High Class Muscle - This 1969 Plymouth GTX 440 Needs Some Tuning Help 

Plymouth GTX. The gentlemens muscle car.

I had a 70 Superbee 440 twin scoops in that same color...same buckets, headrests, council, shifter....Dodge never threw anything away 😮

That's a good looking car. I do prefer the dark green over the pea green color.

Gorgeous GTX Dream Ride

That car was put together as clean as you can get. Now it needs to be DRIVEN!

Gotta love the GTX and this one is very nice. Keep up the great work! 👍

Alright, one of my favorite cars !!! Gonna be a great episode. Cheers Sir

I just picked up69 gtx. 4 speed, track pack, A4 silver..thank you for sharing this one.

Ahhh, the valve cover gasket leak advice 😂 Thanks again 👍

I always enjoy watching your videos, you have helped me get better at dealing with Mopar restoration!👍👍

Out of the 40+ old mopars I've had 50 percent have been green, fitting color for them, love it!👍 My 68 GTX was B7 blue, my brother had a B5 blue 69 a couple of the few cars we had that weren't green!😊

Holy crap what a nice car!

Very nice car....hope to see more of it...good content and thanks....🔧🔧🐐👍

My brother had a road runner that looked very similar to this except the hood was color matched, 383 4speed pistol grip bench seat it ran very strong.

Appreciate the tips, it will help to keep these cars on the road with potentially less headaches.

Excellent video sir.

Excellent job as usual *Jamie* - you nailed all the pertinent info on these cars. I didn't catch you off on any, other than on the hood - the '68 and '69 are the same sheetmetal actually, with only the inserts differing between years. Speaking of '68 GTX's, that's what I have - rescued from a farm in rural VA some years ago - and yes, it has a name - Fred. Fred the GTX (there's a couple videos of him on my channel, awful as they may be). Finally, yes to 36 total "all in" on a near-stock 440 - and no, that advance goes to ported, not full-time vacuum. Cheers, Ed on the Ridge

I love it! If only I could afford one. Thanks Jamie.

Hey now, I'm sort of partial to my F3 Green Coronet. 😁 Super nice GTX, and while the '71's are my favorite I'd happily drive this one.

Beautiful GTX, sport satellite is real close to the GTX looks wise

Another kick ass video Jaime Sweet car

Thats a super nice car, Id be proud to be doing the finesse work it needs yowsa!! Good job man!!

Cool car! Love the 68-70 B's I'm partial to 68s as well.

Outstanding!

I had a blue 69 440 4 speed Roadrunner (that someone had put a 70 front clip on) in HS (I bought for $500) and then the year after HS a red 69 GTX (that someone had swapped a 383 into) auto (I bought for $500) . . . ie. a “non-green” GTX. Loved them both but college plans got in the way of keeping my low-buck jewels.

Nice! Love it!

What a beautiful car in that color.

some people think that a tune up is quite simple but on a performance mopar like yours it's not a simple procedure, there are a few things that have to be kept in mind right from the start. What fuel are you planning on using a high octane or a regular , this can make a world of difference since that will dictate how much spark advance you can hope to run, what temp are you running that engine at? a cooler 160 degree themostat will allow for a much denser fuel air mixture to get to the intake ports and that spells more power-less ping and predetonation which kills an engine by beating up the bearings. It is also important to know how your distibutor works- not as simple as most think. There are 2 advance curves at play there 1 is the centrifical then the vauum. Back in the days when serious tuners setup a distibutor the desired power band was mapped out according to the engines potential based on bore and stroke, big old 440's had a lower power band usually starting around 3200 rpm and would pull hard all the way up to 5k where the hp would roll off again depending on the intake runner length, carberation, spark advance and dwell. Mopar sold advance weights that responded differently to rpms. When I ran a slick setup I didn't use a vacuum advance at all because an advance curve could be mapped out very well with a good distributor like a Mallory dual point. Of course all you guys these days are using the Msd and that's a great ignition system that takes care of the burning of the fuel mixture . So much more to be said about all this and there's bound to be those who disagree with everything I have said here, I'm only speaking from experience and my own history as someone who owned and built a few mopars back when these models where sold for under $2k and where driven off the lot with only minor work needed, thems where the days!

Nice GTX. I love that mopar green. I am glad they did not change the color. According to the late Jack Smith of Plymouth- The X is only a letter that was added to make their version of GTO. This means that GTX doesn't stand for anything specific in cars.

You will get the subscribers!!!And I am getting a charger at some point and sending you the video. Sold my 69 in 1997 when I was 22.

