Thanks for watching! A couple of editor notes: First, Volare. Yes, I know I mispronounced it! Many of you have pointed that out, but I swear to you those cars were so rare in my teenage years I always heard it pronounced "Vo-lare", not "Vo-lar-e". And yes, I've NOW heard the song! I apologize for getting that so very wrong. Second, the Duster. Nope, I didn't mention it. But I wish I could go add it back in, I had no idea it would be such a flash-point. As a 2 door version of the Valiant, while I know it looked good and was popular, I didn't know it missing would attract such a passionate response! My apologizes! Finally, for anyone claiming 'bias'... WTH? In my life Plymouth was the cheaper version of Dodge, following their cars with decontented value pricing models. There's no bias here, and I tried to present a fair brief history of a brand that was 'done wrong' by the end.
Thanks for admitting the blaring pronunciation goof. Where are you from such that they were called “vo-lairs”??? I learned a lot, especially the early history. Thanks!
I understand that the rest of the world is on the Metric system, but when you're talking about American cars, I'd mention the displacement of the older engines in cubic inches; you mentioned wheelbase lengths in inches.
I think you should have mentioned the 1970 Plymouth Superbird, which is one of the most coveted of muscle cars today. And...you forgot a really famous Plymouth Fury...her name is "Christine".
I too remember people calling it Vol - Air. Doesn't really matter though, I never saw one in person. Where I grew up, Plymouth was considered the cheap version of a Chrysler too.
As an owner of an original 1919 Maxwell, I'm overjoyed that you mentioned the Maxwell Motor Company. One of their CEOs, Walter Flanders, was a master of factory operations & efficiency. His life story is fascinating.
I love the older Plymouths before they lost their identity. I was born in '68 and came home from the hospital in a new '68 Fury III 2 door hardtop. Loved that car when I was a little tyke. Keep up the great work Jon!
The 2 door hardtop had grert styling!I still have my hotwheels cars, police car, and fire chief, where they both used a four door 1968 Plymouth Fury. I like the detail on both of them, since there were not a lot of toy replicas of that model Plymouth. And like you alluded to, the Plymouths lost their identity by about the mid 1970's. I was really saddened by how they changed the Dodge charger in 1975, to a bloated "luxo land yacht".
Two things: it is pronounced Vo Lar Ray, not Vo Lar. Second you skipped the original Duster two door series, These were Plymouth only models and so popular, that Chrysler had to quickly badge engineer the Dodge Demon (later the Dart Sport) for Dodge dealers, a rare case of Plymouth beating Dodge to the market. True story my father bought a 71 Dodge Demon, with a comic demon logo, and my mom made him take it back to the dealer to get the logo removed. Needless to say she did not live long enough to see the resurrection of the Demon logo on Dodge vehicles.
Plymouth beat Dodge to the market NUMEROUS TIMES. I can cite SEVERAL Occasions where Plymouth brought out cars that Dodge later deliberately COPIED. EXAMPLES: The Road Runner the industry’s FIRST BUDGET MUSCLE CAR. DODGE copied it with The Super Bee. The Plymouth Barracuda, which Dodge COPIED with the Challenger. The Plymouth Valiant (originally simply called simply “Valiant” , which Dodge COPIED,with the Dodge Lancer, and later with the compact Dart. There are other examples.
And no mention of the "K-Car" being bought en masse by government contracts, saving the company from bankruptcy. Some big misses on researching this particular video.
The first car I bought was a new 1970 Plymouth Duster. I drove it three years until I graduated college. I liked and trusted the car so much I sold it to my mother in law. I bought about 20 new cars before I retired. The Duster is one of only three I can say I wish I had kept.
Thanks for a great video! Plymouth is special to me as our family represented 3 of the 1.1 million Reliants sold…we had an ‘84 sedan, ‘85 wagon, and ‘87 LE sedan. Although slow and hardly exciting, they were all sturdy, simple, and dependable cars that served my family for nearly a decade each.
My aunt & uncle in coastal Mississippi had a blue 67 Valiant sedan (slant 6, 3 on the tree), later traded it for a new brown 73 Gold Duster (Six, TorqueFlite). I rode with my cousins in that car many times. Finally, the Dennis Weaver movie "Duel", starring an orange Valiant sedan and an evil Peterbilt, is one of my favorite thrillers!
The 'merger' with Daimler was just odd - and in hindsight, a huge mistake for Chrysler...Plymouth was much like Oldsmobile - looking for a new identity...
Cool video presentation, going back in time . My favorite Plymouth were the Fury , Satillight and Volare even though they had issues in the early years but improved after 1977 .
Sir, very good video. A couple things to note. The song Volare, enfisous on the E was part of every Volare commercial sung by the man that made the song famous. The Aspen, Volare did have the most recalls, but G M. couldn't be out done, and they had far more with the introduction of the X body's in the 1980 model year, also G.M. should have spent more time before they brought then to market. Weather it was the G.M. brand Oldsmobile, or later Mercury as part of Ford, with the onslaught of foreign competition the big three as we called them, just couldn't support multiple brands and with each case starved them for product, before the end. When Walter P. Chrysler created Plymouth, it was so he had an entry level car to go up against Ford and Chevrolet, with a list on advanced features for the day at a similar price. It did its job for a lot of years. Frankly when you looked at all Chrysler products, they were never that great. At times they excelled at design and 1950s-1970s powertrains, other than that, they were a distant third choice. I owned a Dodge Intrepid, junk engine, and a transmission that you had to baby so it wouldn't turn to junk. The only good thing about it was that it lead me to buy a Toyota Camry. Lasted 297,000 miles and 17 1/2 years Think about a video that profiles Mr. Chrysler, a very smart and hard working man, ran Buick at the beginning, of its srart. Much Success.
Jon Another mistake to note from your video is when you mentioned the two engines. Firstly, the 2.2 "is" a 4cyl and the 2.6 Mitsubishi is "also" a 4cyl and not a 6cyl as you stated. Love the videos!
You should read on the story of the performance of Plymouth, the Road Runners, The Super Birds, the Cuda, the Demons, the Duster, The Savoy Super Stock, The GTX, The Fury. After reading on all those the great performance car, Plymouth in the end was only a shadow
When I was in College in the early 70's I bought an old Plymouth Valiant with that famous reliable slant 6 engine with a 3 on the tree. Being from Minnesota it had a little rust but I must say that famous slant 6 known for it's reliability was absolutely a trustworthy vehicle ! The slant 6 which was also on the Chrysler Dodge Darts was an incredible durable reliable engine and sticks with me to this day ! I'm 67 and have nothing but good things to say about that reliable slant 6 ! One last comment, I drove for Kato Cab in Mankato Mn when I first started College. Everyone wanted to drive their one cab which was a Plymouth Fury with the 318 V8 ! That was another phenomenal engine known for it's power and reliability ! Thank you
I kind of wish Plymouth had stuck around a few more years to get in on the retro styled muscle cars that Dodge started making in 2006. Can you imagine how cool a 2010 Plum Crazy Plymouth Barracuda Hemi would have been? I think it could have blown out the Charger/Challenger in sales if the styling cues were on point.
