Word: plymouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the car body and improve handling at speeds of 100 m.p.h. and up. American Motors executives announced production of 500 tricolor SC/ Ramblers -steamed-up versions of the family economy car-and then watched delightedly as a flood of orders obliged them to triple the total. Sales of Plymouth's 1969 Road Runner-available with the "beep, beep" horn of its cartoon namesake and a 425 h.p. "King Kong" engine-have so far totaled 40,000, up 94% over the equivalent period last year...
...YORK, March 14 -- The 1969 Plymouth Road Runner has been named "Best Super Car" in a poll of its readers by Car and Driver Magazine...
...high-performance, low price-class Plymouth, popularized by the familiar "beep-beep" ad campaign since its introduction last model year, garnered 28.5 percent of the votes cast for entries in the Super Car Class of the national magazine's seventh annual Readers' Choice poll. Nine cars were included in the Super Car category...
Glenn E. White, general manager of Chrysler-Plymouth division, said the selection of Road Runner "verifies for us that the concept for this care was right on target. Road Runner was designed to appeal to the enthusiast and has been priced so that it is a true budget Super Car. We are gratified that the readers of Car and Driver have voted it a winner...
...unknown wilderness, chanced upon a few angry Indians and been killed, or run into wild animals to be trampled to death, or have to cross the plains and, running out of supplies, simply die of starvation. The world was an unavoidable challenge. Of the first Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, one half of them died in the first few months, and those who remained began a new experience in which danger was common and to face it only commonly courageous...