The 1969 Plymouth Road Runner arrived at a moment when muscle cars were getting faster, flashier, and a lot more expensive, and it calmly rewrote the rules. Instead of piling on chrome and luxury, it ...

in the muscle car's glorious days of the mid- and late-sixties (and crack of seventies), Detroit made a great deal (and put a great deal of effort) out of its high-strung, gas-guzzling intermediates.

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...