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What qualifies as a "new car" varies greatly depending on who you ask. Some people think a car becomes "old" as soon as it is no longer showroom fresh. A former co-worker of mine who restored Model-Ts used to tell me he didn't care much for "newer cars" like my 54 year old Plymouth Belvedere. This weekend we want to know about your definition. How new does a car have to be for you to consider it a "new car"? More »
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Opening the doors on a forgotten barn or garage to reveal a dusty vehicle that needs little more than some elbow grease and a weekend spent in the garage to reverse the effects of sitting is the stuff of gearhead dreams. After reading about the trio of Italian barn finds this week, we started wondering what vehicle we dream of finding covered in dust more than any other. What is the barn find of your dreams? More »
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Many love stories are tales of woe. Some are stories of trials and tribulations. Some have happy endings. The story of the object of my automotive infatuation has a little of all of the above. More »
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The Plymouth Superbird was just a Belvedere with a big wing, right? Right! More »
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Now that Belvedere Adrian is back in Alameda, Belvederes are everywhere! More »
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So much racing heritage for the 1964-66 Plymouth Belvedere coupe, what with this guy's exploits and all those great Belvedere drag cars… yet this one just took its final ride behind a tow truck and now awaits its doom. More »
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Many of us have looked at a beat-to-hell sedan, then reached for the Sawzall and created an open-air summer cruiser. Then, when the weather turns cold/rainy, it gets junked. But if you're Belvedere Adrian, you keep driving it for decades! More »
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Belvedere Adrian, of Faster Farms Racing fame, has returned to Alameda! More »
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If movies have taught us anything, it's that orphans are typically sad, but plucky. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has found a little orphan Hemi, but you might need to be Daddy Warbucks to buy her. More »
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. The Belvedere was Plymouth's answer to the Chevelle and Fairlane. More »
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We've been following the exploits of the Faster Farms Plymouth Belvedere LeMons car- which was driven to the race- and now there's another chapter in the Legend Of The Chickenmobile. More »
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The Faster Farms Chickens' 1966-7 Plymouth Belvedere looked pretty good as an exact replica of the Foster Imposters' car… but something was still lacking.
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We've spent many months following the progress of Belvedere Adrian's 1966 Plymouth Belvedere race car, but we've never mentioned the theme this team will be using. Now, anyone from California will tell you there's only one possible theme for an old Belvedere...
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As the Bent Belvedere inches ever closer to 24 Hours Of LeMons Thunderhill readiness, team captain Plymsole has decided that the duct-tape-and-speaker-wire electrical system isn't going to be very reliable on the track. Time to tear out all the scary old stuff and start over fresh! Now, they could have followed my example and spent about 88,000 hours scratchbuilding a space shuttle wiring harness, but there's no need for that madness when you've got Jack Astro (of Project Car Hell Theme Song fame) on the team!
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Complete with all four body styles offered on the Plymouth Belvedere in 1954, Darrell L. Davis’s 9,000 square foot garage-homage to the '54 Plymouth also includes sales brochures, display racks, banners, signs, order books, sheets of paint samples and upholstery samples. Basically, everything needed to run a successful Plymouth showroom, which was exactly what he was aiming to recreate. More »
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We spotted this miniature woody, a Fiat 500 C Giardiniera Belvedere, while passing through Charlevoix, Michigan. Ironically, it's still not the coolest car in town, as this place is also home to the awesome V8-powered Citroen 2CV off-roader we found at Autorama. The lakeside town is popular destination for Michiganders engaging in the summer tradition of vacationing "up north." As such, the ice cream-licking tourists were all over this little Fiat. It's hard (for me at least) to tell exactly what year this one is, but I'd say an early '50s model, as '55 was the last year for the original 500. These 'C' models were the final iterations of what many people know simply as the "Topolino," which started production in 1936. Of course, the iconic Fiat 500 that most people know was the rear-engined bubble that later came along in place of these originals. But the Topolino was no ass-engined VW-wannabe. More »
