Live Out Your Altered Wheelbase Fantasies With This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere!


Live Out Your Altered Wheelbase Fantasies With This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere!

This is so freaking awesome we can hardly stand it. You are looking at an altered wheelbase 1965 Plymouth Belvedere that is street legal and packing a cross-ram equipped hemi for power. The inside of the thing has the van bucket seats one would have found in these cars from the factory and it has a roll bar as well, which is a nice addition to the program for safety. We really love the red and white paint on this car and the fact that someone has not lettered it up in old school ways. For reasons that are likely our own, we kind of hate that look on street cars…but that is just us.

Anyway, 1965 was a really amazing year in drag racing, especially when we talk about the evolution of funny cars. What the early funny cars looked like in early 1965 and performed like in early 1965 paled in comparison to what they looked like by the end of the year. The radial nature of the factory war around these cars is evident in this tribute build. The wheelbase relocation to aid in traction and weight transfer was one of the first major steps taken by an OEM to exert dominance in this form of the sport and then it only got wackier from there, culminating with the introduction of the flip top Mercury entires in ’66.

We know that this thing would likely ride as if it were a 19th century hay wagon. We know that the cross-ram hemi would likely suck ass in normal driving conditions, but we also know that rolling down the road in this thing would be boss-level fun that would have us overlooking every other major comfort flaw that it may have.

Radical car that needs a radical owner.

RacingJunk: Be an AWB hero with this 1965 Plymouth Belvedere 


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9 thoughts on “Live Out Your Altered Wheelbase Fantasies With This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere!

  1. Gary

    VERY nice, and absolutely period correct, except maybe the Keystone’s, but that’s a small thing.

  2. MGBChuck

    LIKE IT, it’s like the very early modified ones before they moved the rear tires right up to the doors, it’s a great look.

  3. 69rrboy

    Love those!

    He could save about 3 pounds of front end weight if he took the horn off and threw the old spark plugs away. Looks like it was running a little lean.

  4. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    It reminds me of countless hours spent building altered wheelbase cars out of standard kits when I was a young lad – the best Mopar I have seen on these pages for years and keep up the good work lads!

  5. Tom Damon

    There are 2 of them in the new England area . One is a Plymouth and one is a Dodge . Fun to see them on the road . the only down side is that there are fewer and fewer candidates to choose from . I’d love to build one .

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