In the realm of awesome factory build drag race cars, the 1960s A990 Hemi Belvedere stands as one of the greats. With little more than 100 produced, these cars found their way into the hands of capable racers that would campaign them for Chrysler at races all over the country. In short, you had to “be somebody” to get your mitts on a 1965 A990 Belvedere. Amazingly, the person that got this one drove it just over 200 miles on the street and the ad mentions nothing about the car being drag raced competitively. The car is amazingly intact and outside of some stuff on the motor, you’d never know this thing lived a few years in storage, let alone 40+ years somewhere!
Things to check out are the interior which feature the lightweight buckets that these cars proudly sported, the cross ram equipped Hemi under the hood, and the factory shipped and issued pizza cutter wheels and tires that the car is shod with. We found it interesting that the car was painted this brown color. It seems almost too nondescript and we totally love it.
The opening bid on this car is set at $100,000 and that’s total chump change as compared to where this thing will end up. This is claimed to be the most complete, original 1965 A990 car in the world and we’re having a tough time starting an argument with that claim. The 219 street miles on the odometer are also awesome. Can you imagine driving this brutish machine around town? No power steering, big rattling solid lifter Hemi, all the pesky kids begging you to do bunnouts every 10 seconds? You get the point.
THANKS FOR THE TIP BIG DAD!
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EBAY LINK: A 1965 BELVEDERE A-990 THAT IS AMAZINGLY ORIGINAL, INTACT, AND CLEAN
Thought these came with push button trans?
No, pushbotton shifters ended in ’64. These cars had a column shifter only (except the four speed cars, of course). The shifter came from the factory with a reverse pattern valve body, and the little plastic gear indicator on the column reflected the reverse pattern: P-R-N-!-2-3, rather than the usual P=R-N-D-2-1.
This car is amazing, and as is often said, “They’re still out there”!
The craftsmanship of the ’63-’64- and ’65 factory Super Stockers was incredible. It’s a damned shame the Hurst cars that followed in ’68 were such utter pieces of crap…
Why isn’t the vin tag attached to the car???
Thats the same thing I was wondering, It looks like it has been cut off of something. Who is to say it didnt come off a different car?
yep,it’s amazing what comes out of the woodwork at times—of course,given it’s value,this is another cool old car that won’t see any street time,let alone quarter mile action,which is exactly where it should be!
Do I want this car?
NO I NEED THIS CAR!
Just out bid everyone and it’s yours.
Gary is wrong. Push button or cable shifter was thru 1965. 1966 they changed.
No- Actually Gary is quite right. The pushbutton trans was made from 1956 to 1964.
In 1965 American car manufacturers went to a standardized shift pattern for the automatic transmission. The push button transmission was discontinued after the 1964 model year.
The transmission was cable-shifted — only the method of gear selection changed b/w ’64 and ’65. Whether column- or floor-shifted in ’65, it was still the same trans that was used in ’64 and earlier.
YIKES ….! Gimmie two …Anyone notice the corrosion on those keys …?? …
O come on y’all! A hemi car that ain’t never been raced. Just who’s eyes are y’all trying to pull the wool over?
There’s only one reason anyone bought a hemi car back then. Most likely 200 of them 219 miles were loged up in 1/4 mile incriments.
My friend had one of these on the street back in 1981-1982. By the time he got it the hemi was long gone, but I do remember it having a push button transmission buttons on the console. His car also had a “RO….” serial number. We used to cruise around all over the place in that car. We knew it was special, but no way to comprehend just how special it was with the acid dipped front end. God, what a great car. I think he ended up selling it around 1985 for about $2k. I’ll bet he wishes he still had that car today.