From 1971:

actually, it is only a few years old ....from MCG - Mopar Collector's Guide

Area code 225 didn't split from the original 1947 Louisiana area code 504 until 1998/1999 so it should be still 504 of course in 1971. Would make a nice T-Shirt

1971 Dude

Nah, too expensive

i have that on a T-shirt. great add. if one could only go back............

Great stuff. If I could only buy one it would be a tough decision. I like the Charger but not panther pink, so maybe the Challenger 440 six pak although I love the A body at 2950!

IT IS ONLY FROM LAST YEAR. It is an ad from Mopar Collectors Guide.

Buy them all for less than half the $$$ of one modern muscle car. What would they be worth now?

I could scrape up and pay cash for that for a Demon. But I bet in 1971 for a youngster those prices were expensive.

About a year and a half of gross pay at $1.60 minimum wage at the time. In 1975 @ age 20 and newly married I could've bought a really nice red '70 'cuda for $1,900, not only did I not have the nineteen hundred, the insurance company wouldn't cover me. I heard the car went to Alaska.

Ouch. Its still neat though to think about all the new offerings for a muscle car available back then- small and big block offerings from Chevy Dodge Plymouth Pontiac...inhale....Buick Olds Ford and AMC.

In the very early spring of 1969 I went to my local hometown Plymouth dealer and sat down with my dad (co-signing as I was 18-1/2) and ordered my '69 Road Runner and I think when it arrive six or eight weeks later is was about the same "out the door" as that Lemon Twist Charger or around $3,800? I had a good job working in a steel related assembly plant and waiting to get drafted and shipped off to Vietnam (which drafted came a year and five months later) so I was going to make the most of my young life while I could and damn everything else. It was "The Best of Times, and the Worst of Times". Anyone have a list of the prices for the '69 Road Runner options so I can figure out the price of my RR? I think the RM23 383 base price was $3083, then add a 727, console, bucket seats, 3.91 Suregrip "Trac Pack" (or is that Super Trac Pack?), Air Grabber, Hood Stripes, AM radio, Power Steering, A01 light package, I know there was no charge for the F5 paint and black interior. May have missed something but back in the day that was a good chunk of change or monthly payments of over I think a $110 but lucky for me my parents listed it as my dad's car and him as the primary driver for.......INSURANCE purposes If dad only knew how many street races I had with that Road Runner

That's awesome! (not the draft part) Classy lookin lady too.

3083.00 - RM23
$ 39.30 - 727,
$ 54.45 - console,
$100.85 - bucket seats,
$102.15 - 3.91 Suregrip "high performance axle package"
$ 55.30 - Air Grabber,
$ 18.05 - Hood Stripes,
$ 61.55 - AM radio,
$100.00 - Power Steering,
$ 29.60 - A01 light package,

3644.25 total plus about $50 shipping to NE Ohio *plus ~$150 in tax (4% ) & title fees

$21.30 deluxe wheel covers

in the library at Hamtramck-Historical

Good eye yes "deluxe wheel cover" with black steel wheels as I intended to get either slots, Keystones or TT. THANKS FOR THE PRICES AWESOME as always

$3865.55 with the wheel covers

Mike

Thanks! That's my older sister and thankfully her friend took that and another photo of her next to my RR. About ten or fifteen years ago (?) she (my sister) asked if I wanted a couple of photos of her next to my car? I just about fell over as I never took, had or saw any photos of my Road Runner. When I got them what great memories.....for the most part. She used to wait by my RR for the mail to arrive hoping for a letter from her "boyfriend" and now husband who was in Vietnam with the 25th Infantry. They got married when he got back. She would wait by the car until the mail came and then I would take her to work and pick her up later and bring her home. There were seven kids in the family and my parents never had a new car and always drove older used cars so when I told my mom that I was looking at buying a new car and told her I was looking at a Dodge Dart she told me it would be better to get a car that was bigger and not a "compact" (yes a Dart was a compact back then ). Well I knew she was right and the fact about the co-signing and the insurance I decided to get the Road Runner. One thing that had my dad give me the dad look was when I optioned the bucket seats and the console instead or a front bench and column 727 . My mom didn't really know the whole story on the Dart "compact" car as I was really first looking at a Dart GTS with a 383 and then found a magazine test on the 383 GTS with a short sidebar story on how there was going to be a Dart GTS with a 440 (M-Code). Went to the local Dodge dealership and got laughed out of it when I asked two sales guys that didn't have a clue about info on the 440 Dart GTS, When I got home and mom asked why I was so down I just told her that I was looking at a Dodge Dart and no other details and that's when the "Why a compact car with six brothers and sisters?" so being still being mad and the reality of the Dart 383 or 440 co-signing, insurance, seating, etc., Yep got a B-body midsize still with seating for five comfortably and not so bad for the smallest of the family to sit on the console for a not so long ring burning rubber and racing Chebies and Forf from the traffic lights with the car full of family.........except for dad. Mom was always for the racing and she could lay down a half of a block of two black tire marks anytime the brothers or sister coaxed her into........oh she was the reason I got the power steering she was pretty small but knew how to drive a stick and really well. More on the 440 Dart GTS years later and a WWYD if someone were to ask you about trading your RR 383 727 for a 4-Speed A12 Road Runner + $500 ?

Mike

great stories Mike, and thank you for your service
I had to comment that the panther Pink Charger was 251.00 more than the 4spd Hemi Cuda. Hmm not today

Mike those are some great memories. We were talking brand new cars in 1971- what would someone pay for a 5 year old mint condition muscle car? Say a hot small block 65-66 Chevy 2 or a 68 Dart 4 speed with 340?