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Wellborn GTX pulls 375k.

Awesome car and all the options, colors & condition make it super rare. Certainly why it’s went so high. I saw it at MATS 2010, anybody see it when it was there?

Years ago one of the mopar mags was analyzing auction prices and they were talking about a Reggie Jackson owned car. They said it doesn’t matter who the past car collector owner was, it doesn’t make the car worth any more money. I tend to agree.

However a winning race car with history and docs is a different thing in their opinion.
 
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Took these last month in Chicago

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Cool Story

https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0120-396910/1971-plymouth-hemi-gtx-sunroof/


A lot was happening in 1971, and a highly-decorated soldier named Larry Dickson, who had returned from Vietnam, wanted a Hemi muscle car. The result was possessing this amazing sunroof Hemi Plymouth GTX for the rest of his life. Unknown by anybody at that time, this Mopar would be the highest sticker/highest option Hemi car ever created, and the 49,416-mile car has an amazing story.

Dickson, a sergeant in the Army, had come back highly decorated. The Roseville, California, native had won the Silver Star, Purple Heart and other honors for valor during his tour of duty. He first bought a 70 383-powered Road Runner, but as 1972 approached, he had his local dealership search nationwide for an unsold Hemi vehicle. What came up was located more than 3,000 miles away in Bayshore, Long Island.

The EL5 Bahama Yellow ’71 Hemi GTX had been built in November 1970 as a sales bank car, with the New York-based dealership getting it in late December. The loaded car then went unsold for more than a year. The newly restyled G-series body gave the car a fresh look, and the list of options added on an extra $2,885.75 to the GTX’s base $3,707 cost. Of course, that was led by the 426 Hemi, 4-speed and Dana 4.10 Super Trak Pak driveline. Costly components were the incredible power sunroof, the top-line AM/FM cassette player with microphone, a houndstooth interior, power windows, spoiler package and more. With a massive sticker price of $6,592.75, more than any factory produced Chrysler muscle car ever built, the still-new car was sent west.

Once Larry bought it, a handful of aftermarket parts were added to this, notably the Mallory distributor with Rev Limiter to keep from damaging the Hemi engine. Other changes also included Cragar wheels, headers and chromed underhood accessories.

Following a minor alteration to the passenger side door during its first decade of ownership, Sergeant Dickson parked the GTX in his garage permanently, unrestored and showing just under 50,000 miles since new. His final registration expired in 1982, and it would remain unseen publicly until collector Scott Lindsey followed a lead and purchased it from Dickson’s estate though the family. Soon after, Tim Wellborn acquired it for their museum collection.

Tim has always been partial to originality, and this one needed little else but a little cleaning and the door fixed. In speaking with fellow collector Peter Swainson, Tim noted he hated to do anything to this very original car, at which point Swainson told him he owned a ’71 passenger-side door in original EL5 paint. Turning the project over to Roger Gibson, the original-paint door was added onto the original-paint car. Larry’s day-two upgrades were left intact as well.

Today the car is unrestored and retains its original matching-numbers 426/425 HP Hemi engine. Factory options outside include the Air Grabber hood with hold-down pins, front and rear spoilers, sunroof, dual racing mirrors, tinted glass, bumper guards, chrome tips, extra-cost Hi-Impact EL5 paint and factory-installed graphics. Driving is aided by power steering, power front disc brakes, Hemi-specified suspension, G60-15 Goodyear Polyglas GT tires and now-replaced 15-inch Rallye wheels. Of course, inside are houndstooth buckets with a six-way driver’s seat, console and Pistol Grip shifter, tachometer, rear window defogger, Strato-ventilation, Light group and Drivers Aid group, inside hood release, aforementioned stereo and upholstery, and rim-blow steering wheel.

Well-known and celebrated in the Mopar community, this car was featured on the cover of “Muscle Car Review,” and it is a one-of-a-kind example of this final year of the Hemi. A cornerstone of the Wellborn museum collection for many years, Tim’s extensive research on Hemi Sunroof cars has revealed that fewer than 10 Hemi Mopars of all models were built with a sunroof in 1971. Offered to the public for the first-time ever, this special sunroof Hemi GTX is sure to please the most discerning and serious buyer of true American muscle.
 
i looked at a cutup 69 hemi roadrunner with 29k worth of drag racing miles on it , but i had been hacked up . but he only wanted 50k for it . back in 84 . i told him good luck on your sale and drove home .
 
I'm glade to see that 71 GTXs can pull that much $$$$$,I love the car but cant get over the color not for that much $$$$$.
 
My Super Bee shares two options with this car, N96 Air Grabber/Ramcharger fresh air, AM/FM Multiplex Stereo with Stereo Cassette Player and microphone. This radio/cassette option cost $366 in 1971 (more than the 440 Six Pack engine). In comparison the N96 was only around $65 to $69.
 
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