I loved the 1968 and 1969 Road Runner. They were very hard to get back then. They sold like hot cakes. All the soldiers getting back from Vietnam used their $$$ to buy one. I think that base Road Runner coupe was about $2,900.00 new
My first car, 69 orange Sport Satellite. Great high school memories for sure. Crashed it badly when brakes failed. I still miss it to this day. You know how it goes, first love and all that. I’ll never get over it.
One of the first shopping malls in our county opened in 1968 ane when my Mom and i went there late that summer, they had a car show of new 1969 models. Probably had 15 or 20 cars there but the only one i remember was a black Hemi GTX. Left quite an impression on a 12 year old kid..
plymouth had the coolest ads and commercials back then . lifelong plymouth guy here. my first car was a 72 cuda 340 that i got in 1982 when i was 17 . then in the early 1990s i bought a 70 plymouth road runner factory 440-6 lemontwist yellow with air grabber . my current mopar is a purple 71 duster 340 .
My favorite is the 69 1/2 A12 Road Runner or Super Bees lift off hood....all business. They actually got one in the 12's with just timing no slicks or nothing......badass!
Mine too man. The 69 A12 cars are my all time favorite muscle cars ever built. Also loved the sleeper 66 Hemi Belvedere's, Satellites, and Coronets. Love them all really. Pontiac, Ford, Chevy......but Mopars have always been my favorite
Friend of mine had a 68 Dodge Chager 383 Torqueflight another Friend had a 69 1/2 Roadrunner 383 4spd !!! My younger brother had a 68 383 Roadrunner Great Cars/Times , another friend had a 68 Torino 390 4 spd car I had a 69 Chevelle 350 4spd !!! A "Crazy" Gal I knew had a Red 68 Pontiac Tempest 350 3spd floor shift !!! She'd let anyone drive that car !!! Ed was in her car Racing a 67 327 Camero started to pass him & he took a hard left to turn into an alley ....Putting both Vehicles into a building !!! She showed up about 4-6 months later with a White 69 GTO 400 RAM AIR 4spd !!! Harley another friend running from the Cops in her GTO Lost control on a Curve and Landed that one into someone's living room !!!Crazy times back then (70's) !!! Be nice just to have those cars !!!
"GTX: Boss of the Supercars!" That mod top thing was so ahead of its time we're still not ready for it. And finally the cast aluminum wheels that were cancelled at the last minute.
What an awesome time to come up! All the baby boomers were lucky. I think I have an old soul, I'm 42 and I love all this old school stuff I've been around my whole life. We just put brand new rally wheels with smooth center caps and red line tires on my fathers matching number 65 Chevrolet. But he's a Mopar guy by heart, he bought a blue 70 road runner 4 speed 383. A year later he bought a 70 blue duster. But those were the cool days and the cars , music everything!!!!!!!!
I love those red wall tires. I'd like to see a modern take on that. I also like how they dressed the engine bays. Sure it's just cosmetic, but it looks cool.
Owned 69 superbee 383 go fast from factory never got a chance to own a gtx funnest cars of. The late 60 early 70 got a lot of respect on the streets was a great tome in my life thank you dodge and Plymouth
That Belvedere wagon at 1:07 was rockingly good looking. The fake wood, the light paint, the roof rack, oh hell yeah. Big block engine and full A/C, let me have one. If one could get a GTX package on the wagon...Katy bar the door, baby! The convertible is a classically beautiful car.
Sweet😏👍 Dad had a 1969 Satellite station-wagon and my older brother had a 1968 Road Runner, never forget the interior and very cool front-end design 👦🚘🏡🌲
1969 if you had a job you could have a new car. ALWAYS wanted a ROADRUNNER.. Always will. Had a girlfriend who could out drive me in my 68 camaro. She had a miniskirt on and i could look at her legs while she squeeled the tires off the CAMARO. i REMEMBER HER SMILES AS SHE CAUGHT ME LOOKING AT THOSE LEGS. HAA THE TIMES WERE GOOD.
I’ve got pictures of me and my brother at the 1969 NY Auto Show sitting in one of those Mod Top Satellites and in the GTX / Road Runners. My dad used to take us every year. The Super Bird was there too!
