What car is this?

[Guest arni]

Can you help me on weather this is a Roadrunner or not,I done a picture search on Plymouth Roadrunner and came up with a different body shape.It does say Plymouth Roadrunner on the inside of the glass molding though.

Also who might the kit manufacturer be? I cannot find any info anywhere on the moldings and I need picture reference to make a new rear light panel (it is missing) and the wing itself.

Thanks in advance.

[crazyjim]

Isn't that a Plymouth Superbird?

[Jordan White]

It's possible it was a Roadrunner kit mixed with a Daytona/Superbird kit, but I actually believe that the Roadrunner kits came with the Superbird parts. Can't remember which brand though.

[Nick Winter]

it's a MPC '71 Plymouth Roadrunner

[Ken]

Where is Marc Nellis when you need him. I believe that this is MPC 71 Roadrunner. The when the kit originally came out in 71, the aero parts were included. If my memory serves me right, Mother MOPAR had a test/research 71 RoadRunner done up like this till NASCAR changed the rules and outlawed the aero wars. I don't believe the parts have been included in any of the reissues in a while. Get either the AMT Daytona for the needed parts(wing and such, most of the kit is horrible) and maybe a resin cast replacement part. The AMT 74 RR may help as well.

[diymirage]

this is gonna sound retarded BUT i have an AMX 74 GTX kit and the sink holes in the mirrors look exactly the same

also...would i be wrong if i said the daytonas did NOT have the airgrabber and the superbirds did (or at least had the option too)

[caine440]

Yep

MPC 71 Roadrunner had the add on parts to make a phantom 71 Superbird.

[Casey]

it's a MPC '71 Plymouth Roadrunner

It's ficticious, as there was never a 1:1 '71 Road Runner Superbird produced:

[Nick Winter]

It's ficticious, as there was never a 1:1 '71 Road Runner Superbird produced:

yes sir from one mopar man to another, I had this kit box, but no longer do,

[Guest arni]

Cheers for the info guys,at least I know what year of car to picture search now.It will be fun restoring this kit and I am looking forward to it.

[Roadkill2525]

Just like the Ford King Cobra, Chrysler made a few for testing but were either demantled, destroyed, or went missing.

[diymirage]

yes sir from one mopar man to another, I had this kit box, but no longer do,

[sfhess]

this is gonna sound retarded BUT i have an AMX 74 GTX kit and the sink holes in the mirrors look exactly the same

also...would i be wrong if i said the daytonas did NOT have the airgrabber and the superbirds did (or at least had the option too)

Probably because it comes from basically the same tooling.

[Guest Chris V]

this is gonna sound retarded BUT i have an AMX 74 GTX kit and the sink holes in the mirrors look exactly the same

also...would i be wrong if i said the daytonas did NOT have the airgrabber and the superbirds did (or at least had the option too)

The '74 GTX has those parts, as the majority of the parts in the two kits are from the same basic tooling.

Regarding the airgrabber option, that's partially wrong: Airgrabber hood wasn't an option on '68-'70 Chargers (and thus Daytonas), and while air grabber was an option on the Roadrunner and GTX, the Superbird used a modified '70 Dodge Coronet hood (and front fenders) and didn't offer the air grabber either.

[Guest arni]

Thanks again guys,now I know where to search when I restore this kit.

[Joe Handley]

X2!

[Art Anderson]

It's ficticious, as there was never a 1:1 '71 Road Runner Superbird produced:

Not at all ficticious! It was prototyped by Plymouth Division for the 1971 model run, so it could be entered in Nascar, but a rules change, outlawing the streamlining nose cap and wings for Grand National racing (this a year before the Winston Cup came about), so there was no production version offered (actually, the Daytona Charger and the Superbird were tough cars to sell at the time--the last Daytona Charger was finally sold off the lot, still a new car, in the summer of 1973, by Twin City Dodge in Lafayette IN, fully 4 years after it was produced!).

Art

[Guest arni]

Thanks Mark and everybody else,I may start the restoration in a couple of weeks.

[diymirage]

The '74 GTX has those parts, as the majority of the parts in the two kits are from the same basic tooling.

come to think of it, the roll bar drawn on the boxart looks just like the one in my 74 GTX

[dublin boy]

Good evening Nigel. You knew all along...