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MEEP MEEP!

When you’re at an impressionable age, movies can be very influential. Dave Christmas had wanted a Plymouth Road Runner since he saw one in a film when he was aged 14. “Although when I was seven I wanted a Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am,” recalls Dave. “I bought the Trans Am toys and model kits, and then, aged 14, I saw a movie called Brewster McCloud. I was fascinated since it featured an orange car with a flap on the bonnet going up and down. Years later, with the benefit of the internet, I discovered it was a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner. I had pictures of the car on my screensaver at work and, again, bought the die-cast models and plastic kits of Road Runners, although I’d never seen one in the UK.”

Then fate intervened. “I saw this Tor-Red 1970 Road Runner for sale on

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