A guy I met at a small car show said he played with Little Richard on tour as the bassist. No clue if he was just BSing me or not, but he did give me some CDs of his band. He had a nice 57 Chevy, but his friend with the unrestored 57 Buick Century Riviera with the three piece back glass.. oh, THAT was a car.
Savoys were available from the factory with a "Belvedere Trim Package." The Belvedere nameplate was deleted with a plain chrome piece. Thanks for the memories, our neighbor had one if these. I was so amazed with the push-button drive.
At 7:25... The vent window turned all the way around to guide air into the car was our "air conditioning". CB radio and 8-track under the dash, beefier speakers in the rear deck. My 4-door Savoy had the 277 cu in V-8 with a four-barrel carb and a 3-speed stick on the column. The air cleaner (13:10) was the oil-bath type, the giant tin can, it was drained and freshened with every oil change. I bought my Savoy in 1967 and drove another 100k in 10 years. At some point a retaining ring in the transmission broke and it broke a few gears and locked in reverse. I was able to just pull the trans from a '49 Plymouth (!!) and it popped right in, 1-to-1, bolt-for-bolt replacement. Lots of great memories. When the mid-70's oil prices made gasoline zoom to over 60 cents a gallon I finally moved on to a '66 VW 1600 Beetle. I sold the Plymouth for $200, five dollars less than I paid for it 10 years earlier. Here's a Flickr album with a few photos. www.flickr.com/photos/widdgget/albums/72157700200346261 BTW, the uneven split in the back of the bench seat was to give whoever was climbing in the back more room to get by, assuming that most of the time the driver would be letting them in the car.
"Highway Patrol" has given motivation to study cars from the 50s. I now have an extensive file of pictures of cars primarily from the middle 30s to the early 60s. But the 50s are, to me, of artistic design coupled with modern aviation design. You can tell the seasons of "Highway Patrol" by noting which make and model Captain Dan Mathews is driving. Lately, season 2, he's driving a '56 Oldsmobile instead of the usual Buick. The show had a couple of '41 Oldsmobiles, one which was used in season 1, episode 1. The designers made changes each year to try to enhance the previous years design aspects. Grill features and taillights are the most telling and most unique. My sister is only the second owner of her 1953 Savoy. I love this little bundle of a car. Compare it to the longer bodies of just two to three years later.
Lots of luxury and fine interiors. But no seat belts, safety steering system, disc brakes, cabin/ doors reinforcement, and no air bags. Enjoy the ride but never crash in a gorgeous classic car. 😮
I still can’t get over how big it is on the inside there is more room inside the backseat of the Plymouth Savoy and it’s smaller than the Lincoln premier
I owned a '56 Savoy when I was 19 1n 1960 and currently own a '56 Fury. If you don't mind I will add a correction on your auto transmission options. In '56 only the two speed auto trans was offered. The three speed automatic came out in '57. Also the 303 c.i. engine in the Fury could be ordered with a dual 4 barrel carb from the factory. The dual 4s could also be gotten as a dealer installed option. Just another interesting fact. The V shaped trunk ornament showed everyone that you had a V-8 engine. The 6 cylinder had a different ornament. '56 Plymouths definitely reflected the "jet age" look poplar in the 50s.. with the stylized jet hood ornament and the tail fins with a jet exhaust looking back up light at the bottom of the fins. Good job. Enjoyed your video.
Thank you so much for the corrections I really appreciate it this is a learning channel for everybody including myself it’s really hard whenever the information is conflicting but I really appreciate you =) Are you close to Pennsylvania by chance 56 fury is really hard to find here
I inherited my Grandfather’s 1956 Plymouth Savoy 4 door with the 277 engine. It’s a two tone Cherry Red and Eggshell White sedan. I love the push button shifter and the vacuum tube AM radio; the sound it produced was much richer than any modern solid state (transistor) radio. Parts were difficult to find before the internet but we got it back together and it ran as smooth as silk. Just be sure to use a quality oil filter and change the oil more often than you think it needs and you will have one of the best cars ever made!
