Corvair Turbo Spyder Stomper…Four Speed Four Door 1964 Valiant Discovery!
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- Steve discovers a super rare 1964 Plymouth Valiant V100 four door with a factory 4-speed and small block V8. But did Plymouth really charge extra for rear door arm rests? Watch and see!
The car that I didn't know I needed.
You and me both...
Not a big fan of four doors, but this little valiant is special. I've owned two, both slant-six powered. Those late model small bolt wheels would have been a welcome addition to my cars, had ,I know about them.
I felt the same way Lmaooooooo
It's a good engine and transmission for something else. Hope someone can use them.
I grew up in the same home my mother did. With her dad and brother living downstairs. My uncle was a life long bachelor, who lived the outdoors life, hunting and running his dogs. Anyway he was the original owner of a 64 Plymouth Valiant Wagon, he ordered special. In black with red vinyl roll/tucked interior, with all the chrome trim and roof rack. But the best part was the 273 he insisted on with a factory 4speed! The only one I’ve ever seen! He also had a factory towing package added with a quick powerful posi trac rear differential. I also remember as soon as it was out of warranty, Uncle Rim as we all called him added a 4 brl manifold and Holley carb. Along with long tube headers and dual exhaust with huge quiet mufflers. He also cranked up the torsion bars and added a couple leafs in the rear, that raised the car at least an inch, along with special 15”x8” steel wheels he acquired with the biggest and widest tires he could fit, Firestone Town&Country Mud&Snow on the rear and reg Firestone tires in the same size up front. He kept that car for over 20 years with over 190,000 miles! It always slept in a garage and we’ll cared for, so there was little rust. But I remember him going off hunting with a couple buddies, the dogs in a built in crate in the way back, with a roof rack container holding all there stuff! Always with a set of tire chains just in case the going got rough.
Awesome story Kevin...
Thanks Bro. 👍🏽🇺🇸
That bad boy is definitely worth restoring! Good video Steve!!!
Agreed. That car should not be in a junkyard !!
Those rally wheels look nice
Well go buy it and restore it. Start your own TH-cam channel share it do you like the fellow who bought the Malibu Chevelle. Until I saw the floorboards I thought the same thing. I assume that this car is not a full frame car. If it was pulled the seats out go down to your local HVAC store heating and cooling and buy yourself some galvanized 10 and rough shaping new flooring for you sleeper parrot then do a two two door conversion. Some of these Chryslers the two-door and a four-door had the same wheelbase. Even if it didn't you can still make it a 2 door
That's such a great find! Hope someone saves that little car! Thanks for sharing Steve!
Back when cars were fun and didn’t cost the price of a house
They may have been memorable But sadly we’re unreliable as hell
@@HighSockDavid I can remember back then during the winter when it was pretty cold out, before going to sleep for the night
most people were thinking Damn, I sure hope my car starts in the morning! Then it was a 50/50 chance it might not start, sometimes the motor would get flooded because someone forgot to pull the choke on the carburetor, or people would keep trying to crank the motor trying to get the motor to start till the battery got too weak and needed a jump start
Now with modern cars long as your battery is good, they will start up with no problem , and those old cars rusted away in a few years in the rust belt states from road salt
@@bluemouse5039 as much as I love old cars it just something you have to learn the hard way your classic car is going to spend a few weeks siting until you figure out what is wrong with it while your brothers Toyota starts up just fine
No kidding especially when you look at the price of full size pick up trucks now. Its gotten so bad for a person looking even for a late model pick up that used ones, say 4 years old or so, are selling for what they cost new even with 40 or 50 thousand miles on them!
@@wildbill5670 not mention styling was fresh with unique colors
Amazing, you're literally a walking encyclopedia on car history.
That got my attention steve. Your not kidding, my kind of sleeper......
Rare as can Be.. A 4 door with a 4 speed.... Standard in Europe but unobtainable in 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. Thanks Steve!!🌲🌲🌲
Really great to have a guy who works on cars also present automotive information.
Wow, V8 + 4-spd, did not know they even made those! We got plenty of Valiants here in Finland, almost all of them were V100 2-door sedans with 170 + 3 on the tree, the cheapest Valiant there was... This car sure deserves to be rescued, such a rare car!