At 11:25 in the video: The Mitsubishi built 2.6 Liter engine option for the K-Cars was a four cylinder engine (not six). It was exceptionally smooth for a big four being the first high volume mainstream four to feature twin balance shafts to reduce vibration.
Interesting that these brands like Plymouth, Olds, Pontiac etc were relevant enough to me that I remember almost all the cars in the videos, but not relevant enough that I actually knew they no longer existed.
The first new car my family bought was a '65 Plymouth Fury I two door post with the slant 6 and three on the tree. One morning, the beautiful but doctored up to sell '57 Fairlane we had wouldn't start so mom and dad walked hand in hand to Town and Country Chrysler/Plymouth on 12 Mile Road in Berkley, Michigan and came back with that car.
The Valiant was simultaneously built in Australia from the 60s through to the early 1980s. By the 70s it had become a sleek car after the boxy VC model which was carried on in the US. When GM Holden downsized its large HK model adopting the German Opel rebadged Holden, but lost out to fleet sales as Ford (Falcon) continued as a large sedan. Had Chrysler Australia continued the Valiant it may have survived in Australia as the Valiant was also popular with fleet operators. Note that in Australia and NZ the Valiant was always considered "full size" and the Slant 6 was dropped with the VH model where all engines offered were hemis.
australian valiants were also sold in south africa. they sold very well, and had an excellent reputation. these cars were highly regarded as tow cars, and did alot to convince the public that automatic cars can be good tow vehicles. the last modles were sold as chrysler and dodge, but most people remember the valiant models.
@@hnellnell2793 What years did they commence to be made, and end production? In America it was either 1960, or 61, and I believe that 1976 was the last year for the Valiant model.
10:16: My first new car was a 1985 Plymouth Horizon. It was cheap reliable transportation for this new college graduate getting my first job. I kept it for about five years. My biggest memory was cranking that little 1.6 liter engine up to 90 MPH on the Pennsylvania Turnpike running late and rushing to get to a certification training session.
I took my driving test in my grandfather's 1974 Plymouth Satellite Sebring. It was one of the best-driving cars I've ever driven. It's also the only Plymouth I've ever driven, even counting test drives.
Plymouth has always been my favorite division of Chrysler because it IS the no-nonsense division. Now when I started messing around with Plymouth in the 80s we were buying late 60s and early 70s Plymouth like the Duster, Baracuda, Valiant, Satellite, Fury.... We liked the way they weren't weighted down with fluff. They were more raw than Dodge.
I have owned my '69 Road Runner now for going on 22 years. Of course there are brands that could put it to the test but to me it's the style, performance, and history.
Plymouth Neon was the 1st compact car to have dual front air bags. The CEO of Honda when interviewed, said it was the Plymouth Neon which forced their hand to also offer dual front air bags
Jon, again, nice content. My all time favorite muscle car is the '67 Plymouth Satellite GTX, however, I couldn't remember ever owning a Plymouth, until I recollected a '74 Valiant that I purchased for $500 dollars back in the early 90s. I was living in Albuquerque, NM at the time, and I drove up to Los Alamos, NM to purchase it from a one owner family. Luckily it was "glowing." LOL! (Crickets) Huh, tough crowd. You know, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, atomic bomb? Any who, It was in great shape, and I really liked the look of it, but the best words to describe that car were "stodgy and anemic." Interesting enough, I do remembered back in the mid-80s, the singer, Tina Turner, doing those Plymouth Acclaim commercials. I seriously doubt she "ever" drove a Plymouth, even once. 😆 Hahaha!
Our driver's ed classes used the 1974 4 door Plymouth Valiant, slant 6, with auto. trans. Liked that they came with a full complement of engine gauges. Remember the instructor telling us to watch the gauges first to check their positions, before moving the car. Instructor had me drive it first, of all the other students, since I had driven before.
@@AllCarswithJon Yeah, both brands lost their groove around the same time, though arguably, Pontiacs, even towards the end, made more of an effort to look different and appeal to a different buyer. Think of the difference between a 1991 Pontiac Grand Am and a Chevy Corsica or Buick Skylark - all fairly different. Then think of a Plymouth Breeze and a Dodge Stratus. Or a Plymouth Reliant and Dodge Aries. Or Plymouth Acclaim and Dodge Spirit. Pretty much just a different grille, taillights and emblems.
My grandpa had a Plymouth Reliant Sedan he drove that car forever. We haven't had a plymouth in over 20 years now. Since I have got my license and bought cars I have had Dodge Ram and Chrysler before I abandoned them all and went to Ford.
in my younger days all I would buy were Plymouths, still hold them with high regards.learnd how to drive on a Duster, I preferred them. Over even the Dodges.
A great job on a marque that few people love. I remember how absolutely bullet-proof the Chrysler Corp. cars of the 1940's were. My parent's first new car was a 1948 Dodge. Many of our friends had Plymouths, DeSotos and Chryslers of that year. All were super tough, if a bit slow. Unfortunately Plymouth couldn't build a quality body after 1956. Occasionally well styled and often a master of drive train superiority, Plymouths were not very solid feeling cars. Several Plymouths appealed to me: 1948, 1953/54, 1960 full size, 1964 entire line, 1967/68/69 Barracuda, any Reliant. Your accuracy is appreciated! One "minor" quibble: the compact that replaced the Valiant from 1976 through 1980 was pronounced VO LAR E. 😊
Thanks for the comment and for sharing your memories. And yes, I know. Read some other comments and I've had more than a few people correct my mangled pronounciation of the Vole-Air. :) I'm doing one on Saab right now... wait until you hear me struggle with a few of *those* names! :)
The Barracuda, most people will remember a 271 cu in but I think nobody will remember the car with its "4.5 liter". Sorry, just a small nitpick in an otherwise solid presentation. Thumbs up anyway and a thank you.
I think that the 1967 plymouth fury is one of the most beautiful cars designed. We had 2 plymouth reliants and several dodges and chryslers. My last was a 2006 charger. Switch to GM cars for the last 10 years.
When Merecedes owned Chrysler, they gave Chrysler their old platforms and a tight budget, so Chrysler made cars cheaply. They decided to kill Plymouth in 2000 due to poor sales. Plymouth didn't have any SUVs, just rebadged Dodge and the Plymouth Prowler. Also, since Plymouth part of the Chrysler dealer, it didn't close any Chrysler dealers. Plymouth suffered from poor quality and reliability. Chrysler since brought back the Voyager nameplate and used it as the Chrysler Voyager minivan.
I don't think it was their " old" Platform's as Mercedes was still currently using both of those Platform's on they're own vehicles. And the Platform that the Durango uses is from Mercedes and i think that Mercedes is also still using that on one of their SUV's.
I almost bought a 1997 Breeze after considering a Chrysler Sebring convertible. Wish I'd gotten the Breeze instead of the 1997 Ford Taurus I ended up with. I think the Breeze would've given me less woes than that Taurus did over time. Candyapple Red with Camel (beige) cloth seats, it was a really pretty car and the bigger 2.4 liter 4 cylinder had plenty of oomph with the automatic, unlike the base 2.0 L four.
