1979 gTx

[b-body-bob]

Yes the year is wrong, the price is $20k, and it's been for sale for two months on facebook marketplace. Has to be a scam.

Beautiful car though. I've been low-key looking for one in burnt orange for years. If anyone knows of one for sale, RR or gTx, I need to know about it.

 

[Dr.Jass]

Yeah, that stirs up some feels. I've had a weak spot for the '70 GTX since I was a kid and did the Monogram 1/24 kit, which I did in red with a white stripe. Absolutely loved everything about the design (and I've a similar love for the '69 Super Bee for the same reason). Many moons later, I had a roommate who ran up to Ohio to get his car, which was a '70 'Runner, red with dust trails, 383/4-speed/N96. I really dug that car too, but it didn't quite trip my trigger like the X did.

In terms of '68-'70 B-bodies, the '69 Super Bee and '70 GTX are the only two I'd really consider buying outside of a "too good to be true" type of deal. Yes, that includes Chargers.

 

[68R/T]

Nice looking car, except for the miss-match of paint on the left quarter.

 

[69.5CUDA]

Nice looking car, except for the miss-match of paint on the left quarter.

yeah i caught that too..glaringly

In terms of '68-'70 B-bodies, the '69 Super Bee and '70 GTX are the only two I'd really consider buying outside of a "too good to be true" type of deal. Yes, that includes Chargers.

im with ya mostly...i like the 67 charger in that mix along with the 70 bee...and the 67 fury i always felt was more B than C..atleast as the coupe and vert

 

[b-body-bob]

My high school car was a burnt orange 70 road runner that ran a hell of a lot better than it had any right to. Of course I kilt it because it was my high school car.

It's the burnt orange for me, satellite, road runner, gTx makes no difference but it has to be burnt orange. So that excludes anything pre-70. I want to say I knew a guy back then who had a 69 sport satellite that was burnt orange but it doesn't show up on the chip charts.

 

[Dr.Jass]

About the closest you get is T5 Bronze Fire in '69, and in '68 there's Turbine Bronze (code M). Neither of those colors has the strong red content of K5, though.

 

[b-body-bob]

FWIW the 69 belonged to a buddy's dad. A tree had fallen on it and put a pretty good dent near the C-pillar otherwise it was perfect. He got in the habit of stealing it and one day we went through a drive-through to buy beer. The guy in the window asked for ID. He didn't have any. Don't you have a driver's license? Thus we learned of the fatal flaw in our concept that having a car would make us seem old enough to be drinking.

 

[Dr.Jass]

Thus we learned of the fatal flaw in our concept that having a car would make us seem old enough to be drinking.

My friend Marty had it all figured out when we were sophomores. For the moment, we'll ignore the fact that he apparently hit puberty at, I dunno, age nine and could grow a Mario Bros. moustache by the 8th grade.

Marty discovered the key is volume: "The first thing you do is ask for a dolly." He'd literally ask anyone and everyone he knew if they wanted beer, collect their money, and head over to the nearest Mom-and-Pop liquor store. He'd grab the dolly, stack eight or more cases on it, then wheel it up to the register. "Nobody wants to lose that huge sale and even less people want to put it all back after they tell you no." He wasn't wrong. Even with my baby face alongside him--mind you, the last time I got carded I was 29--he was never once asked for ID.

 

[b-body-bob]

For the moment, we'll ignore the fact that he apparently hit puberty at, I dunno, age nine and could grow a Mario Bros. moustache by the 8th grade.

I was like that too.

the last time I got carded I was 29

I've been carded more since I turned 40 than I did before then. I swear they do it because they know I'm old enough so there's no chance of a hassle.