Actually I really like this one. I would take her home even with the floor-delete option.
I'll be dipped!
Factory lightening!
That floor delete option is easier to repair than some may think.
That car needs saving.
One of my first cars and the one I'd replace today if I could was a 1963 Valiant. It had a 225 slant six and 4x4 suspension! Yup! I paid $25 for it because it sat on the ground due to the rear springs rusting through the trunk... I did some measuring and figured I could jack it up and wedge a 4x4 beam between the springs and what was left of the trunk bed. It was meant only to be a temporary fix to get the car home but it worked so well I just drove it that way for 3 years before the motor died. I loved that car and I love your videos, Steve!
My father purchased a '64 Valiant V200 station wagon new with the 170, but had the dealer install a 225 and AC. With the push-button auto was a nice car. Served us well and dad and I overhauled the engine when I was 13. One rebuilt AAMCO transmission as well and we got over 300k miles out of her.
In 1969 I bought a used 1965 Plymouth Valiant with a 273 4 speed and bucket seats. It had to be a rare animal. A couple of years later I wound up with a 1971 Dodge Demon, 340 4 speed and thermoquad carburetor. That was a fun car to drive.
A good friend of mine had a 70 340 Duster, 4spd back in the day. But man... I remember him always wanting a Demon. Definitely a cool car.
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You should buy that too...make a good companion to your cop car project!!
Tony would love this car.
As a kid raised in a Mopar family 63, 64, 67, 72 Darts and a brother with 64, 65 Valiant my first car was a 67 Ply formula S cuda 4spd with a 70 340. I took my brothers 4dr 65 Valiant 273 auto and built a 340 4spd sleeper, so I would love this 64 Valiant!!
A Factory Sleeper Car!!! Steve. I wish someone would save that car.
I’d love to have this to put together with new floors. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mighty little MOPAR (Grandma’s Grocery Getter) yes sir.
Steve you should let Steve Dulcich know about this little beauty.
So cool that that is a 4 door! Steve, u never fail to amaze me dude.
My great grandpa worked at Dodge Main in Hamtramck(Detroit) from the 30’s to ‘67. WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam. He left a finger in there. I remember me and my grandma(his daughter), went to pick him up on his last day. My grandma told me “your grand poppy don’t have to go in to there, no more”. Unbeknownst to me, at that time, Dodge Main was its own city, inside a city. It thieves, robbers, murderers, drug dealers, loan sharks, gamblers, pimps, ho’s and the like. It was like downtown Detroit inside of that plant.
I think I found his finger in my 67 Coronet😀
Wow, you know your stuff. Thanks, great video!
I once owned a 1961 Corvair Monza 4 speed, 4 door sedan. Even had bucket seats. This was back in 1971.
I owned a 63 Valiant! Loved that car, had a slant six that just ran like hell! Three speed column shift it was a great lil go getter!😁👍
A friend had one also. Reliable, torquey, and if I remember not bad on gas. And super easy to work on.
I owned a 63 Valiant! Push button auto on the dash. Great reliable car, front seats laid flat with the back seats, bedroom on wheels.
Ah the memories.
Steve, you are one knowledgeable bastard! Thank you very for all these videos. Just an FYI, I am watching all of them and in some cases several times. The level of detail you go in to blows me away.
One of the first manuals I drove was 64 Valiant with a slant 6 and a three on the tree......oh the memories
Rare, cool, quick, and enough there to restore - which I certainly hopes will happen to it.
Somebody had a dad that was a lead foot🤘👍👍
God I am so glad to have you back!! We missed you!!! Love the new videos!!! Who needs t.v.
Cool little car
What a find! Somebody has to buy this car, make it a safe driver and enjoy.
Oh wow, that is too cool! I'd be very, very tempted to take that one with me when I left. Of course do the proper floor replacement, get the mechanicals up to snuff and clear coat over that original paint and patina. Usually I dislike clear coated patina cars, but if that is the original paint and the car is as rare as we think it is I think that's the appropriate way to deal with it. Great stuff Steve!