I bought a used, first year 1989 Taurus SHO. That car was a blast to drive! It would out accelerate, and out handle a BMW 535i, and the gas mileage was exactly the same as the mundane 3.0 engined car!. They were only available with a 5 speed manual transmission that year, until 1992, so they were very slow sellers. A friend of mine bought one new, and he got a $9000 discount on it, because it sat on the dealers lot for more than 1 year, without being sold. I bought mine used, with only about 12,000 miles on it, shortly after he bought his, at a great price, as well.
I think Plymouth could have worked as the low cost mark had Chrysler moved dodge over to being the performance brand that it's become today. Also the idea of the prowler and PT being "halo" cars of a sort for a reborn Plymouth is an interesting idea...if the brand hadn't just been budget Dodge models for the past 30 years at that point.
I have a '33 108 inc PC. The 112 inch frame was PCX. The PC wasn't long enough to have side mounted spares (mine has two) so the front axle was moved forwards. The doors just miss the tyres!
From about 1970 on, the Fury/Gran Fury model was pretty much to Plymouth what the 1980s-on Crown Victoria was to Ford: primarily fleet cars (usually police cars), with the occasional "old-people" sale thrown in for good measure.
I really liked the Sailboat brand over Dodge I had a stratus but would rather had a breeze I loved the Gran Fury rite up to the last production year and I would have taken a Trailduster over RamCharger naturally I liked the full size Voyager with wide tailgate over Dodge B Series
Another unique thing to the Neon and I think also the Breeze is Chrysler engineered the car to where if you needed to change the battery then the front tire on the drivers side had to come off.
I drove a lot of the Plymouth cars over the years. In 1974 I bought my first car a 1965 Chevy Chevelle. Stopped at a stop sign I was rear ended by a florist van and shoved into traffic traveling 30 MPH. That poor Chevelle was done. After the insurance settlement my father hauls me to the Chrysler Plymouth dear in a nearby town. I had my eyes all set on a red 1974 Plymouth Duster with the slant six. My father had other ideas and walked over to the back side of the lot and there was a puke green brand new 1973 Plymouth Duster 340, now it time for my father negotiate and I drove out with the Duster 340. I kept that car for the next 30 years and sold it in 2004 because a relative offered way more than I dream of. Because the 340 was a garage kept original car with 23,000 when I sold it. It was fairly obvious I did not drive it much and always had back up cars. The next 5 cars I owned were all Plymouth Duster in various ages. One of the more interesting ones was the 1976 Plymouth Feather Duster which had the mighty slant six, aluminum hood, deck lid and bumpers giving me 30 MPG. I really was stuck on the old Valiant/Duster cars. I also had a Plymouth Scamp for a while in the early 1980's with the 318. As the 1990's came the Plymouth Duster were getting harder to find and I eventually got a new Plymouth Acclaim V6 and with the 3 speed automatic. Now that Acclaim was the longest lasting daily driver I ever owned. I drove that on a daily commute or 110 miles for the next 18 years and when I finally called the junkyard for it that car had 559,000 miles. I never cared that the Plymouth brand were decontented Dodges in the later years by decontented they were the best that Chrysler had as getting rid of the gimmicks and extras they were made more reliable and durable.
Plymouth was supposedly the Chrysler division that would compete with Chevy and Ford. But even back in the 1990's, when I was just a kid, I always thought Dodge served that role. Plymouth, to me back then, was the "why are you even here?" division as a result. It seems that by 2001, the right people agreed with me. The Plymouth Prowler didn't exactly help. Why was THAT even here? D:
A "Far Too Brief History of Plymouth" is all too correct as the narrator neglected to mention no less than a dozen years of memorable Plymouth cars (1940-1952). This included the popular post war Plymouths, the boxy looking Plymouths that were introduced in 1949 of which our family owned one for several years and looked very similar to all the other MOPAR offerings that year, and finally the restyled '51 and '52 models which saw the introduction of a new line-up of names, those being the Cranbrook, Cambridge, & Concord, which lasted only three years as they were soon replaced by borrowing the names of three swanky New York hotels: the Belvedere, Savoy, and Plaza.
@@AllCarswithJon Chrysler was in the right path, the products they were making were selling. They had new and innovative designs that appeal. Glad, Fiat did bring Chrysler as a company back together.
@@AllCarswithJon The problem was that the union members of the Damiler-Benz board of directors fought Chrysler getting any cash from Benz. They didn't see any good coming from it for their (German) union workers and in the end that was what forced the breakup. The president of Damiler-Chrysler was in favor of more support of Chrysler but he couldn't get the votes from the D-B board and had to give up. Funny to find a German union unwilling to help a US unions members.
Bring Plymouth back. Let’s see how Stellantis handles it. I’ve always wanted a revamped but no electric Prowler and the Cuda back as a cheaper Challenger and the Grand Fury as a cheaper Charger or Alfa Romeo and even the Trailduster and Neon back.
I want a Prowler so bad, I loved it ever since I saw the original concept car. I know it's kinda crap, but I don't care, I like the design and the nostalgia.
Cheaper, boring Dodge…I agree. My brother had a PT Cruiser and he called it the “PT Loser”. When his daughter drive the car it took on the name “Birth Control”.😂
I don’t agree I would have kept Plymouth & Eagle I’m the nut that looks back at Plymouths Oldsmobiles Pontiacs Mercurys AMCs. Studenakers A M General I am underdog all the way
In a way Plymouth is alot like Pontiac in the sense that their most exciting and memorable cars were from the late 50s to the early 70s , Think back to the days of the sport Furys, early to mid 60s s/s 413sand 426 wedges. Cudas and Barracudas All the big engined b bodies which include the Road Runner and GTX even the Duster 340s, and it's a well known fact that Richard Petty won 200 nascar races but understand this of those wins over half of them were behind the wheel of those Petty Blue Plymouths!.The real reason why Plymouth became such a generic Chrysler was beacuse Chrysler never set up a separate line up of dealerships to sell only Plymouths!!!!.
The Plymouth Horizon actually lasted until 1990, not 1987. We should have gotten the Accolade(based on the LH platform). The Eagle Vision was a good car but had really no identity.
Awesome, informative video, Jon...as are all of your "brief history" productions. Unlike you, though, I really miss Mercury and Pontiac...Plymouth, not so much. I do however, love the '69 & '70 Road Runner (yeah, I know the '68 Road Runner was nearly identical to the '69, but I didn't care for the grille or taillights of the '68), as well as the '68 Fury. I was also impressed by the clean lines of the '74 Fury which wore its 5MPH bumpers MUCH better than did its Ford and Chevy counterparts of the same year. Except for the '56 thru '58 models, Plymouth had mostly ho-hum styling (IMO), but their '61 full-size models (Fury, Belvedere & Savoy) truly gave new meaning to the word 'hideous'...and Dodge's full-size models for '61 weren't much better. I'm guessing that Plymouth and Dodge designers might have been doing some heavy drugs at the start of the 60's...
I remember the day after I took delivery of my used 1991 Geo Metro that Plymouth had a $1500 rebate on the Sundance in the newspaper! I was mad! I could have gotten a better car for a lower payment. A car that would have appealed to the opposite sex lol.
3:03 The name Plymouth was primarily intended to convey puritanical values of thrift and practicality. It was inspired by the beliefs of the settlers who came here in 1620 - hard-working, practical, overcoming adversity.