The automatic transmission was a two speed: low and drive. There is a wire that goes from the push buttons to the transmission and how far the wire pushes or pulls determines what gear it goes into. There was no power steering or power brakes or power windows but it was still an awesome car! The rear seats had a lock button that you might expect; the front seats had a handle. If you push the handle forward it locked the door; if you pulled it back it opened the door.
There was no “Park” on the transmission; there was a small brake drum on the end of the transmission that bolted to the drive shaft. The parking brake was that little drum brake. I kept a tire block handy because that tiny brake drum wouldn’t always hold like you think it would…
My mother once owned one of these and it served its purpose although it didn't get good fuel economy. I am not sure which V8 engine it had because the 270 poly (shared with Dodge) was replaced by the A 277 during the model year. The A 277 was eventually enlarged to 318 cubic inches and powered many Dodge and Plymouth cars and trucks. I used to enjoy changing light bulbs on it especially under the dash board where I was able to sneak my hand into tight places to get at the sockets. They used to burn out frequently due to the variations in voltage produced by the generator. Today's alternator electrical systems are much more stable and reliable.
I’m in love with 56 savoy styling super underrated car.. much like the book of collectible cars hinted at, it has way more space then both the ford and Chevy. =) sadly Chrysler Corp is a shell of what they used to be
@@What.its.like. I had a 1974 Dodge Dart and there were elements of the styling that were similar to this car. It had much smaller vestiges of the tail fins which eventually became much larger on all Chrysler products from 1956--1960. In 1961-62 they got the ugly stick and eventually Virgil Exner got fired and was replaced by Elwood Engel who was hired away from Ford. The tail fins went away and were replaced by more conservative styling on all cars not just Chrysler products.
Seats like that are referred to as a 60/40 "split back" bench... Some cars (like Cadillacs and big Buicks) in the later Sixties through the early Eighties used what was called a 60/40 Split Bench, meaning that the driver's seat was like a bucket, but the passenger side was wider and carried a fold down armrest. As far as the information regarding transmission choices for the '56 Plymouth, I'm pretty sure that they offered the three speed manual, with overdrive as an option...and only the Powerflite two speed automatic with a dash mounted stalk shifter to the right of the steering wheel in 55 and early 56.... Mid year 1956, they went to the pushbutton setup. Hey... You're doing GREAT with the channel! Your reviews are very enjoyable to watch. Cheers!
I love your channel. Your research on each car is extensive! You don't miss anything. This is what I like. I am a retired stationary operating engineer/electrician so that is where my interest in your channel comes from because that is how think. Keep them coming!
Thank you it means a lot, I really try I hate given out false information it gets hard with some of the older vehicles because the information is all over the place.. i’m in outside the box kind of thinker going to do a reflection episode in a couple days that’s going to cover everything about how the channel got to where it’s at where we are right now and where I’d like it to go. =)
I learned to drive on a '56 Plymouth Fury. What a machine! Great video overall, but just a few thoughts. I never heard that the '56 was available in in 3-speed automatic. That would be the TorqueFlite that was the standard auto beginning in 1957. The door handle was pulled backward to unlatch the door. It was pushed forward to lock the door. The doors had to be locked from the outside with a key. Wish the owner hadn't removed the P L Y M O U T H badging from the hood. The cars did indeed rust out badly. The '55s and '56s were the best-looking Mopars of the decade.
Thank you so much for all those corrections this one was a little bit customized. I wonder when they freeze that feature out I just reviewed a car yesterday that had a key lock on the driver side door but it was from the 40s.. I think if I remember correctly it was the Pontiac silver streak.. I did like 15 cars yesterday back at classic auto Mall that place is epic =) I heard a rumor or a story saying the reason for that the reason for blocking your car or truck on the passenger side was if you parked on the street it would force you to climb out of the car and perhaps not get hit in traffic.. it’s super annoying I have a 52 Chevy truck that’s why I sure the glove box test because if you have something of value in your car or truck and it’s a pain to lock the car or truck at least you can put it in the glove box and lock the glove box and you don’t have to lock the truck or car.. with the battery in the floor it’s harder to steal.. can’t jump spark from battery to solenoid (not saying that it can’t be stolen just saying it’s hard to steal when the battery is in the floor a lot of people don’t know the battery is in the floor just like the master cylinder is on the floor in the other side)
My dad had a '55 Belvedere, red over black with a black top, 3-speed manual V8 (1st year for Plymouth). I was 4 years old so I don't remember what size V8. The major differences between the '55s & '56s was a completely different rear end style. The front grills were similar, the interiors seem to be identical and the Belvedere side trim was different. Mom never knew that it would go 115 MPH!
