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.

The 1970 Road Runner arrived as a simple idea executed with a sense of humor: build a car that felt like unfiltered fun, then price it for ordinary drivers. More than half a century later, that ...

The rarity narrative is reinforced by modern auction commentary that singles out 440+6 Road Runners as special finds, such as the Sassy Grass 1970 example that Mecum expects to bring $140,000, and by ...