The song was, and the car was; the Volaré. The acute accent é is pronounced 'ay'. This was intrinsic to its marketing. Maybe going forward it would be good research to listen to commercials before you record your audio. Anyone who was there remember it and the commercials well and nobody pronounced it 'vo-lare' as you did. Great series, just this one glaring item in this video kind of distracts from the overall quality. Best wishes for the channel!
My second car was a '79 dodge diplomat - terrible quality, but a bullet- proof motor ( 225 'Super-Six')..had lifelong issues with hard starting and rough idle..drove it for 6+ years though, and it got me from point a to b..😅
Isn't it true that a number of Ford Desiners moved to Chrysler and that' why for awhile Chrysler (Plymouth) L and ked a lot like 'Fords'... ir: Plymoth Sport Fury grill looks a lot like the FORD Galaxie 500 grill ?1965 EXCELLENT vidoes, Jon
My Dad had Plymouths here in Australia 🇦🇺 we Had Dodges flat head six’s . Australian Chargers big block Dodges an many Valiants of all styles an power plants you name it we had it . Thank God for MOPAR . You can keep your brand x rubbish . MOPAR had the best motor s an auto box and could put brand X to shame .
Who looks at any car from 1998 and say to themselves “ gee I sure miss the styling and performance of the nineties cars”. Boring Plymouth like the 68,69,70 Road Runners, 68 Hemi Cuda, 70 440/ 6 Barrel Cuda, 340 Duster,Super Bird,pistol grip, high impact colors, Dana 60, 833 A 4 speed, Shaker Hood and that’s just the equipment. Drivers include Don Garlits, Sox and Martin, Prudome, Richard Petty and so many others. 68 Dart and Barracuda have their own SS/AA drag strip class and of course Top Fuel. Probably the highest re-sale at auction along with Dodge of any muscle car and don’t forget about film making.
Hahaha!! Vo Lay, where did this come from. The plymouth GTX and the Dodge Challenger were 2 of the most popular muscle cars ever not to mention the Barracuda.
Dodge was not supposed to be an entry level brand. It was supposed to be a performance brand. Plymouth needs to be brought back to be the entry level brand that Chrysler needs right now.
We had a ‘72 Plymouth Duster. It had rust problems within the first year The slant 6 was great but rush and poor workmanship had us selling in with three year. Very disappointing!
Yes. (hey, didn't you ask before? 😀) Right now I'm working on some brands I know and love and eventually I'll start working on some models. Your request has been noted and recorded. :)
A local TV station has started showing old episodes of Highway Patrol and I notice every episode several different old Dodge, Chrysler, or Plymouth cars that are used in every episode! I don't care what anyone say's, I think the Prowler is really cool looking. I would have to swap out that V-6 for at least a small block V-8 though!🤤🤤
I have that TV series on DVD, and the Prowler was really an out-of-the-box car, stylistically, too bad that it was not available with a manual transmission.
I think you really need to redo this video to correct the Volaré pronunciation, the omission of the Duster, and to correct the history of the Valiant as it was introduced as it's own brand in 1960, then being folded into Plymouth. It did so well that Dodge demanded their own version, introduced as the Lancer, which morphed into the A-body Dart.
I'd love to see a history of Toyota too! I know it would be a massive undertaking, but maybe start with a history of a specific model first, then take parts of it to make a video on the history of the company. I'm a huge Toyota fanboy and would love to see that!
@@reallyrandomrides1296 Toyota was one of my first ideas... but quickly decided a simplier brand would be best to start with. Now that I've done some, the Toyota one is actually more intimidating. :)
@@AllCarswithJon Yes, certainly LOTS to talk about when doing the history of Toyota. I'm sure you'd do an awesome job on it. Maybe work on it in parts, a bit each week or month, and before you know it, it will be done! If I were better at making videos, I wouldn't mind doing something like, I'm a huge Toyota fan and automotive enthusiast.
Thanks for watching! A couple of editor notes:
First, Volare. Yes, I know I mispronounced it! Many of you have pointed that out, but I swear to you those cars were so rare in my teenage years I always heard it pronounced "Vo-lare", not "Vo-lar-e". And yes, I've NOW heard the song! I apologize for getting that so very wrong.
Second, the Duster. Nope, I didn't mention it. But I wish I could go add it back in, I had no idea it would be such a flash-point. As a 2 door version of the Valiant, while I know it looked good and was popular, I didn't know it missing would attract such a passionate response! My apologizes!
Finally, for anyone claiming 'bias'... WTH? In my life Plymouth was the cheaper version of Dodge, following their cars with decontented value pricing models. There's no bias here, and I tried to present a fair brief history of a brand that was 'done wrong' by the end.
Thanks for admitting the blaring pronunciation goof. Where are you from such that they were called “vo-lairs”??? I learned a lot, especially the early history. Thanks!
I understand that the rest of the world is on the Metric system, but when you're talking about American cars, I'd mention the displacement of the older engines in cubic inches; you mentioned wheelbase lengths in inches.
I think you should have mentioned the 1970 Plymouth Superbird, which is one of the most coveted of muscle cars today. And...you forgot a really famous Plymouth Fury...her name is "Christine".
I too remember people calling it Vol - Air. Doesn't really matter though, I never saw one in person. Where I grew up, Plymouth was considered the cheap version of a Chrysler too.
As an owner of an original 1919 Maxwell, I'm overjoyed that you mentioned the Maxwell Motor Company. One of their CEOs, Walter Flanders, was a master of factory operations & efficiency. His life story is fascinating.
I love the older Plymouths before they lost their identity. I was born in '68 and came home from the hospital in a new '68 Fury III 2 door hardtop. Loved that car when I was a little tyke. Keep up the great work Jon!
Thanks for the kind comments! I think I came home from the hospital in an Olds 98.... that's sad to think of.
@@AllCarswithJon Nothing wrong with that in my opinion.
The 2 door hardtop had grert styling!I still have my hotwheels cars, police car, and fire chief, where they both used a four door 1968 Plymouth Fury. I like the detail on both of them, since there were not a lot of toy replicas of that model Plymouth. And like you alluded to, the Plymouths lost their identity by about the mid 1970's. I was really saddened by how they changed the Dodge charger in 1975, to a bloated "luxo land yacht".
Two things: it is pronounced Vo Lar Ray, not Vo Lar. Second you skipped the original Duster two door series, These were Plymouth only models and so popular, that Chrysler had to quickly badge engineer the Dodge Demon (later the Dart Sport) for Dodge dealers, a rare case of Plymouth beating Dodge to the market. True story my father bought a 71 Dodge Demon, with a comic demon logo, and my mom made him take it back to the dealer to get the logo removed. Needless to say she did not live long enough to see the resurrection of the Demon logo on Dodge vehicles.
Plymouth beat Dodge to the market NUMEROUS TIMES. I can cite SEVERAL Occasions where Plymouth brought out cars that Dodge later deliberately COPIED. EXAMPLES: The Road Runner the industry’s FIRST BUDGET MUSCLE CAR. DODGE copied it with The Super Bee. The Plymouth Barracuda, which Dodge COPIED with the Challenger. The Plymouth Valiant (originally simply called simply “Valiant” , which Dodge COPIED,with the Dodge Lancer, and later with the compact Dart. There are other examples.
