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What might be factory dark blue appears beneath the black on this extremely well-preserved fender tag. Not your average factory setup! Surprisingly the seller has listed the original block separately, but if this car’s provenance checks out, the package deal would be worth more than the sum of their individual sales. Spent gasses exhausted through tubular four-into-two-into-one exhaust headers, then into a truncated exhaust with and dual outlets with removable caps. In 1965 the 426 hemi featured cylinder heads with the now-famous hemispherical combustion chambers, 12.5:1 compression ratio, solid lifters, and a magnesium cross-ram intake with twin Holley four-barrel carburetors. Originally EE1 Dark Blue Poly with a L1T Tan Interior, this lightweight Mopar probably went through several livery changes before being retired. Doors and bumpers were mounted with aluminum hardware.

To reduce weight, the bodies were dipped in acid, reducing the thickness of the metal as much as 60%. The A990 cars had a one-inch reduced wheelbase to help with weight transfer under acceleration.

You can read more about these exciting factory drag cars in the book Maximum Performance: Mopar Super Stock Drag Racing 1962 – 1969 by Jim Schild. This one came with the sturdy 727 three-speed automatic and (of course) a four-speed with Hurst shifter was also available. Plymouth built 160 of these cars, and Dodge made 200 of the comparable Coronets.

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This car also features the Heater Delete code that was part of the A990 package. It’s located in North Ridgeville, Ohio, and is listed here on eBay. This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere in North Ridgeville, Ohio bears a fender tag with the R11 Body code and Engine code 82 used on those cars.

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The seller does not say how much he expects to get for the car, but there is an undisclosed reserve set for it.One year before your neighbor Fred could order up a 426 cubic inch (7.0L) 425 HP Hemi, Dodge and Plymouth supplied anyone who knew how to place the order correctly (mostly professional drag racing teams) with a special factory drag racer featuring the “Maximum Performance” Hemi engine in a lightweight A990 (Dodge Coronet or Plymouth Belvedere). The January sale will see it go complete with factory paperwork sent from Chrysler to Lee Smith, post-restoration documents and books, and signatures from Smith (on the dashboard) and the former owners (under the hood). Since it ended its racing days, the Belvedere went through the hand of several owners, all “intimately familiar with the factory altered-wheelbase race cars.” As far as the body is concerned, there are tons of fiberglass parts used on it - fenders, doors, hood, hood scoop, bumpers, decklid and even dashboard. The engine powers a chassis that has a rear axle 10 inches (25 cm) closer to the front end than the stock variant.

This particular Belvedere uses the A990 426ci (7.0-liter) HEMI that rocks aluminum heads, magnesium intake manifold, and a 4-speed transmission.

Perhaps of more importance for the people in the market for such a beauty is the thing's powertrain and construction. We are told however this is “the most well-documented example of the rare A/FX cars” and at the same time the only one to have ended up in the hands of a private owner, so there are enough unique things to make this ride a real pocket turner at the said event. Its most notable achievement was a runner-up position at the 1966 U.S.

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This one is one of six assembled in 1965, of which just two have made it across the decades into our time.īack in its glory days, the car was drag raced by a driver named Lee Smith, with the people selling it during the Mecum auction in Kissimmee, Florida, at the beginning of next year, saying the Plymouth was seen back in its day at the strips in Phoenix, Arizona, and Bristol, Tennessee. The Belvedere is one of those altered-wheelbase contraptions made back in the day by Chrysler to take on Ford, that came to be known in some circles, especially those involved with high-speed competitions, as funny cars. Only 12 of these machines were made back then by Plymouth (in 19), all acid-dipped and sent over to a Detroit shop for the conversion. A machine created decades ago with the single purpose of obliterating the competition on the straight line, and one that has become over the years a true collectors’ must-have. What you’re looking at is a piece of motoring history and in some circles a true racing icon.