AMT 69 GTX

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I built the AMT 68 Road Runner a couple years ago.... it wasn’t my best work, and it was an awful kit.  The chassis just fell out of the body when you picked it up, the usual old casting problems were all there, lack of detail, and everyone who has built it knows about the terrible taillights.  It was the kit that was stuck at the back of the shelf where no one would see it, and the chassis fell out of the body and broke when we moved to St. Louis two years ago.  I tossed it in the garbage and didn’t think twice.

Well, since Round 2 re-released the 69 GTX, I figured maybe it could replace the RR and put that generation of MOPAR back on my shelf, as I always liked them.

This is a weird kit... lots of drag parts, including a short rear axle and big wheel backs to hold some serious slicks, but no extra tires... only the pad printed redlines.  They have all the Dirty Donny decals and extra logos, but don’t have basics like dash gauges.  There’s both a Hemi with both cross-ram and normal dual quad setups, and a 440 with either 4-barrel or six pack options, but the intake manifold for the 4-barrel is way to small to cover the top of the block, rendering it useless.  When I used the kit air cleaner as instructed, it was too tall to put the hood on, so I found another six-pack air cleaner in the parts bin.  

I will say most everything else fit together well, and while extremely similar, came together much better than the Road Runner.  Lots of flashing to deal with, but that’s par for the course with these reissues.  I was going to paint it frost green, as I’m going to purchase that paint for my 69 Camaro SS, but I’m starting a new job and it might be a month or so before I can afford to go purchase paint for a build... wanting to get this done, I went another direction.  Having already done the interior in dark green, I chose a Duplicolor gunmetal that I had lying around, as that seemed like a possible combination.  I liked the red pinstripe trim and hood vents in the reference pictures I saw, so I added that to my build as well.  Wired the engine, added a couple vacuum hoses, and used some parts box wheels and tires.

It’s still not the greatest kit, but I’m happy with the results and glad to have this generation B-body on the shelf.  Hope you like it and thanks for looking.

Engine before final accessories and installation:

Interior:

My replacement air cleaner:

And all finished:

 

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Look pretty good from here. I like that color combo. 

[Classicgas]

Nice work.

[THarrison351]

Looks great, except you have your front and rear wheels mixed.

[shoopdog]

Looks great, somewhat sinister looking.

[iamsuperdan]

The colour choice is great, and steelies are perfect on these cars.

I like it!

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1 hour ago, THarrison351 said:

Looks great, except you have your front and rear wheels mixed.

I know!!! But the ones up front are standard depth and the ones in the rear are actually Kelsey Hayes NASCAR wheels.  I couldn’t put the deep ones up front and the shallow ones in back. 

[Mr mopar]

It's got that tuff look ........... just love it !

[bill lanfear]

1 hour ago, iamsuperdan said:

The colour choice is great, and steelies are perfect on these cars.

I like it!

Agreed!

[Cardz]

Great job on your GTX....def digging the color and steelies!

[Koellefornia Kid]

Nice color choice and the interior looks good!