Q: Greg, I always enjoy reading your column on the Sixties muscle cars. I had a ‘69 Plymouth GTX Hemi coupe and let me tell you it was the best car I ever had by far.
Some of the “muscle” it had was a blueprinted, .30-over bore Hemi engine with dual double pumper Holley carbs that flowed 1100 cfm each. I had a high-rise aluminum manifold and a .670-lift full race camshaft and a factory 4:10 positraction Dana rear. It was a real monster of a car, and I used to race at Englishtown, N.J. and National Speedway in New York.
It was the best of times, the good times. It was the Sixties muscle car times! Thanks for your articles, and what would it be worth if I had kept it? Emelio S., Florida.
A: Thanks Emelio for the nice comments. Your Hemi ‘69 GTX came standard with the 426-inch engine, which you bored .30 over to make it a 432-incher. Sounds like it was really a fast car, especially with the modifications you made that would probably allow this car to run well into the 11-second zone at 120-mph back then, which was really fast. For your information, Plymouth produced 14,902 coupes and only 700 convertibles. As for price, many stock, professionally restored factory Hemi cars bring six figures, and even with the engine modifications you made, your GTX would still bring a ton of money if you didn’t cut the body up (which you probably did not). I’d say yours would have probably brought you a quick $60,000 if you had kept it, even with the engine bored and set up for racing.