67' Plymouth GTX * TURBO UPDATE*

Hey Guys,
Have had a case of the CBF's of late, lots of work to do around the house, some renovations in the planning and now doing stage, a new (second hand) car to detail up to my expectations, a bit of a stressful time at work with people away, so you come home and just can't be bothered.
Have spent a few nights in the model room contemplating "what next?" FINALLY! i've decided to do a Pro-Touring version of the 69' plymouth GTX.
Will be running a twin turbo HEMI,slightly channeled chassis with possibly Pegasus Hollis wheels, as for any more details, i'm not real sure till i get a good start and the
creative juices start to flow, then i'll just go with it.



Hopefully the inspiration to build kicks in and im back at the bench a bit more often again.

Dont push it Dale ...trying to hard is sometimes the worst thing to do. On the other hand ...sounds like a sweet build so dont listen to me ....just get ya R's into the model room and git working ya varmint !!!

See, it worked, all i needed was to be told to get my sh#t together and do it!!
Thanks Dean.

that's going to be one cool mopar,me can not tell ya to build me need to get my act together too, Oh have ordered some resin goody's

Cool, look forward to seeing how this turns out.

69 or 67? (thread says 69, picture says 67)
not that it matters, should be nice either way.

Sounds cool DeeCee. Man, look at that nerds T'shirt on the box art

aussie muscle wrote:69 or 67? (thread says 69, picture says 67)
not that it matters, should be nice either way.

Yeah mate, stuffed that up didn't I! The box don't lie, it's 67, fixed now.
Hey RETRO, I have one of those t-shirts, so be careful what you poke fun at mate!!
Here be a couple of updated pics, alot of work on front end to get it to sit this low, front wheels narrowed to about 5" scale.


induction for the turbos,

have enjoyed the last couple of nights tinkering, welcome back i say.

DeeCee wrote:

aussie muscle wrote:69 or 67? (thread says 69, picture says 67)
not that it matters, should be nice either way.

Yeah mate, stuffed that up didn't I! The box don't lie, it's 67
Hey RETRO, I have one of those t-shirts, so be careful what you poke fun at mate!!

Yea or Adam will be around with a hunk of 6x4 ......

Cant believe you admitted to owning one of those t shirts ....

Nice subject - should look great, also , that bloke kneeling down on the box art looks like Allan.

silverfox wrote:Nice subject - should look great, also , that bloke kneeling down on the box art looks like Allan.

Thanks all, have never met Allan, but gonna have trouble keeping a straight face when i read his posts from now on!

me not a blond or that fat just because me wear sunnys a lot. DeeCee if you look there is a photo of me on here. oh if you look at modelers anonymous ya will see my ugly mug shot.

Just Razzin ya Deecee, all good. Man, ya got it looking good so far. I'm not usually a fan of the big 300 inch rims, bit dam, they really suit the shape of the GTX. Colours?

Have you used 19 or 23's for the front wheels, just curious that's all?
Looking forward to seeing the turbo setup.

RetrospectKustoms wrote:Just Razzin ya Deecee, all good. Man, ya got it looking good so far. I'm not usually a fan of the big 300 inch rims, bit dam, they really suit the shape of the GTX. Colours?

Haha, always good for a razz mate, personally if i did have this t-shirt, do really think i would admit to it??( i'm not that old either). not real sure on colours as yet mate, bit of a ways to go before that aswell,

Kane wrote:Have you used 19 or 23's for the front wheels, just curious that's all?
Looking forward to seeing the turbo setup.

I have only ever come across 23" hollis rims, so thats what they are, but i have narrowed the fronts by about half, would love to find some 19" pegasus wheels so i could have "big n littles".
Turbo set up will be much the same as my 2008/9 challenger, that turned out pretty tuff in my opinion.
looking forward to getting back into this, had a little distraction this week-end, had a hole in my house that needed filling!!



keep ya'll posted, i've got the model bug back!!

Hey that hole looks big enough to be able to drive the VC right into the house!!

I built this kit years ago, I painted it Tamiya "lavender" out of the Tamiya spray packs, with colour coded bumpers. It looks really good, the colour suits the shape well.

RetrospectKustoms wrote:Hey that hole looks big enough to be able to drive the VC right into the house!!

I built this kit years ago, I painted it Tamiya "lavender" out of the Tamiya spray packs, with colour coded bumpers. It looks really good, the colour suits the shape well.

Yes mate , it was tempting, but the council would not approve another driveway, so it stays a lounge room, i used to envy a fella called Dan Tanner, he used to drive his T-Bird into his lounge room on some Vegas cop show, how awsome i used to think, Lavender / purple, my favourite colours, already done a purple one though,

I think i'll go with ....??....??.....?? Bugga, got no idea yet!

Here you go DeeCee, this is where I get mine from, scroll down and he is the only one I know that does combo's.
Scale Dreams

Kane wrote:Here you go DeeCee, this is where I get mine from, scroll down and he is the only one I know that does combo's.
Scale Dreams

Thanks Kane, could spend alot of money here if not careful.

Looking forward to seeing this finished, the purple X is really cool.

what about gold base with clear red or blue on it or mix red and blue together for a purple.

Since this thing is gonna be such an animal under the bonnet, how about a really "average" colour, say a mist blue mettalic or a pastel green or something, you know those real 60's car colours. Maybe a black or tan vinyl roof even??

RetrospectKustoms wrote:Since this thing is gonna be such an animal under the bonnet, how about a really "average" colour, say a mist blue mettalic or a pastel green or something, you know those real 60's car colours. Maybe a black or tan vinyl roof even??

NOOOO!! No vinyl roof, and have already done the pastel green"tuff street" thing, but thanks for the ideas,

, have decided on Jet Black with some red stripes of some sorts, have narrowed the diff, built a 4 link rear end, got rid of the leaf spring set-up, have done the
induction set-up aswell and wired the HEMI, next job is to design the turbos,




supposed to rain tomorrow, so that might get me out of the "renovation mode", and do something important like MODELING!!

Got a bit done to the engine today,unfortunately it didn't rain like forcast, so had to keep working on house, did manage to design and build the turbo set-up.
Have to play around with the pulley/alternator set up yet, modify a radiator and make an inter-cooler aswell.

Dam DeeCee, that turbo and intake set up looks killer!! Nice work. The black should look great on that body shape. I'm done making colour suggestions for you...