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Preparation of the extremely bent '66 Plymouth Belvedere obtained for free by Belvedere Adrian (aka Plymsole) for the Arse-Freeze-A-Pa-Looza LeMons race continues, with the suspension and brakes functioning- mostly- and the 318 grunting out sufficient torque to turn junkyard tires into glorious smoke on command. The car is still being used as a daily driver by one team member, and he says the Project Car Hell stencil on the door gets a lot of attention from the ladies. Of course! Make the jump for even more Belvedere hoonage. More »
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Sometimes you can bash away on your low-budget race car for a full dawn-to-dusk weekend, yet it's still not ready. That's when you need to take drastic measures... More »
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"Dawn Of A New Day" sounds much better than "Plymouth: Only 34 Years To Go," though of course Chrysler's marketers at the time had no idea that the Plymouth brand would barely outlive the current century. What we have here is the '67 Belvedere (a "whale of a lot of car for the money"), the "rich-looking compact" '67 Valiant and the '67 Fury, whose "beauty and luxury make it hard to believe you're in the low-price field." Hmm, for a minute there we were thinking we were actually listening to Chrysler's most recent "new day" marketing campaign. Well, except without the animated kid, of course. More »
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Last year, Belvedere Adrian brought two vehicles from his fleet of old Plymouths, plus his vintage Serro Scotty trailer, to a tailgate party before an Oakland Athletics game, and a good time was had by all. Last weekend, however, we figured we needed more Belvederes, so Adrian brought five of his favorite B-bodies, including the still-streetworthy Thunderhill 24 Hours of LeMons-bound '66. The Junkyard Boogaloo Boombox was there, the food was excellent, and the A's ended up crushing the Royals like cockroaches. Lesson learned: the more Belvederes, the better the party! More »
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Remember the extremely hoontastic sticker in the back window of Belvedere Adrian's 24 Hours of Lemons project car? Well, he got so many questions about the origin of the sticker (which was apparently a truck stop in Ely, Nevada, in 1981) that he went ahead and had some printed up. He's sold most of them to friends and coworkers, but he's going to offer the rest to Jalopnik readers as a sort of fundraiser for the Racin' Belvedere Roll Cage Fund. More »
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After screaming himself hoarse as a spectator at the last 24 Hours of LeMons race at Altamont (and preparing to hitch up the ol' Serro Scotty to meet me and the Loverman up at the Thunderhill LeMons race), Belvedere Adrian has obtained a wrecked '66 Belvedere and is in the process of readying it for some CRX-sideswipin' mayhem at one of next year's LeMons events. More »
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It's been over a month since we had a big Detroit station wagon in this series (the '77 Olds Custom Cruiser), and that's just too long! So here's a nice original '68 Plymouth Belvedere wagon I spotted parked just a block from my house. I'm a few years too young to have had a childhood filled start-to-finish with 60s wagons, and anyway my family had a van instead, but it's impossible for me not to love these things. Damned wagon-killing minivans and SUVs! More »
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Here are some photos sent in by Belvedere legend Adrian (he of Moparbulance fame) of what appears to be a 1958 Plymouth with shortened wheelbase. The emblems claim it's a Hemi, and the 8,000 RPM redline on the tach is certainly a good indicator of hoonage afoot. These photos come from Tulsa, during the festivities surrounding the Buried Belvedere last summer. Any reader who knows more about this car- particularly if anyone has been crazy enough to stand on the gas all the way down the quarter-mile- please fill us in. More »
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The Crown Victoria has reigned supreme in the cab world for so long that it's hard to imagine a time when other cars served as taxis. Oh, sure, we know about the Checker Marathon, but it's easy to forget that each of Detroit's Big Three used to put a lot of effort into pushing their full- and mid-sized models to cab companies. Here's a factory brochure for the taxi-ized Fury and Belvedere for 1968, courtesy of the folks at the amazing Old Car Manual Project. [TOCMP.com] More »
