. And I say this as someone who doesn’t like most modern cars.
I would hardly call the current Challenger modern – the architecture is based on the old Mercedes E-class platform.
The ’75 was still a B-Body, exactly the same platform underneath as the ’71-’74’s that preceded it. Just different (Fury) body panels. In ’76 they moved it to the F-Body Volare/Aspen platform.
Nice find, but she has an early 440 in it now, not a 400. Certainly, worth finishing. A real BARN FIND.
While not as aggressive looking as their 71-72 counterparts, I’ve always thought Plymouth did a great job with the restyling of the 73-74s . These were prone to rust here in CT. , so finding a good solid one by the mid 1980s (pre internet) was about impossible. This one looks solid ; it looks like it has an A body steering wheel , but if I had the place for it would scoop this one up !
It’s not an “A-Body Steering Wheel”…that was the base steering wheel for a lot of Mopars then…and is totally correct.
Since it’s never gonna be worth a whole lot, probably have a nice car, throw a 440 in it, color change to Orange w a white hockey stripe white interior black rugs and dash, see if it’s possible to loose the 73 grille, go back to 71/72 be a great cruiser w Vintage air
The word is “lose”, not “loose”…and the only way to change the front end is to replace the entire doghouse, which would look ridiculous with a ’73/’74 back end.
Actually after consulting with numerous associates, we have come to a conclusion, your an asset to have commenting and correcting people, must be a lot of fun at parties, read between the lines
New cars not matter how fast they are have no soul. There is no replacing the mechanical sounds made by an old muscle car.
Might not have “soul” like you tell it. But they do have brakes, a fraction of the emissions, handling, safety and subjectively style. Not to mention even with their basic entry level engines, will out run anything from back then as far as top speed goes, plus quicker than most. Never mind the 700 hp + monsters available today.
It’s like comparing apples and oranges, my 73 Grand Prix has a 455 4 barrel w dual exhaust, all of 270 hp, but I love the sounds and smells of it, when it’s running dead out on the highway, now my 18 E43 AMG which is a 6 cylinder, has close to 400 hp 0 to 60 in 4.3 seconds and is so advanced in braking and steering, but when I pull that Grand Prix out of my garage, can’t help but smile
This is a great car to drive and have fun with…if someone doesn’t care about matching numbers. Solid as a ROCK. Checks all of the boxes for cool, and a pretty bare-bones car. The price is better than most I’ve seen, as long as it stays where it is (sub-$10K)…otherwise, buy a numbers-matching example that needs nothing for $20K or so and save yourself a ton of money.
Somebody checked the right boxes on this one – what were the competitors offering at the time ?
I just watched an old movie from 1992 with Drew Barrymore, called GunCrazy ,crappy movie but it had a 73 or 74 Road Runner in it that made it fun to watch. I like the 71 and 72 RR better but these (73/74) can be made in to cool cars that you hardly ever see.