This was my Favorite Muscle Car!

[Rattler]

Now that sounds like real fun J.

 

[Fireman Dave]

Nice GTX, Rattler! My very first car was a '70 GTX - also originally FK5. Here's a pic of it from way back and a pic of our current classic.

 

[Rattler]

Cool Dave. There was a 64 Plymouth wagon for sale here a little while back. I had to make myself look away. It would have made a cool ride. I see your GTX had the burnt orange interior too. Mine has the white and burnt orange, really makes it stand out.

 

[crispyboy]

Never had the opportunity to be around "muscle cars" but our family did have a few mopars. Our vehicles were always along the practical side.
For years my dad drove a various Dodge Coronetts for a company car, mom had a 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger and a 1976 Dodge Dart sedan, Grandpa (dad's side) had a 47 Chrysler Town and Country, 68 Dodge Polara station wagon, 77 Plymouth Fury, 1977 Chrysler Newport (paisley green seats) and now I have the 09 Dodge pickup.
Our trucks and cars have mostly been fullsize Jeep products - 1958 Jeep station wagon, 1964 J200, 1966 CJ6, 1975 CJ5, 1974 J10, 1982 J20, 1986 J20, 1978 Cherokee and a 1990 Grand Wagoneer,

 

[rscurtis]

I had a '69 Dart 2dr. HT that I owned since new. It was a 318 4-speed car, with Rallye suspension, frt. discs, 8-3/4" axle, fast manual steering, and their White Hat special appearance group. It still ran like new with 101K miles on it, and had been garaged since it was 4 years old. I sold it in 2007 for $10,000 to one of my customers at my rental store. It was almost all original in #2 to #3 condition, with all maintenance records since new. Prior to that, I had a '66 Ford Galaxie 7-Litre convertible with the optional 425HP 427 engine with a 4-speed transmission. That was a real sleeper, no one knew what it was unless they were sharp enough to pick up the sound of the solid-lifter cam. Ford's of that era were not known as performance cars. At the same time, my father had a first year ('68) Hurst/Olds, one of 18 with factory air out of a run of just over 500.

Unfortunately, these cars weren't considered collectible back then, as you could always buy another next year. In the '70's and '80's, no one wanted them due to insurance costs and their appetite for high-test gas, and sometimes lots of it. I think they would both be big $ cars today, as they were rare when new.

 

[Fireman Dave]

Cool Dave. There was a 64 Plymouth wagon for sale here a little while back. I had to make myself look away. It would have made a cool ride. I see your GTX had the burnt orange interior too. Mine has the white and burnt orange, really makes it stand out.

Yeah, I always wanted to get it back to the original FK5, but it didn't happen before I sold it back in '84. That's a really sharp color. I like the white interior of yours, too. I have a friend with a '69 Hemi GTX that's B5 blue with a white interior - a great combination. I also never had the proper pistol grip shifter that I see you have. Mine had a Hurst from a '69 Roadrunner. The guy I bought the car from told me that the engine was also out of a '69 RR. I never ran the numbers on the block back then, but looking back on it, I think that was likely true. Both the shifter and the aluminum 6 pack intake on the car were consistent with an A-12 car. The '70 six packs had cast iron intakes. Back then we weren't running block numbers to match them with VINs, etc...

 

[dresslered]

This was my Favorite Muscle Car!

I blew it. I could have bought a Plymouth Road Runner Superbird for $500 when I was in high school. I was into MG's at the time that ended up yielding no real return. Later on, I could have had a Ferrari Dino Convertible (drove like nothing I had ever driven before) for next to nothing. Passed on that as well.



Note to self. Buy cars. Not government treasuries!

 

[GW208]

My very first brand new car, a 72 Plymouth Cuda with a 340, 4 speed and the pistol grip shifter. The motor was a miserable pig as it was the first year of the low compression, smogged to the hilt motors. I think it had less than 5,000 miles on it when I pulled the motor and replaced it with an earlier model out of a wrecking yard that I had built up.



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[rscurtis]

I remember that. I once drove a '73 Duster with the 340 and it didn't run any better than my 318 with the 2-barrel carb. By that time, in addition to lower compression, they had gotten rid of the good heads and the free-flowing exhaust manifolds. It was a 340 in name only.

 

[JJPage]

My very first brand new car, a 72 Plymouth Cuda with a 340, 4 speed and the pistol grip shifter. The motor was a miserable pig as it was the first year of the low compression, smogged to the hilt motors. I think it had less than 5,000 miles on it when I pulled the motor and replaced it with an earlier model out of a wrecking yard that I had built up.

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My brother Mike ended up trading his 1970 3 speed on the floor 340, for either a 72 or 73 340 4 speed, just like yours, except it was yellow w/black vinyl roof and accents. He also was disappointed in the performance compared to the 1970's engine, but they were still neat cars and a (lack of) horsepower obstacle that could be overcome, as it was before emissions testing.

ralph nader and his bunch sure screwed up the entire auto industry of it's time, he should have been constrained to just the Pinto...

 

[Rattler]

I put a 72 340 with big valve heads in a 71 Cuda convertible. With that 8 1/2 to compression ratio, it was still sluggish on the bottom end.

 

[Grizzly]

My oldest brother Mike drove home to Spokane from Mountain Home Air Base in a new 1970 'Cuda. His was metalic olive green, had duel hood scoops, with a 340/3spd on the floor, anybody familiar knows this was a fast combination for a stock vehicle. The Hemi Cuda would have been the ultimate.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013...cuda-on-sale-for-275-million/?intcmp=features

That really is a nice car. I've always been partial to Chrysler product cars and trucks.



When I was in High School I had a very old 1948 Plymouth Coupe that my brother and I customized. Sure had fun with it. Wish I still had it.



George