bigmoparjeff
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I really like this car, but I'm not quite sure why. The color should offend my male sensibilities.
Jeff
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Something unusual in the shop this week
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65sporty
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It's a sharp car, I could deal with the color. I haven't seen to many in that color
3C's & a D?
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Beautiful GTX! It wears the colour well. The white top and side stripe seem to conflict with the black spoiler and hood stripes though. I know I'm too critical. That's the way it came, I assume. Awesome car!
twostick
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3 Holleys and 3 pedals? Who cares what colour it is. Green anyone?
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commando1
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I couldn't drive that attention ***** of a car. I wouldn't want to be known as, That old guy in the old pink car.
bigmoparjeff
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The guy who owns the pink GTX also owns this one, which you could say is almost the complete opposite. F8 keeps a much lower profile.
bigmoparjeff
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I don't know the B-bodies like I know the C's, but I think the hood stripe may have been black only in '70. Although you can't tell in the pictures, one clever thing they did when the car was restored was they installed a 1968 pearl white top, which goes real well with the pearl-look of the reflective side stripes.
twostick
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Are you sure Stan?
I'm thinking about the time you're power shifting third, the color would be a distant memory. Lol
Kevin
3C's & a D?
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It's not Pink! It's dark Magenta! Or as I used to believe it was called, "magneta".
That's just harder to spell "pink"...
Love it.
Jeff to Jeff, as a secure heterosexual... I would point out there IS a natural attraction to pink, at least in certain circumstances... I believe your "male sensibilities" are intact and operating just fine.
I like the white with the pink too, this car looks really nicely done. Was that it's original color (pink)?
I'm sure you would survive the experience, it isn't as if your current car blends in with traffic.
And I know you can take a few Mary Kay jokes, and dish enough crap back to cause the amateurs to rethink messing with the "old man"...
A car like that really doesn't have a "wrong" color... even if not a favorite or a color you would choose.
I have no problem with anything on that car. What a fun car to drive if I could keep my license, the only thing I really have with the color is it would attract the cops too.
I have always liked the GTX it has such a strong masculine look. It is kind of like a big beefy running back wearing a flashy suit, some small whimpy guy couldn't pull it off, but a bad *** can wear anything and still look cool.
I have always liked the GTX it has such a strong masculine look. It is kind of like a big beefy running back wearing a flashy suit, some small whimpy guy couldn't pull it off, but a bad *** can wear anything and still look cool.
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It's bad *** for sure! The blackout hood treatments of the day actually served a purpose, although maybe not so much on the street and that was to cut down the glare of the sun from the driver's eyes. This is why no other colors were available on the hood treatments.
commando1
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About as non-effective as sports players putting black smudges under their eyes. More about being seen as cool than cutting down on the glare. Who started that stupid practice anyway?
Are you sure the pearl-ized white stopped in '68? Not more like '73? I know that when I was looking for a different factory trim code for my '66, the '74 swatches from the Dealer Order Guide, Color and Trim (that the local dealer was putting in the trash, when the new ones came out) looked flat by comparison to the '66 trim code. The difference was the pearl-coat. Same when we did the fabric in the '72 Newport Royal. That "tint" is something you really don't notice until you put a "pearl" and "non-pearl" swatch side by side. As it has aged on my '67 Newport (white bucket seat interior), it can get a grimy look that won't come off of the interior vinyls.
Neat Panther Pink car. That color makes it more desirable, unique, and "rare". The rear spoilers were not body color. Hood "blackout" stripe might have had only "white" as the alternative, with appropriate paint colors?
(Retard the factory cam 4 degrees to bleed-off a little low-end torque that also helps ETs and top speed performance. A friend did that and it works great. Easier to hook-up and also drives past a similar car on the top end.)
Just curious,
CBODY67
65sporty
Old Man with a Hat
I thought that color was panther pink???? CBODY67 thinks the same thing
NO thinking to it! Paint Code "FM3" was "Panther Pink" for Dodge, "Moulin Rouge" for Plymouth. So, technically, I'm only 1/2 right, in this case. But the paint code is the same, either way.
www.PantherPink.com notes that ONE Chrysler was special-ordered with it! Where's it NOW?? Lots of other interesting links from that website!!
CBODY67
bigmoparjeff
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There's no fender tag, so the original color is unknown. I spent some quality time under the dash a couple years ago replacing the wiring harness, and it goes from pink to factory red primer, with no signs of any other color. I do know for sure that it left the factory as a U-code 4 speed GTX. The Six-Pack was installed by whoever re-did the car.
Some people pulled the fender tags and filed them so they wouldn't get stolen off the car and then "the person now in possession of it" try to re-title the car themselves. There still should be several broadcast sheets in the springs of the upholstery . . . providing they did match the VIN on the sheet with the VIN on the car before the seats were installed . . . rather than just picking the "white buckets for a GTX", by sight.
The "glory" of the VIN to spot engine "upgrades"! Still a neat car! Even in Moulin Rouge.
CBODY67
The "glory" of the VIN to spot engine "upgrades"! Still a neat car! Even in Moulin Rouge.
CBODY67
bigmoparjeff
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Doing some very quick research, it looks like Pearl White tops were probably only available in 1968 and 1969.
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