After owning this GTX for ten years now, and having it torn apart for ten years, I may be seeing some light at the end of tunnel as far as the paint and bodywork goes.

The story on this car is a typical E-Bay deal. I made the mistake of not flying across the country to check it out in person, instead relying on a company to inspect the car for me. It looked good from the outside, was a real six pack car and ran pretty strong, but it was a turd under the skin. Typical '90's restoration. Previous owner was drag racing it: solid lifter 446, 727 with an eight inch convertor, 4.30 gears, slicks, etc.

I started gathering parts to restore the GTX over the years. Ten years ago parts were hard/impossible to find. Not much in the way of good reproduction parts. Bought quarter skins and another two piece trunk floor. Hated those and sold them when AMD finally came out with the full factory style quarters and trunk floor. Found the correct bench seat with the fold down armrest in Iowa. Lots of AMD sheet metal. Anything with a hole cut in it, rusted, or poorly done previous repair is getting replaced.

I had it media blasted, top bottom, inside and out. My body guy built a jig to clamp the body down, so it wasn't tying up one of the frame racks for months on end.

It's been at the body shop for a couple of years now, awaiting it's turn for body and paint. I can't complain, it needs a lot of work, it'll get done right and it should be pretty nice when it's done.

Very cool car, good luck : ))

18 years for me....

Cool, Hope the restoration goes well.

Is the car B5 or B7?

Used to have a B5 V code 4 speed with blue interior

I feel your pain Bro, my GTX has exactly 5 pieces of original metal left on it! Roof, firewall, rear frame rails (don't know how they survived) and the rear floor pan! There are body parts from at least 8 different cars on this one.

Morty426:

Originally B7 blue, blue interior, bench seat w/fold down armrest, column shift, axle package.

Darius:

There's a mix of good used parts (torsion bar mount, deck lid, rear frame rails)and AMD sheetmetal. Typical B-body-cut the back half off the car off and replace it! I think I have more than five original pieces left..I'll have to find some pics.

Somewhere along the line there was a "tow package" added to my GTX and the ends of the frame rails were trashed from the hitch and rust. Originally we were just going to replace the ends of the rails and repair the front sections where the frame connectors were scabbed in, then decided to just replace the whole frame rail assembly. They made a mess of the torsion bar mount when they installed the frame connectors so that's getting replaced as well. A four speed and bucket seats were in the car at one time so the front floor is getting replaced also.

After the body was clamped to the jig, he set up the laser aligner to see how far out of spec the original front and rear rails were and found the front of the car was almost perfect and each of the rear rails were off something like 1/8". After installing the rear frame rail assembly, he checked the new/used rails and found they were almost perfect, which was good news.