Everyone has their favorite variant of a Hemi car. For those with big bucks it is the E-body cars that draw them in because of their insane value and rarity. For those that want max street racer cred they go to the Road Runners. Then there are the guys who like their stuff a little older and prefer the factory racer stuff from the middle 1960s. Me? I like what may be the most boring wrapper lowered down over one of these engines and that’s the boxy Satellite. This 1966 Satellite is my ideal hemi car. A four speed, black paint, nothing other than a set of redline tires calling out any sort of max effort performance capable machine. This is like one of those bank robber/FBI surveillance/ men in black deals.
While I have no idea if this car is 100% original, 100% accurate, or just something that someone built because they wanted to, I love it all the same. The restoration seems to be absolutely perfect. There are like a million photos of the car on the eBay ad and they show every nook and cranny under and on top of the Satellite. It is all looking far better than brand new. Remember, brand new the guy assembling the thing had a couple beers for lunch, the guy painting the thing may have been whacked out on something, and none of those guys had any level of attention to detail or care that a pro restoration shop has. If it doesn’t come out better at the restorer…you have the wrong restorer.
With 426ci and 425 advertised horsepower, a pair of four barrel carbs that’ll ring to the heavens, tires that you will not have traction in under any circumstances, and the bucket/console interior, what’s not to like?
Link: This 1966 Plymouth Satellite has a 426 Hemi and a four speed stick
What this baby needs is Ride Tech suspension on the front end and an independent rear end coupled with huge disc brakes all round so it finally can handle as well as it goes!
Only a idiot would want to cut up this beautiful Hemi car, even the clones are going at high prices.
It really is a beauty!
Only correction I see is it needs the Blue Streak tires that came on all 1966 Hemi cars. Chrysler didn’t start using Red Lines until the 1967 model year.
Pulled into a muffler shop on Rt 42, North of Mansfield Oh, in 1970 needing an exhaust for my ’64 Dodge.” We’ll get right to you after we finish this job”…putting a side dump exhaust on a ’67 Hemi Belvedere in baby blue “ghosting” 43 on the doors. It was an ex Petty car. Oh lord what a sound!! The finest thing was he took the car out on 42 and banged gears doing a 5 mile loop to test the system.
It’s been 47yrs…it seems like yesterday. 🙂
My father had one when I was just a baby. In fact, my mother raced it the summer she was pregnant with me at NED. He kicks himself every day for parting it out.
SHE’S A BEAUT CLARK ! What a nice car .
Even though I think the ultimate factory Hemi street car would be a ’68 Charger, I wouldn’t change anything on this one.
For me, it is the GTX’s in 66-67. Always been a fan of the B5 variant of blue. Rather not have a factory hemi, but build one from a 383 car, etc, so I can drive the snot out of it and lose its value.
BTW, if you are a bank robber, you would not want black. They attract attention as much as bright red. Get a fleet color, white, tan, silver. Something light in color, non-descript. If you need to do a quicky paint, light colors are easier to paint over than black.
Didn\’t build a GTX in 1966 and they didn\’t come with 383\’s.
And on the eighth day God created \”HEMI\” !
1966 was the high water mark for Street Hemi sales. Between Plymouth and Dodge they sold 2,714 Hemi cars.
Part of those sales are a handful of 4 Dr cars that had the Hemi factory installed. Don Garlits still owns one.
my preference would be the sedan version of this car. With radio and heater deletes of course.
What a beauty. One just like this was the very first hemi I ever drove. The rich kid in my mechanics school had “daddy” order him one.
He was going to race another student in class that had Hemi in a new charger so he took it to daddy’s dealership mechanics and they cranked the distributor advancing it until it because hard cranking on start them backed it down a C hair.
Big night arrives and it’s “Street Outlaws” time. He tried a few test hits but wasn’t really into cars all that much and didn’t do well.
So he said the magic words “here you try it.” I was in heaven at 17 years old street racing a brand new hemi. And we won. Never forget that ride EVER.
The Dodge Coronets wee way nicer looking.