Every time I saw a 1969 Plymouth Belvedere it always reminded me of a very famous half hour cop show from that era called Adam 12. that belvedere with the police package 383 CID V8 was more like a four-door road runner with police lights on the top and black and white coloring that was the color scheme for and still is to this day the Los Angeles police department
Fred Wucher Why was it that Martin Milner did all the driving on TV? Route 66, Adam-12, he was always behind the wheel! What was with that? Somebody tell me!
Cornell Green some, not all. Reed did a little behind the wheel, but Malloy did most of the driving as the senior officer. If you remember Dragnet, it was the opposite. Either Officer Smith in the 50s or Officer Gannon in the 60s did almost all the driving.
After the 1973 OPEC contrived gas shortage put on America for siding with Isreal during the Yorn Kipper war you could buy nice Roadrunners all day long for 800 dollars. Because of the price increase of gasoline in 1979, you could hardly give a high-performance car away.
These MOPAR muscle cars are worth a fortune today. Almost bought an orange 70 Cuda 340 auto on the floor Torqueflite back in 1986 for 3500. Nearly MINT condition too. Must be worth at least 40k today.
I remember that very well you couldn't give away those 60s and early 70s muscle cars 1979 was the year I enlisted in the Army out of high school I purchased a GTX for $700 brought it with me down to Panama where I was stationed sold it to another GI when I finished my duty in Panama for the same price wish I had it now worth a fortune damn fortune car lots of fun lots of rubber burning power
I was the 2nd owner of a 69 road runner and it had some strange pattern on the interior,I changed it to what they put in Police cars and taxi cabs type material. The vehicle did not have a vinyl top but I had a 69 Fury 3 with an alligator vinyl top. The window sticker on the road runner price was three thousand three dollars and thirty eight cents.
This is a dealer information presentation. The idea is to help the dealer sell the automobile. They will be selling the sporty Plymouths. Plymouth was a storied division of the Chrysler Corporation for many years and for much of that time a solid competitor among the “low priced three.” Unlike many of these presentations this one is most heavily focused on straight selling by focusing on features and the beauty of the cars. A very beautiful woman is shown with the car throughout the filmstrip. Sell, sell, sell and “always be closing!” The motor company needs the dealer to promote its models.
My neighbors in Fort Worth, Texas had a 68 or 69 blue Belvedere wagon, the only wagon I remember seeing in that generation of Plymouth's intermediates.
The Plymouth Satellite was one of a number of Plymouth models that Chrysler Corporation(now known as FCA US, LLC)supplied to Paramount Pictures for the TV sitcom THE BRADY BUNCH.™
@Kirk Wolfe I am apparently older and you might won’t that bench seat the four speed is also very nice when you have your female companion next to you in case you decide to hit forth and your hand slips
@Kirk Wolfe bench seat or bucket seats back in the 60’s and 70’s a lot of the guys with the 3 speed column shifter changed to floor shift, it seemed to be a more positive shift. I have a 66 chevelle and the shifter is in the floor but I have had to go with automatic. Everyone has there idea of what and how on their perfect ride should be set up. Main thing is just keep on driving them and pass them on to the next generation
@Kirk Wolfe if I remember correctly my rear end was roughly 340 ish. As most people know jack up the rear end mark you drive shaft and turn your wheel and count the times it turns. I have enjoyed the conversation
yes it was , in those days chrysler would let you order any wierdo combination you wanted to sell you a car, the mod top not only came in blue , but yellow also
@@yavin99 Mod Tops were available on Barracuda, Dart Swinger or Satellite for certain. But I've never seen a high line car like a GTX with one, nor a low-line car like a Roadrunner with one. It's the same body style as Satellite, so you'd think it possible.
in 1977 @ 18 yrs. old I had a numbers matching 1969 GTX 440 convertible blue W/ black top . Paid $ 500.00 for it & had too borrow the money from my dad & pay it back .