Friend of mine in high school had a 55 Dodge Coronet. 318 Red ram. 2 speed automatic. Four door. Bought it off an older couple cheap perfect paint perfect interior low miles. Of course we all thought it was a dark mobile back in 1967. Wish I had that car today. Roomy interior good road manners. Mileage sucked is they all did back then.
Dodge Red ram was their hemi? It’s confusing mopar is because they all did versions of the hemi and they are all different also Plymouth used red ram name and it wasn’t a hemi then they offered poly heads on same engine.. owner of this on was telling me that one can’t simply change the heads because water jackets don’t line up.. go figure
If you see the movie Houseboat with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, a 1956 Plymouth Belvedere convertible is prominently featured about 20 minutes into the film! Beautiful car! Great video! 👏👏👏
I owned a 56 Plymouth Savoy 4-door sedan. It was my first car at 16. My brother and I drove it 100 miles every Sunday morning delivering The Detroit Free Press to our customers in the country rain or snow. It was very reliable, but we wore it out.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with your car. I absolutely love these one of my favorite mid-50s designs and there’s tons of space inside of them.
Thank you so much you don’t know how much that actually means to me I will address all of it in the reflection episode.. about the channel thought process Like I said if you wanna know any more about me I’ll be more than help happy to share it September 21
I find it quite sad that there are so few of the old Plymouths still around, because I recall when there were a lot of them like this one when I was a kid. But your right in the fact they didn't seem to get the love that Chevy did. But they were good looking cars for sure.
It really doesn't matter if it's a Savoy or if its a Belvedere because outside of the trim it's the same car, now a fury is a different car and I believe the 303 only came in the fury .
Happy Anniversary! Just found your channel a few days ago, and I'm really enjoying it. Keep up the great work. The Savoy/Belvedere is gorgeous and very different from the '64 Belvedere I had as a teenager. The car and I were the same age, lol. It was a "three on the tree" with a great running slant six but it still had push-button controls for the heater and defroster. Just one suggestion for your anniversary videos: could you ask a female friend to help you show what it's like for women to drive these cars? I had to sit on a pillow to drive my Belvedere because without it I couldn't see over the steering wheel. I'm 5' 3".At least it didn't have huge tail fins! When I was a kid, my 5' 2" mother had a '57 De Soto (don't remember which model, but it had two-tone paint) with those enormous fins. I vividly remember how she struggled to see around them when she was trying to park that beast. A few years later she had a '57 Chevy Bel Air. Let's just say that Virgil Exner and Harley Earl were fairly cussed at times.
Thank you so much I’ve been trying to get my wife to come do some of these reviews with me but classic cars isn’t her thing she tells me it would be the equivalent of her asking me to take about make up or something to that effect
@@What.its.like. The 1957-58 Chrysler products were particularly bad due to poor quality control and no rustproofing treatment whatsoever leading to rusting out after only a few years. In my area (New York City) by the mid 1960s most of them were already gone.
