Original paint, original interior, original 440 cid V8, never seen rain or snow, mileage under 20,000. Never touched by water even for a wash. Whoa! This gleaming 1967 Plymouth GTX in the American Midwest offers few nits to be picked. Bidding here on eBay has exceeded $41,000 without meeting the reserve.
Look at that chrome! Plymouth’s new-for-1967 GTX offered a high-trim “gentleman’s muscle car.” Surprisingly production of coupes (11,429) far outnumbered hardtops like this one (686). This car retains its original “dog dish” hub caps, which somehow look cool today, but nothing said “Grandma Car” more back in the day, and they were usually removed about 20 minutes after purchase.
The seller describes the original Premium bucket seats with original factory vinyl. The aftermarket steering column-mounted tachometer is one of few deviations from stock. Even the wood grain steering wheel came from the factory. A center console graces many specimens of the up-market GTX, but this car’s four-speed looks solid and purposeful sticking up through the loop-pile carpeting.
The 440 cid V8 (standard on the GTX) makes 375 HP and 480 lb-ft of tire-shredding torque (thanks to musclecarclub.com for some details). If that wasn’t brutal enough, GTX buyers could upgrade to the 425 HP “elephant” street hemi. It might be difficult to find a comparable car to help determine this one’s value, but where do you think the bidding will end?
……………… “Never touched by water even for a wash.”
Sounds a lot like my youngest son.
Looks like a really sweet ride though.
The write up says that, not the ad. The ad says, “ The car has never been in the rain and water is not used to wash the car.”
It is a nice car, but it looks too nice around the edges. The paint on the engine is a bit to perfect, especially around the heat crossovers. I’m in no way an expert, just skeptical, but I’d be surprised if there hasn’t been some touch up work and detailing done to the car.
Steve R
I largely concur. The 98% original claim is pretty far-fetched. Many items have been replaced (there’s not an OEM hose clamp in sight and non-OEM fasteners are sticking thru the floor, for example). If there’s such a thing as a “rotisserie detail” this is probably it.
Still, it’s more original than most all of them and an exceptional example. I would certainly be proud of it!
In 1968 I lived in an apartment complex my folks owned. Every morning a car identical to this only triple black would start up as the owner would head to work. The exhaust note was incredible and would reverberate throughout the complex . That was the day I first started to notice Mopars. Of course when my uncle showed up in 70′ with his 1970 Plum Crazy Purple Roadrunner with pistol grip and “air Grabber” scoop I was hooked from then on.
Its about at its price. Cars.com has 2 both red 440s 55000 miles one auto for 32000 one 4 speed for 38500.
Neither of those cars are originals. This one will bring in the $80,000 to $90,000 range fairly easily.
Bongo… the ultra low miles and pristine (never seen water) condition will guarantee it will go higher. I think the seller is crazy to go the Ebay route. IMO, this car would probably go $75K-$80K at Mecum’s, Barret-Jackson or one of the other classic car auctions.
Hey Lance ! Agreeable to a point but knock off the seller’s premium and you’re in the same range ? Still don’t think E-bay is a good arena for this, tho.
How does one clean a car without water? I am always suspect of those hand held brooms people use to clean dust off of a car. Doesn’t that scratch the paint?
Looks very nice and as they say, there are only original once
What is that blue canister under the hood? Is that original?
It’s a radiator overflow.
Steve R
Hard to tell, but I don’t think the factory ever put anything there. It could just be something sitting on the radiator core support that the photog didn’t crop out fully. If it had a factory radiator overflow, it would be plastic like the windshield washer reservoir. There were aftermarket metal pressurized coolant
bottles that some people (and fleets- obviously not the case here) installed for extra coolant capacity
I think we need Galen Govier to look this one over. It seems too perfect.