Mod Top??? the 60's were awesomely great. I had a 1969 Dodge R/T new. That thing was fast as hell but fell apart, build quality was just awful. I lived in Upstate N.Y. so I think winters took their toll. That car new was about $3,500.00 maybe. I wanted a Road Runner but could not find one. I still dream about this car.
I find that definitely Annoying when Dumb dodge had 2 fresh air intakes Called the very same name Air Grabber , One with Pop up Hood Scoop with Graphic , the other Air Grabber the Boring looking gills on either side of Hood.
Plymouth called it the Air Grabber . Dodge called it the Ramcharger .Same air cleaner, same underhood air box. Different scoop treatment, and different name.
The Kelsey-Hayes wheels were available for about the first 30 days until customer complaints started coming back of both wheel lugs not maintaining torque, but also loose wheel lugs were cracking the center of the wheel. Most, but not all, of the wheels sold were recalled and that's why these wheels are affectionately known as "Recall Wheels". They are reproduced today with modern casting techniques and also accept a standard lug nut.
I remember seeing these tops as a kid at a Chrysler/Dodge dealership (would have been a Coronet though...). Parents had ordered a '69 Dodge Monaco with a 383 2bbl. I took that car over in '73 when I got my drivers license and the family car became a Chrysler Newport Custom 2 dr. (that thing was huge!!!). I tortured that Dodge for 3 yrs and drove it to the junkyard with 150,000 miles on it (almost unheard of, that was a lot of miles for a car from that era!). Road salt just ate up Chevs and especially Fords around here (eastern Ontario).
I loved the 1968 and 1969 Road Runner. They were very hard to get back then. They sold like hot cakes. All the soldiers getting back from Vietnam used their $$$ to buy one. I think that base Road Runner coupe was about $2,900.00 new
no I went with a mustang 2+2 fastback ..g.t. 390 ..4 speed with all the factory race parts
@@katana258 LMAO
Robert Tiscione
My buddies Dad bought a 1969 GTO 400 4 brl. 4spd Ram Air4 !!! LOL Liked Pontiacs I guess !!!
@@katana258
They Didn't offer the 2+2 Until 1975 !!!
My first car, 69 orange Sport Satellite. Great high school memories for sure. Crashed it badly when brakes failed. I still miss it to this day. You know how it goes, first love and all that. I’ll never get over it.
One of the first shopping malls in our county opened in 1968 ane when my Mom and i went there late that summer, they had a car show of new 1969 models. Probably had 15 or 20 cars there but the only one i remember was a black Hemi GTX. Left quite an impression on a 12 year old kid..
Can't blame you there.
Leaves an impression on a 52 year old kid also
g mat Was that in Marin County?
plymouth had the coolest ads and commercials back then . lifelong plymouth guy here. my first car was a 72 cuda 340 that i got in 1982 when i was 17 . then in the early 1990s i bought a 70 plymouth road runner factory 440-6 lemontwist yellow with air grabber . my current mopar is a purple 71 duster 340 .
My favorite is the 69 1/2 A12 Road Runner or Super Bees lift off hood....all business. They actually got one in the 12's with just timing no slicks or nothing......badass!
Mine too man. The 69 A12 cars are my all time favorite muscle cars ever built. Also loved the sleeper 66 Hemi Belvedere's, Satellites, and Coronets. Love them all really. Pontiac, Ford, Chevy......but Mopars have always been my favorite
Friend of mine had a 68 Dodge Chager 383 Torqueflight another Friend had a 69 1/2 Roadrunner 383 4spd !!! My younger brother had a 68 383 Roadrunner Great Cars/Times , another friend had a 68 Torino 390 4 spd car I had a 69 Chevelle 350 4spd !!! A "Crazy" Gal I knew had a Red 68 Pontiac Tempest 350 3spd floor shift !!! She'd let anyone drive that car !!! Ed was in her car Racing a 67 327 Camero started to pass him & he took a hard left to turn into an alley ....Putting both Vehicles into a building !!! She showed up about 4-6 months later with a White 69 GTO 400 RAM AIR 4spd !!! Harley another friend running from the Cops in her GTO Lost control on a Curve and Landed that one into someone's living room !!!Crazy times back then (70's) !!! Be nice just to have those cars !!!
