1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX 426 Hemi Convertible-Muscle Car Of The Week Video Episode
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2016
- 1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX 426 Hemi Convertible-Muscle Car Of The Week Video Episode #183:
The letter X has always been kind of mystical… X marks the spot, x stands for experimental, x represents an unknown or even secret stuff like x factors or x files. Today, we’re checking out a 1 of 10 built 1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX convertible from The Brothers Collection, powered by a 426 Hemi V8!
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67 GTX is one of the absolute coolest cars out there, add in the Hemi? OMG sign me up.
I'll add that 67 is probably the absolute best year for MCs. Chevelle, GTO, Skylark, GS, Fairlane, Galaxie, Mustang, you name it. The baddest collection of cars ever seen in a single year. Unbelievably, almost all of them being one offs. Simply mind blowing! 68-72 Chevelles, GTOs, GS's, Skylarks aren't bad but 67 is it for me. Much like the 70 Chevelle.... Unicorn. 71 and 72 are shyte in comparison. Even when they were 10 years old, 70 was way more desirable than the 71-72 single headlight jobs. GM lost their minds, they would have saved millions and sold more cars had they simply left the 70 Chevelle unchanged for 3 years. The stupid obsession with the single sealed beam high/low headlights was straight stupid. Nova's already had it, if people wanted it in 70, they would have bought a Camaro or a Nova.
A friend had a Blue 426 Hemi back in the 80s. I have never forgotten just how cool it looked and went down the road. I knew it was special, but not that only 10 autos were made. I know he kept it the 10 years he lived near me.
Show me a 1970 Plymouth Fury that has all of the go fast do dads on it so I can remember what I had at one time and thought I could do one even better. All I ended up doing was letting go of a fire breathing monster that I had invested everything and it felt like I way have even given my left nut to the car. A sleeper by all measure. Not a Fury 1, 2, oe 3. This was a plain Jane Fury, p-period. The funny thing was that this car was a company car that my Dad drove for 2 years and then turned it in to go by and either order what he thought he needed for his upcoming work schedule for the next two years, or he could let the company pencil pushers order it for him. That was how he got his first company car and vowed to never allow that to happen again. The car came equipped with just about everything that you could order on a Fury including the 440 Commando with just one big 4 bbl Carter on it. It was fitted out with all the high output upgrades you could get in the car that year and was coupled to the venerable indestructable 3 speed Tourqeflite tranny. It had a split bench and was a two door. The only badging that it had on it was Fury on the front fenders and one thin strip of chrome that acted as a door guard with a nylon center section to absorb other car doors that hit it. It had factory headers with 2 1/4" full duals with a new for the year cross equaling X just after the first section after the headers and extended all the way back under the rear bumper. Why 2 1/4" I don't know. Air Condition, Am/FM cassete player with 6 speaker system. It had power steering that you could turn the wheels with your pinky finger. Power front disc brakes and oversized drums in the rear 15"X 5" rims on the front and 15"X7" steel wheels in the back. There were Sears steel belted Cadillac radials on the front and the back all blackwall tires. Both had the regular moon caps in the middle. Rubber floor mats all the way around solid in the car with a single carpet mat in the back that was really excellently fitted and had Fury in dark Blue lettering on a black carpet. In the front was independent carpet sections fitted for the driver side and the passenger side with the same lettering. The car was one shade of dark blue and on the front license plate it read Ol' Blue. No stripes or any other adornment. This was the only car that I can say that when I managed to bid on the car nobody bid against me because all the guys that worked with my Dad knew that he had ordered the car for me to have my first real good car. I bid $ 300 for this car that had 67K on it, brand new tires, front end gone through about a month prior and a brand new radiator and thermostat put in at the same time as the front end work. Brand new Monroe shocks and everything was completely serviced and had it's tak full of Exxon Super. It looked like a plain, cheap as you could buy one Fury but it had just about anything that came with the most expensive Fury models. This car was not that heavy and the only way you knew you were about to eat dust was if you knew the car or looked at it closely before you lined up on the side of her. It was deceptive to say the least.
SWEET
The puddle on the floor is from me drooling. Insanely beautiful.
Holy rip, that thing is flawless - it must have just been recently restored. The engine sounds really freshly done as well . . cudos to however did the work.
