Plymouth Belvedere

Lucille Ball was yucking it up on black and white TV.

Teenagers were driving around their Plymouth Belvedere's to go get a milkshake.

And then that same year.

Disney decided to shoot Old Yeller in the face.

Well, that's the funny part.

It's a Belvedere, right? Oh, right, right, right.

Yeah, that's it.

There it is.

And they put that car, and I thought that, as a car guy, I was like, oh, man, I can't wait to see this car that they pull out of the tomb.

Oh, I know.

And then they buried that car, brand new, 1957 Belvedere, in Oklahoma for their 50th anniversary, and they were going to pull it up in the year 2007.

And they pulled it up in 2007 and that car, like

And the 16-year-old Al gave him a homemade cassette of songs recorded in his bedroom.

The first one to play on his show was called Belvedere Cruisin' about his family's Plymouth Belvedere.

So he was on the Dr. Domeno show as a teenager with a homemade cassette tape.

So during his second year in college, he became a disc jockey at the university radio station, adopting the stage name Weird Al.

So I have that.

I have a 56 Plymouth Belvedere.

That's one that doesn't – engine turns, doesn't currently run, and it's missing its bumpers.

I bought it at an auction kind of on accident.

GM retired the Holden name for 2021, but still sells a small selection of EVs, trucks, SUVs, and the Corvette.

While not as famous, Chrysler got into the ute action starting in 1953 with one based on the Plymouth Belvedere, and later between 65 and 79 with one based on the Valiant.

But it wasn't just the Americans creating utes for Australia.

Austin had the Cambridge Coupe utility and the 1800 utility.

to see.

The race stuff is really neat because it's like from you have gassers like the Plymouth Belvedere all the way up to Mustangs that are souped up, stuff like that.

It's really neat to see that because you not only see the mint condition cars, you get to see cars that are race cars or Or mini trucks or, you know, things like that.

And that's what we like to try to do is get the whole variety of everybody at the shows, not just the classics.