"GTX: Boss of the Supercars!" That mod top thing was so ahead of its time we're still not ready for it. And finally the cast aluminum wheels that were cancelled at the last minute.
What an awesome time to come up! All the baby boomers were lucky. I think I have an old soul, I'm 42 and I love all this old school stuff I've been around my whole life. We just put brand new rally wheels with smooth center caps and red line tires on my fathers matching number 65 Chevrolet. But he's a Mopar guy by heart, he bought a blue 70 road runner 4 speed 383. A year later he bought a 70 blue duster. But those were the cool days and the cars , music everything!!!!!!!!
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Jordan Berry
It was Great growin up in the 60's and 70's Cars ,Music, Hair !!!
I love those red wall tires. I'd like to see a modern take on that. I also like how they dressed the engine bays. Sure it's just cosmetic, but it looks cool.
Owned 69 superbee 383 go fast from factory never got a chance to own a gtx funnest cars of. The late 60 early 70 got a lot of respect on the streets was a great tome in my life thank you dodge and Plymouth
That Belvedere wagon at 1:07 was rockingly good looking. The fake wood, the light paint, the roof rack, oh hell yeah. Big block engine and full A/C, let me have one. If one could get a GTX package on the wagon...Katy bar the door, baby! The convertible is a classically beautiful car.
Love how these commercials emphasized the technical aspects with section views. These days it’s only horsepower or gas mileage!
Sweet😏👍 Dad had a 1969 Satellite station-wagon and my older brother had a 1968 Road Runner, never forget the interior and very cool front-end design 👦🚘🏡🌲
Thanks, so much. 😘 made my Friday pal. When Men were Men and Women loved it
1969 if you had a job you could have a new car. ALWAYS wanted a ROADRUNNER.. Always will. Had a girlfriend who could out drive me in my 68 camaro. She had a miniskirt on and i could look at her legs while she squeeled the tires off the CAMARO. i REMEMBER HER SMILES AS SHE CAUGHT ME LOOKING AT THOSE LEGS. HAA THE TIMES WERE GOOD.
My first car (1996) was a 69 Satellite. Loved it. Miss it.
I’ve got pictures of me and my brother at the 1969 NY Auto Show sitting in one of those Mod Top Satellites and in the GTX / Road Runners. My dad used to take us every year. The Super Bird was there too!
Road Runner 1969 Motor Trend Car Of The Year...
That easy listening version of "Sunday Will Never Be The Same" over the credits.... oh man.
Every time I saw a 1969 Plymouth Belvedere it always reminded me of a very famous half hour cop show from that era called Adam 12. that belvedere with the police package 383 CID V8 was more like a four-door road runner with police lights on the top and black and white coloring that was the color scheme for and still is to this day the Los Angeles police department
Fred Wucher Why was it that Martin Milner did all the driving on TV? Route 66, Adam-12, he was always behind the wheel! What was with that? Somebody tell me!
Cornell Green some, not all. Reed did a little behind the wheel, but Malloy did most of the driving as the senior officer. If you remember Dragnet, it was the opposite. Either Officer Smith in the 50s or Officer Gannon in the 60s did almost all the driving.
After the 1973 OPEC contrived gas shortage put on America for siding with Isreal during the Yorn Kipper war you could buy nice Roadrunners all day long for 800 dollars. Because of the price increase of gasoline in 1979, you could hardly give a high-performance car away.
These MOPAR muscle cars are worth a fortune today. Almost bought an orange 70 Cuda 340 auto on the floor Torqueflite back in 1986 for 3500. Nearly MINT condition too. Must be worth at least 40k today.
I remember that very well you couldn't give away those 60s and early 70s muscle cars 1979 was the year I enlisted in the Army out of high school I purchased a GTX for $700 brought it with me down to Panama where I was stationed sold it to another GI when I finished my duty in Panama for the same price wish I had it now worth a fortune damn fortune car lots of fun lots of rubber burning power
Had America made oil of they're own then there wouldn't be any oil crisis at all.