What child of the 70s can forget: th-cam.com/video/AnWHQCgByWg/w-d-xo.html
And no mention of the "K-Car" being bought en masse by government contracts, saving the company from bankruptcy. Some big misses on researching this particular video.
Yeah, Vo-Lare,... LOL!
@@AnotherWayFilms The K-cars have their own episode.
The first car I bought was a new 1970 Plymouth Duster. I drove it three years until I graduated college. I liked and trusted the car so much I sold it to my mother in law. I bought about 20 new cars before I retired. The Duster is one of only three I can say I wish I had kept.
My 97 Ranger is the one vehicle I wish I kept!
If Plymouth quality had not fallen over time, it might still be alive today. A 1960 Fury Commando was like a role model.
Thanks for a great video! Plymouth is special to me as our family represented 3 of the 1.1 million Reliants sold…we had an ‘84 sedan, ‘85 wagon, and ‘87 LE sedan. Although slow and hardly exciting, they were all sturdy, simple, and dependable cars that served my family for nearly a decade each.
Thanks for sharing!
My aunt & uncle in coastal Mississippi had a blue 67 Valiant sedan (slant 6, 3 on the tree), later traded it for a new brown 73 Gold Duster (Six, TorqueFlite). I rode with my cousins in that car many times. Finally, the Dennis Weaver movie "Duel", starring an orange Valiant sedan and an evil Peterbilt, is one of my favorite thrillers!
Mine too, and that was Steven Spielberg's first film!
The 'merger' with Daimler was just odd - and in hindsight, a huge mistake for Chrysler...Plymouth was much like Oldsmobile - looking for a new identity...
Cool video presentation, going back in time . My favorite Plymouth were the Fury , Satillight and Volare even though they had issues in the early years but improved after 1977 .
Glad you enjoyed it!
Sir, very good video. A couple things to note. The song Volare, enfisous on the E was part of every Volare commercial sung by the man that made the song famous. The Aspen, Volare did have the most recalls, but G M. couldn't be out done, and they had far more with the introduction of the X body's in the 1980 model year, also G.M. should have spent more time before they brought then to market. Weather it was the G.M. brand Oldsmobile, or later Mercury as part of Ford, with the onslaught of foreign competition the big three as we called them, just couldn't support multiple brands and with each case starved them for product, before the end. When Walter P. Chrysler created Plymouth, it was so he had an entry level car to go up against Ford and Chevrolet, with a list on advanced features for the day at a similar price. It did its job for a lot of years. Frankly when you looked at all Chrysler products, they were never that great. At times they excelled at design and 1950s-1970s powertrains, other than that, they were a distant third choice. I owned a Dodge Intrepid, junk engine, and a transmission that you had to baby so it wouldn't turn to junk. The only good thing about it was that it lead me to buy a Toyota Camry. Lasted 297,000 miles and 17 1/2 years Think about a video that profiles Mr. Chrysler, a very smart and hard working man, ran Buick at the beginning, of its srart. Much Success.
Jon
Another mistake to note from your video is when you mentioned the two engines. Firstly, the 2.2 "is" a 4cyl and the 2.6 Mitsubishi is "also" a 4cyl and not a 6cyl as you stated. Love the videos!
Gads, the first generation Duster and the Road Runner were fantastic cars.
You should read on the story of the performance of Plymouth, the Road Runners,
The Super Birds, the Cuda, the Demons, the Duster, The Savoy Super Stock, The GTX, The Fury.
After reading on all those the great performance car, Plymouth in the end was only a shadow
The Beach Boy's song, "The little old lady from Pasadena" drives your great point home!
@@carlc5748 That song was about Dodge, not Plymouth. Also, the Demon was also a Dodge, not a Plymouth.
When I was in College in the early 70's I bought an old Plymouth Valiant with that famous reliable slant 6 engine with a 3 on the tree. Being from Minnesota it had a little rust but I must say that famous slant 6 known for it's reliability was absolutely a trustworthy vehicle ! The slant 6 which was also on the Chrysler Dodge Darts was an incredible durable reliable engine and sticks with me to this day ! I'm 67 and have nothing but good things to say about that reliable slant 6 ! One last comment, I drove for Kato Cab in Mankato Mn when I first started College. Everyone wanted to drive their one cab which was a Plymouth Fury with the 318 V8 ! That was another phenomenal engine known for it's power and reliability ! Thank you
My favorite Plymouths have to be the Roadrunner, Superbird, Fury, GTX, Duster, and Cuda.
Too bad they couldn’t build a Prowler with a HEMI V-8 !!
That would’ve been AWESOME !!
I kind of wish Plymouth had stuck around a few more years to get in on the retro styled muscle cars that Dodge started making in 2006. Can you imagine how cool a 2010 Plum Crazy Plymouth Barracuda Hemi would have been? I think it could have blown out the Charger/Challenger in sales if the styling cues were on point.
Yes, surely it would have been a "smashing" success!
1981 K Cars had an optional Mitsubishi 2.6 liter four cylinder (with Mitusbishi patent 'Silent Shafts")
Plymouth was a wonderful brand, the slant 6 was the best engine ever.
I have owned 4 Plymouths. Two Barracudas, 67 & 68, a 97 Neon, and the one I still have, a 71 road runner. I have loved each of them. Mopar or no car!
When you drive your road runner, do you check your rear view mirror often, to make sure that a "Coyote engined" Ford isn't on your tail?
At 11:25 in the video: The Mitsubishi built 2.6 Liter engine option for the K-Cars was a four cylinder engine (not six). It was exceptionally smooth for a big four being the first high volume mainstream four to feature twin balance shafts to reduce vibration.
Sorry if I misspoke!
@@AllCarswithJon Just think of me as a resourse with more automotive trivia in my head than any normal person should retain!
The Plymouth Acclaim is probably the most reliable vehicle that Plymouth ever produced.
Interesting that these brands like Plymouth, Olds, Pontiac etc were relevant enough to me that I remember almost all the cars in the videos, but not relevant enough that I actually knew they no longer existed.
The first new car my family bought was a '65 Plymouth Fury I two door post with the slant 6 and three on the tree. One morning, the beautiful but doctored up to sell '57 Fairlane we had wouldn't start so mom and dad walked hand in hand to Town and Country Chrysler/Plymouth on 12 Mile Road in Berkley, Michigan and came back with that car.
I love Plymouth, I learned to drive on a 1972 Plymouth Duster, three speed manual, slant six. I wish a still kept that car.
The Valiant was simultaneously built in Australia from the 60s through to the early 1980s. By the 70s it had become a sleek car after the boxy VC model which was carried on in the US. When GM Holden downsized its large HK model adopting the German Opel rebadged Holden, but lost out to fleet sales as Ford (Falcon) continued as a large sedan. Had Chrysler Australia continued the Valiant it may have survived in Australia as the Valiant was also popular with fleet operators. Note that in Australia and NZ the Valiant was always considered "full size" and the Slant 6 was dropped with the VH model where all engines offered were hemis.
