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To me, the stock full wheel covers on Baby Blue looked far worse than dog dish caps. All I could afford, after paying $1800 for the car. When Bob Miller owned the car before me, he removed the hood call outs, and had a true sleeper.

It won't. The housing on a 2-speed is too long.

One of Baby Blue's siblings.

The Demonstrator, back when it was new, and as it looks today. Both photos taken at the same dealership. A few changes - dealership under new ownership, car no longer has dealer installed trailer towing package in place, white lines were changed to red, and I now have the '66 Imperial hood...

Car Life actually did test an A12 Super Bee about a month after the vehicles shown in that table (I was a subscriber back then). If I recall correctly, their test came up with a 13.8, fairly consistent with the other results. I remember well that it was faster than the Charger 500 Hemi...

I still have a copy of the Car Life road test of the '68 GTX 440 (done in tandem with a Hemi convertible for comparison.) The Car Life test car was equipped with factory air conditioning, power steering, and power brakes. Baby Blue had no power options, and ran consistent 14.2 times at Capitol...

Top rpm on my C-15 Caterpillar was 2100. Optimum for fuel mileage was 1400, gave me a cruising speed of 67 mph.

I noticed that as well. Here are my thoughts, speaking from the experience of buying two, and selling three GTXs in the last three years (not a flipper or dealer, it just worked out that way, two once in a lifetime cars fell in my lap.) Current prices seem to reflect what you can actually...

It is a "thin" and unique market on cars like this. My current GTX illustrates it. I negotiated with the prior owner for 20 years. He didn't want to sell it for a premium over the high market value. I was willing to pay a premium because of my personal connection with the car. Last year, we...

I bought Baby Blue from Bob Miller in 1983, after my buddy Dave Miller (no relation) decided to keep his blue '68 GTX, rather than selling it to me. Dave's car is shown below, parked in front of my wife's childhood home. His GTX was an original paint numbers matching survivor when this photo...

Baby Blue, with my daughter in 1985, when I couldn't afford a set of Magnum 500 wheels.

I was making the same working part time in the student union cafeteria at Penn State that year. Meal discounts bumped it up quite a bit for me, as I was consuming nearly 6000 calories a day during my heavy weight lifting era. Completing my degree got me into the big time. I landed a job as a...

Like the '69 console plate that was put on my last '68 GTX when a previous owner converted it from a column shift.

Life would have been easier for me back then if I'd been a charger guy. Wife always told me she was attracted to me in spite of what I drove. My 1960 Chrysler 300F was the one exception, and she never let me have another one, probably because I quit my corporate job after I sold it.

And I've read that the actual compression on a stock HP 440 is 9.5? And my '70 GTX with stock HP 440 4-bbl was rated at 9.7 in the sales brochure.

Back in the day, Chrysler shipped a '68 New Yorker to our local dealer, equipped with a 440 TNT (L code) by mistake. They had a hard time selling it with the performance car idle. In a variation on that theme, Bill Clark switched out the HP cam shaft in my GTX for a milder K code shaft when he...

Yes, they reduced it when the class 8 diesel trucks went to DEF for emissions control. I switched to VR1 after the change.

Back in the day my parents had two late model Valiants. The '67 had drums all around, the '70 had manual front discs, rear drums. Normal driving no difference. In the mountains, with the car loaded with passengers , the discs were fade resistant.

1969 redlines were standard, goodyear speedway wide tread white letter may have been available factory, aftermarket for sure, polyglas white letter same deal. My ‘69 Gtx had speedway white lines from factory, no cost option in place of red lines.

Bias ply red lines and ‘68 magnums, 14 inch, same stuff her original owner ran in 1969.