1969 X77 project

[Riverrat68]

Back in January I found this 69 X77 D80 factory Cortez silver car with a blue standard interior, I purchased the car locally and it was supposly a local Central NJ from the mid 70's. I was told the car spent a lot of time at mufflix on RT33 in Trenton back in the mid to late 70's. I was able to track down a guy who owned the car in the late 70's and was lucky enough to find that he not only remembered owning the car but he still had pictures of it hanging up in his house. He also told me he towed the car down to car crafts street machine nationals in Indy. He told me he ran two hoods on the car a L88 hood and a grump Lump. If anyone from the area recognizes the car or has any history on it let me know, partial vin is 6N666555

[chevyman0429]

Very cool thanks for sharing <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif

[ZLP955]

can't help on car or owner history, but congratulations on buying the car and finding those old pictures of it. Silver on dark blue is a great combination, but I guess I'm a little biased as yours is a twin to mine!

[bbbentley]

Love hearing about finds &amp; seeing pics is especially nice. I really do not like seeing these finds, 'cause I ain't the one &quot;finding&quot; them! LOL.

Question: Did any of the 'born with' drive-train survive? What did, drive-train wise, come with the purchase?

Congrats and thanks for sharing and saving another cool car.

[MosportGreen66]

Cool find! Love the day-2 pics!

Dan

[Riverrat68]

Thanks guys, when I bought the car I was planning on putting it back to stock, after seeing the pictures I think I'm going to put it back to how it was, no better excuse to stick a grump lump back on the car lol I need to hunt down some tow taps, and the owner said the car had a Lakewood 3 point bar in it which if you look hard at the l88 hood picture you can see the bar through the window. As far as the original drivetrain the car only has the original rear.

[mr.4speed]

love that your going to day two it! I would go with the mopar scoop that's in your old pic. also called a sox and martin scoop <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif

[442w30]

I know of a silver original-owner Z from Princeton, but the last time I saw the car 20 years ago, it was stock.

[DW31S]

Good luck on your resurrection. Love the race look!

[whitetop]

The hood is not a Grump Lump but a 7&quot; Mopar style scoop.

[njsteve]

Mufflex is a custom exhaust shop that is still in Trenton. They did the exhaust on my 70 hemi charger as well as on my diesel suburban. You may to give the owner a call. I will probably bring my 75 Firebird there once we do the engine swap.

http://mufflex-performance.com/about-mufflex

[442w30]

....and if you go, be sure to grab a tomato pie at DeLorenzo's!

[Riverrat68]

Ni steve - I did talk to Denny at mufflex, the owner of the car I bought it from told me he remembered the car spending a lot of time over at mufflex in the 70s for what ever reason, Denny told me he remembers the car being painted black with the blue interior when it was first build some time in the 70s he said it was a very desinct car and it was passed around from 3-4 different owners in the Trenton Hamilton Yardville area,