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So all is not lost with the rust-plagued Tulsa Time Capsule Belvedere! Turns out the gasoline samples in the trunk (stored there in case gasoline couldn't be found in 2007) are of great interest to modern-day petroleum geochemists, who are always on the lookout for "age-related" samples for testing. – Murilee Martin More »
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It would have been great if the man who won the Buried Belvedere of Tulsa could have showed up in person to claim his rusty prize, but cancer claimed him back in the era of the Red Bird Firebird Esprit. Raymond Humbertson, whose 1957 prediction of the 2007 population of Tulsa was most accurate, was a career Marine and Korean War veteran who "moved around a lot" according to his nephew. The closest surviving relatives are his two elderly sisters in Maryland, who will likely become co-owners of the somewhat oxidized Plymouth. – Murilee Martin More »
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Step up, R. E. Humbertson (or his heir; Mr. Humbertson would be 85 if he's still around)- Tulsa has a Belvedere with zero miles for you! Sure, there's a bit of water damage, but we bet the eBay value of the intact parts (there should be something intact) must be worth having. The deal back in '57 was that whoever could predict the population of Tulsa 50 years in the future would win the car. Humbertson's guess of 384,743 was the closest to the actual 2007 population of 382,457, so the Belvedere is his.– Murilee Martin More »
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Just as we'd feared the Plymouth Belvedere buried in Tulsa, OK didn't quite make it. Although Mr. Belvedere's vault was built to withstand a nuclear attack, it wasn't built to withstand water attack. Apparently sitting in a pool of muddy water for fifty years is bad for a '57 Plymouth — who knew? Luckily some of the other items left in the time capsule made it out looking like they're none the worse for wear. Anyway, we've got some more pictures of the sad, muddy and rusted Tulsa Plymouth below. [Hat tip to everyone who sent this one in!] – Ray Wert More »
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We've just received word the "test lift" of the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere in Tulsa, Oklahoma went just peachy. And by peachy we mean they were able to lift the car using a humongous 120-ton crane/strap setup and it didn't fall apart. Actually Tulsarama (don't ask) chairwoman Sharon King Davis said she feels "much better" about the condition of the car. Of course, after sitting in a buried vault in a pool of rust-colored water for 50 years the fact it didn't immediately disintegrate is probably cause for celebration. But check out that tailfin there above and in the gallery below — what do we think — is it mud and grime on the vacuum-sealed car-covering, or is that a thin veneer of rust? We'll find out at either noon when the Belvedere's pulled from the vault or at 7:00 PM tonight when Mr. Belvedere loses his soggy wet condom-like protection. We're on pins and needles. [Hat tip to Michael!] – Ray Wert More »
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We were seriously looking forward to hearing about the zero-miles '57 Belvedere emerging in pristine original condition from its time capsule in Oklahoma City Tulsa, but now the odds of the car being totally cherry have dropped considerably and we're, like, bum-tripped. Water was standing about two feet deep in the Belvedere's vault when it was unearthed yesterday, and it looks like water had completely filled the space during the past. The car is encased in various layers of protective coating, including a big plastic bag, but nobody at the scene seems very optimistic. – Murilee Martin More »
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Eating burned meat while sweating on an asphalt lot in East Oakland... aaah, this is the life! Well, if you have a pair of Plymouth Belvederes and a vintage Serro Scotty trailer to go with your cauterized bovine flesh and fermented barley beverages, you know you're doing it right. We spotted this setup while tailgating out of a much less exciting '88 Toyota truck/'97 Crown Vic tailgating rig before the A's/Indians game last Saturday, and were appropriately green with envy... More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=260061&view=rss&microfeed=true One of the cooler finds out on the not-so-mean streets of Metro Detroit this weekend has to be this 1963 Plymouth Belvedere with a 6.6 liter 400, done-up for the boys in blue looking for the brothers Blues. The car with the same name as the butler, was re-built by John Hammond, a deputy sherriff in Tennessee, as a tribute to the Blues Brothers and the Mount Prospect Illinois Police Department. John ended up selling his beloved "Elwood" to finance some of his other fine projects, which is one of the reasons why it's now up here in Michigan with a new owner and available for us to yell "Illinois Nazis!" at the top of our lungs. And as Wert says, the best part's the license plate — "STOLEN1." More »
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