The car that sent every other car back home at the track.
My favorite year for the GTX. Although I prefer a hardtop this is still an awesome car. Love the sound of the pre 1970 Hemi's when they still had solid lifters
I can tell you from experience, adjusting those Hemi valves was no picnic.It was rewarding, though.
Best looking Mopar ever! The pinnacle of cool styling!
Awesome -- my kinda ride. Love the little hood badge showing 426- a nice Plymouth touch on all their cars. tnx Kevin. great vid as usual.
My brother had a white on white 67 GTX Hemi. It was soo cool back then. Unfortunately when he was racing a 67 GTX with a 440 he lost control and totaled the car. On a side note, he then got a 69 SS Camaro.took out the 396 and put in a L88.
Had one exactly like this one . Would love to have another like it.
A friend I grew up with had a 72 Z28 but his step dad had a 67 GTX with a 440 6 pack although the 6 barrel wasn't original to the car but then again the cam and headers weren't eather but I loved that GTX.
May be the nicest looking GYX model...Love it!
If “The Brothers” ever decide to give cars away, I’d take this one (or the Buick GSX stage 2 if this one is already gone). These 67’beefed up Belvidere’s are straight forward in their simplicity while looking mean. The convertible just adds to the fun!
Love the magnum 500 wheels, twin carter 4 barrel carbs unbelievable!
The street hemi was a solid lifter engine and it ended in 1966. The 67 was not referred to as the street hemi and it came with a toned down hydraulic cam.
The " street hemi" was available from 1966 to 1971. I believe the solid lifter cam was used in 1966 and 1967. The hydraulic cam had the same lift and duration and was used from 1968 to 1971.
its funny that i just found one of these cars for sale at a classic car dealership a few days ago for $180,000, it still had the numbers matching hemi, and it was done up in copper paint and interior with a white convertible top. It had 78,000 miles on it suprisingly, so it had been driven quite a bit as well
I enjoyed it for Ten years before deciding to sell it.
Poetry in Motion
Song to go with it , top Down Beach Cruise - Drive In later And Beach Park Later
My favorite of the Mopar.
Beautiful car thanks for sharing it
One of my favorite cars
One reason it is rare is because someone ordered a column shifter instead of a 4 speed or console shifter/Column shifter would not be the way I would of went. Check Grave yard cars they built a 1967 Conv 4 speed Hemi car that cae was sweet!
What a stunning car.
she sure is a beauty
That One is Sharp..💥👍
The Lord blessed me with two 1967 GTX 440's, one was auto (I was 21 years old) and the other was 4-speed (I was 40 years old). Guess which one I took better care of and treated with respect. HA !
Quite rare and a nice color combo too!
One can only imagine what it would go for at auction. A very solid investment “vehicle”.
It looks like most of these cars (and thank you for letting us see them) never seem to be warmed up. I see them being started and we see the exhaust spewing water when the driver floors the accelerator so we can listen to it. They are not my cars and certainly not my money, but it's tough on an engine to be revved and run hard when cold. I shouldn't, but I feel a little pain when I see them lighting up the tires and visible water vapor comes out of the tailpipes.
I'll shut up now.
Tim Hammett I guess $4000 for a hemi in 1967 was the same as $75,000 for a super snake cobra today. a years pay assuming you have a great job
Good point. But, as a possible alternate explanation....An awful lot of condensation can accumulate in the mufflers and pipes. The engine could be warmed up but it might take quite a bit longer for the exhaust system to get hot enough to burn off the accumulated water.Most of the videos show the cars being driven both gently and hard. My guess is that the burnout shots are not done with stone cold engines, but, rather, after the car has been driven around a bit. I'm sure Kevin can tell us one way or another.
I'm not a huge fan of convertible cars. However it is beautiful. And thank you for using foot pounds instead of so many people who use; pound feet. How do you measure " pound feet "?