On the engines: The 270 ci engine was a holdover from the 55 model and was the same engine that Dodge used from 55 thru 57 and was a poly design (intake & exhaust valves slanted away from each other, think 396 chevy or Ford 429/ 460). The 270, 315, 325 Dodge poly & hemi engines used the same block pattern, you could put the hemi heads on a poly block. The first Dodge hemi was in 54 & it was 241 ci. The 277 & 303 were completely different engines from the Plymouth & Dodge 270. The 270 poly had a separate sheet metal valley cover while the 277 & 303 used the intake manifold as a valley cover. The 277/ 303 morphed into the 318 poly which was used up until about 65 when it was replaced by the 318 LA block. I have heard many call the 318 poly a wide block. Not true, the poly & LA small blocks are almost identical. If you check the stroke, rod journal diameters & main diameters of all the engines from the 277 thru the 340 LA block you will see something in common. The 318 poly & 318 La have the same stroke, bore, main & rod journal sizes. End result, that 56 Plymouth block design lasted all the way from 56 thru the last year for the 318 (5,2) magnum in 2001. I have a 318 poly (65 year) in my shop & a 2000 5.9 (360) magnum block. Sitting side by side there is not much difference. I have rebuilt a Dodge 270 poly, Dodge 325 poly that was converted to hemi, a 303 out of a 57 Plymouth and 3 318 poly engines.The 270 poly engine is a completely different engine than the later polys. Just a bit of MoPar trivia.
The 3-speed Torqueflite automatic was introduced mid-model year in 1956. If you found one outside of the Chrysler Imperial line, it is pretty rare. Even the early, atleast 1956 Chrysler 300B normally had a Powerflite. Plymouth always had the smallest engines and was one make which never got the 1st generation Hemi. As shown, they did have hi-po engine options. Still, Plymouth had larger V8's available than the standard Ford V8 and the only Chevy V8 in 1956.
Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing that information =) I wasn’t 100% on the three speed auto some sources said there was a three speed automatic on offer. Other sources said 2 speed automatic was the only automatic transmission on offer.
@@What.its.like. I've seen a few Chysler -Mopar 1956 cars and only Imperials had the 3-speed Torquefite. In 1957 the 3-speed Torqueflite was available on all Mopar vehicles. Although the Powerflite was on the books through 1961, the only Mopars I'd seen using the Powerflite were the Desotos.
Lou ayer fui a la gasolinera del barrio y había un Plymouth 56 poniendo combustible ,había una empresa .Mateo Brunet que tenía una flota de estos autos para sus corredores de comercio,acá en Uruguay,fueron taxi,y para todo uso ,un autazo Fueron autos de Mama,la combinación de colores su trasmisión torquflite,y un pedal de frenos a prueba de mamá Con zapatos de taco Un Plymouth de estos rosado y blanco lo tenía mi maestra de 3er grado
I just saw your video of a later model of the Plymouth (1962, I think) where the tail fins had run their course and they were no more. The Plymouth and Dodge almost looked like compact cars by the mid 1960s . You commented that you could hardly tell whether those cars were coming or going much like the 1950 Studebaker cars. Interesting comparison to this car.
Yeah it’s a complete contrast like in my opinion the 56 Plymouth Savoy is one of the most beautiful I don’t think Chrysler made a ugly car and 56 Warren 55 for that matter 55 Desoto Ave. one of my favorite Chrysler designs ever and Virgil Exner design that one too if I’m not mistaken.. I said in an episode I don’t know if I if it made the final cut but to me the 50s is like being at the party I should say late 50s is like being at the party you know everybody’s having a good time by 1960 it’s like the worst hangover you ever experienced and I have no idea why styling had to suffer that much
Everything is so generic… I bought a 2009 Prius that’s a car that in the car community you’re not supposed to like I am going to do a full-blown review on it next week I’m going to do the most in-depth review because I’ve watched lots of reviews on that car before I went to go buy one and there isn’t one that talks about every single aspect of that car.. that I plan on talking about all of it it’s really not a bad car in fact I think it’s brilliant
My 1955 Savoy V-8 was my first car--it was a 3 on the tree and low and second were "scream, scream, then high was blah. They did that to work with their "high drive" where you could leave it in second all the time in town, not use the clutch because of the fluid coupling. That was probably gone in "56 when the push button auto came out--not sure. Anyway, the '56 with the big engine would blow off the chevy's.
I really appreciate you doing these videos when you say you think this is better than a chevy I don't think you have much of an eye for quality. I think I know where your channel is going.
