You want info on the Plymouth? Sorry Mopar I thought I told you about her.Well my dad was a mechanic for 18 years and has always been a mopar lover, There for we always had mopars around, my dad had two 1968 chargers, a 1970 charger 500 with a 440 and pistal grip transmission, a 1971 Charger, and a green barracuda, but when I got older I started looking for a car, I loved the Chargers we had through out the years , but I was always partial to the early mopars. My uncle loves Hudson Hornets and one day I was looking at the "wheels for you magazine" and saw a Hudson Hornet for sale and I called on it, for my uncle. The people werent home, but I got a call from them later. They said along with the Hudson they had in the barn, they had 1969 Valiant. I went and looked at it with my dad and I bought it a few months later for $700, I had to sell a Raleigh Chopper and a Firestone Super Cruiser to get it. But soon the Valiant started having engine problems. The valiant was a four door, and my dad didnt want to put a new engine in a four door so we put a for sale sign on it. (This all was 2 years ago), and that christmas my uncle came and told me about a parts car he wanted to buy.My uncle has 1965 Belvedere I, 2 door, He took me to the parts car because he knew once I saw it I would be hooked. He was right, there in this lot was a 1965 Plymouth Belvedere II, It was a four door....but it didnt matter, because as soon as I saw her, there was no talking me out of her...I was hooked.Some Canadian dude came down and bought the Valiant........for $200! Nobody else wanted a four door valiant. and a month later I bought the belvedere for $500.
What you see in the pictures, is two years work, the pictures are a bit old. My goal was to take the four door and give it all the goodies that made the mopar Super Stockers of the 60's so cool. Its a V8 equiped car wich is unusual, becaus most were slant sixes,and this is a belvedere 2 when most two doors were belvedere 1's. One of my favorite parts about this car is that It was painted the wrong color in the factory... so when I had it repainted the engine compartment and jams, dont match the outside of the car.This car has a 318 poly which has more power than the later model 318, and is a peice of mopar history that alot of people dont remember. The Plymouths a work in progress, she runs and drives and is verry relyable, but I have to work work on her a little bit at a time due to my lack of money. I drove her last year through the whole year, back and fourth from school (in a town ten miles from where I live). THe funny thing about it, here , in nebraska we have blizards, and coming back from school in a blizard new cars were sliding off the road,and hiting fences, hehe....not the plymouth that old car got the last laugh, got back into town and there were about four inches on top of the hood and I couldnt see the scoop.
No this year I got another car, and am only gonna drive the old gal, in the summer. Shes got 94,000 on her......shes earned the right to be a summer ride.
I should be a writer.......because I think I just wrote a book :mrgreen:
