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What Would You Do With a Belvedereamino?

Posted August 25, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

In response to a recent Four-Links link to a story on launching a Plymouth from the deck of the USS Enterprise, reader Steve Donohoe of Port Clinton, Ohio, told us the Plymouth was definitely a 1963 Plymouth Savoy. How did he know for sure? He himself owns a 1963 Plymouth, though not one you see everyday.

Steve said he first doodled the design of a Plymouth sedan pickup in high school notebooks in 1968, then bought a 1963 Plymouth Belvedere four-door sedan in 1971 and went through with the chop in 1980. He fashioned the tonneau cover out of two Belvedere trunk lids, and swapped out the original poly-head 318 and manual transmission for an LA-series 318 with a push-button TorqueFlyte. He then managed to get Michigan to re-title the cruck as a "1963 Plymouth Pickup."

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Re: What Would You Do With a Belvedereamino?

08/26/2009 7:14 AM

Sweet! I have seen a couple of old cars chopped up, plywood and glass behind the drivers seat, and a box in the back to make a poor man's pick-up. These were tried as working vehicles, but they never seemed to work well.

This is a ton of work for an unusual looking show car?

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