That Dash/Square Gauge Cluster looks the Very Same as Plymouth uses/Went with in the 1975 Plymouth Valiant ? i was Lucky enough to get a $500 Buy Price in the Late 1980's a Very Lightly used & Ultra Low mile Granny 4 Door 1975 Plymouth Valiant Sedan with the Super Slant Six car in Some Bronze on Tan interior, i'll bet that Puppy still had the Chyrsler Broadcast/Build Sheet in mint Condition too underneath the Back Bench seat Springs & interior Firewall area. This car Never Broke Down either until A Herd of Whitetail Deer Ran infront of it at 90 Something Kilometers Per hour 50 something mph in Low light Sundown (Dusk ) winter Conditions East of Whitecourt Alberta, canada when Hwy 43 Was still the Dangerous Two Lane. just needed a Replacement Radiator & Off the car went Again no injuries to the two irish occupants either that Pointy Hood Beak took the Full Brunt of impact , try this same impact with Any Car of today 2016/17 & i'm sure the outcome will be Very very nasty for the occupants. airbag or not.
The car of Angel 😎.
I'll take it.
14 second times?? Guess again,sir.....If you took it easy off the line,this car would easily run 13.4 or better factory stock on Goodyear polyglas tires......Add 7" wide slicks,come off the line smoking the tires and run 12.7 @ 110 mph STOCK through the mufflers.......The downside was the HEMI balked,misfired and fouled plugs in everyday driving. I had a lot of experience with a 1969 HEMI RoadRunner back in the day.........The rule was,if you knew how to maintain / repair cars,you would love to own a HEMI. If not,the next best thing was a 440 six-pack which was available first in a 69 1/2 RoadRunner. ALMOST as fast as the HEMI in street trim and it behaved in everyday driving............On the 7th day God did not rest,he invented the HEMI.
Absolutely. The Hemi cars in 1970-71 ran mid 13's and the Hemi was a bit milder in 1970-71 than it had been in 1966-69. This 67 still had solid lifters. Easily a mid to high 12 second car with just a few bolt ons and stickier tires
I bought a revell model kits and it says in the history of the car it can run mid 13.
@@r.a.p.k.models4160 Thats why its a model kit....!
440 6 pack was quicker then the hemi in stock form .. numerous articles prove this
@@Lousasshol Nope
10 out of 17 means 58.8% of all Hemi GTX convertibles had Torqueflite
I wonder how many of the 10 came with buckets and a column shift, I bet fewer than 10.
Very nicely done car. Not sure about the clamps on the exhaust tips.
The person that put the clamps that way should be whacked with a ball peen.....car is perfect except for that.
I know where there's the same car (numbers matching ) 426 convertible 4 speed in Alberta Canada .
I need your help in getting my last bucket list car .
The Number 1 produced, is restored and for sale in $300,000.oo USD.
only 10 people in the entire country ordered this combo huh? hard to believe
The HEMI back in the day was a seen as the weird experimental race engine for the street that wasn't that much better performer than the already proven easier-to-work-on 440 Magnum, Plus it was an expensive option; I totally believe only 10 people ordered that combo.
I was going to order one back then, but what stopped me was there was essentially no warranty. Many of us that would have otherwise ordered one was put off by the fact that were it to break we'd not have the money to fix it.
The Hemi was a really expensive option and the 440 was probably a better choice for a daily driver
Need competition for the Hemis around ya'? Try the '70 Toronado GT with the 400-HP 455 with the W32 package. Seriously, guys. Will you ever feature Rivieras, Toros, El Dorados?? I mean, they can be considered muscle cars, don't they (not-so-compact bodies, I know, but powerful and luxurious they are)??
No, none of those are muscle cars. The idea of a muscle car was, at the most, a mid-sized version of a car with a performance engine the displacement of which was typically reserved for full sized cars. When Pontiac put together the GTO--actually a team doing it within GM without the head honchos knowing about it--the maximum sized engine for the Tempest was the 326 V8, not really a performance motor. They stuffed the 389 out of the big Catalinas and Bonnevilles into the car, added a few tweaks, and the muscle car was born. The Chevrolet response was utilizing the mid-sized Chevelle, Nova and Camaro platforms. Ford's was of course the Mustang, Torino etc. During the first true muscle car era, for example, Chrysler used its astonishing 383 and 440 platforms in full sized cars, everything from the Chrysler 300 to the Monaco to the Fury, etc. None of those were muscle cars, they were full sized. Yes, optioned correctly, they could really motivate, and there was some blurring of the lines such as with the Chrysler Letter Series cars, but really, they were not muscle cars. Remember, you can have performance cars, such as the Hurst 300, a Chrysler 300F, a Sports Fury GT, a Bonneville with a 389 and 3 2bl carbs, and all the rest, but they are not true muscle cars.
