74 Road Runner (another old MS blog)

July 22, 2007 - Sunday

1974 Plymouth Road Runner Current mood: rejuvenated Category: Art and Photography This blog is one as a tribute to one of my favourite hot rods, the Plymouth Road Runner. this vehicle has a very storied history and a tarnished rep that led to its demise. But I remain a fan of it today. Introduced in 1968 as the Satellite (Satellite Sebring in its later years), it was a descendent of the Fury/Belvedere model, it was a muscle car with a nameplate whose namesake was the ever-popular Looney Tunes character, the roadrunner. From 68-74 (obviously before my time) this sister car to the Charger was competition to the GTO, Malibu/Chevelle, Mustang, Cougar, and if I'm not mistaken the Firebird and Camaro..... This is a sketch that I did of a 1974 Bird that I drew form off the web (which you'll see), and though I did the sketch last year, I coloured it just now. I compare picutres now and noticed that I was a bit off, but I plan to do a marker sketch ASAP and post it on my sketchbook. Sadly, the Road Runner's last hurrah was in 1980 when it was the nameplate of the Plymouth Volar'e. A car (along with its sister car, the Dodge Aspen) that looked good, but nearly put the then-Chrysler Corp. out of business. This was when Lee Iacocca took the helm and restructured Chrysler saving them from bankruptcy. Say what you may about the Road Runner during its 12-year existence, but any TRUE Mopar fan has gotta admit, that this-the 1974 model-was THE LAST of the Road Runners! Expect that marker drawing REAL SOON! Currently watching: The Junkman Release date: 19 February, 2002 9:20 PM 6 Comments 8 Kudos Translate Powered by English Albanian Arabic Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Print Edit Remove

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	Dynamic Hot Object Susan Leftwich	Nice bit of history there? Have you ever worked with velum or tracing paper? Let's say you sketch something on the fly then make a draft quality pencil drawing. use the velum to ink on top of it and you have a cleeeeeeeean~ inked image. Those would be easier to duplicate if you wanted to do the same car in different colors. Keep it up! Posted by Dynamic Hot Object on July 23, 2007 - Monday - 12:20 AM [Reply to this] [Remove] [Block User]

	Shuttin' it down (I've had a good run here	I'm gonna try that. Thanks, Susan. Posted by Shuttin' it down (I've had a good run here on July 23, 2007 - Monday - 6:48 AM [Reply to this] [Remove] [Block User]

	♥ Snuggles ♥ Ms. Laura	Good job! The Roadrunner is not one of my favorite cars but I think you did a great job. Posted by ♥ Snuggles ♥ on July 23, 2007 - Monday - 8:59 AM [Reply to this] [Remove] [Block User]

	Shuttin' it down (I've had a good run here	thanks. expect more hot rods comin' up soon! Posted by Shuttin' it down (I've had a good run here on July 23, 2007 - Monday - 7:31 PM [Reply to this] [Remove] [Block User]

	GODDESS DE PIEZ DESCALZOS Millia Roque	You can really draw a car... Posted by GODDESS DE PIEZ DESCALZOS on August 2, 2007 - Thursday - 6:17 PM [Reply to this] [Remove] [Block User]

Shuttin' it down (I've had a good run here

Thanks. I try 2 do my best. Posted by Shuttin' it down (I've had a good run here on August 2, 2007 - Thursday - 9:41 PM [Reply to this] [Remove] [Block User]