Angela Miers, 45, a mom from Vero Beach, Fla., on her 1969 Plymouth Road Runner, as told to A.J. Baime. Cars are rolling memory troves. My father was a big Road Runner fan. When I was born, he ...

Luckily, everyone was OK. And since this is real life, it’s good nobody got injured. From the looks of the picture, even the painted roadrunner went unharmed (though that’s nothing new for him).