Pics from Back in the Day

[68BabyBlue]

I did the same stupid thing. A local guy was selling his 70, black, post Road Runner in pretty good shape for $1000. It was for sale forever and I offered less. It didn't sell and about a year later there it was in the JY with cars piled on top of it. I regret that one.

There weren't many GTXs in my town during the 70s. Most were driven by Penn State students, who left town with the cars after graduation. There was an exception. Local guy, stuck around for grad school. Put the car up for sale in 1977, after he got a deal on a '68 Corvette he couldn't refuse. He put the GTX on his parents' front lawn, for $1800. The car was in great original condition, but at that high price it didn't sell.

I offered him $1200, which didn't work, but we ended up meeting in the middle for $1500, still a pretty steep price at the time. I drove the GTX for four years, and ended up selling it for more than I paid for it. Turned around and bought another one for $1800, which I again sold at a profit eight years later. The good old days.

That first GTX is the only one of the seven I've owned that has stayed off the radar completely, since it last changed hands in the late 80s. I still have the original wife, 48 years after I bought the car.

 

[Fran Blacker]

There weren't many GTXs in my town during the 70s. Most were driven by Penn State students, who left town with the cars after graduation. There was an exception. Local guy, stuck around for grad school. Put the car up for sale in 1977, after he got a deal on a '68 Corvette he couldn't refuse. He put the GTX on his parents' front lawn, for $1800. The car was in great original condition, but at that high price it didn't sell.

I offered him $1200, which didn't work, but we ended up meeting in the middle for $1500, still a pretty steep price at the time. I drove the GTX for four years, and ended up selling it for more than I paid for it. Turned around and bought another one for $1800, which I again sold at a profit eight years later. The good old days.

That first GTX is the only one of the seven I've owned that has stayed off the radar completely, since it last changed hands in the late 80s. I still have the original wife, 48 years after I bought the car.
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Staying married seems to be tough. Have few friends married long time. Other 2 or 3 and probably divorced for same reasons. Congratulations!

 

[Richard Cranium]

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A Ring Ding?

 

[junior340]

Looks like it was a 1970, too!
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I really wanted a 70 and did find another 70 by my house for $400 so I bought that and loved that one. See I saved $600 haha

 

[junior340]

Fremont wing cars

 

[Dave6T4]

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Uncommon to see a SuperBird without a vinyl top. Somebody paid to have the body work done that Chrysler did not want to do. Covered it with a vinyl top, instead.

 

[junior340]

Here is a back side shot

 

[junior340]

 

[Photon440]

Uncommon to see a SuperBird without a vinyl top. Somebody paid to have the body work done that Chrysler did not want to do. Covered it with a vinyl top, instead.

The race versions had painted tops, (Richard Petty's shown here)

which is sort of odd, considering that just a couple of years earlier Richard was running a vinyl top (actually textured spray on that looked like vinyl) on the theory that, like a golf ball, the little dimples and bumps would smooth out the airflow. I guess it didn't work as hoped.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

 

[Fran Blacker]

The race versions had painted tops, (Richard Petty's shown here)
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which is sort of odd, considering that just a couple of years earlier Richard was running a vinyl top (actually textured spray on that looked like vinyl) on the theory that, like a golf ball, the little dimples and bumps would smooth out the airflow. I guess it didn't work as hoped.


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Myth Busters did a test with a dimpled car and it had better gas mileage.

 

[junior340]

Myth Busters did a test with a dimpled car and it had better gas mileage.

Did they glue golf balls all over there car?
That's what I picture them doing.
Loved that show.
Blow stuff up!! O yeah!!

 

[Fran Blacker]

Don't remember the size of dimples. Looked it up.

 

[guy gadbois]

The race versions had painted tops, (Richard Petty's shown here)
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which is sort of odd, considering that just a couple of years earlier Richard was running a vinyl top (actually textured spray on that looked like vinyl) on the theory that, like a golf ball, the little dimples and bumps would smooth out the airflow. I guess it didn't work as hoped.


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That whole 'we're running a vinyl top due to airflow experiments' thing was a smokescreen - Penske said the same thing about doing it on his Camaros. The real reason I believe [and has been admitted to by a couple of different professional teams including the AutoDynamics TA Challenger group] was to try and cover the roofs that were so deformed due to over-enthusiastic acid dipping.
Makes a good story at least.

 

[64BEL]

The race versions had painted tops, (Richard Petty's shown here)
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which is sort of odd, considering that just a couple of years earlier Richard was running a vinyl top (actually textured spray on that looked like vinyl) on the theory that, like a golf ball, the little dimples and bumps would smooth out the airflow. I guess it didn't work as hoped.


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Check out Richard's pit stop at the 8 minute mark.

 

[500v]

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[Runcharger]

Those 68-70 no aero B-bodies sure looked good in NASCAR trim. They weren't slick though obviously.

 

[RemCharger]

Those 68-70 no aero B-bodies sure looked good in NASCAR trim. They weren't slick though obviously.

Slick as a brick!

 

[Photon440]

Those 68-70 no aero B-bodies sure looked good in NASCAR trim. They weren't slick though obviously.

Still good enough for Petty to get 16 wins and 31 top five finishes for 1968.

 

[Coelacanth]

Myth Busters did a test with a dimpled car and it had better gas mileage.

Next time you get hail damage...maybe it's a good thing.