DANBURY MINT 1968 PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER (MATALIC BLUE)

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I still pity Wile E. Coyote. Just once I wanted to see Warner Brothers give him a fair chance. Maybe ‘ol Wile E. should have bypassed ACME Corporation and gone straight to a Plymouth dealership to buy one of these bad boys! I got your, “Meep, meep” right ! This was Plymouth’s first year for the Road Runner. Warner Brothers was paid a $50,000 fee for the use of the cartoon bird’s image and his speed warning, a warning that actually became the car’s horn sound. Based on the lightweight Plymouth Belvedere coupe body, with no frills, the car remained pure to form and function and sported a mildly souped up 383, potent in this light car, or a bird-stomping 425 horse, 426 Hemi. Well worth its $714 option price, the hemi was the preferred way to gather dinner quickly. A brand new tooling, DM constantly amazes me with new product, accurate detailing and precise production manufacture. This model is perfect from all angles. The parts-fit is superb. The doors open just like the real thing, front leading edge of the door inside the body cavity. And if the DM folks gave us but one more layer of that lavishly applied paint, the doors would bind up; the fit is that exact. The hood and trunk lid are the same. Even though this is a bare-bones car, the model looks beautiful. The previously mentioned paint, Electric Blue Metallic, is faultlessly sprayed read more

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