Agreed, great car. I like satin clear coat over patina. I used that other guy’s “shine juice” on my C30. It looks great but needs re-applied regularly. It’s cheap though
My favorite sleeper wheel treatment was the stock steel plain jane rims, painted to the match the car, with the Mopar dog dish hub caps and beauty rings, with as wide a tire as the rim would accommodate
That Valiant is bad ass, would love to own it.
Nice find. This one checks a lot of boxes.
I had almost completely forgotten about the 273, great little engine, thanks for doing a segment on it! My grandpa was a MOPAR salesman from 1946-1977, thats what I grew up on so I am a big fan of Chrysler/Plymouth/Dodge - PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS!
The 273 engine was the basis for the 280 cubic inch class of racing hydroplanes in the American Power Boat Association for many years. It was a great class. Jim P Macomb, MI
@@hydrojimmy1 I've never heard of a 280, who manufactured it? I know when the 273 was discontinued in '69 it was superseded by the 318
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman No, there is no 280 cubic inch engine. The racing classes usually rounded up in cubic inches so a couple different engines could be used. So, in this class, the 273 Plymouth, and I believe the 265 cubic inch Ford could be used and it allowed some ability to clean up the cylinders through honing without going over the 280 cubic inch limit.
@@hydrojimmy1 ok, gotchya! I just know what I know about car engines, marine is not my specialty
Even though I'm a Chevy guy, if I had the cash I would buy that thing in a heart beat and restore it. Wow, great find and great info Mr. Magnante Walking Encyclopedia! Thank you for what you do!
Who would put a four speed Manuel in a 4 door sedan a really kool person.👍😎🧐
That would make a cool sleeper for sure with time, effort and $$.
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you back in the Junkyard soon
I didn’t know I wanted one of those. One more on the list.
Thanks a lot Steve. 😉
How do you do these videos with barely ever any cuts and never skip a beat with all of the specs and info , it’s amazing
Love these clips..wish junkyard gold would come back..it was the best show on Motortrend
Hope someone takes care of this. The Valiant is a very nice car for a good price. Myself I have a 1964 Signet H/T with the 225 and the 4 speed.
Very cool
Steve I met you in Vancouver at the PNE for a car show 4 years ago. You sat with my brother inlaw and me and chatted cars for about 10 mins. And you let me take a pic with you. Your a classy guy, a real ambassador to the car world.Happy New Year to you and your family.
Nice find
That yard is a honey hole of cool mopar stuff
It looks unusually warm in New England right now!
That is a cool sleeper. I need to get better at welding so I could save this thing.
OMG! I have not seen one of these in decades! My grandmother had the same car. Her's was almost exactly the same. It had that exact interior, color and all, but it was the powder blue exterior. She had the slant 6 with the automatic, too. That was one of the first car bodies that I memorized. Thanks so much for posting!
Did your grandmother live in the MN or WI area by chance? Just curious because my valiant matches your description exactly. It was originally sold in MN and as far as I know stayed in WI it's whole life since.
@@mattyann She lived in MO. I don't remember, exactly, what she did with the car, but my guess is she traded it in on the 1967 Plymouth Fury that she owned, next to it.
I would buy that lil sweetheart immediately its just to cool and that color n 4 speed n small block!!
I was gonna say, that looks super clean and should be restored until I saw the ground LOL. Love a nice 4 speed 4 door! Knew a guy who ordered a 1964 Galaxie 4 door 352/4-Speed from the factory.
@ Eric Hite Really it still should be saved!
I had a classmate in high school who's dad had ordered a base level Granada, V8 & 4spd & 4dr - had to be rare.
Helps keep the smell down
I bought a ‘64 Valiant Signet two door hardtop with a 273 and a 4-speed in 1968, owned it for about six months then totaled it, it was a nice car.
Great find, Steve!
OMG
I
Want
That
Car !
As happens many times, you taught me something today. What a sleeper, and so easy to mod with the LA engine. Thank you!
I picture a young father who was thinking "Okay, okay we need a four door, but........"
Holy cow that's super awesome Steve. I have a 1965 Dart 273 2bbl 4 door 4 speed with factory a/c. A thread on FABO stated that the 1965 records were saved for some reason and that mine would be one of 13 and they made 9 wagons that year. I'd venture to guess there were probably around those numbers or less even for for 64 Valiants. Uber cool find! Thanks for sharing.
