RacingJunk: This 1950 Plymouth Business Coupe Has A Big Blown Hemi Engine!


RacingJunk: This 1950 Plymouth Business Coupe Has A Big Blown Hemi Engine!

Ok, this is freaking awesome. Why? You are looking at a gnarly engine and transmission all plugged into a largely unloved body style. When is the last time you have seen a 526ci blown hemi ending in a 1950 Plymouth Business Coupe?! When is the last time you did anything other than cringing while looking at a 1950 Plymouth Business Coupe? For us it has been a while.

For you young guys out there in reader-land, business coupes were designed for traveling salesmen. Long before people annoyed the hell out of you with sales calls, they did the same thing while knocking on your door. Whether it was vacuums, bibles, encyclopedias, kitchenware, or whatever else you can dream up, someone had to lug it around and take it with them from place to place. Thus the rise of a class of cars known as the business coupe. Short on options, usually powered by a base engine, but packing a spacious trunk for displays and inventory, these were the salesmen’s stock and trade. The Plymouth and Dodge models in this class of vehicle in the early 1950s have a massive ass that is weird to look at. They are not well proportioned cars and as such, not many people mess with them. Now, onto our hero.

This car as built for just that reason. Uncommon body, massive 526ci hemi with a 10-71 blower on top, and a methanol consumption habit that we are all too happy to endorse. Detuned to about 1,100hp the car runs in the bottom half of the 5s in the eighth mile without breaking a sweat.

We’re going to guess that there is a ‘Glide behind the engine. It is definitely an automatic. This thing is cool.

RacingJunk: This 1950 Plymouth business coupe has a big blown hemi!


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4 thoughts on “RacingJunk: This 1950 Plymouth Business Coupe Has A Big Blown Hemi Engine!

  1. 75Duster

    Brian,
    I know the owner of this ’50 Plymouth Business Coupe, in fact I crewed on it when I was stationed in San Diego, the Plymouth is running a 727 Torqueflite not a Powerglide.

  2. larry jensen

    im the guy who starts it,ect. hellbound is a monster. we run a very low percentage of nitro.its a torqueflite ,he shifts into 2nd sometimes with the front tires in the air.

  3. Cliff Morgan

    I saw a car very much like this one, way back in 1962, at San Fernando Drag Strip in SoCalif. He ran off for Top Elim againist a flathead dragster. Little dragster won. I think both cars in the 10’s. I think the coupe had a 392 Chrysler, A/Gas Supercharged.

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