Way more space than a Chevy.. is what I was getting at the savoy has more room than both the Chevy and the ford.. the savoy is different when is the last time you saw a savoy.. I’ve been to shows where it could have been a tri 5 Chevy and corvette show (nothing against those cars) just this is something different =) Channel is going pretty good
Very sharp looking car! Another fine example of some of the great design and style of the 50s 🤩 great looking interior too, and WOW so spacious! I've seen a lot of Chrysler products of this era, in old movies, used for patrol cars, as well as taxi cabs, and no doubt, they made great ones I'm sure, with the spacious interior and the trunk space as well! Also looking forward to the upcoming anniversary review! Somehow I missed finding the channel until fairly recently, I think it finally popped up on the feed, from all my other vintage car related channels I subscribe to, and I have to tell you? I am so GLAD that it did! It's an awesome channel and I really DIG it! 🤘😃
If you ever get a chance test drive a 1956 Plymouth Fury Plymouths first muscle car built to qualify their special 303 cubic inch NASCAR motor. They all came with heavy duty suspension package all were eggshell White with gold anodized aluminum hubcaps and side trim and even a factory tachometer in the dash. Very rare today I have not seen one at a show in 25 years.
I totally agree 57 is almost over the top not quite 59 is but in 56 I don’t think any automotive manufacturer made a bad car some better than others I don’t think Mopar made a bad looking car for 55 or 56 they get huge and 57 longer lower wider =)
Love these videos!.. ps. We're Plymouth on par with Ford and Chevy?... Like were there name snobs back then. Kinda like Gibson and Fender 1st and then everyonelse?
My father bought a new 56 Savoy. Why did these cars rot out so fast? Inside the rocker panels and rear quarters was bare metal, or the primer paint was so thin it provided no protection.
My first car was a 1956 Savoy --- two-toned green. Because I bought it used ($50 and that was wasted) and being my first car (used), it was a pile of crap, mechanically. The only thing I can say was interesting, is the automatic transmission was button controlled (left side) instead of a shifter off the steering column. I only had it for a few months then got rid of it.
Sorry it wasn’t good to you I will say mopars are finicky very finicky we had a 62 savoy if you looked at it wrong wouldn’t start ran good and hooked up well until you said it out load and then it would give you a hard time
@@What.its.like. The reason my car was a piece of crap was because of the previous owner who didn't care for it properly ... and because I was inexperienced at the time in buying a car. And it was a 4-dr sedan, the worst style of car in the industry (of course, necessary and the bread & butter of it as well). I'm either a 2-dr or wagon fan (I also owned a '57 Nomad wagon).
In 1957 the top banana was a 350 V8 dual quads ( fury ) when the car company's did the flying mile at Daytona beach the fury out ran the Chrysler , and the top brass was all kind a pissed off , the story's on the Webb !
Lincoln designers must have been spying on the Chrysler stylists. The front treatment of the 1956 Lincoln is practically a restatement of this Plymouth in nearly every way.
Great review. Usually isn’t the driver’s seat back the smaller of the two? I don’t understand the comment that in regard to fins _it wasn’t supposed to be that way._ Who decides what the future is supposed to be like?
Look at Ford’s cars the lack of fins, or how when the fin era came in car manufacturers were bolting fins onto their cars.. Virgil exner accelerated that design style
Yeah for sure you’re right I should’ve totally worded it differently =) Virgil Exner technically wasn’t the first person to put pins on a car Harley earl was Exner took it to the next level
You got it someone got it before you but great catch going to try and do songs from time period or year will work that way on cars that are older than 1940 it will be a free-for-all..
Sadly soon all combustion cars and trucks including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Car washs will be forbidden too because they are climate killers, now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime. (BABVVEN & TEBBVEN & BEFVO laws)!!!!
I love ALL the old cars in proper condition, but you have to be blind to think this looks better than 56 Chevy, or even Ford. It resembles the stodgy 54 from a couple years earlier from Ford. Chevy was way more trim & nimble looking, & apparently the public agreed. And I'm not prejudiced, my 1st car was a Plymouth.