Is it just me or is it true that it seems like almost every American car from 1967 is just drop dead gorgeous! (Corvette, Mustang, Camaro, El Dorado, Firebird, AMC Rambler Rebel, and these B body Mopars)
agreed. I have always said, if I could only pick one year to take “one of each” from, 1967 would be it!
agreed. I have always said, if I could only pick one year to take “one of each” from, 1967 would be it!
Pretty much the pinnacle, there, man, but I’d open my criteria up from ‘65-71. A ‘65 or ‘67 Shelby Mustang fastback, ‘65-67 Vette coupe with a stinger hood and sidepipes, ‘69 camaro rs/ss, ‘69 Mach l, ‘70 Boss 302, or ‘71 Boss 351, a ‘69 Charger 500, and any pre-‘71 Javelin/AMX or a Machine would look awfully nice in my lottery winners garage…
The steering wheel is the rare recall wheel which sells for around $1500 if you can find one. Also, the rare unsilenced air cleaner minus the dual snorkels have only been seen on 4 speed 67 GTX cars and not all of them. This car very well could be 95-98% original. The hood scoops should never have been changed, removing the undercoating and a couple of touch ups here and there does not diminish value. Since this car is a 440 car not a hemi, max value is about $45k
Great input from a 67 GTX restoration pro. Dennis has as much if not more first hand experience with 67 GTX’s than Galen.
Awesome find!! Somebody’s pride and joy! It was loved and taken care of like their first child, maybe better. This was built to be a beast on the street or the track. I see a Big Dana 60 rear and heavy rear springs. Drag-pack spec chassis with a deluxe trimmed out body. Great find!!
All Dodge’s and Plymouth’s equipped with a 4spd and either a 440 or 426 Hemi came with Dana 60 rear end.
Steve R
I had a ’67 Satellite with the 440,4 speed and it came with a 8 3/4″ limited slip rear. Same interior with a fold down canter arm rest. I was 2nd owner and I Enjoyed the wheels off of it!!
In 1967 you couldn’t get a 440 from the factory in a Satellite, only a GTX. To bad you don’t have the car, the VIN includes the size if the engine in the car when it left the factory.
Steve R
Big fan of these, owned one. If the author is saying there were 67 GTX sedans with door posts I’m sorry, that is not correct. They were all hardtops or convertibles. As for the comment that it has never even been washed how would someone prove that? I am beyond skeptical. I’m with Jamie, show me the Galen Glover report.
author misinterpreted seller text.
Timeless cool loved em then and still love it today. Fill it with 100 octane and cruise the blvd low speed cam creap and eys watering from that sweet octaned perfume. These are the cars that make proud being a gear head.
Last year, a 67 Corvette with 8,590 miles sold for about $650,000 at a Mecum auction. The seller said the car was never washed with a gardem hose. Each time his father drove the car, he only wiped it down with a wet cloth. I have detailed cars professionally for 40 years. A good wet, soft cloth, like microfiber, won’t scratch. The car was never used in rain or snow, nor was it allowed to sit in the sun. I can tell you the sun does a ton of damage especially with today a plastics.
Should make a pretty nice car once it’s restored.
This has been restored, and not correctly. Head pipes and muffler’s shiny but tailpipe’s rusty? Wrong hose clamp’s, master cylinder cap should be black like master, engine has been out and painted (as Steve R. notes, heat crossovers still have paint, would burn off in 50 miles) Too many thing’s incorrect for less than 20000 miles. Nice car but somebody is fibbing.
Wow! That car looks so perfect it’s almost too good to be true. To look that clean fifty plus years later is truly amazing, especially for a street fighter like this. No engine mods at all, not one, all this time, must have been more of a spectator car. Sweet machine.
I thought it was only Grimlin’s that you weren’t supposed to wash with water?
Back in the late 60’s, worked with a guy that had both a GTX and a RoadRunner (around the same year). The GTX was a 440 auto while the Roadrunner was a Hemi 4 speed from what I remember. Both were truly beasts but to be honest the GTX was the easier to handle from what I remember. Never got a chance to drive either one but got to ride the GTX once.
engine compartments are supposed to be body colored.Same with underside. Most definitely repainted
I see a body colored engine compartment.
