Posted on 12/13/2020 7:03:31 PM PST by ETL
AutotopiaLA
"This is a cool old school simple badass muscle car. The owner had a numbers matching Plymouth 426 Hemi Belvedere GTX and wanted more power. So rather than swapping the motor he had the guys at Vintage Motorworks build it into a loud obnoxious badass street cruiser. This is Mopar in all its glory.
Sit back and enjoy the ride..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cboYj5-cso
Amen to that!
Sweet!
A guy near me owned not 1 but 2 of the 11 1970 Hemi Cuda convertibles that are worth $3-4 million each . Raced both early 1970’s to 1974 era. Sold them both back in the day for around $6000 each.
Owned over 20 hemi and 440 -6 pack back in the day-not all same time. Owned and sold all of them in the 70’s, early 80’s.
When the blue Hemi vert sold for $4 million at Russo Steele a few years back. His son said there went my inheritence on FB
Wow! Beautiful car!
You would be referring to a 2019 Dodge Ram in some form?
Sorry, FRiend, but THAT might well be the ugliest of the ugly Mopars I referred to earlier. It was the one that first came to my mind, but I didn't recall what year or model it was. Now I know. :)
Had the same car with a 440 back in 1978, my paint was not nearly as nice.
Whiplash alone is one reason, comfort is another, but they really came in handy when leaning the seats all the way back with your girlfriend.
71 GTX was a bloated looking car compared to the 67 GTX.
Buddy of mine had a ‘61 Belvedere. Coolest thing about it was the push button tranny :)
When I married, my wife had a 67 Plymouth Belvedere with a 318 engine and a 4 barrel carb. I never tried it, but it would probably beat the 67 289 Ford I had.
I came to hate that Plymouth. Got a flat in the pouring rain. Gave up waiting for the rain to stop and started to change the tire. Followed the usual routine of prying off the hubcap and loosening the lugnuts. Except the lugnuts would not loosen. Not one damn one of them. “They can’t all be frozen!”, I reasoned while soaked to the bone issuing a few expletives. Finally, mad and exasperated I slammed the lug wrench clockwise. The nut loosened. Ahh, MOPAR. I changed the tire and drove home. The next day I read the manual and discovered that the lugnuts on the left side of the vehicle did loosen clockwise. Counter clockwise on the right side.
Forward a few years and the car is running ok but the vinyl upholstery and dashboard are developing large cracks.
Moving across town I loaded up the Belvedere. It didn’t take much for the springs and shocks to demonstrate how cheap they were. Had to cross a railroad track. I took it very slow since I was riding low. The tracks managed to rip out the entire exhaust system from the headers to the tailpipe.
I did replace the exhaust and bought some new shocks, but the Plymouth’s interior continued to disintegrate. Replaced it with a Toyota SR-5.
know you love the old cars, my brother just picked up a 67 Dodge Charger with 383 4 speed last week.
Back in the day approx 1973 a friend had a 61 Belvedere with a 340 in it, i will never forget the day we were trying to pass his father on the way to church, wasn’t happening as dad was driving a 69-70 Chrysler Imperial with a 426 Hemi.
Warn him about the lugnuts. See post 54.
I remember going with my dad to look at one of those lancers he was thinking about buying. I was mortified.
Then he started looking at ramblers.
Anyway, he bought a 65 Beetle.
Gas embargo.
Yeah, and that exhaust has to be a hoot going over speed bumps.
That ‘67 Imperial is gorgeous! I love how they straightened the lines from the earlier designs.
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