Just my opinion the fins on this car Chevy stole the design and fitted them to their 57 design it almost looks like a baby Lincoln I’m not a mopar guy so that’s saying a lot =)
@@What.its.like. now the front could be questionable. Both Lincoln and Plymouth had the similar front end. Both Lincoln and Plymouth had then rooflines starting in 56. There were plenty of spying going on in both camps. One thing that is not being said about Exne is that Exner started designing models without fins back in 59 for the 63 lineup. The 61 Fury’s were the first that didn’t have fins beside the Valiants
It's still a belvedere. The Savoy has different trim the Belvedere wasn't just a hard top in the 1956 model it also came as a post coupe. Every single model had a post coupe, so that's not a Savoy.
@@What.its.like. It just seems a little bit incredible to me that someone would go through the time to drill all of those extra trim holes to put the wrong kind of trim on the car. Unless the front fenders and doors have been replaced. Or the car was a Salvage job at one point and has a Savoy body tag on it. The reason I'm sceptical to call this car a Savoy is because it has so many interior and exterior features exclusive to The Belvedere line. So it's more plausible that it started out as a Belvedere and had a Savoy body tag put on, instead of someone going threw to rebuild a Savoy as a belvedere. Seems like the latter would be a whole lot of extra work. I love the 56 plymouths even as a kid. But ended up with the more sensible 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook Club Coupe.
@@What.its.like. Obviously the jet age was a big factor, but the ‘55 Plymouth front end is the same (other than the grill center) so makes me wonder who copied who lol.
Virgil Exners only hit was the 57 Plymouth, yet Ford and Chevy still well outsold it in 57'. By 1960 Virgil was washed up, his car designs were so ugly Chrysler fired him. When I was a young kid these 56' plymouths were quite common but never caught my eye. They were bland. The 56' Chevy's and the 56 Fords was where it was at. We had a 55' Rocket 88 Olds 2 door hardtop, a true classic. Our next car was a 62' Olds Ninety Eight. All my father bought was strictly Olds.
To be fair Virgil Exner was fired because of a design dispute Exner wanted to keep the fins on cars he retaliated with the 1960-61 imperial which I believe has the biggest fans it’s a special imperial they didn’t make that many of them they are about as high as 59 Cadillac fins they might actually be bigger.. I did a review on a 62 Plymouth Savoy a while ago that episode has all of the information in it as to why Virgil Exner was fired.. Exner designed all of the Chrysler products in 1955 one of the most gorgeous areas of Chrysler 5556 1955 De Soto is one of the most gorgeous cars of the design by Exner.. Exner also gets credit for designing the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.. he had a Lotta good designs not sure what happened in the 60s early 60s but the car that got him fired that wasn’t the original design proposal the original design proposal looks a lot better than the outgoing product he only had a week to fix it to downsize it to the product that we saw.
Jay, seeing the inside of this car I'm almost positive this is a Belvedere. The interior is much too plain for a Savoy. Again, this is during my lifetime. Plymouth was Chrysler's answer to a "poor man's" car. I will not swear, but with Belvedere trim and the overly plain interior I don't see this as a Savoy, just my opinion.
Seats and interior are brand new as well forgot to mention that he had them done in same style as Belvedere they are the same car essentially aside from nicer interior and more trim and how the two tone paint was applied
I miss the days when with just a glance you knew the make and model of every car you seen. Today's vehicles can only be identified by looking at the badges. So boring.
You asked for ideas re anniversary of your channel. How about the top 3 things you learned from reading comments made by viewers? Some random comments. Fins - when Elwood Engel chopped the fins off the 1962 Chrysler line up, Exner was quoted as saying the cars looked like "plucked chickens." Grammar, conjugation, and syntax - can you find a way to run your script through grammar-checking software, or at least have someone who is good with language read it over first? Grammar exists to make communicating clear, and errors only cause confusion as to what it is you are trying to say, respectfully.
