It seems a restored "Road Runner" is selling for roughly double the price of a restored "Satellite". After this discrepancy fizzles out (and I predict it will), I can see the prices will even out eventually. After all, the sheet metal is all the same. After careful study, the public eventually will figure this out.
Sometimes I wonder what all the fuss it about. Like I said before, the Satellite is not a downgraded Road Runner, the Road Runner is an upgraded Satellite. Well, not really, the Satellite Sebring Plus originally sold for more than the standard Road Runner. The Road Runner has a different drivetrain and some logos and stripes and there the dissimilarities end. And I will mention Richard Petty's "Road Runner" used a Satellite hood during NASCAR races. Makes you wonder what he really was driving? Well, it was a Plymouth and we can leave it at that.
But I do speak from experience, having driven my parent's new (special order) 1971 Bahama Yellow Road Runner to high school for two years (fall 1971 thru spring 1973). I now drive a restored 1972 Bahama Yellow Satellite Sebring Plus and experience the same thrill.
I was extremely fortunate to have had this experience.
Just out of curiosity, is there anyone else on this forum that drove a factory fresh, new 1971 Road Runner to high school every day for two years? Or anyone else who made there first drag strip run in a factory fresh new 1971 Road Runner like I did (low 15 ET's at Fremont Raceway and trophy first time out).