Why would washing it with water be a highlight? Whats wrong with washing a car with water? What is the alternative washing fluid? Is this the opposite superlative response to a dusty barn find being a holy grail, that it miraculously never had a speck of dirt on it where it needed to be washed??
Haven’t you heard of dry cleaning, Jay?
“Surprisingly production of coupes (11,429) far outnumbered hardtops like this one (686)”
This is incorrect. As someone pointed out, all GTXs were either hardtops or convertibles. I think the author is misquoting the numbers.
This is my factory 67 R/T 440 4 speed. Seeing this GTX makes me want to go pull it out of the garage and terrorize the streets!
Looking at the photo of the engine area, I see a couple of things that suggest a lot of work was done under the hood.
First, the cast iron exhaust manifold near the oil filler cap is still raw cast iron gray. These tended to become coated with a light coating of rust after only a few hours of operation. Each time an exhaust manifold cools down, it tends to attract moisture from the air.
Second; I see lots of little gold tone items that are bright & shiny, including the shock mount hardware, and the oil pressure sending unit at the back of the motor. The gold tone is cadmium plating. That plating slowly dulls out over decades from oxidation. When new you can coat those parts with a clear coat, but over the years that will also fail from oxidation. Those parts have been replaced or restored.
Oxygen; That which gives us life, along with other chemicals and gasses in the air, is often corrosive to man-made items.
This car is 50+ years old. Unless it was in a vacuum or a nitrogen-filled box, various small parts are gonna slowly oxidize, no matter how dry the climate is around it. It may be a low mileage car with a sympathetic restoration of various parts, but it’s unlikely to be a 100% original car.
Before buying this car as an original, I would insist on seeing years of maintenance records. & photos of the car down thru the years. Anyone taking the time to keep this car as nice as this one, would have plenty of photos, because he’s proud of it!
Never seen water might also mean it’s never been driven in the rain or snow no salt damage the skies the limit on these rare animals
All I can say is, washed or not washed, I would be happy with this Plymouth, even if it was a 318 with a 727 in a Satellite. Yes, it has been very thoroughly detailed, and a few minor changes have been made, but this is obviously an honest, clean and utterly beautiful example of one of Detriot’s finest.
Well the shock washers fit as it has new KYB front shocks, oil pressure sending unit looks new because of the new gauges under dash. Mint flash chromes rocker covers after 50 years? But the body panel gaps are perfect , all the trim lines up to each other perfectly and not a factory wave or ripple in any panel? No assembly paint stamps or stripes? Been done up, at least be honest. It is a nice GTX but far from original.
It was that red carb spring I noticed…..to nice to be original with out some ageing.
Believe the author was quoting numbers on coupes and convertibles.
Engine color looks like Pontiac blue. Thought Mopars of this era were painted red.
383 and 340 blue, 318 and 273 red and 440 and Hemi orange as I recall.
Many of the nits having been picked and taking into account the SECOND OWNER’S exaggeration, finally a car that might be worth spending BJ money on if you have it. Most of the others are more lipstick on the pig than this could ever be.
I bought a used one of these GTXs in July of ’68 when I got back to the world. 440 auto, skinny tires that would smoke for blocks with power braking. Same color. Thought it was the best until I spotted a new 68 Black Road Runner on the show room floor.
Ended: Jul 06, 2018 , 8:30PM
Current bid:US $43,600.00
Reserve not met
nice car but my son-in-law found the same car but– ( BARN FIND )–`just found half apart 1967 plymouth green GTX 426 2 4bls 4-speed just over 22000 miles on it Helped him put it back together And drove it .all # match. it”s been in the barn for 30 to 40 years.
I wonder if I could trade my wife for this car ! 😆
Throw in some cash…………:)
WRONG!!! in 67 all 440’s came in turquise color. Only the Hemi was orange.