I like that idea thank you so much I’ve learned so much from everyone in the comment section.. it’s like a car community and that’s one aspect that I really wanted this channel to be. That’s why I’m in the comment section and respond because I want to show I care. =) The grammar is getting better.. I’m a one man show I don’t have a team of people grammar mistakes happen everywhere I’ve read motor trend articles where grammar wasn’t proper I don’t use double negatives or anything like that. Plus it shows I’m a real genuine person, that makes mistakes so grammar though important not primary focus
If you compared the quality of this car with ford or chevy it was embaressing instead of chrome steel it was chrome pot metal. Corners were cut every you looked. Basically a piece of JUNK
Look at the fins Chevy ripped those off is what I was getting at and the 57 Chevy fin is basic the fin on the Plymouth it curves.. I would love to compare all three one day. I did a comparison on the ford and Chevy =)
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A guy I met at a small car show said he played with Little Richard on tour as the bassist.
No clue if he was just BSing me or not, but he did give me some CDs of his band.
He had a nice 57 Chevy, but his friend with the unrestored 57 Buick Century Riviera with the three piece back glass.. oh, THAT was a car.
Savoys were available from the factory with a "Belvedere Trim Package." The Belvedere nameplate was deleted with a plain chrome piece. Thanks for the memories, our neighbor had one if these. I was so amazed with the push-button drive.
At 7:25... The vent window turned all the way around to guide air into the car was our "air conditioning". CB radio and 8-track under the dash, beefier speakers in the rear deck. My 4-door Savoy had the 277 cu in V-8 with a four-barrel carb and a 3-speed stick on the column. The air cleaner (13:10) was the oil-bath type, the giant tin can, it was drained and freshened with every oil change. I bought my Savoy in 1967 and drove another 100k in 10 years. At some point a retaining ring in the transmission broke and it broke a few gears and locked in reverse. I was able to just pull the trans from a '49 Plymouth (!!) and it popped right in, 1-to-1, bolt-for-bolt replacement. Lots of great memories. When the mid-70's oil prices made gasoline zoom to over 60 cents a gallon I finally moved on to a '66 VW 1600 Beetle. I sold the Plymouth for $200, five dollars less than I paid for it 10 years earlier.
Here's a Flickr album with a few photos. www.flickr.com/photos/widdgget/albums/72157700200346261
BTW, the uneven split in the back of the bench seat was to give whoever was climbing in the back more room to get by, assuming that most of the time the driver would be letting them in the car.
Thank you so much for sharing all that information great stories thank you so much for sharing all of those awesome memories =)
"Highway Patrol" has given motivation to study cars from the 50s. I now have an extensive file of pictures of cars primarily from the middle 30s to the early 60s. But the 50s are, to me, of artistic design coupled with modern aviation design. You can tell the seasons of "Highway Patrol" by noting which make and model Captain Dan Mathews is driving. Lately, season 2, he's driving a '56 Oldsmobile instead of the usual Buick. The show had a couple of '41 Oldsmobiles, one which was used in season 1, episode 1.
The designers made changes each year to try to enhance the previous years design aspects. Grill features and taillights are the most telling and most unique. My sister is only the second owner of her 1953 Savoy. I love this little bundle of a car. Compare it to the longer bodies of just two to three years later.
=) great story thank you so much for sharing
Lots of luxury and fine interiors. But no seat belts, safety steering system, disc brakes, cabin/ doors reinforcement, and no air bags. Enjoy the ride but never crash in a gorgeous classic car. 😮
My parents owned a 56 Belvedere in yellow and white. It was my mom’s all time favorite car!
I still can’t get over how big it is on the inside there is more room inside the backseat of the Plymouth Savoy and it’s smaller than the Lincoln premier
I owned a '56 Savoy when I was 19 1n 1960 and currently own a '56 Fury. If you don't mind I will add a correction on your auto transmission options. In '56 only the two speed auto
trans was offered. The three speed automatic came out in '57. Also the 303 c.i. engine in the Fury could be ordered with a dual 4 barrel carb from the factory. The dual 4s could also be
gotten as a dealer installed option. Just another interesting fact. The V shaped trunk ornament showed everyone that you had a V-8 engine. The 6 cylinder had a different
ornament. '56 Plymouths definitely reflected the "jet age" look poplar in the 50s.. with the stylized jet hood ornament and the tail fins with a jet exhaust looking back up light at the bottom
of the fins. Good job. Enjoyed your video.
