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Last night while watching Barrett Jackson a real pretty black 69 Plymouth GTX powered by a 440 Six Pak motor was sold, This was suppost to be an original, all numbers matching car. My question is this, To my knowledge the only mopars that were sold in 69 with the 3 carb setup was the Road Runner "6BBL" and the Super Bee "6PAK" The GTX,along with many other models were offered in 1970 with the tripple carbs. Can any of you die hard Mopar fans let me know if I got this right?

 

[Johnny Mopar]

Last night while watching Barrett Jackson a real pretty black 69 Plymouth GTX powered by a 440 Six Pak motor was sold, This was suppost to be an original, all numbers matching car. My question is this, To my knowledge the only mopars that were sold in 69 with the 3 carb setup was the Road Runner "6BBL" and the Super Bee "6PAK" The GTX,along with many other models were offered in 1970 with the tripple carbs. Can any of you die hard Mopar fans let me know if I got this right?

Very good Paul! You're 100% correct! The '69 six pack cars were all fiberglass lift off hood cars and were actually made in the early months of 1970. The VIN code should show an "M" as the fifth digit in the VIN if it's a '69 six pack car. There is no chance that the '69 GTX you saw was numbers matching, or a six pack car. Impossible as none were built in 1969. Beginning in 1970 and continuing in 1971, you could order any B-body musclecar with the six pack option. If memory serves me correctly, there were three (3) 1972 Charger R/T 440 Six Pack cars built, then production was stopped. Those were the only six pack cars (any model) built in 1972. That was a low compression engine in '72, which couldn't have been a very good combination. The sales brochures in '72 did list the six pack option. There was a real '72 six pack car in southwest Missouri, owned by a collector named Ron Slobe. Ron passed away several years ago and I have no idea what happened to that incredibly unique car.

The '69 cars were very unique as they were all lift off hood cars (hood pins on each corner, no hinges) with the big "six pack" scoop molded in to the fiberglass hood. All cars were manufactured with 4.10 Dana rear ends and were equipped with super stock style leaf springs. They all came with painted steel wheels and chrome lug nuts. Some were bench seats, some were buckets. I had a bench seat, 4-speed Super Bee and a matching (parts car) that was an automatic. The last I heard my Super Bee was in the Keokuk Iowa area. The Hurst shifter was one big, long, s-shaped monster that laid over the middle of the bench seat when in 4th gear. It ran hard and sounded great. You could hear all 1,350 cfm's of carburation through that big hood scoop. What a sound...unlike any other Mopar.

I've been fortunate to own quite a few Mopar muscle cars through the years, and I believe the '69 six pack cars to be the best overall combination that Chrysler made then. I think it's the ultimate Mopar.

Hope that helps...