Get ready for the final race of the 2009 season , taking place in two weeks at chilly Thunderhill Raceway! More cars than ever before, and the most staggeringly wrong collection of vehicles ever seen on the same track. Ah, the Arse Freeze! Who could forget the incredible end-over-end Datsun B210 flip at the 2007 race? Or the upside-down '66 Plymouth Belvedere at last year's race? This year's race...
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! That means that his tow vehicle, the blue '67 Belvedere II that has been to so many Oakland tailgate parties , is now back on the Alameda street… and thus it qualifies for Down On...
If your car shares the same name as a popular brand of menthol smokes, you might as well go ahead and paint the thing to resemble a gasper pack, right? Of course! That's what the seller of this '65 Chrysler Newport did, and now- for reasons we don't understand- he's trying to sell this gorgeous machine on eBay. If you've already got a Plymouth Belvedere painted to look like a pack of Belvedere cigarettes...
It was with mixed emotions that read and hear Chrysler Corporation announcing reopening plants in Canada and the U.S. While I am sure many are elated that the plants will reopen and Union workers will be returning to work, for at least a short time, to assemble Chrysler Vehicles, many others are not. I am one of those “many others.” I have been a loyal owner of Chrysler products for the...
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. We haven't seen many Belvederes down on the Alameda street so far. In fact, this '68 wagon has been the sum total, prior to today. Given that Belvedere Adrian is an Alameda native, that just seems...
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. Jack Astro, creator of the Project Car Hell Song , was behind the wheel heading into Turn 1, everything looking fine... right up until the moment when a correct-overcorrect-oh shit sequence took place and the car flipped...
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. Since there's a trophy for Most Dangerous Banned F1 Technology, the Chickens decided they'd take a shot at it. While their first choice was a Chapparal-style Sucker Fan , budgetary constraints nixed that option pretty fast. Instead, they...
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... That's right, the Foster Farms Chickens, aka The Foster Imposters ! A pair of Arkansas factory-farmed chickens flee their trailer park and...
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. Davis,...
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...
I got the opportunity to be part of this very exciting project " SK8OLOGY ", thanks to Rich Tuzon . A lot of Artists from various background and professional skaters were asked to use a skate deck as a canvas. You can read all about it here . I spotted this beautiful Plymouth Belvedere 1958 down the street where I live, so I sat down and sketched it directly on the board... I really enjoyed...
Bill Stiles and Jere Stahl of York ran their 1966 Plymouth Belvedere in National Hot Rod Association competition and won every national event in '66. The photo was taken in 1966 at Stiles Performance. Jere Stahl received drag racing's Legion of Honor award at Musclecar Madness several years ago. The seventh annual racing event concluded over the weekend. Background posts: U.S. Drag-O-Way, Part I ,...
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... It was clear that Belvedere Adrian's '66 Plymouth Belvedere would need to have the front brakes upgraded from drums to discs if the team wanted to race at the 24 Hours of LeMons race in December. So, courtesy of a '73-76 Mopar A-body donor...
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… It was clear that Belvedere Adrian’s ‘66 Plymouth Belvedere would need to have the front brakes upgraded from drums to discs if the team wanted to race [...]
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 [...]
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