Looking for B5 '70 GTX RS23U0G247251

[EmitRDetsaw]

This car was my older brother's car, he bought new from Barker Chrysler Plymouth in Eugene, OR in June, 1970. He sold the car in 1984 in Colorado Springs, CO. That individual then sold the car to a buyer in Denver, CO in 1985. The car was not registered or titled (to our knowledge) after my brother sold it. Multiple VIN searches through the Colorado DMV brought back no owner information. The trail went cold in '85.

The Car itself is EB5 blue w/white vinyl top, blue interior, 440/4, 4-speed, Dana 60 w/3.54, 14" wheels. No air grabber, no center console, no tic-toc-tac. AM radio. Black stripe.

Oddball "upgrades" done by my well-meaning brother were a padded "jump seat" so bro could cuddle with his squeeze, round exhaust tips (he said the stockers discolored the chrome on the bumper) and - are ya ready kids - a five-gallon marine "auxiliary" fuel tank with a marine-style screw-on gas cap drilled through top of the right rear quarter panel. Such are the scars of the personalization process.

Photos? Apparently they are as gone as the car. Why no photos? My brother had no excuse.

Anyhoo, if any of you have a line on where the car is (if not in the crusher), please contact me. If it is in workable/salvageable condition, I am possibly interested in purchasing it. Thanks in Advance.

Don
orton@cox.net

 

[moparlore]

That was a long time ago, I wish you much luck.

 

[EmitRDetsaw]

Yeah, thanks. This is a Hail Mary, I know.

 

[wilmacmike]

Yeah, thanks. This is a Hail Mary, I know.

Wish you the best in your search....

 

[EmitRDetsaw]

Update on my email, please disregard previous - fz1tdmrdysr@gmail.com . Still looking for the car.

Don

 

[moparchris]

There is a gentleman over on the Moparts website who did a restoration on an B5 White top 4 speed GTX a couple of years ago. He is in California. Not too far from Colorado. You might check over there.

 

[EmitRDetsaw]

Gracias. Looking thru that site now. It is quite the hodge-podge of information, web design layout errors, and pop-up ads. But I must persevere.

 

[EmitRDetsaw]

Bump!

Contact update for me - fz1tdmrdysr@gmail.com - I'm still hoping to get some information on the car. My brother, the original owner, passed in March of this year. We talked extensively about the car and his street racing "career" shortly before his death. The stories he told me made me want to find it all the more. Street racers back in the day were a clandestine group of scofflaws, I'm certain it was mostly by necessity.

Has anyone here had any luck with finding their old cars through the Lost Muscle Cars group on Facebook? I don't go to FB except to peruse the Marketplace ads, but that group came up on my feed and looked interesting.

 

[gtxdana]

Bump!

Contact update for me - fz1tdmrdysr@gmail.com - I'm still hoping to get some information on the car. My brother, the original owner, passed in March of this year. We talked extensively about the car and his street racing "career" shortly before his death. The stories he told me made me want to find it all the more. Street racers back in the day were a clandestine group of scofflaws, I'm certain it was mostly by necessity.

Has anyone here had any luck with finding their old cars through the Lost Muscle Cars group on Facebook? I don't go to FB except to peruse the Marketplace ads, but that group came up on my feed and looked interesting.

I think some cars have been found through the Lost Muscle Cars group on FB. You can also post on the GTX owners groups there as well.

 

[68BabyBlue]

I am assuming you've checked Roger Wilson's 1970 GTX registry, and it's not listed there? I've spent a decade trying to re-unite original paperwork with a 1970 GTX I owned in late 70s, with no success, Roger was my first connection in the process. Roger put the VIN in the registry with me as last known owner, no hits at this point.

I've recovered two cars from out of my past, and neither one happened via the internet. One was a phone call resulting from paperwork passed with the sale two decades earlier. The other, 20 years ago I walked the field at the Carlisle Chrysler Nationals, showing pictures of the car. I found the current owner after about a dozen attempts, and bought the GTX three years ago. Good luck, these long shot reunions are rare, but I know from personal experience they happen.