hurmit4life
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Hey, All-
Yesterday, I helped my sister-in-law clear some things out of her garage…lots of stuff my oldest brother had collected during his life. In the corner of the garage was an aluminum oil pan with “Sox & Martin” stickers on it.
So, here’s the story behind that:
Around 1983, my middle brother...who was stationed in Little Rock, AR in the Air Force, was constantly finding old Mopars down there. He was interested mostly in Road Runners and GTX’s. He found one 1968 GTX for $300, and asked my oldest brother if he was interested in buying it. Sure enough, he was. Jerry (my oldest) took a trip to Little Rock and met Randy (my middle) to pick up the car. They were able to get the car started and went through 3 gallons of gas driving 1 mile to Randy’s house. Yep…it got 3 gallons to the mile. It had a 440 (turned out to be more like a 500 cubic inch motor) in it and was as rompy and radical as any motor they had seen.
So, Jerry towed it back to St. Louis with plans of getting it back on the street.
My dad, who apparently knew some folks at Chrysler in St. Louis, called one of his contacts with the cars information. (VIN, fender tag info, etc) I’ll tell the story as Dad told it: That car was sent from the factory with no motor or tranny. It was supposed to have gone to Sox & Martin as one of their drag cars. Dad could tell a tale, so I am not sure this is how things were back then, or if he “embellished” the story a bit. I have no information on the car, so I can’t research it myself. The paint was one color: red, but it did have big ole “Plymouth” stickers on the rear quarters. Who knows if it had the red, white and blue paint underneath, or if someone had completely repainted the car. I was only 12 years old at the time, so I believed everything Dad said. I do remember hearing the motor rumble in the garage when they got it back home. It shook the whole car.
Anyway, Jerry never really got to fixing the car. He pulled the motor and eventually sold it to a guy who put it in a monster truck. The car itself was destroyed in the flood of 93 as it was parked in a storage garage near the Mississippi River. Jerry sold it soon after. The only thing he had from the car was this oil pan. I do not know if the oil pan came with the car, or if he found it after he bought it. Either way, it is the one remaining thing we have left from the car.
The facts I can say is that the car was a 68 GTX and that I now have this oil pan with “Sox & Martin” on it. The above is a good story and brings back fond memories of my oldest brother, who passed away last year. Not sure how much this oil pan is worth, but I really do not care. I’ll keep it and when people ask about it, I can say “That belonged to Jerry.”
Yesterday, I helped my sister-in-law clear some things out of her garage…lots of stuff my oldest brother had collected during his life. In the corner of the garage was an aluminum oil pan with “Sox & Martin” stickers on it.
So, here’s the story behind that:
Around 1983, my middle brother...who was stationed in Little Rock, AR in the Air Force, was constantly finding old Mopars down there. He was interested mostly in Road Runners and GTX’s. He found one 1968 GTX for $300, and asked my oldest brother if he was interested in buying it. Sure enough, he was. Jerry (my oldest) took a trip to Little Rock and met Randy (my middle) to pick up the car. They were able to get the car started and went through 3 gallons of gas driving 1 mile to Randy’s house. Yep…it got 3 gallons to the mile. It had a 440 (turned out to be more like a 500 cubic inch motor) in it and was as rompy and radical as any motor they had seen.
So, Jerry towed it back to St. Louis with plans of getting it back on the street.
My dad, who apparently knew some folks at Chrysler in St. Louis, called one of his contacts with the cars information. (VIN, fender tag info, etc) I’ll tell the story as Dad told it: That car was sent from the factory with no motor or tranny. It was supposed to have gone to Sox & Martin as one of their drag cars. Dad could tell a tale, so I am not sure this is how things were back then, or if he “embellished” the story a bit. I have no information on the car, so I can’t research it myself. The paint was one color: red, but it did have big ole “Plymouth” stickers on the rear quarters. Who knows if it had the red, white and blue paint underneath, or if someone had completely repainted the car. I was only 12 years old at the time, so I believed everything Dad said. I do remember hearing the motor rumble in the garage when they got it back home. It shook the whole car.
Anyway, Jerry never really got to fixing the car. He pulled the motor and eventually sold it to a guy who put it in a monster truck. The car itself was destroyed in the flood of 93 as it was parked in a storage garage near the Mississippi River. Jerry sold it soon after. The only thing he had from the car was this oil pan. I do not know if the oil pan came with the car, or if he found it after he bought it. Either way, it is the one remaining thing we have left from the car.
The facts I can say is that the car was a 68 GTX and that I now have this oil pan with “Sox & Martin” on it. The above is a good story and brings back fond memories of my oldest brother, who passed away last year. Not sure how much this oil pan is worth, but I really do not care. I’ll keep it and when people ask about it, I can say “That belonged to Jerry.”
