Jet X is the creation of Gary and Pam Beineke and the newest addition to their ever expanding "G-Series" of what-if cars. Using factory design studio drawings from 1968, the pair worked to meet designer John Hurlitz's vision for the 1972 GTX that never saw the light of day as a production model. See video and get more info at http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Car-Feature-The-1972-Plymouth-GTX-That-Mopar-Never-Built.html

From this elevated view you can clearly see the fender gills, AAR style hood, 1971 wing on the deck lid and, hey, are those Kelsey Hayes "Recall" wheels? Also note the subtle faux brake cooling ducts that were part of the design study.

The car is painted in factory A4 Silver, an homage to the fighter-jet cues that are found through the machine in the spirit of John Herlitz's design effort.

Considering all they had to work with were four-decade-old photos, we'd say that Gary and Pam nailed it. They even went so far as to measure the design details in the photos to determine how large stuff like the fender gills needed to be.

The Road Runner grille combined with the AAR hood, fender gills and chin spoiler sound like a mismash of stuff just heaved together, until you actually see how all of the elements work together.

The header panel appears to be a normal factory stamping, but the front half is Road Runner and the rear is all Barracuda so that it would have the correct contour to fit the AAR hood. From what Gary told us, it was not a short process to meld the two pieces and get them to where it looked like factory finished work. The panel gap is flawless, moreso than Chrysler would have had in 1972.

A little more detail on the header panel.

On paper, an AAR style hood on a feselage B-body sounds like a mistake, but here it won us over big time. Gary struggled with paint detal for the scoop but we think he hit it on the head by having the top sprayed only.

The GTX logo in the grille was another nice touch. Gary mounted it to stand up like a '72 Road Runner badge using a couple of small pins.

Gary milled the first gill out of aluminum at home and then brought his template to the machine shop and those boys worked their magic. He actually got the dimensions for these by using a measuring device on the original photos.

These are Specialty Wheels "Warriors," a modern rendition of the infamous and somewhat coveted Kelsey-Hayes "Recall" wheels. The original 1969 wheels of this design recalls are rare because they were in fact recalled by Chrysler for some potentially dangerous design failures.

The 1972 Road Runner grille looks right at home with the package. In the styling drawings there were two colors, a lighter and a darker for the grille. Gary chose the darker of the two for more a more dramatic feel to the car

The engine is a basically stock 440 Six-Pack. Only very, very few real Six-Pack cars were built in 1972.

The motor is not anything crazy, nor should it be. After all, this is a factory styling experiment come to life, not a dragster. The 6-bbl induction looks cooler than hell though.

The car is equipped with electronic ignition, but rather than shatter the "stock" illusion wih a gawky ignition box screwed to the firewall, Beineke used his noodle and took a factory Mopar orange box and painted and decal'd it to appear as though it is an early test piece from the factory.

John Herlitz, the designer in charge of the 1972 GTX used the F4 Phantom fighter jet as inspiration for the project. That's one of the reasons he liked the tail lights. They have the appearance of jet exhaust.

There are a couple of things going on here. The first is to notice the black rubber ring around the light. That ring is actually a factory bumper guard. The second is to notice the bezel in the tail light itself. Gary spent a lot of time making and scrapping designs until he came up with the one that would be subtle enough to work, but near enough to have poeple notice. We did. it worked.

The rear valance panel on this car was a tough to find piece since it was a 1972 model year only piece. Gary settled on one from a single exhaust car and he modified this one to appear as a factory dual exhaust. It's very clean work and looks factory.