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1971 Plymouth Road Runner

The young and young at heart took a fancy to the Road Runner’s budget muscle car concept in the late ’60s and they have been beep-beeping at each other ever since. By magazine, which selected the ’71 Road Runner as its “U.S. Car of the Year.”

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