The ClassicCars.com Journal recently featured an overview of a photogenic 1967 Plymouth GTX owned by a gentleman whose mother had a similar car back in the day. This one was rather stunning in Turbine Bronze metallic with a white vinyl top and matching interior. It certainly is a combination that doesn’t seem to be often seen, though there’s nothing unusual about how it was spec’d out.
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In the referenced Muscle Car Campy video, it was discussed what the car would look like with White stripes to match the top and interior, so it got me thinking what stripe colors were available for the 1967 GTX and what stunning combinations could be created.
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Known as Sport stripes, this option was available only for the GTX and featured two thin bands of stripes from nose to tail (skipping the roof). They nicely start at the inboard headlights, go over the non-functional scoops, and end squarely above the back-up lamps. The best thing about the stripes is that they were available in five colors: Black, White, Dark Blue metallic, Medium Red metallic, and Medium Copper metallic. Copper? Well, yes — once you learn these stripes were paint and not decal, it makes sense to hear that five of the 19 available colors could be used to apply contrast.
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This key from a dealer data book shows the available hues and interiors, and what stripes Plymouth recommended to use with a particular combination.
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As you can see, the choice of interior color often determined the stripe color, but that doesn’t mean one couldn’t order a car with White paint and Black interior with Medium Red stripes. Also worth noting is that some recommendations are arbitrary, such as a Black car with White & Red interior with White stripes being the recommendation when Medium Red stripes would do just as fine. Other times, something logical (like Black car with Blue interior) didn’t fall under a recommended combination, stripes or otherwise — black matches everything, so why not? Or the recommended stripe for a Black car with Black interior is White or Medium Copper, but not Medium Red or any other choice aside of Black?
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Meanwhile, check out the Barracuda’s available stripes. Note that the analogous pairings may have different recommendations — odd!
Most of the time, if you find a GTX with stripes, they’re either Black or White. Once in a while, you may see Medium Red, while Dark Blue and Medium Copper appear to be the rarest. I myself love Medium Copper, as my friend had a GTX in that color with a matching interior. I’ve also seen a Dark Copper metallic GTX (not a great color, IMHO) with Medium Copper stripes and it was fantastic!
P6X is Black bucket interior, SS1 is Soft Yellow monotone paint (**2 would be two-tone), and B is Black stripes (or blank without stripes). All can be referenced in the above chart.
If you’re a purist, sometimes you don’t have flexibility on what cars you find and how they’re trimmed. However, awareness of what was available can help you create a bucket list of trim combinations to seek out, especially if you learn to read fender tags since cars can be repainted and reconfigured. In the above chart, you can see the codes for all three trims, and right above I have highlighted a fender tag so you can know where to look for each trim component.