I own a 1969 Sport Satellite and enjoy driving it when the weather is good
I was the 2nd owner of a 69 road runner and it had some strange pattern on the interior,I changed it to what they put in Police cars and taxi cabs type material.
The vehicle did not have a vinyl top but I had a 69 Fury 3 with an alligator vinyl top.
The window sticker on the road runner price was three thousand three dollars and thirty eight cents.
i pretty much drooled thru the whole video!!!
I own a 1969 Plymouth Belvedere! I love my old Bevy!
This is a dealer information presentation. The idea is to help the dealer sell the automobile. They will be selling the sporty Plymouths. Plymouth was a storied division of the Chrysler Corporation for many years and for much of that time a solid competitor among the “low priced three.” Unlike many of these presentations this one is most heavily focused on straight selling by focusing on features and the beauty of the cars. A very beautiful woman is shown with the car throughout the filmstrip. Sell, sell, sell and “always be closing!” The motor company needs the dealer to promote its models.
Those were good looking cars. A guy I knew had a black one in his backyard when I was growing up.
Diggin' the groovy Mod Top roof. Far out man!
Awwww the 1960's back when most young girls would look hot in some high top Go Go boots and a miniskirt, because they weren't overweight
She looks hot all right. But why does she have the voice of an 80-year-old chain smoker?
Hahaha today all we see is overweight whales with a big gut and a bunch guinea pigs.
Not to mention that they look so cute in they're sweaters as well.
All the magic back then was going on in the back seat, not under the hood 🤣
I just remember the sound of that dual exhaust👍👍
Just imagine Those long boots and the full bush
And the divorce lawyer.
My neighbors in Fort Worth, Texas had a 68 or 69 blue Belvedere wagon, the only wagon I remember seeing in that generation of Plymouth's intermediates.
I just can't tolerate anything less than 160 seating positions.
Please take me back... ive got some Hemis to stock up on. My 70 RoadRunner 383 auto beat all but other Mopars or hotrod stuff.
The Plymouth Satellite was one of a number of Plymouth models that Chrysler Corporation(now known as FCA US, LLC)supplied to Paramount Pictures for the TV sitcom THE BRADY BUNCH.™
Days gone by
The 440 Magnum was one wild engine....
this commercial is preety cool..so funny back then.
Ohh gotta have that vinyl woodgrain door trim!
318s rock
“1-Adam12 see the man, possible 459 suspect there now”
Narrator sounds like William Schallert. The end music is “Sunday Will Never Be the Same.”
I'll take the babe with the white boots and the gtx to go. Please.
@Kirk Wolfe I am apparently older and you might won’t that bench seat the four speed is also very nice when you have your female companion next to you in case you decide to hit forth and your hand slips
@Kirk Wolfe bench seat or bucket seats back in the 60’s and 70’s a lot of the guys with the 3 speed column shifter changed to floor shift, it seemed to be a more positive shift. I have a 66 chevelle and the shifter is in the floor but I have had to go with automatic. Everyone has there idea of what and how on their perfect ride should be set up. Main thing is just keep on driving them and pass them on to the next generation
@Kirk Wolfe if I remember correctly my rear end was roughly 340 ish. As most people know jack up the rear end mark you drive shaft and turn your wheel and count the times it turns. I have enjoyed the conversation
@@dw6506 The 66 chevelle was a great looking car!
Excellent Commercial!!!!!!
I wonder if it were possible to get a Road Runner or GTX with the Mod Top package?
yes it was , in those days chrysler would let you order any wierdo combination you wanted to sell you a car, the mod top not only came in blue , but yellow also
Thats what I was wondering, the only car I've seen with a mod top was a late 60s Barracuda.
@@yavin99 Mod Tops were available on Barracuda, Dart Swinger or Satellite for certain. But I've never seen a high line car like a GTX with one, nor a low-line car like a Roadrunner with one. It's the same body style as Satellite, so you'd think it possible.
@@That_AMC_Guy Apparently they did I just searched on the internet and even saw a 1970 hemi Cuda mod top that apparently sold for 1.4 million.
@@yavin99 Yeah, that was Steve Juliano's old car. VERY unusual for a '70 to get a Mod Top.
