1956 Plymouth Belvedere Review - Happy In The Moment. 

A truly beautiful example of the fabulous 50's!!!!

This was a pleasure to see. The family car when I first got my driver's license was a 1956 Plymouth Savoy 2 door hardtop, red with a white top. It was very similar to this one, but a lower trim level. It also had the 273 V8 and the same push button drive. One of the problems, which became apparent by the mid 60's, was that the beautiful front fender crowns over the headlamps rusted, partly because there was not an inner fender liner. So stuff like salty slush in the winter was just blasted into those caps when you drove along. I love seeing 56 Plymouths. It's a gorgeous design. I think that 1956 was the last year before Chrysler went to front torsion bars in 1957, so if you ever get to drive a 57-59 (which were still body-on-frame like this 56), maybe you can tell if the driving experience seems different because of that change to front torsion bar suspension.

Neat to see this; there's a '55 Belvedere sitting in my garage waiting for me to make it roadworthy again. What an over-the-top interior in this '56. Mine has no interior; it's going to inherit some blue bench seats from an '80s Ford E-series church bus.

My great-grandfather had a pink '56 Belvedere 4-door. It was a great car.

My parents owned the same car but in yellow and white. My mom’s favorite car of all the cars they owned over the years. In fact, she loved it so much that she learned to drive just so she could drive it!

Headlights like the Adam West Batmobile, tailfins like a rocketship, that car is awesome!

We've come a long way with automatic transmissions. These days people say that 5 or 6 speed automatic transmissions are "outdated", there are 7,8,9,10 speed automatic transmissions everywhere. 50-60 years ago, 2 and 3 speed automatic transmissions were the norm.

I love the 55-60 Plymouths so much!

What a great example of a 50s car!

Loved the styling of these cars. Just as sexy as a 56 Chevy imo

4:59 The 60/40 split bench seatback was touted by Edsel as being a new feature in model year 1958, or two years later than this nicely equipped Belvedere.

I recently discovered this channel, but what amazes me more than anything is how ‘90s Jack Black was able to travel through time and start a RU-vid channel.

My favourite 50's icon is the 56 Belair. The Belvedere looks like its cute kid brother that's just happy to tag along.

Zack, Here is a Belvedere Fun Fact. For decades and decades Chrysler has had a plant in Belvidere, Illinois. The one car they never made there was a ........Belvedere. 😉

Great looking car. The upholstery though...I love that it's the original pattern, it makes my eyes go 😵‍💫

Beautiful style. It's not excessive like some later Mopars but it fits right in. The US was the undisputed superpower and everything reflected that. I love when someone owns a car for decades. That's dedication and love. I still have my first car and I plan to keep it forever.

Love love the yellow

Excellent review. Much appreciated including mention of my family.

I’m loving these vintage cars

amazing video as always

Essa canal é um achado, eu amo carros antigos, um abraço do Brasil ❤🎉

The 1956 Plymouth was always my favorite year in Plymouths. It had the best body style of any of the 50's Plymouths. The thing I noticed with this particular is that the front and rear bumpers need adjustment but that is very minor. I love the what is known as the "Bumble Bee" color. Most car makers of the mid 50's had this color combination. For most people of that time, power or lack of power wasn't much of an issue as the US highway system was still in its infancy so most of the roads were the back roads where the speed limit was low.

Thanks for sharing this fine example of the second year of Virgil Exner’s Forward Look cars. Powerflite was first introduced in 1954 , Chrysler’s first fully automatic transmission. It had a good reputation for both performance and durability. The Belvedere like the Ford Fairlane and Chevy BelAir was pretty fancy, the top trim model. These cars were becoming significant competition for the traditional medium priced brands. Your commentary about the economic confidence and prosperity of the 1950s is pretty accurate as it applies to the majority white population. Black people didn’t share so much in this. The Civil Rights era was still mostly to come.

Beautiful! 😍😍

I’m not even a big Plymouth fan but that is a pretty car. I’m convinced 1956 was the all around best year for American cars from a style point of view. No mater what you bought from a Chevy/Plymouth/Ford up to a Cadillac/imperial/Lincoln/Packard every single US car was gorgeous

I'll chime in on your Final Thoughts; I always feel like the 50's is always portrayed as squeaky-clean optimism and for the most part it was because the Disposable Product TM was not yet in full swing and 'trash' hardly existed. Egregious decadence would ramp up and peak in the filthy 70's.

That car is gogeous! The headlight trim is very rare! My Dad had 1956 Savoy!

great car

Unfortunately, Chrsyler, GM & Ford don't build cars to last a long time anymore. They fall apart after a few years because of the use cheap quality materials andcheaply built to save money

Nice😀

No parking gear is just like commercial trucks. We park in neutral also and use the hand or air parking brake.

Fifties American cars were huge.

A 303 4 bbl was available in the Fury trim, not sure if you could get it in belvedere, it had 240 hp

The 2 door Sport Coupe (hard top) was the best of the best.

5:19 Please tell me you had a cigarette or a cigar or a vape or some incense lit right there because otherwise, I'm calling "Ghost Cig Smoke~~!!"

I love the rims

The face of that Belvedere looks like Grandpa Al Lewis.

Outstanding car !!!! Can i have it?

dude, am i crazy or these 50s Cars looked JUST BETTER than any car nowadays???? Like, how did they even make them back then??? It's weird that all cars in the 30s 40s 50s and 60s had all these cool bodies with lots of intricate shapes, then we get to the 2000s and all cars turned into ugly rectangular boxes. WHAT HAPPENED!?!?!?

That set up was terrible on the 56 Plymouth. To park the car you put it in neutral and prayed the parking brake held. My dad had one of those,,,,and if you parked on a hill you had better cut your wheels into the curb to keep it from rolling away. The problem is on these automatics you can't park it "in gear".....the car will just roll. Also in 56 they did away with a real oil and amp gauge which did not allow you to see trouble coming until it was too late. On a side note my family would make the trek to visit the grand parents every august. That was quite a trip with 5 people in a 56 Plymouth (6 cylinder, no AC, PS or PB, not even a radio or rugs) from Boston to Indianapolis...a 900 mile+ trip. We were probably near heat stroke condition. We would make it there driving 500 miles the first day.....hit a motel....get up at about 6am then get to our destination by about 6pm. We felt like we had traveled by stage coach.

Christine?

Give us the cubic inch of the engine as well. You need to realize that not all of your viewers are not young like you.

7:45 At least if you were a white male. Love the look of 50's cars though.