That owner, Joe Grass, bought the car in September 1968, about a year after returning from his tour in Vietnam. He was 22 and working for Pontiac.
The road runner is a very stripped down model that happened to be at the dealership when he arrived, it only has three additional options: an AM radio, a Sure-Grip rear axle, and an automatic transmission.
In the summer of 1970 he was screwing around more than the cops could overlook, and when they lit him up with the gumball, he ran for it. He was chased over two hours, and finally slid into a cornfield, and eventually had the car towed to his sisters where he threw a tarp over it, and never looked back.
In the 2000's he had it towed to his place, but didn't do anything with it due to old age, and declining health. Last year he gave it to a cousin, and finally it came out of hiding for the magazine Muscle Car Review to do an article on it in the March 2015 issue
The road runner is a very stripped down model that happened to be at the dealership when he arrived, it only has three additional options: an AM radio, a Sure-Grip rear axle, and an automatic transmission.
In the summer of 1970 he was screwing around more than the cops could overlook, and when they lit him up with the gumball, he ran for it. He was chased over two hours, and finally slid into a cornfield, and eventually had the car towed to his sisters where he threw a tarp over it, and never looked back.
In the 2000's he had it towed to his place, but didn't do anything with it due to old age, and declining health. Last year he gave it to a cousin, and finally it came out of hiding for the magazine Muscle Car Review to do an article on it in the March 2015 issue