Miss my 69 roadrunner, bought off a used car lot in 72 for $ 1,200 .
Dude dressed as if he has an appointment with his accountant and attorney
The narrator sounds like Patty Duke's father.
Groovy baby..... lol 🤣
No comments on the girl?
Bob barker did her about a year after this advertisement did her dirty...lol
Was there a car in the add somewhere
@@jamessmith5535 I was supposed to be looking at the car?
I wonder if they even sold any "Mod Top" models.
I've seen a few.
They knew how to get a guys attention, just add the girls.
in 1977 @ 18 yrs. old I had a numbers matching 1969 GTX 440 convertible blue W/ black top . Paid $ 500.00 for it & had too borrow the money from my dad & pay it back .
Were those mod tops durable?
I'm sold I'll take a satellite with a 383 2 barrel am/fm 4 speed and a mod top.
Spend the extra 12 bucks and get the four-barrel.
Fine
7:23 the Mod Top! How many of those did they make - and how many survived?
I wondered the same.
The vinyl tops are being reproduced.
is that Barbra Eden?
Mod Top??? the 60's were awesomely great. I had a 1969 Dodge R/T new. That thing was fast as hell but fell apart, build quality was just awful. I lived in Upstate N.Y. so I think winters took their toll. That car new was about $3,500.00 maybe. I wanted a Road Runner but could not find one. I still dream about this car.
I've *NEVER* seen any Plymouth with that "mod-top" and similar upholstery.
But here's the Big News , The Daring Mod Top, funny I've yet to see in my 54 year's a OEM Mod Topped or interior Dodge car Yet.
Take a shot every time he says vinyl... Just kidding, don’t do that, you’ll die. 🤣
It took 9 years for this video to get 1000 likes
I'll take the blonde one.
I saw Focus, but didn't hear Hocus Pocus.
bill carson In concert, it was like, 30 minutes.
I wonder if anybody has the mod top option.....that would be cool
Thankfully a man was on hand to explain all that complex technology to the young woman!
Hilarious
Meep meep!
Never came across a Mod Top edition
I will take 2 of everyone of them
With the hemi option of course
I had a 68 Satellite and a 69 Sport Satellite... I could kick myself for not keeping them.😢
0:46 MEEP MEEP!!!!
Nice looking cars...but "the mod top" option is kind of a dog. 🐕 Never remember seeing any of these on the street.
MEEP MEEP
I find that definitely Annoying when Dumb dodge had 2 fresh air intakes Called the very same name Air Grabber , One with Pop up Hood Scoop with Graphic , the other Air Grabber the Boring looking gills on either side of Hood.
Plymouth called it the Air Grabber . Dodge called it the Ramcharger .Same air cleaner, same underhood air box. Different scoop treatment, and different name.
I think that mod top thing was cancelled last minute. Really edgy and you'd have to be daring to order it.
+King Elvis Think again. Check out this website. It's a Mop Top registry with over 100 Mod Top Mopars.
www.mooresmopars.com/modregistry.html
Thanks for the link. Never seen one. I know the aluminum wheels which were often depicted at the time were never sold to the public.
The Kelsey-Hayes wheels were available for about the first 30 days until customer complaints started coming back of both wheel lugs not maintaining torque, but also loose wheel lugs were cracking the center of the wheel. Most, but not all, of the wheels sold were recalled and that's why these wheels are affectionately known as "Recall Wheels". They are reproduced today with modern casting techniques and also accept a standard lug nut.
Alfred Neuman Thanks.
I remember seeing these tops as a kid at a Chrysler/Dodge dealership (would have been a Coronet though...).
Parents had ordered a '69 Dodge Monaco with a 383 2bbl. I took that car over in '73 when I got my drivers license and the family car became a Chrysler Newport Custom 2 dr. (that thing was huge!!!). I tortured that Dodge for 3 yrs and drove it to the junkyard with 150,000 miles on it (almost unheard of, that was a lot of miles for a car from that era!). Road salt just ate up Chevs and especially Fords around here (eastern Ontario).
pffft, my ford t bird has 336 hp.
Go go boots horse power
dammmmnnnn.