Glad to hear the history of the Chrysler Corp. cars down in Australia, I was always wondering about that!
australian valiants were also sold in south africa. they sold very well, and had an excellent reputation. these cars were highly regarded as tow cars, and did alot to convince the public that automatic cars can be good tow vehicles. the last modles were sold as chrysler and dodge, but most people remember the valiant models.
@@hnellnell2793 What years did they commence to be made, and end production? In America it was either 1960, or 61, and I believe that 1976 was the last year for the Valiant model.
10:16: My first new car was a 1985 Plymouth Horizon. It was cheap reliable transportation for this new college graduate getting my first job. I kept it for about five years. My biggest memory was cranking that little 1.6 liter engine up to 90 MPH on the Pennsylvania Turnpike running late and rushing to get to a certification training session.
My late dad owned 4 Plymouths … I remember 3 of them . They were pretty rugged cars .
I took my driving test in my grandfather's 1974 Plymouth Satellite Sebring. It was one of the best-driving cars I've ever driven. It's also the only Plymouth I've ever driven, even counting test drives.
Plymouth has always been my favorite division of Chrysler because it IS the no-nonsense division. Now when I started messing around with Plymouth in the 80s we were buying late 60s and early 70s Plymouth like the Duster, Baracuda, Valiant, Satellite, Fury....
We liked the way they weren't weighted down with fluff. They were more raw than Dodge.
I have owned my '69 Road Runner now for going on 22 years. Of course there are brands that could put it to the test but to me it's the style, performance, and history.
Great car that you have, and the styling......a 10!!!!
I remember Plymouth only has a company that made awesome engines but terribly built cars. I think you captured that well in your videos. Thank you 😊
Thank you very much!
Oh to put a 318 Dodge engine into a General Motors car considering General Motors made beautiful cars with horrid engines
Wrong. Plymouth made good cars & engines. I've owned them, you obviously never did.
Plymouth Neon was the 1st compact car to have dual front air bags. The CEO of Honda when interviewed, said it was the Plymouth Neon which forced their hand to also offer dual front air bags
Jon, again, nice content. My all time favorite muscle car is the '67 Plymouth Satellite GTX, however, I couldn't remember ever owning a Plymouth, until I recollected a '74 Valiant that I purchased for $500 dollars back in the early 90s. I was living in Albuquerque, NM at the time, and I drove up to Los Alamos, NM to purchase it from a one owner family. Luckily it was "glowing." LOL! (Crickets) Huh, tough crowd. You know, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, atomic bomb? Any who, It was in great shape, and I really liked the look of it, but the best words to describe that car were "stodgy and anemic." Interesting enough, I do remembered back in the mid-80s, the singer, Tina Turner, doing those Plymouth Acclaim commercials. I seriously doubt she "ever" drove a Plymouth, even once. 😆 Hahaha!
Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it, and for the memories!
I have been meaning to ask how your stand-up comedy career is coming? :)
@@AllCarswithJon LOL! 😂 My comedic career?! It's pretty much like the characteristics of the '74 Plymouth Valiant, stodgy and anemic. 🤣
Our driver's ed classes used the 1974 4 door Plymouth Valiant, slant 6, with auto. trans. Liked that they came with a full complement of engine gauges. Remember the instructor telling us to watch the gauges first to check their positions, before moving the car. Instructor had me drive it first, of all the other students, since I had driven before.
I for one do not miss Plymouth. They were great in the 60's but since then... not so much.
It was surprising the similarities between Plymouth and the Pontiac brand vid I did.
Cheap cars -> performance and style -> Badge engineering -> Dead
@@AllCarswithJon Yeah, both brands lost their groove around the same time, though arguably, Pontiacs, even towards the end, made more of an effort to look different and appeal to a different buyer. Think of the difference between a 1991 Pontiac Grand Am and a Chevy Corsica or Buick Skylark - all fairly different. Then think of a Plymouth Breeze and a Dodge Stratus. Or a Plymouth Reliant and Dodge Aries. Or Plymouth Acclaim and Dodge Spirit. Pretty much just a different grille, taillights and emblems.
Agreed
My grandpa had a Plymouth Reliant Sedan he drove that car forever. We haven't had a plymouth in over 20 years now. Since I have got my license and bought cars I have had Dodge Ram and Chrysler before I abandoned them all and went to Ford.
in my younger days all I would buy were Plymouths, still hold them with high regards.learnd how to drive on a Duster, I preferred them. Over even the Dodges.
A great job on a marque that few people love. I remember how absolutely bullet-proof the Chrysler Corp. cars of the 1940's were.
My parent's first new car was a 1948 Dodge. Many of our friends had Plymouths, DeSotos and Chryslers of that year. All were super tough, if a bit slow.
Unfortunately Plymouth couldn't build a quality body after 1956. Occasionally well styled and often a master of drive train superiority, Plymouths were not very solid feeling cars.
Several Plymouths appealed to me: 1948, 1953/54, 1960 full size, 1964 entire line, 1967/68/69 Barracuda, any Reliant.
Your accuracy is appreciated! One "minor" quibble: the compact that replaced the Valiant from 1976 through 1980 was pronounced VO LAR E. 😊
Thanks for the comment and for sharing your memories.
And yes, I know. Read some other comments and I've had more than a few people correct my mangled pronounciation of the Vole-Air. :)
I'm doing one on Saab right now... wait until you hear me struggle with a few of *those* names! :)
Using your best Dean Martin voice, sing it out for us, to make sure that we all get the pronunciation right!
The Barracuda, most people will remember a 271 cu in but I think nobody will remember the car with its "4.5 liter". Sorry, just a small nitpick in an otherwise solid presentation. Thumbs up anyway and a thank you.
A 271 cubic inch Plymouth engine? I think you meant to say '273'.
The Omni/Horizon was on sale until 1990 not 1987.
I think that the 1967 plymouth fury is one of the most beautiful cars designed. We had 2 plymouth reliants and several dodges and chryslers. My last was a 2006 charger. Switch to GM cars for the last 10 years.
When Merecedes owned Chrysler, they gave Chrysler their old platforms and a tight budget, so Chrysler made cars cheaply. They decided to kill Plymouth in 2000 due to poor sales. Plymouth didn't have any SUVs, just rebadged Dodge and the Plymouth Prowler. Also, since Plymouth part of the Chrysler dealer, it didn't close any Chrysler dealers. Plymouth suffered from poor quality and reliability. Chrysler since brought back the Voyager nameplate and used it as the Chrysler Voyager minivan.
I don't think it was their " old" Platform's as Mercedes was still currently using both of those Platform's on they're own vehicles. And the Platform that the Durango uses is from Mercedes and i think that Mercedes is also still using that on one of their SUV's.
I almost bought a 1997 Breeze after considering a Chrysler Sebring convertible. Wish I'd gotten the Breeze instead of the 1997 Ford Taurus I ended up with. I think the Breeze would've given me less woes than that Taurus did over time. Candyapple Red with Camel (beige) cloth seats, it was a really pretty car and the bigger 2.4 liter 4 cylinder had plenty of oomph with the automatic, unlike the base 2.0 L four.
