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You said it for me. That’s why I owned seven 68-70 GTXs.

Many upscale Mopars wore them back in the day, including my GTX. I love originality, but that was the one feature of my car I couldn't bring myself to keep. In 1970, the original owner apparently felt the same. The GTX he ordered that year had Goodyear Polyglas white letters, mounted on 15x7...

Welcome from Pennsylvania, USA. Great to see someone your age preserving one from my era.

I fished for salmon in Campbell River, British Columbia in 2009. Trip of a life time ended up a bit of a fiasco when the area was hit with a record setting 103 degree heat wave. No kill order was placed on Sockeyes to insure successful spawning, and I had to release a dozen prime fish that...

Sorry I can’t be more specific, but back in the day, my corporate employer had a summer home/compound in Traverse City, Michigan. We stayed there for a corporate retreat in 1994. Beautiful area. Instead of golfing with the mainstream, I chartered a fishing boat and caught a couple nice coho...

I hauled casting compound to a foundry in that town for a couple months after I lost my corporate gig and went back on the truck. Small world.

My friend who owns the Midas shop did an excellent job with his pipe bender, doing a head pipe for Baby Blue a decade ago. After the job was completed, he confided that his pipe bender was on its last legs, better get a reproduction part next time around.

I like your approach. I really liked having one wife, and two ‘68 GTXs, a 440 from back in the day, and a numbers matching Hemi. But as the curtain has started coming down with age, I decided one wife and one GTX was better, and I’ve been happy with the choice.

Hawk, as you and I have discussed in person, a back story can really change the picture. The thread posted a few years ago by @RRDon really made an impression on me, when he offered to pay $100K for his former 383 Road Runner, if it could be located. I was prepared to pay that much for my car...

When I test drove my GTX back in 1970, the car initially offered for the ride was a '70 Hemi Cuda with a four speed. I knew the other car was cooler to most folks, but I always liked that GTX better. Saved me significant bucks by being a bit of a freak in that department.

Yes. A major reason the house isn't in play.

I've had my cake and eaten it too. There was always one Mopar I wanted more than any other, regardless of cost, after a test drive in 1970. I finally got it, after a five decade chase, and I still have the house. I wouldn't swap either for a Hemi Daytona.

A friend of mine had an original '68 GTX he bought from the original owner in 1969. The car had the original factory Magnum 500s, my car had an aftermarket set. Mine had shiny chrome centers, his had brushed stainless steel. Otherwise, they were identical.

There's a season for everything. When I finally bought the Demonstrator, it cost over three times what I got for the Chrysler 300F when I sold it for the down payment on the current house. I felt I got a bargain.

Happy birthday!:bday::bday:

There are many of us here who sold a prized Mopar back in the day to buy a house.

I appreciate your situation. I’ve owned seven GTXs over five decades, and most of them came from the southeastern US. Although the prices I paid at the time were considered high, they were cheap compared to body work and paint. The good ones have always been out there, but hard to find. The only...

It’s been posted here before many times, but it’s cheaper to buy one that has already been through the process, as long as you can verify it’s been done correctly.

I loved that car, drove it 100,000 miles as my company ride when I was a trucking company executive. Different time in my life, for sure, I was looking for adventure every day, and I often found it.

I used to drive in from Chicago, in a ‘62 Imperial, but that was 30 years ago…