{"id":60502,"date":"2022-03-21T05:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T09:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=60502"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:40","slug":"68-roadrunner-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2022\/03\/68-roadrunner-with-a-twist.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;68 Roadrunner with a Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ken Matlock inherited his father\u2019s 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner that has been with the family since its conception. It was used as a daily driver all the way until 2002 and in pretty rough shape when Matlock inherited it. He says it was a \u201clabor of love and hate at the same time,\u201d taking him about six years to turn it into what we see today. Which \u2026 is what, exactly? A \u201968 Roadrunner with a second-generation Dodge Viper chassis and a third-generation HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> engine from Steve Morris Engines, of course. Matlock boasts that it reaches 1,115 HP on pump gas and shifts with a G-Force 6-speed transmission. \u201cIt\u2019s built to beat on \u2013 I don\u2019t baby it. If you gotta baby it, you didn\u2019t build it right,\u201d he adds. This wasn\u2019t the original direction of the design, Matlock mentions it had a twin-turbo V10 in it for a while. He also experimented with gold, white and yellow exteriors before settling with the eye-catching green. Check out all the pretty details and find out more about what\u2019s powering this family heirloom <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.streetmusclemag.com\/features\/this-1968-roadrunner-has-the-heart-of-a-viper\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Matlock inherited his father\u2019s 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner that has been with the family since its conception. It was used as a daily driver all the way until 2002 and in pretty rough shape when Matlock inherited it. He says it was a \u201clabor of love and hate at the same time,\u201d taking him about six years to turn it into what we see today. Which \u2026 is what, exactly? A \u201968 Roadrunner with a second-generation Dodge Viper chassis and a third-generation HEMI\u00ae engine from Steve Morris Engines, of course. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":60503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[2227,2949],"class_list":["post-60502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage","tag-mods","tag-plymouth-classics"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1968Roadrunner_Feature.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60509,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60502\/revisions\/60509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}