By Karl Brauer. On May 31, The clean styling of the Plymouth GTX made it my favorite year. That GTX provided me with a wealth of memories, enough to justify another blog of its own, but as much fun as it was my fifth car second running car , a Plymouth GTX, brought me even more joy. This car provided a lot of joy during my high school years. I actually owned both GTXs at the same time for over a year.
The car was far from mint, but it was complete and ran fine, which makes that price seem all the more amazing 33 years later.
I kept that one for 24 years. Owning two GTXs in high school was a bit nuts…and expensive. Several reasons, actually. It was a 2-owner, all-original car in near mint condition. Second, was the same year Plymouth built the Superbird, a limited-edition muscle car I could never afford as a teenager. The Superbird had a crazy front nose with fold-away headlights and a giant rear wing, both meant to make it faster on the NASCAR racetracks where it competed.
The GTX had neither the nose nor the rear wing of the Superbird, but otherwise the two cars share the same body, which made the GTX as close to a Superbird as I would ever get. Like most muscle cars of the era, Plymouth outfitted its cars with openings in the hood to capture colder, denser air for more horsepower.
Pretty cheesy, both by and standards. But I loved the Air Grabber in my teens and I still love the idea today. The in my Plymouth GTX provided excellent low-end torque. The car not only left my possession after 24 years, it left the northern hemisphere.