Simple problems call for simple solutions. Start gifting Tom (over the course of birthdays & holidays) the video gear you would like to be able to borrow if you leave your own gear at home. Problem solved! Great stuff as always. Love the GTXs. Fancy muscle cars are cool.

That's a sweet ride.

Dang I love that car!

Very nice.

I know it's not a rally guage dash but I do like that style guage setup with the tach. I might be biased as it's the same gauges that are in my 70 Coronet, minus the tach... Definitely lends itself to the Gentlemans Muscle Car. The Hood Bulges are awesome too!

Drool is pooling up at the corners of my mouth. Almost had one in '96. 69 440 six bbl + air grabber, red and black, and the ever so rare factory sunroof option... 4500 bucks. BUT not a single bank would do a loan on it due to the engine being in rebuild mode scattered across a shop. I begged and pleaded and whined to everyone in my family to back me for it. Turns out this car went up on barrett or hagerty or w/e, one of those show auctions, 20 years later and sold for 164,000 as a survivor. After that show I did the "told you so" to every single person who rejected the investment.

Good vid DDG 😎

I love green mopars. Almost every shade. Blue's as well.

I love green b bodys. Hopefully someday i can afford a 2 door b body of some kind.

Very good looking car with quite powerful engine... 😊

My first car was a 68roadrunner I drove in high school in the 80's. It did have the emblem in the back seat . I currently have a 67 gtx my dad bought in 1986. It's a factory bench seat column shift car but he installed buckets and console from 69roadrunner in late 80's. The console is flat and smooth under the finish panel not ribbed. I wish it was I would leave it that way. Thanks for a cool channel guys.

Gorgeous

Wow no light package even my bottom of the line Roadrunner had the light package option. Well it did also had the 4 speed. Always liked the indicators on the fenders.

The sport satellite is really close to the gtx. Great video !!!!

Love this color. It was the original color of my Roadrunner, but it was painted blue for some reason.

F8 green rules.

My dad had a B5 440 4v speed 4.10 Dana Super Track Pack GTX new, my Favourite Mopar, then I had a 69 Hemi 4 speed GTX in R6 red white interior and a A4 silver 68 440 auto GTX. The 70 and 68 are more " complex" detail wise than the 69. All nice cars

Yes

It's funny hearing you say this car needs a lot of things. I then look at my car and laugh, then drive it anyways. LOL

My brother had a 68 GTX, my favorite car bar none. One thing I have to offer is that the front drum breaks do require more attention than the rears. Ask me how I know. Still my all time favorite car.

you lucky man nice car

" Use a Divining Rod to figure out what it really needs" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 " 13 times Less likely to pop off and burst into flames" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Jaime your on fire today😂😂😂

that 'racetrack' dashboard is pretty cool, too. It's got 67 C body and Imperial stuff/things all over it. I like the wood with green thing, it's probably better than 1/2 the other choices.

I love that car

This is the strangest thing for me. I have never (almost 45 years old now) NEVER been a MOPAR guy, but I'm coming around. The new stuff can still sink in a lake for all I care though.

Why did they all think they needed a clock on the dash? I hate that, there were so many gauges that should have actually been factory installed other than a clock. I recently bought a 72 Monte Carlo and it’s the same thing, no tachometer no temp gauge no oil pressure gauge…..but you get a clock that never works.

I like how the speedometer is numbered, they dropped the zero after each number. That's different.

Jamie this is what I found out for GTX, According to the late Jack Smith of Plymouth- The X is only a letter that was added to make their version of GTO. This means that GTX doesn't stand for anything specific in cars. However, based on today's trim specifications, you could interpret it as Grand Touring Extra.

I hate when people say “ too much carburetor” when in 1970 from the factory the TA/ AAR came with a 340 6 pack which i believe was 1350cfm if i remember correctly. Its a Big block hell even a 750 is to small for a 440. Also love the GTX my favorite b body i have a 68 that i built a 543 hemi for. Keep up the mopar Content Jamie 🤘

This is my car! I had the same car almost mine was a 4spd Dana 354 green vinyl roof

WOW!!! Would love to Own a GTX or a Roadrunner,my favorite year Roadrunner or GTX!

One foot on the brake one on the gas - Sammy Hagar

1:38 i've met a lot of people who thought the silver spear was a V for Valiant, but was upside-down.

Nice looking car I have a die cast model of one of these 426 hemi and fuel cell

Plymouth gtx is a beautiful car

Nice looking car! My favorite color is red, but I think this one looks good in green.... Somewhere along the way, I missed the Petty blue 73 video.