I bought a used, first year 1989 Taurus SHO. That car was a blast to drive! It would out accelerate, and out handle a BMW 535i, and the gas mileage was exactly the same as the mundane 3.0 engined car!. They were only available with a 5 speed manual transmission that year, until 1992, so they were very slow sellers. A friend of mine bought one new, and he got a $9000 discount on it, because it sat on the dealers lot for more than 1 year, without being sold. I bought mine used, with only about 12,000 miles on it, shortly after he bought his, at a great price, as well.
I still drive a '99 Cirrus, the higher end Chrysler version of the Breeze. It's very reliable for nearly 25 years old.
I would love to a history of AMC,Studebaker and Packard too!!
Currently working on the AMC one. 😀
I think Plymouth could have worked as the low cost mark had Chrysler moved dodge over to being the performance brand that it's become today. Also the idea of the prowler and PT being "halo" cars of a sort for a reborn Plymouth is an interesting idea...if the brand hadn't just been budget Dodge models for the past 30 years at that point.
I have a '33 108 inc PC. The 112 inch frame was PCX. The PC wasn't long enough to have side mounted spares (mine has two) so the front axle was moved forwards. The doors just miss the tyres!
Just realized, I've owned and driven several Dodge and Chrysler products, but I don't recall ever driving or owning a Plymouth.
68-69 Road Runner Bad ass 383 and competition auto shifter.One of the greatest Plymouths.
Volair? Is that like Corvair? I never knew Plymouth produced anything like that.
I'm glad some one out there noticed he was pronouncing the name wrong! It's volare.
Roadrunner, GTX, Barracuda, Duster, Fury sounds great to me.
From about 1970 on, the Fury/Gran Fury model was pretty much to Plymouth what the 1980s-on Crown Victoria was to Ford: primarily fleet cars (usually police cars), with the occasional "old-people" sale thrown in for good measure.
I really liked the Sailboat brand over Dodge I had a stratus but would rather had a breeze I loved the Gran Fury rite up to the last production year and I would have taken a Trailduster over RamCharger naturally I liked the full size Voyager with wide tailgate over Dodge B Series
Another unique thing to the Neon and I think also the Breeze is Chrysler engineered the car to where if you needed to change the battery then the front tire on the drivers side had to come off.
you didn't need to remove the battery on either of those cars to replace the battery . You're thinking of the LH cars .
@@HowardJrFord my freind, you have the two mixed up. I know for a fact with the Neons you did, and with my Intrepid, you didn't.
I had a '75 Duster: 225 slant six, three on the tree, no power steering or breaks, and I loved it! How could you skip the Dostpan?
Good job with this series. Keep at it.
Thanks for the kind words!
the Mitsu 2.6 l was a 4 cyl, not a 6. my mum had one, red 4 door that she hated and replaced with a Dodge Daytona(fwd) with the 5 speed and 2 doors.
I was never a fan of any Chrysler product. How about the movie Christine? 70s Plymouth Duster was pretty cool
I drove a lot of the Plymouth cars over the years. In 1974 I bought my first car a 1965 Chevy Chevelle. Stopped at a stop sign I was rear ended by a florist van and shoved into traffic traveling 30 MPH. That poor Chevelle was done. After the insurance settlement my father hauls me to the Chrysler Plymouth dear in a nearby town. I had my eyes all set on a red 1974 Plymouth Duster with the slant six. My father had other ideas and walked over to the back side of the lot and there was a puke green brand new 1973 Plymouth Duster 340, now it time for my father negotiate and I drove out with the Duster 340. I kept that car for the next 30 years and sold it in 2004 because a relative offered way more than I dream of. Because the 340 was a garage kept original car with 23,000 when I sold it. It was fairly obvious I did not drive it much and always had back up cars.
The next 5 cars I owned were all Plymouth Duster in various ages. One of the more interesting ones was the 1976 Plymouth Feather Duster which had the mighty slant six, aluminum hood, deck lid and bumpers giving me 30 MPG. I really was stuck on the old Valiant/Duster cars. I also had a Plymouth Scamp for a while in the early 1980's with the 318.
As the 1990's came the Plymouth Duster were getting harder to find and I eventually got a new Plymouth Acclaim V6 and with the 3 speed automatic. Now that Acclaim was the longest lasting daily driver I ever owned. I drove that on a daily commute or 110 miles for the next 18 years and when I finally called the junkyard for it that car had 559,000 miles.
I never cared that the Plymouth brand were decontented Dodges in the later years by decontented they were the best that Chrysler had as getting rid of the gimmicks and extras they were made more reliable and durable.
Plymouth was supposedly the Chrysler division that would compete with Chevy and Ford. But even back in the 1990's, when I was just a kid, I always thought Dodge served that role. Plymouth, to me back then, was the "why are you even here?" division as a result. It seems that by 2001, the right people agreed with me.
The Plymouth Prowler didn't exactly help. Why was THAT even here? D:
1989 Plymouth Acclaim also had a 2.5 turbo engine option.
A "Far Too Brief History of Plymouth" is all too correct as the narrator neglected to mention no less than a dozen years of memorable Plymouth cars (1940-1952). This included the popular post war Plymouths, the boxy looking Plymouths that were introduced in 1949 of which our family owned one for several years and looked very similar to all the other MOPAR offerings that year, and finally the restyled '51 and '52 models which saw the introduction of a new line-up of names, those being the Cranbrook, Cambridge, & Concord, which lasted only three years as they were soon replaced by borrowing the names of three swanky New York hotels: the Belvedere, Savoy, and Plaza.
Daimler just ruined Chrysler
The more I learn, the more it seems they just brutalized them.
@@AllCarswithJon Chrysler was in the right path, the products they were making were selling. They had new and innovative designs that appeal. Glad, Fiat did bring Chrysler as a company back together.
@@AllCarswithJon The problem was that the union members of the Damiler-Benz board of directors fought Chrysler getting any cash from Benz. They didn't see any good coming from it for their (German) union workers and in the end that was what forced the breakup. The president of Damiler-Chrysler was in favor of more support of Chrysler but he couldn't get the votes from the D-B board and had to give up. Funny to find a German union unwilling to help a US unions members.
Bring Plymouth back. Let’s see how Stellantis handles it. I’ve always wanted a revamped but no electric Prowler and the Cuda back as a cheaper Challenger and the Grand Fury as a cheaper Charger or Alfa Romeo and even the Trailduster and Neon back.
The 2.6 liter Mitsubishi "Hemi" engine was a four cylinder engine, not a six cylinder. It was heresy! I'll agree with that.
I want a Prowler so bad, I loved it ever since I saw the original concept car. I know it's kinda crap, but I don't care, I like the design and the nostalgia.
My first car was an 83 Reliant....it would run forever but unfortunately it was claimed by the timworm ..
Timworm?
Cheaper, boring Dodge…I agree. My brother had a PT Cruiser and he called it the “PT Loser”. When his daughter drive the car it took on the name “Birth Control”.😂
hahahahaha. :)
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As noted below, it is prononced Vo Lar Ray!
