Makes you want to take a trip to the drive-in theater, I can smell the buttered popcorn, and hear the echo coming from the speaker on a wire , back when there was no wireless devices to distract us from enjoying each other’s company,
My folks bought a two door 56 Belvedere in yellow and white brand new in 1956. My mom loved that car so much that she learned to drive just so she could drive it!
Art mentioned that the 1956 Plymouth had very similar tail fins that are on the 1957 Chevrolets. He is correct. I wonder if Harley Earl and General Motors "borrowed" this design. I know that some of the 1950's cars had a unusual way for the rear windows to go up and down, but I have never seen a two piece rear window like this car. Tony, thanks for showing us Art's beautiful Plymouth Belvedere.
My mom bought me a blue/white 56 Plymouth Dinky diecast model in 1960. I loved that toy and it made me a 55/6 Plymouth fan from an early age. Unfortunately, my toy Plymouth ‘disappeared’ a week or so after receiving it. Likely stolen by one of my neighborhood cronies. Gorgeous car and listening to Art is a treat.
Beautiful!! It is amazing that Plymouth was the bottom line of the Imperial-Chrysler-DeSoto-Dodge-Plymouth hierarchy, yet the interior is upscale enough to nearly rival the 1956 Imperial. It also amazes me that this 1956 Plymouth has electric wipers, yet over at Ford Motor Company, the hsnd-built 1956 Continental Matk II, which was priced at $10,000.00 had the lowly and majorly flawed vacuum wipers! I can't wait to see more of Art's collrction!! Thanks Tony!!
Just like all of Art’s cars, this one is just as beautiful. I am partial to Chrysler products and all of Art’s Chrysler products are gorgeous. I particularly love the looks of a 4 door coupe (B pillar-less) vs sedan. It made a car look so much more sleek, though in a roll-over not as safe as a sedan. Thank you for documenting Art’s treasures and thank you to Art for keeping these Americana works of art (no pun intended) pure. Ps: my collection are Barracudas. My Grandpas’ 1966 Formula S; my restored (by me) 1965 with 273; and the next one which is my lifelong goal, and negotiating the purchase of, a 1967 fastback Formula S 383 one owner, numbers matching.
Tony, thanks for this video. I never knew how the rear windows on these ‘56 4 door Belvedere hardtops worked. This is the first video I’ve seen showing how the mechanism worked. Continue the great content and THANKS.
Apart from the Modifications , his car is identical to mine! I've got a 1956 Plymouth Belvedere Sports Sedan , Briar Rose over Eggshell white. Even has the same upholstery! Hello from the UK!
Another great video Tony! Love the 2-tone white/pastel color schemes so popular in the 1950s. Seems like Detroit managed to tweak the shades a little bit and make them brand new every year. And these days car colors are so 'exciting' with such wild offerings of plain white, plain black, dull industrial gray, or silver. Yeah, there's still a few blue or red ones out there, but green, beige, brown? Hmmm... before you wrap it up with Art you should talk him into doing one more video showing how he keeps these lovely cars looking so new. I wonder what cleaners, waxes and polishes, etc., as well as techniques, that he uses that obviously work so well to preserve these beauties.
Thank you so much for watching. We did mention in one of the videos that he uses Dry Wash & Guard polish. I will be back over there this afternoon. Once we are done with all of them, I think we'll do a recap answering some questions and clarifying some of the other comments.
Up until the late 50s the Plymouth mascot emblem was the Mayflower ship. In 56' they integrated the ship into the 2 toned body side molding showing the profile of a ship. Pretty cool how they discreetly did that.
Cool to see one. Here in southeastern Wisconsin they were rusted out hulks by 1962. My parents had a 1955 Belvedere 2 door hardtop and their best friends had a 1956 Savoy 2 door sedan, both red and white.
Nice car - you don't often see a 4dr hardtop; they weren't collectible as quickly as the 2dr ht and convertibles but I think they have a distinctive charm. Wonderful color coordination - Mopar fabric patterns were so eblematicof late 50's - could be on your I Love Lucy couch. There's a 56 Chrysler near me with the same window mechanism - Chrysler didn't have time (or probably money) to redesign the doors for the glass drop required and so came up with a one year scissor solution. I'd ditch the lake pipes and the Olds (?) flippers, but I get the memories. Loved the little trunk lip roll, a nice styling touch. The dash symetry not so much, control switches in front of the passenger - let me get those wipers for you Bob.... [Oh, that helmeted Dodge eblem denoted the 'Lancer', though Dodge emblem and naming convention can get rather confusing in the mid-late 50's ]
Your Belvedere is wonderful what an awesome car I love the colors super cool nowadays all these new cars are just junk I owned a lot of cars in my life but never one like that that's awesome have a great dayMy dad used to say if it ain't got a metal bumper it in a real car
My first car was a 54 Plymouth Savoy, 4-door sedan. Two tone blue. He put about 100 K miles on it and I took it over and ran it until the body melted away. Three speed with overdrive. That old tub got about 21mpg and was super dependable.
There aren't many of these cars still in existence. Most of them rusted out or otherwise wore out decades ago. Not many opted for power seats on Plymouth or even the more expensive Dodge. However the Belvedere provided good competition for its contemporaries from Ford and GM. i didn't know that Plymouth offered a 4 door hardtop in 1956. My late mother once owned a 1956 Savoy 4 door sedan and it didn't have the unusual rear door window arrangement that this car has. I think the windows even cranked all the way down.
That is his car, too. We covered all of them. Go to my channel and click on videos to see them all. Please subscribe to my channel. Here is a link to the 58 Chevy video. 👇 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OIqV-5vRMuc.htmlsi=80JM70UZiptCesyX
@@tonyscarcare5657 Art is a true perfectionist, I can just tell by watching your videos. And it appears he has maybe several areas on his property with cars, and all in like mint condition. He must be a wealthy man. It would be amazing to be able to own all those choice cars. More power to him. Thanks for showing us all. Great video's.
@@mikebracht9261 lol. I wouldn't say he's wealthy. He bought most of these cars one at a time in the 70s and 80s when you could buy them extremely reasonably priced.
