Thanks for allowing us to have a place to share our OT automotive p***ions. This ‘69 GTX shares the garage with my ‘58 Apache. I’ve owned it since 1982 and finished the “restoration” in 2001. It’s powered by the numbers matching 440 backed up by a 727 with a 9.5” converter and an 8 3/4 Sure Grip with 4.10’s. I like to think of it as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, aka the Black Sheep…
Yeah, sheep aren't big, black and rumble. Well, at least most aren't. Those that are don't get messed with. Nice car!
Road Runners are a favorite of mine. Hell, the $2945 base RR was a big block 383/4speed car with, uh, nuttin'! Pure muscle car, no extras like rear windows that roll down or a radio. A GTX seemed to be the upscale, ''I've got my act together'' car. That hood is the crowning touch. Any idea how much it cost new?
Base price for the GTX was about $3500 in ‘69. It was the top offering in the Belvedere line. The standard engine was a 440 and the HEMI was optional. They also had a 150 speedometer, a nicer interior, a different grille and more exterior trim. Whoever originally ordered my GTX only checked a few boxes on the options list. It has the factory am/8 track, tach, Air Grabber hood and dual sport mirrors. Otherwise it’s pretty plain for a GTX, you don’t see many with a column shift automatic and even fewer without the joystick mirror on the driver’s side.
There were quite a few fast cars in my small town of 500 people when I was growing up. A small block 55 Chevy, two V8 Vegas, a 69 Hurst Olds, a Challenger T/A with a six pack 340, a 69 Road Runner with a 383, a brown 70 split bumper Camaro with a healthy engine, a couple Mustangs and several other cars that I can’t recall completely. One of the more serious cars was a 1969 GTX in B5 blue with a 440. I was still in grade school but I remember standing on main street and that thing rumbled by and revved the engine while waiting on another car to make a left turn. It left a vivid impression on a young mind that was already inclined towards automotive interests. It was a bad machine for sure. The owner drag raced it and from what I’ve been told it was running in the 11’s. The guy that owned it had a brother and he is my daughter’s neighbor, I’ll have to see if he can dig up some photos of it.
Very cool! I have fond memories of a 69 GTX from back when I was still in high school. A buddy of mine bought a 4-speed, B5 blue GTX with a black vinyl top out of a pasture and built a fun 440 for it. I remember picking it up late one night from another friends place where they happened to be filming some movie at the time. Supposedly it was noticeable in the movie that we took the car if someone was paying attention. I never saw the movie, so have no idea if that is true. Anyway, I remember riding in it with my buddy and thinking the windshield might pop out when he was banging gears with that pistol grip in that car. Really enjoying this new area where I can relive some of my past outside of my current interest in traditional stuff.
I love this car as much as I love your truck. A Roadrunner is high on my list of wants, I'm not cl***y enough for a GTX!
I've had a few Road Runners, and a few Sport Satellites (the next step down with the same drive trains but lower insurance rates). I favored the 70 (had 3 of them, 2 autos and a 4 sped) over the 68/69 ( 2 of those, one auto, one 4 speed). Had 3 sport Satellites, a 68 auto, a 71 auto and a 72 auto. The list of Mopar cars and trucks I have had ***led in my name is pretty long! I'm down to only 3 now, from a list of 17 at once, several years ago! I got my license in 72, and the gas crisis started in 78. High performance cars became cheap about the time I had money in my pockets. Mopar was my thing. I bought, sold, parted out, stripped and s****ped a pile of Mopar performance cars and Dodge trucks between 1976 and about 1990. I did some dirt track racing, some serious street racing, and had some nice street cars during those years. The Mopar parts sales funded most of it. I didn't take a lot of pictures back then, and then most I have are all in picture albums in printed form. I have to figure out how to get on my computer so I can post them.
Perfect build, I've seen your car on other MoPar sites; it really stands out. Love the 69 B Body cars, my dad has a 69 Road Runner R4 red 4 speed car he has owned since 1972.
Had a 70 b5 blue, white reflective side stripe, white interior, air grabber, 440 4bbl, 3:91 posi, bucket seat, console car. Am radio and tik tok tach with an automatic and chrome magnum wheels.
Ahh to be a 16 year old kid again ..... I was working as a dishwasher at Sambos restaurant. There was a crowd that hung out and drank coffee all night. One of them had a 1969 2 door Satellite ... 318 wedge. Hot Rod orange paint ... He tried to do a tune up in the back parking lot and could not get it started since. ..... It was going on 2 weeks the car was sitting there. The restaurant manager finally said, you get that car out tomorrow or I'm having it impounded. The guy kept hounding on me to buy that car that night .... I really had no interest in it .... I had $35 in my pocket at the time and he accepted and signed the ***le over .... it was going to the impound yard in the morning. So I worked my shift and got off at 6:00 AM, I went home and grabbed some tools and a Motors manual and came back. The problem was he had the plug wires and firing order all messed up. IIRC, the normal 318 and wedge have different firing order ..... So i Had it running in 30 minute then spent time chasing down all the hair brain fixes he made .... then I drove it home to my apartment. I made a mortal enemy that day, the 24 yer old guy thought he was the best mechanic ever, a 16 year old kid fixed it in 1 hour .... all his friends hung out at the restaurant and knew what happened ..... So I was not old enough to legally rent a apartment, my room mate was leaving so I left also .... I fixed the car and drove it home ... then moved and left it sitting in the parking lot with the ***le in the glove box. While I would love to have the car today, I have no regrets for abandoning it when I did. The guy was a total jerk and worth the $35 to watch him get his ******* in a bunch.
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