kick this one around

[chargervert]

That car should be called LSD,insread of GTX because whoever did that to that car obviously used a lot of LSD!

 

[eldubb440]

In the 70’s I don’t remember that kind of customization, I would have laughed at it then, I laugh at it today.
Unbelievable

maybe he thought it was a van.....even still, Thumper?

 

[roadrunnerh]

Horrible "custom"!

 

[1967coronet]

Well....... credit givin to the hrs spent..
My only addition would be a 64 impala body with 4 corner hydraulics and some 13" gold wire spokes.

 

[roadrunnerh]

The KISS Love Gun mural looks cool on the van.

 

[haywire 440]

The old original "Rock Crusher" was a "close ratio trans, the same as the M21. The new wide ratio, similar to the M20, ratio wise.
Both version will have similar RPM drops between 1st, 2nd and 2nd, 3rd, but the wide ratio will have a bigger drop between 3rd, 4th, hence the wide ratio name.The, wide, also features lower overall ratios in 1st, 2nd and 3rd gears, helping to compensate for higher, freeway friendly gears, and still provide a nice hole shot, but allowing that road friendly gear to be utilized in 4th gear.

I know a little about the Muncie transmission and had a rock crusher that I ended up never using. Sold it to a friend who hasn’t used it yet but still around.

What has me perplexed is the NASCAR 2nd gear. Does that mean it’s a different ratio that the stock 2nd gear or stronger metal or perhaps a slightly different gear angle for clutch less shifting?

And rock crushers were noisy hence the name, but everyone knows that.

 

[Cranky]

The old original "Rock Crusher" was a "close ratio trans, the same as the M21. The new wide ratio, similar to the M20, ratio wise.
Both version will have similar RPM drops between 1st, 2nd and 2nd, 3rd, but the wide ratio will have a bigger drop between 3rd, 4th, hence the wide ratio name.The, wide, also features lower overall ratios in 1st, 2nd and 3rd gears, helping to compensate for higher, freeway friendly gears, and still provide a nice hole shot, but allowing that road friendly gear to be utilized in 4th gear.

Had a wide ratio T-10 in my 66 BastFack Mudstain with a 2V 289 (with a 4 barrel,Torker and headers on it) and it got off the line pretty good even with the 2.80 gears and imo, was ok for street racing since 4th gear rarely came into play because by then, it had already ran a 1/4 mile and was really going too fast for being in any of the populated areas anyways. Kinda surprised me that it ran a 15 flat at the track...

And rock crushers were noisy hence the name, but everyone knows that.

Learn something new nearly every day! lol

 

[Hey-O]

1957 Chev 283 h.p. 283, with fuel injection. 1957 DeSoto. 345 h.p. 345 Hemi. Both with 1 h.p. per cubic inch.

The 1957 chevy tri five, was no supposed to come out that year with the fuel injection. A friend of mine that I met when I was building advertising displays, was a car designer fresh out of school in 1959 and was the designer of the wings on both the 59 and 60 chevy. He told me the their spies overheard something about Ford coming out with fuel injection for 57. It turned out to be air injection or some sort of air intake, ram air. I don't remember and I know nothing about ford's. It was pulled and reintroduced. It was a mistake, that I know.

 

[beanhead]

Aw c'mon guys, it's a "real" GTX! That makes the body alone worth $40K in craigslist tokens
Gotta love the exhaust manifolds on that chebby motor too!

 

[WileE]

The book, "How to Ruin What Was a Great Car" , has that photo on its cover.

 

[munger77]

I liked the 70's style customs, especially the early 70's. This car isn't consistent with my taste or preference. But man, someone knew what they were doing with the sheet metal work, using aluminum for the floor, and customizing the heck out of their GTX back in the day. If you read a Hot Rod magazine from the late 60's to early 70's the font is half the size of today; the details in mechanical knowledge are more in depth IMHO and it represents a great era of rapid evolution in the automotive industry, racing, and street rodding as well. There was a lot of creativity and innovation, a lot of detail and hard work went into it even if its not for me. For that I give it a solid thumbs up.

 

[moparedtn]

Total decimation and disrespect to perhaps an original GTX. I could not be more disgusted.
At best, a sheet metal donor perhaps - rolling chassis, once all the hideous had been boiled
off the carcass, that is.

 

[Budnicks]

that's Sacrilege

& yes I know, exactly how the hot-rodding world began too
it wasn't the late 40's early 50's (up-to like 55 for the anemic 265cid) where all they had
to choose from 'was a couple different overhead valve engines',
49 Old & newer, Nailhead Buick, a few OHV Cadilacs or some early baby Hemi
instead of the anemic "maybe 80-90hp" blue oval Flatheads until after 1954,
maybe 150hp if it was built & it won't live long...

I've never been a big fan of different makes/brands or engines
in street cars

NOW;
in a Racecar it's sort of more accepted as normal
I did it a lot, a Ford (or fiberglass ford) Body & Gen IV GM BBC Pro-stock stuff
or later Alum Mastodon Hemi

ED Roth did a Tee-shirt of it

or my FC/altered (along with several Mopars) I built when I was just out of HS in 1977,
I drove for a decade & a 1/2
(maybe a tad bit hypicritical, but I wanted to win, not just run)
& it wasn't the show circuit/sit behind the car posers circuit
it was the norm in drag racing, where a budget + or - can be the difference between being fast or slow

I did it because the BBC canted valve, huge Rectangular ports 350cc/400cfm, flow way better
& the also superior 426 style RB-Hemi (mine was a Milodon Mastodon in 526cid, Blown Enderle Inj.)
were superior & both made huge Power
especially compared to Ford at that time, yes price has something to do with it too
why spend 2 times as much (on a Ford) to not even compete... (unless you were Bob Glidden)
Hell even that lil' pissant 301cid Blown Milodon Block SBC can make 800+hp easily

or
those in the Popular HotRodding 'billet everything' world or era 80s-90s
overpriced no go, all the chrome & no boost showboats.
Where they are too lazy to do a custom pan, to be able to use a Ford
instead of every car using a G--D-mn SBC (even BBC or BBM at times)
mainly all because of the rear (or mid) sump oil pans,
& steering linkage interferences', with a Ford mill...

why ?
is the biggest question
probably did it to piss of the purists, I'd bet

it ain't cheap to do a early GM W-motor either, even back then
not & have it live for any time, especailly with a Roots Blower on top

(back in the day that GTX (RRs or Chargers too) was/were dirt cheap,
in the mid to late 70's, they weren't valuable/collector cars like today,
you could get them (out here) for $500-$1500 all day long, people were crushing them
& sometime even just giving them away)
I still don't like it...

Why?
do that to a GTX !!!
do it to a 60's or 70's era Impala or a Chevelle, they made literally millions
over the span of 10+ years or something that a
GM Blown 409 W motor, would NOT look so, so wrong in...

 

[3sloppydogs]

Who's your driver

 

[Budnicks]

That car should be called LSD,insread of GTX because whoever did that to that car obviously used a lot of LSD!

 

[1STMP]

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1968 Plymouth GTX Show Car "Thumper" - cars & trucks - by owner -...

There was a time.....but not now.
I'd kick this one to the curb unless
I had the funds to repaint. Take some
pics of the before and after for
nostalgic. That interior needs serious
consideration also