YouTube vid: 1969 Plymouth GTX (11 min)
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I had a buddy with one. It was a 4 speed. 440 C.I. Too much to handle.
I do wonder how it runs on the swill ethanol gas today. no way I could run by old 427/435hp Corvette, Had trouble with some 1969 gas.
I was just in HS but a guy I worked with had one similar to this. THen he traded it in for a new Dodge Super Bee Sixpack a year or so later. But because his wife couldn’t drive a stick, both had automatics. Which seemed to the rest of us like a huge waste...but I see the same here. Still very nice cars and I guess we’ve outgrown the clutch-popping rubber burning days (not that this couldn’t burn rubber as is!)
A kid in high school had a GTX. He pulled up in front of a friend’s house, so we walked out. He hit the gas, car just sat there rear wheels spinning, no forward movement...but because of the sideways slope of the road, the rear-end started drifting towards the road shoulder. The kid finally let off the gas. Tire smoke cloud was huge. Probably burned 5000 miles off his rear tires.
I was impressed.
Sixty grand for a rotisserie restoration. Not bad. The guy could have shut the f*ck up and driven the car so that you could see and hear how it runs instead of puttering around the industrial park and yammering like a junior high school girl. If it was a hemi, it would probably be buck and a quarter to buck and a half. Could have bought one of these new between WestPac cruises. Damn.
Restoring one like it now. A beast.
B5 Blue is a great color. It wasn’t the best for car show trophy’s back in the 80’s/90’s (red, orange, yellow, black ftw) but it is a great color that really stands the test of time.
There is something special about a Coupe without a B Pillar. Nowadays only German Cars are still built that way.