Sounds like it has a gear driven cam. Nice car. Even nicer if it was one of the 7 that got the 4 speed.
Just like the one on Graveyard cars one of 7 They built a 67 Coronet Conx 4 speed Hemi one of 2 and I think other one was destroyed
@@jimvelie5654 Yeah I got a 67 Hemi GTX I'm thinking about contacting graveyard cars I need to sell it or something Needs a restoration very solid body though not too much rust
Nice episode. I'm guessing this is a Dana 60 and what are 'performance gears'...probably in the 3.23 to 3.55 neighborhood or are they pushing 3.73?
Since its a Hemi I think they came standard with a 3.54 gear ratio but I could be wrong. If not the standard rear axle ratio was probably 3.23. Jay Leno has a 66 Hemi Coronet and it came with 3.23's out back
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not a dodge guy. but this is one beautiful car.. all ways liked the 67 model..fast and still classy.you skimmed over the rear end too quickly.. gear heads need more info ...
its a plymouth
As a former '67 GTX 440 owner, of course I liked the car, but I don't get the column shifter. Who would order a supposed luxury convertible with turn signal indicators on the fenders and no console?
You are so corect with that. I am saving now for a 67 GTX would like to get a 4 speed but if not I want console shifter.
i didnt even know the gtx came with a colum shifter
Bucket seats and console were optional at extra cost. In the 1980's I saw Monte Carlo SS cars that had bench seats and column shifters, still buckets and consoles were more money.
Saweeet
Feet pounding on the ground?
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Is this a repeat Kevin?
nice
The Angels car
I have three GTXs all 440 powered.. The Hemi doesn't fit the luxury cruiser persona of the GTX
John Miller you must hate joe dirt ya pussy
440 faster on the street.
Dana Rear?
What ratio?
Optional? Standard?
Specs were glossed over.
Sticker price?
Sweet car but lacking tech specs.
2000cobraguy its called their web site.
Looks like the 8 3/4 instead of the Dana 60.
Joe dirt
Only 10 smh
will trade 1970 superbee colon 440 834 rear rebuil engine suplime green new interior new front end new breaks 2 extra hoods new suspension new breaks new exuast headders ct offs 500 horse 1170 115 mile per houre in quarter only two runs 1050 brawer for 1966 Plymouth 1967
I'm looking to get rid of mine it's a 67 blue with black racing stripes originally Automatic 426 car I really want to sell it but I could be interested in what you have It needs restoration but very little rust repair is needed I have complete engine It's been rebuilt but should be freshened up from storage When done $200000 car probably all day
1170115 mile per houre ??????
Little Richard was a piano player
There is a reason why all these verts you feature are rare. Nobody wanted them...
That is true about all convertibles. Most people would not buy them, but they become the most valuable classics.
Nice enough car for sure..but seeing the muffler clamps hanging down like some 16 year old kid just installed them..
Totally agree..the person that installed those clamps should never be allowed to work on any car again.
bob crawford saw it, too.
I smashed the shit out of one of them in 1985 hemi 4speed convert light green white interior. probably the only one ever made .
paid $1450.00 dollars for it in 1983 and that was hard to justify as it got 9mpg lol. Pepole traded it in on a new dodge Daytona. probably only got 800 for it. no joke . I drove it to school for two years won the high school drags jr & senior years. and later that summer the idler arm came off at 50 mph and off the road we went taking out fence post and two out buildings my buddy and I were tore all the hell up too from flying debris. was not a panel on the dam thing that didn't have a dent and the front was dam near to the doors broke the shifter off and shoved the trans up through the floor in front of the back seat. my dad pulled the hemi out and put in one of his dump trucks where it lived for the next 15 years. and he use to haul his dozer with this dump truck and full loads . beast of an engine I tell ya. spin that thing to 5 grand with every shift point all day every day 👍 oh and so I know for sure only 6 of the7 , 4 speed cars still remain😂