Love your informative videos i have a 1966 chrysler 383 4 barrel myself with 8 3/4 sure grip axle, i had the same noise when i turned. im sure you know that those axles needs a special lubricant for mopar suregrip, my noise disapeared when i changed oil and put that in :)

Absolutely 💯 love Plymouth GTXs You could say , I'm green , with envy ...... ( see what I did there 😏 ? ) Thank you the , impromptu automotive history lesson , Professor Jamie Did that brake pedal feel like , a GM hydro-boost , system ??

Love this car! Very awesome. But I feel l that way about most old Mopars!

Hey I like that green 💚😊

I apologize if this was already answered...I think the X was added by Plymouth because the "O" was already used by GM. That said, GT is gran turismo and the "o" (or "x" for Plymouth) means it is a racing car that is not a one-off. I think it had to have at least 100 made to get this certification.

in the 60s, for some reason I was taught that green cars were cheap, strippo cars that were dangerous because they blend into the foliage. Despite this greenophobia, I have grown to enjoy green cars. I really like the F5 and F8 with the genuine imitation walnut grain decor applique'.

The fact is that GTX didn't stand for anything. It just sounded good, so that is what Plymouth called it.

Yeee Yeee!

19:49 "Where did these bugs come from?" I have an orange car and yes, the bugs love it.

Good thing you're better at fixing the bugs than getting them off :⁠-⁠)

l luv the green

'69 my favorite model year

I actually like wind noise. Well I like the noise coming out of tailpipes which are connected to a bb Mopar. And that noise ia accompanied by plenty of wind. So ya, wind noise. Gotta agree on the 68-9 preference..All mopars but c bodies just b/c fuselage.

GTX was named after the Pontiac GTO and neither last letter really meant absolutely nothing other than a marketing scheme.

We had 68 satellite green with green vinyl 4 door,273 non emissions......lots of power....put on hazard lights and step on brakes would back feed power ,would make radio work.... haaaa I would listen to radio for hours

I know what you mean: “Gree-n Is Good!” 😉

15x8s(?) all the way around are the perfect size for 68-70 mopars.

Those rims fit that GTX, not correct but look nice. They wouldn’t though on your Charger, I like it how you have it 👍

Nice GTX. I don't get all the people who jump through hoops to try to keep the original look for wheels. That's why they bought Cragar's and American Racing....etc....because the stock were too small and narrow (and ugly as far as I'm concerned). I guess the numbers matching crowd with the $$$'s drive this behavior, its not how people felt back in the day. Long live the muscle cars with Cragars....they look more like what you would've scene on the street back then.

Beautiful car. Green Mopars are the fastest ones. And I'm not just saying that because I have a 67 GG1 Dart. It's an actual internet fact. 😂

Ah, the”Gittix” as it was called by some when new. I think 1970 was my favorite year on those, with the rally gauges, pistol grip, groovy colors, etc. But, I wouldn’t kick this one out of my driveway for leaking oil.

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Nice car, thought u were sick with lack of videos by your standards. You’re about 25,000 subscribers away from my prediction by end of summer.

The early 1968 B-body "padded" ashtray was different from the other 1968 to 1970 B-body ashtray.

That's a hot way to live

Love GG1 green- the other offerings by Chrysler, 'not so much.'

Nice GTX. I got the same valvetrain noise on my 70 RR with 500 stroker. Cant find anything wrong with it. Runs good.

One of my fastest Mopars in 🇦🇺 was green . It put many brand X to shame green is for go . 👍🏻🇦🇺.

I've always wondered if all of the dark green cars in the late 60's early 70's were part of the same trend that showed up in home appliances from the same time period . The most popular colors were avocado green, and harvest gold instead of white. Avocado green seemed to be the most popular from my recollection. I never liked the color. Saying that I still like the car. It's hard to hate a car that spins the tires when you tap the accelerator even if it is dark green. Also using the left foot on the brake when driving a cold carbureted vehicle was standard practice back in the day. You didn't want to be the one whose car stalled in the middle of the intersection. BTW When you went all office space on the Holley 1920 that's what I thought of.

Could you check the timing on my 2000 Techumseh Single cylinder engine. Ha ha, great video on how to check and set timing and turn up info. Wish I had a BigBlockDodge.

Great video! I have carb questions for you. lol

Sweeeeet

That is probably my favorite color Plymouth.

Out of all of them, I like the sport satellite's the best, 383 4BL