I don’t agree I would have kept Plymouth & Eagle I’m the nut that looks back at Plymouths Oldsmobiles Pontiacs Mercurys AMCs. Studenakers A M General I am underdog all the way
In a way Plymouth is alot like Pontiac in the sense that their most exciting and memorable cars were from the late 50s to the early 70s , Think back to the days of the sport Furys, early to mid 60s s/s 413sand 426 wedges. Cudas and Barracudas All the big engined b bodies which include the Road Runner and GTX even the Duster 340s, and it's a well known fact that Richard Petty won 200 nascar races but understand this of those wins over half of them were behind the wheel of those Petty Blue Plymouths!.The real reason why Plymouth became such a generic Chrysler was beacuse Chrysler never set up a separate line up of dealerships to sell only Plymouths!!!!.
The Plymouth Horizon actually lasted until 1990, not 1987. We should have gotten the Accolade(based on the LH platform). The Eagle Vision was a good car but had really no identity.
Awesome, informative video, Jon...as are all of your "brief history" productions. Unlike you, though, I really miss Mercury and Pontiac...Plymouth, not so much. I do however, love the '69 & '70 Road Runner (yeah, I know the '68 Road Runner was nearly identical to the '69, but I didn't care for the grille or taillights of the '68), as well as the '68 Fury. I was also impressed by the clean lines of the '74 Fury which wore its 5MPH bumpers MUCH better than did its Ford and Chevy counterparts of the same year. Except for the '56 thru '58 models, Plymouth had mostly ho-hum styling (IMO), but their '61 full-size models (Fury, Belvedere & Savoy) truly gave new meaning to the word 'hideous'...and Dodge's full-size models for '61 weren't much better. I'm guessing that Plymouth and Dodge designers might have been doing some heavy drugs at the start of the 60's...
I remember the day after I took delivery of my used 1991 Geo Metro that Plymouth had a $1500 rebate on the Sundance in the newspaper! I was mad! I could have gotten a better car for a lower payment. A car that would have appealed to the opposite sex lol.
3:03 The name Plymouth was primarily intended to convey puritanical values of thrift and practicality. It was inspired by the beliefs of the settlers who came here in 1620 - hard-working, practical, overcoming adversity.
The song was, and the car was; the Volaré. The acute accent é is pronounced 'ay'. This was intrinsic to its marketing. Maybe going forward it would be good research to listen to commercials before you record your audio. Anyone who was there remember it and the commercials well and nobody pronounced it 'vo-lare' as you did. Great series, just this one glaring item in this video kind of distracts from the overall quality. Best wishes for the channel!
Thank you, You saved me a rant
My second car was a '79 dodge diplomat - terrible quality, but a bullet- proof motor ( 225 'Super-Six')..had lifelong issues with hard starting and rough idle..drove it for 6+ years though, and it got me from point a to b..😅
Isn't it true that a number of Ford Desiners moved to Chrysler and that' why for awhile Chrysler (Plymouth) L and ked a lot like 'Fords'...
ir: Plymoth Sport Fury grill looks a lot like the FORD Galaxie 500 grill ?1965
EXCELLENT vidoes, Jon
Had a Plymouth Fury lol. Loved it
At 5:10 the car is label as 53 however it is 54. My 1st car was 54 Belvedere.
I’m enjoying your videos, how about International pickup and SUV?
Will be debuting again at a new car plant to be built in South Carolina within a few years. VW owns the rights to the name.
Might be worth mentioning that Chrysler paid off their handout EARLY, which I don't think was ever done by anyone else again??
Saab might be a great video. Though I realy enjoy this type of video, keep it up!
Been thinking about it. :)
My Dad had Plymouths here in Australia 🇦🇺 we Had Dodges flat head six’s . Australian Chargers big block Dodges an many Valiants of all styles an power plants you name it we had it . Thank God for MOPAR . You can keep your brand x rubbish . MOPAR had the best motor s an auto box and could put brand X to shame .
Who looks at any car from 1998 and say to themselves “ gee I sure miss the styling and performance of the nineties cars”. Boring Plymouth like the 68,69,70 Road Runners, 68 Hemi Cuda, 70 440/ 6 Barrel Cuda, 340 Duster,Super Bird,pistol grip, high impact colors, Dana 60, 833 A 4 speed, Shaker Hood and that’s just the equipment. Drivers include Don Garlits, Sox and Martin, Prudome, Richard Petty and so many others. 68 Dart and Barracuda have their own SS/AA drag strip class and of course Top Fuel. Probably the highest re-sale at auction along with Dodge of any muscle car and don’t forget about film making.
Mr Maxwell suddenly disappeared before Walter Chrysler took over his company!
good reporting
This series is your best please do mercury.
Thanks! It's on the short list. Probably next-next.
Hahaha!! Vo Lay, where did this come from. The plymouth GTX and the Dodge Challenger were 2 of the most popular muscle cars ever not to mention the Barracuda.
Dodge was not supposed to be an entry level brand. It was supposed to be a performance brand. Plymouth needs to be brought back to be the entry level brand that Chrysler needs right now.
Also, I never knew anyone (Including my dad) who ever complained about quality, except, of course, bodies prone to rusting!
Good stuff
We had a ‘72 Plymouth Duster. It had rust problems within the first year The slant 6 was great but rush and poor workmanship had us selling in with three year. Very disappointing!
If the Prowler had a powerful v-8 and manual stick. :(
I was never certain if Plymouth was supposed to be an economy car company or a sports and performance company. Those are two divergent markets.
Also can you consider a video on the Toyota FJ Cruiser. 🙂
Yes. (hey, didn't you ask before? 😀)
Right now I'm working on some brands I know and love and eventually I'll start working on some models. Your request has been noted and recorded. :)
@@AllCarswithJon 😊 yes I did ask for a FJ Cruiser video before. 😁
Great videos. I really enjoy all of them.
@@lonesomecricket7721 Thanks, I appreciate that. :)
A local TV station has started showing old episodes of Highway Patrol and I notice every episode several different old Dodge, Chrysler, or Plymouth cars that are used in every episode! I don't care what anyone say's, I think the Prowler is really cool looking. I would have to swap out that V-6 for at least a small block V-8 though!🤤🤤
I have that TV series on DVD, and the Prowler was really an out-of-the-box car, stylistically, too bad that it was not available with a manual transmission.
The Laser wasn't offered with AWD, so the Talon was way cooler.
I think you really need to redo this video to correct the Volaré pronunciation, the omission of the Duster, and to correct the history of the Valiant as it was introduced as it's own brand in 1960, then being folded into Plymouth. It did so well that Dodge demanded their own version, introduced as the Lancer, which morphed into the A-body Dart.
I would really like to see a Toyota history video. 👍🏻
It's on the list, but that is a massive undertaking and it'll be a while before I get to it.
I'd love to see a history of Toyota too! I know it would be a massive undertaking, but maybe start with a history of a specific model first, then take parts of it to make a video on the history of the company. I'm a huge Toyota fanboy and would love to see that!
@@reallyrandomrides1296 Toyota was one of my first ideas... but quickly decided a simplier brand would be best to start with. Now that I've done some, the Toyota one is actually more intimidating. :)
@@AllCarswithJon Yes, certainly LOTS to talk about when doing the history of Toyota. I'm sure you'd do an awesome job on it. Maybe work on it in parts, a bit each week or month, and before you know it, it will be done! If I were better at making videos, I wouldn't mind doing something like, I'm a huge Toyota fan and automotive enthusiast.