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[JarettB]

My dad made a $500 barn find of a '69 GTX. Doesn't run but turnes over. Ran the VIN and it's a real GTX with the 375hp rated 440. Interesting thing is it's manual brakes/drum all the way around, manual steering. The seats are blue vinyl with velour down the center. I always thought the GTX was the higher end RoadRunner, meaning more luxury i.e, sacrificing weight.  Is this a rare option car because the lack of options? 

[JarettB]

update: spoke with my dad and the car has power steering. The seats are black vinyl with red velour down the center.
Interesting thing is the build sheet number stuffed behing the back seat differs from the fender tag. Build sheet is a RM23H9... Vin# while the fender tag is RS23L9.... Anybody help me with some details?

[kdoc1]

That means the fender complete with tag has been replaced. I have a 71 runner in the same situation. Apparently lack of knowledge by previous body man for not changing out the fender tag.

[JarettB]

After some research this is a response I got on another forum that seems most logical.

"As far as the track sheets, I couldn't really tell you how they got mixed up, but I noted many ways that they could get mixed up. The sequence numbers could vary by thousands depending on how it happened. Building a car back in those days, were much different than it is today and at one time we had 23,000 unavailable vehicles at one time. What is an unavailable.....It was a vehicle that was built off the Final Line but had not been shipped yet. With 23,000 vehicles sitting around it really meant that you had cars not shipped that had been build months before. If car A was sequence number 40098 and was only missing a glove box door, and car B was parked next to it with sequence number 50099 with say a bad engine, but happened to have the same color glove box door with the broadcast sheet taped to it from the Instrument Panel line it was not out of the question to take the glove box door off the one car (with the track sheet) and put it in the other car in order to ship it which now gives the 1st vehicle two different track sheets. That is just one of many many many examples of how it could happen, but again and only talking as a person that was there, it usually was not because of someone purposely throwing extra sheets on a car. That just didn't happen. ere their disgruntled employees, there sure was, especially in that period, but throwing an extra track sheet wasn't the way they showed their dissatisfaction. "

[bill440cars]

      I know that this is an old topic, but I'd just like to say that I have a 69' GTX myself, that has stanard nonpower drum brakes AND manual steering as well. Don't know anything about the rarity though. Just wanted it to be known that there ARE some GTXs out there, without all the power stuff.

                                                      Take care, Bill