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Plymouth Duster I

"The Plymouth Duster I was a high-performance concept car of the Road Runner in the late 1960s. It featured the usual low curved racing type of windshield and had airplane-type flaps on the top and sides. There was a set adjustable spoilers on the side of the rear fender near the gas tank filler cap to prevent side-to-side yaw when slipstreaming in a race, with two more of them on top behind the driver, plus spoilers in the front rock shields to reduce frontal lift. It was powered by a 426 Hemi."


Apparently, Plymouth was going to lose their bread and butter A-body Barracuda to the E-body for 1970. They still had the Valiant, but the marketers viewed it as not being as "sexy" as the A-body 'Cuda. Because Plymouth wanted to maintain their strong position in the econocar market, yet build it out to attract younger buyers, they decided to use the Duster moniker on a new A-body instead of on the killer Road Runner.