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When I was in the tank truck business, I worked with an old school terminal manager who had started driving tractor trailers in the late 60s. He told me a story to illustrate the point that natural selection produced great truck drivers in his era. During his teen years, Larry was racing a guy...

Back in the day, the actuator in my '70 GTX failed at about 80,000 miles. No warning before it quit.

Seems to parallel my experience in fleet safety when I was in the tank truck business. Less experienced drivers had more accidents, but usually minor. Guys with over 10 years experience had the lowest rate, but the highest severity. Over confidence was a killer that overcame skill.

Every year, I make a trip to the Chrysler Nationals in Carlisle, with my friend Rob, whom many of you have met at the FBBO tent. He worked with me in the tank truck business for many years, and back in the day, was a body man at the dealership that sold my GTX. Some years we come down in a GTX...

Without seeing it in person, who really knows what condition it's in. I nearly didn't go to look at my former A33 GTX based on photos, which showed stuff that pointed to a quickie flip. After talking to the seller, I gambled on a plane ticket, and was pleasantly surprised, many high dollar OEM...

Happy birthday Don, and many more.:bday::bday:

The previous owner of my GTX put the original date coded glass in new reproduction housings. The decent, but peppered originals came with the car. He was a former partner in a trim restoration business, and replaced the rear pot metal pieces with restored originals. Pricey stuff, was selling a...

I used that same double barb in a different setting, joining different sized air lines to run the pneumatic vibrators I used to unload sticky material from the bulk tankers I used to pull. I bought them in the plumbing supply section of Lowe's and Home Depot.

GTX is light argent. I’ve owned four ‘69s. Picture is my current one in 1971.

I carried a correct date code NOS Carter AVS in the trunk of Baby Blue for years. It was my comeback for the no car nit pickers who dissed me on the Holley street avenger. Turbine68rt has it on his Charger now.

Welcome from PA. Also a GTX fan, I've owned seven, four of them red. Never had a '67, but good to see you've already connected with the folks here who know them well.

My dad was an honors student in Philadelphia in the early 50s, who became a doctor. Scotch/German heritage, though the adoption agency that placed me said that I was Irish protestant, to grease the wheels with my adoptive parents. Biological dad met my Korean mom through their academic...

Kind of scary, you looked a bit like me back in the day.

Happy birthday, and many more!:bday::bday:

My GTX was parked next to Richard Cranium’s former Hemi Charger at Carlisle two years ago. Deep pocket guy asked what I’d take for it. RC’ s Charger was priced at $285K. Fellow member Hacksaw pipes up, “he’ll sell it today for the price of the Charger.” It didn’t happen, but at that price I...

I saved a correct year plate from back in the day, that I finally put on my '69 GTX, 52 years later. It was on my dad's new Valiant, the day I test drove the GTX. Not original to the car, but dad's car was parked side by side with the current one that day. Tag service that did the transfer was...

Life happens, and the cars come and go. A dry spell doesn't mean you're done with the hobby. Speaking from personal experience.

Welcome from PA. I'm biased like @MarPar. I used to own another "Baby Blue" like his. I remember when your car was sold at Barrett Jackson. Way out of my league at the time.

Back when the selling dealer owned my GTX, I spent a decade staring at it, and drove it 10 miles. Since I bought it in 2022, I've reversed the process, driven more miles than the previous owner did in 28 years, including two trips to Carlisle. My previous '69 became a no miles car after I sold...

Three's a charm. Coolant temperature sensor died on the way home from Carlisle last summer. I installed a reproduction, then a newer Mopar unit, neither of which worked. Finally ponied up and bought a 1980s NOS sensor, tested okay with an ohm meter. A little hard to access on my factory A/C...