This 1974 Plymouth Road Runner is a factory 360 four-barrel car finished in yellow over a black interior, and it has been with the same family for more than 30 years. The odometer reads 93,764 miles, and as a 1974 model the car falls under odometer exempt status, so the mileage is not warranted as actual. It is said to have covered less than 1,000 miles over the past decade. It is also a factory air conditioning car, and the system still blows cold. 1974 was the final year of the 1971 to 1974 B-body Road Runner, and the VIN confirms it as a genuine Road Runner built at Chrysler's St. Louis assembly plant.
Power comes from the 360 cubic inch (5.9L) V8, factory rated at 245 horsepower and 320 lb-ft of torque in stock four-barrel form, now breathing through a Holley Street Dominator aluminum intake and a Holley carburetor. The Street Dominator is the street-oriented version of that manifold, retaining the exhaust heat crossover and the factory accessory provisions, which is why the car still runs its air conditioning and stock underhood hardware alongside the upgrade. It is also a bolt-on change that leaves the original short block untouched. Spent gases exit through a true dual exhaust. Behind the engine is a TorqueFlite automatic and a 2.76 rear ratio, a combination built for relaxed highway cruising. 1974 was the first and only year the 360 appeared in the Road Runner in this generation, arriving as the replacement for the 340 that Chrysler had dropped from its entire car lineup, and it was the stronger of the two engines rated for the year while sharing the 340's camshaft.
Braking is handled by front discs and rear drums, and the Road Runner package brought heavy-duty underpinnings from the factory. The car rides on 14 inch wheels, the factory diameter for this model, which keeps the proportions period correct rather than modernized. Inside, it retains its black bench seat interior, the original configuration for a Road Runner of this year, along with working factory air conditioning that a surprising number of surviving Mopars from this era either never had or lost decades ago. The bench and the tall highway gearing tell you how this car was ordered and how it has been used since.
Context matters on this one. Production of the 1974 Road Runner is commonly cited at roughly 11,555 cars across all engines, a fraction of the nameplate's late-1960s volume, and 1974 was the last model year before catalytic converters arrived across the industry. Plymouth had paid Warner Bros. for the rights to the Road Runner name, the cartoon likeness, and the horn, and this generation carried that identity through to the end of the B-body. A VIN-verified 360 four-barrel car in yellow with factory air, long-term single-family ownership, and very limited recent use is a specific combination within an already limited production year.
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