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In my early years on the truck, decades before the advent of electronic logs, I often ran all the miles I could stay awake. Choices were made between sleep, eating, and showers. It wasn't always possible to do all three. A 72 hour tour without a shower was a low point of the job. Daily...

My dad ran Quaker State in our 1967 Valiant from new. At 80,000 miles it was completely sludged up and burning a quart of oil every 100 miles. I switched to Valvoline, after the slant six was overhauled, and I inherited the car.

Back when the GTX was new, I played at the Penn State student union center, in addition to the ping pong tables. I got really good at a 1965 Gottlieb bank a ball machine, and would play it for free after the first few warm up games, until some college jerk would put his nickels on the glass, and...

Nice score. I briefly considered one of those in 1989, but ended up buying a new Bonneville SSE in the name of practicality as a work vehicle. That 3.8 V6 was a sound platform. I drove that car 150,000 miles in three years with no issues. Sold it to my boss for $2500, and he drove it another...

I had one claim involving my daily driver years ago, hit and run sideswipe in a motel parking lot. I got the quote from the State Farm shop, got a check, and took it to the cheapest place in town, for half the money. Good result there. If the GTX got hit, that same result wouldn't be so good...

This is encouraging. I had excellent claims experience with State Farm 20 years ago when my daughter was going through a wild spell, and had multiple claims, ending the process when she finally totaled the car. In each case, I got a single quote from a State Farm approved shop, no need for...

This topic is a real can of worms, and I'm going to hedge and ask any folks who worked full time in insurance to chime in. I worked with claims in house for a 900 truck tank line, dealing with multiple layers of coverage, provided by different insurers. We were self insured for the first $100K...

My wife has an issue with me driving longer distances, in an effort to avoid intersections, if at all possible. We are both retired, and time is no longer an issue. After years of dealing with collisions as a trucking company general counsel, I will do whatever it takes to avoid the issue in...

Happened to me twice in the truck. Neither clown had insurance.

Baby Blue spent 15 years in the DC suburbs. I had a guy at a car show ask me how did a car from that area survive? The answer was with a new passenger door and quarter panel, new trunk lid, new trunk finish panel, and new grille. Timing was great, as the original parts had just started to...

I still have the February '68 issue of Car Life, comparing it to a 440 hardtop. Piece did a good job of contrasting the traits of the two engines.

Welcome from PA. They were made to be driven. Mine has a pedigree, but gets driven to the Carlisle Chrysler Nationals every year. Even with those miles, I probably spend more time telling the back story than driving. As Ed pointed out, that's where we fit in as temporary caretakers of these...

Shocked and saddened to hear this. I was the member who travelled with Chris to Sarasota when he bought the Road Runner, and advised him to sell it back to a previous owner when the opportunity arose. How many guys can say they owned a numbers matching survivor '69 Road Runner, a real '66 Hemi...

Welcome from State College. I've got you beat - I've sold three 1969 GTXs in my life, but the current one is a keeper!

My late buddy Dave did the same with his GTX back in the day, removed the factory side stripes, and added pin stripes, otherwise stock original. He had the car repainted in 1984, when he retired it from daily driving, and returned all details to factory original.

Could the taped holes have been a thing limited to early '68 models? My cars with operational instrument panel indicators, as well as fender mounted signals, were all built after April '68.

All my GTXs with fender mounted turn signals had operational indicators in the instrument panel as well.

Professionally speaking, you have done a sterling job. thanks for sharing.

I have a trust to deal with this issue. Well worth the fees for a good attorney.

Much like some Mopar parts, the ads are often worth more than the actual magazine. I bought a few 1960s National Geographics for 25 cents each, for the Imperial ads, back when I owned the cars in the 90s. I had a subscription to Playboy in the 80s, and those are going to a younger friend, he...