68 gtx

This is my 68 GTX numbers matching car with 71000 miles on it.

http://www.mts.net/~reidfam/gtx07.jpg
http://www.mts.net/~reidfam/pic1.jpg
http://www.mts.net/~reidfam/830hp.jpg

Nice :yes:

Interestingly, I don't care much for a 68 runner, but I dig 68 GTXs

Post the video !

Here's a little video of a burnout with the low deck in the car...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YilvlLxgv9U

Thats fun !

bad ass ride!!!.....love em!.......aint that a 69 hood?.....heres mine, since 1985.... soon to be born again

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n248/eldubb440/gtxprime003.jpg

Looks like a great car to me.Seems to run quite well to!

eldubb440...

I put the 69 style vents on it when I first bought the car to let the heat out. I just got use to the way it looks and never bothered to put the originals back on the car.

knew you had a good reason.......looks great either way.......im inspired

HOLY CRAP! You came to PLAY with that Dominator engine!!! Whats the specs, nice ride too!!

Rob, beautiful '68! When did the new mill go in? You must be able to destroy the rear hides at will.

So i gotta ask - what is the paint code on that thing ?

Very nice ride.Gotta like a good burnout when you don't have to hold the brake to light em up.

great video , just an awesome car ! wow the plug wires on the indy motor are as big as the battery cables

Love the 68's! I really like that color silver too.

Hey I have a 69 and I added the airgrabber screens to help let the heat out.... someday I'll get the air grabber, LOL.

Onebad...

the low deck is a 502 and has a Callies crank..coated brgs..Manley Pro Billet rods...Bartons trick tapered pins and JE's..it's 16.5 to 1..solid roller...350 cc Indy -1's that flow just under 400 cfm...on the pump with a spacer under the carb it made 830 hp and 800 ft lbs...

rolling Thunder...

it's that 68 only color M5 charcoal gray metallic.

GTXperience...

I put the original block back in for an appraisal and couldn't drive around with a 440 ...so I built a low compression 515 with K1 pieces and a 350 cfm set of EZ-1's (my son built the whole thing)...it made 730 hp and 600 ft lbs on 87...

Onebad...

the low deck is a 502 and has a Callies crank..coated brgs..Manley Pro Billet rods...Bartons trick tapered pins and JE's..it's 16.5 to 1..solid roller...350 cc Indy -1's that flow just under 400 cfm...on the pump with a spacer under the carb it made 830 hp and 800 ft lbs...

rolling Thunder...

it's that 68 only color M5 charcoal gray metallic.

GTXperience...

I put the original block back in for an appraisal and couldn't drive around with a 440 ...so I built a low compression 515 with K1 pieces and a 350 cfm set of EZ-1's (my son built the whole thing)...it made 730 hp and 600 ft lbs on 87...

Rob I see you have Manitoba plates. Would you know Farmer or Brian Scott? We also stay at Ray Markusa's place when we go up there.

T/A...

never met Farmer or Brian...I know Rays cousin Ken and talked to Ray once...

Love that color..Very nice....

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason

Going through my FTP server and found a couple more pictures...

http://www.mts.net/~reidfam/frontend.jpg
http://www.mts.net/~reidfam/gtx06.jpg

Yeah.....it's stock:grin:

I really like the video! Is that the factory color?
KID

I think I have spring fever now!

Looks like Gunmetal Grey to me.

THAT is a good looking car .

Thanks for the complements guys...the color is a one year only color for 68... M5 charcoal gray metalic...it's a color that you either really hate or like...

I think it's a dandy color, but for me the blackwalls don't make it. Maybe red stripes or even some blue streaks would look cool. Just my opinion though. That and 4 bucks will get you a cup of coffee....

69...
I agree...the thing is that the old GTX is very hard on rear tires...I only can get 12-14 good 3rd gear burn outs (that's where I dump the clutch and stand on it) out of a set of tires.Any more and it's a waste of valve springs because there just isn't any tire left to smoke.
The video that you see is on a finished set of tires hardly any tire smoke...
And to burn up a set of Corker red lines every weekend just can't afford that.

nice badass gtx, The video is very impressive.

Somehow I missed the video before. But after seeing it I suppose you've got a point there. But I'd be worried about boiling up Pep Boys tires like that (they're about the cheapest on the planet)

69...

Those tires are Goodyear's top of the line tire ...a friend of mine owns a Goodyear store and gives me a break on them...This last set I got this summer are Dunlop GT's...He told me it's getting really hard to find 14's for my car and to take it easy :grin:

Man I could almost smell the rubber. Super nice. Where did you score the throttle brackets or are they custom?

Daredevil...

There custom I make them and I also make timing pointers for Jesel belt drives...or what ever needs to be made.

ROB....that is one sweet GTX and awesome burnout too.....did you do all the work??

george...


Thanks for the complement...

and I do everything...motor/trans/paint/body you name it I do it...for over 30 years now :70s_rule:...LOL