About 44000 V-100'ds. America buying tastes moved to heavier intermediates in 1962 to 1964. In 1965 alone, one year of Australian Valiant production was 43,434 units. The 440,000 a year compact revolution wouldn't start again untill the Fox body .
I can watch and listen to you talk cars all day buddy,,love the content
Steve is absolutely amazing his knowledge of automobiles. His car modeling skills are the best to be had. Old sckool love it.....
I know the floors are gone, but how is this car not in someone's garage getting fixed up? This thing is the neatest.
Cool car, my friend had a valiant wagon with a 273 4spd years ago it had tiny tires it could smoke em in 1st, & 2nd !!
Valiant ,V8 Four Speed, Floor delete option .
We had them in Australia in RHD, Slant six ,904 trans and marketed as AP5 and AP 6 Valliant's. . I have seen One 273 powered Oz built valiant,sadly crushed about 20 years ago when no one wanted it. I have a gold Station wagon and a Beige AP6 Valiant regal ,Loved both cars but sold them when better deals were offering.
that is worth saving, cool ass valiant, i hope it gets rescued
We had a 64 two door with the leaning tower of power, three on the tree. The little Valiant was great in snow.
Good stuff. Love the channel! Keep up the Junkyard crawls
That was something I didn’t know great job Steve love your channel!!!!
Sweet little car. Bench seats!
Awesome, thanks
Always loved the sleepers😎🇺🇸
I had a 2 door 273 4 speed for a few years in the 70s. Mine had a floor!
Nice find should restore that one
When I lived in NH, Gary aka Winkle was a good friend
I would drive that daily. The 273 is a sweet little motor.
that would be a great rare car to restore
this car is rare ! I used to own a 65 4 dr with the 273 engine & manual trans Canadian model it had 10 " bake drums & factory stabilizer bar 1
Really neat find. My Dad owned a 1966 Coronet with that same V8. Great engine!
That’s restorable!
Good to see ur back mate , u were missed
I HAD ONE OF THOSE 1965 v8 regal safari valiant wagon = 273 - put a 318 fireball v8 great car loved it .
Thank you Steve.
Hopefully someone will save it , definitely rare
I love it! At the very least I'd like to have v8and 4speed to put in a solid six-cylinder car.
I hope someone can restore that car. Very interesting
I had a 73 dodge swinger with the 318 on it. It had the exact same wheels. That’s too bad they’re on a junkyard! That car needs to be rescued!!😳
I don't get how these cool cars featured by Steve can exist in 2024. I was combing junk yards in the 80's and there wasn't this kind of cool stuff then.
I knew it was you, Steve. Had to be. Good to see you.
Great product knowledge, Steve!
I bet it also has a hard to find 7-1/4 sure grip axle.
This was my first car bought in '71 for 250 bucks. The 273 was shot so I picked up a low milage 318 delivered from the junk yard for $200. Threw in a cam, long tube headers, aluminum intake with a four barrel Holley and had a blast driving it.
I'd wouldn't change the body's look. I really like the junkyard patina. It would definitely be a sleeper street racing machine.
Hopefully somebody sees this video restores that car back to original, it is worth it
In the early 70,s there was a guy named Winniford Lemmons. He owned one like that 273 4 door 4 speed. He was a drag racer and could really make it go. I witnessed him beat a 64 GTO convertable that was a 326 four speed. Winniford continues to drag race to this day. The car you featured could well be his old car?
A GTO with a 326 was a rare factory car.
Had one 64 Dart equipped the same way trophied I-stock every weekend.
I have the same car sitting in my garage. Mine is the more common 170 slant 6 automatic transmission though. It's blue as well but a shade or two lighter than this but even the patina is very similar. The interior is identical. Same bench seats and door panels. Mine has rear armrests though, haha. Which is apparently one of the only options they added because there's not much else. There's no power anything, no radio, no door mirror, not even carpet. There's a rubber mat instead.
Thanks for the video! This is a really cool find to come across and cool to see.
That would be a pretty sweet ride
Excellent candidate for a restoration.
I'd love to have it as a daily.
I love this guy 👍 ....He could sell a freezer to an Eskimo..lol