1968 Plymouth Road Runner

[bill dedman]

Originally Posted by Paul Ceasrine

Bill,

Didn't they call those camshafts 'VOODOO',,,,,,,,

On the subject of the 1968 Plymouth Road Runner.
Despite it's 1968 success,,,,,,,the 68' Pontiac GTO won out as
the 1968 Motor Trend Car of the Year.

The 1969 Plymouth Road Runner was the 1969 Car of the Year.
Motor Trend Magazine, February 1969.

The camshaft I had was actually the camshaft that was in the 'RIDDLER" Oregon-based 340 car that had won the Winternationals, a couple of years before. Mark Colleti's dad owned a chain of performancxe Mopar shops, and was apparently getting some help from Chrysler at the time. Gary Ostrich (20 miles from my house) did contract machine work for Chrysler at that time (the godd ol' days) and the Colleti clan had sent Mark's engine to Gary to change it over to a Super Stock confuguration, and the cam and lifters were sitting on a shelf, one day, when I was visiting the shop to see my friend, Charlie Malyuke, who worked there for Gary. I mentioned that I needed a cam, and Gary offered to sell me the used, but still fresh, "Riddler" cam and lifters for $60.00, and said he'd throw in a new set of new valve springs, for good measure. The deal of a lifetime.... lol!

Subsequently, Lunati (who had ground the cam, originally) came out with a line of camshafts called "Riddler" cams for small block Mopars, so I assumed that it was the same grind, but I don't know that.

It picked my car up 3-tenths from the stock 340 automatic cam. The bonus was it idled like a Gasser, now... nasty-sounding! LOL!!

Dunno about the VOOODOO cams...

Sorry for the blatant hijack...