We know that there’s no such thing as “too far gone” when it comes to cars like this one but you’d REALLY need to be a hemi or Chrysler nut to spend the dough to buy this rotting car and then throw what would have to be 10-times that same amount into making it an operable machine again. The car has lived inside what looks to be the wettest and nastiest storage building ever and may have been underwater at one point judging by the level of nastiness and damage that he coming out of its pores. We have never seen an old (and valuable!) drag car with rear quarter panels that give the impression it was driven through salted roads for most of its life. Look at the green slime on the walls of this place!
Ok now that we’re done freaking out about the area that the Plymouth was sitting in, the actual car itself is “all there” albeit in pieces. The engine is apart but the heads, intake, carbs, and all are present. If you look at the trunk photo it seems like there is an extra crank thrown in with the purchase price as well. You Chrysler fiends would be better able to spot it as a hemi piece or not. It sure looks big and beefy enough but that’s us guessing.
From the lightweight bucket seat to the crusty cylinder heads and the seller’s claim of the car being verified by Galen Govier, there is certainly some money sitting in front of you. They are not making historic 1965 hemi powered factory racers like this anymore so it certainly has that going for it. We know that there is a Chrysler guy out there with the money and determination to “save” this car and God bless him because there’s going to be a BIG spend to get this one gleaming again.
In the event the car sells here’s the text of the CL ad:
965 Plymouth Belvedere hemi race car project. this car has been in storage since the 80s. its been authenticated by Galen Govier a last summer. vin #s are a 6 cyl but all other parts are real A990 Hemi car including under hood tag.
Dana 60, correct Hemi carbs, cross ram intake, seats & brackets, carpet, steering column, hood & scoop, bumpers, and more. comes with 65 date code Hemi with steel heads. $18,000 obo
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CLICK HERE TO SEE THE CRAIGSLIST AD FOR THIS 1965 A990 HEMI BELVEDERE
This looks to have been a Super Stocker and if so the rot was probably accelerated by a stripping of all undercoat and sound deadener, then a trip to the acid dip.
There are so many unique parts that make up a 1965 A990 Hemi Lightweight – most of them missing on this car. You can buy a complete one for about $130,000 – non original block. It really doesn’t make sense financially to buy this car and give it a full restoration. IMO – that would create at least a $100,000 loss.
I’m with you, Lee. But some fool will have to have it, I’m sure….
It has more potential to be saved than the Newfoundland Charger Daytona.
Hahaha i’m with you on that!
Looks like that thing made a lap at Bonneville.
Those don’t look like the 65 aluminum k heads but I would purchase It just to save it
“vin #’s a 6 cyl but all other parts are real A 990 Hemi car including under hood tag.”……..WTF?
That’s because it isn’t a factory made A990. The VIN is unique on a factory built A990 Belvedere. Begins with R051.
This was a 6 cyl Belvedere that someone used to create a SS Hemi Belvedere. Yanked out the 6 and put in a Hemi. Probably done back in 1965.
I’d like to think I could spend 18k on a car…lol.
How could anybody let a car with this kind of pedigree just sit and rot? We’ve all just witnessed a crime against humanity.
Arrgh, my excellent Friday just got sideswiped after looking at this sad Mopar.
Lets see, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, level of deterioration of car. Yeah, I would bet it has been underwater, and left wet. A 6 cyl. conversion, not a real A990 car. Unless it has a serious history with it, I doubt he will get $18K for it, but, like they say, “There is an ass for every seat”…..
Not exactly museum quality..
this looks like hot foot that use to run at lancaster speedway back in the 70’s
Real or a fake doesn’t matter, thats just a sad looking car.
It does need to be saved but if I am reading this right it was not built by Chrysler as a A990. There are a lot of facts from the pics that this is not a “real A990 car” but always remember….buyer beware. Just a little f.y.i. Galen may have said it is a real car but I highly doubt it is a factory s/s car….the ad say race car project. I don’t know about this one.
Some people are simply terrible sellers.
How hard is it to air up the tires, roll it into the sunlight, and run a shopvac?
Lazy or just……lazy?
Cool car, I’d drag it home but not for that kind of money.
Says documented by Galen Govier. Documented as what? Slant Six?
Passenger side does not have the inverted shock tower, door panels are stock, not A-990 pattern. Heads are cast iron, most likely 66 or later castings, not the 64 iron K heads. The block might have some value, if it one of the factory hand assembled blocks with the letter stampings on the oil pan rail. Real or clone a Race Hemi makes some serious HP !!!!!