Thank you so much for the corrections I really appreciate it this is a learning channel for everybody including myself it’s really hard whenever the information is conflicting but I really appreciate you =)
Are you close to Pennsylvania by chance 56 fury is really hard to find here
I inherited my Grandfather’s 1956 Plymouth Savoy 4 door with the 277 engine. It’s a two tone Cherry Red and Eggshell White sedan. I love the push button shifter and the vacuum tube AM radio; the sound it produced was much richer than any modern solid state (transistor) radio. Parts were difficult to find before the internet but we got it back together and it ran as smooth as silk. Just be sure to use a quality oil filter and change the oil more often than you think it needs and you will have one of the best cars ever made!
The automatic transmission was a two speed: low and drive. There is a wire that goes from the push buttons to the transmission and how far the wire pushes or pulls determines what gear it goes into. There was no power steering or power brakes or power windows but it was still an awesome car!
The rear seats had a lock button that you might expect; the front seats had a handle. If you push the handle forward it locked the door; if you pulled it back it opened the door.
There was no “Park” on the transmission; there was a small brake drum on the end of the transmission that bolted to the drive shaft. The parking brake was that little drum brake. I kept a tire block handy because that tiny brake drum wouldn’t always hold like you think it would…
Awesome insight and information =)
My mother once owned one of these and it served its purpose although it didn't get good fuel economy. I am not sure which V8 engine it had because the 270 poly (shared with Dodge) was replaced by the A 277 during the model year. The A 277 was eventually enlarged to 318 cubic inches and powered many Dodge and Plymouth cars and trucks. I used to enjoy changing light bulbs on it especially under the dash board where I was able to sneak my hand into tight places to get at the sockets. They used to burn out frequently due to the variations in voltage produced by the generator. Today's alternator electrical systems are much more stable and reliable.
Awesome story and information thank you so much for sharing =)
I have a ’56 Plymouth Savoy sedan. I absolutely love this car. Not very many videos on or about these cars, so thank you for sharing this video.
The plan is to one day hit them all especially 50s cars wagons vans 2 dr sedans hardtops 4 drs all of them =)
Thank you so much for watching =)
Mr. Richard Penniman from Macon, Georgia.. Good music.. 😊
Beautiful car! And how cool that the owner duplicated their first ever ride and was generous enough to share it with us!
I’m in love with 56 savoy styling super underrated car.. much like the book of collectible cars hinted at, it has way more space then both the ford and Chevy. =) sadly Chrysler Corp is a shell of what they used to be
Great catch on the Savory I had never noticed how much it looks like a Lincoln from the front and a Chevy in the rear.. 😊
More one looks at that car the more designs they see was wondering if anyone sees anything other than those two
I see a little Hudson Hornet in the hood, there are a few influences in this defiantly the best around bang for your buck for 1956.
@@What.its.like. I had a 1974 Dodge Dart and there were elements of the styling that were similar to this car. It had much smaller vestiges of the tail fins which eventually became much larger on all Chrysler products from 1956--1960. In 1961-62 they got the ugly stick and eventually Virgil Exner got fired and was replaced by Elwood Engel who was hired away from Ford. The tail fins went away and were replaced by more conservative styling on all cars not just Chrysler products.
Chevy got its rear end design from this car
Seats like that are referred to as a 60/40 "split back" bench... Some cars (like Cadillacs and big Buicks) in the later Sixties through the early Eighties used what was called a 60/40 Split Bench, meaning that the driver's seat was like a bucket, but the passenger side was wider and carried a fold down armrest.
As far as the information regarding transmission choices for the '56 Plymouth, I'm pretty sure that they offered the three speed manual, with overdrive as an option...and only the Powerflite two speed automatic with a dash mounted stalk shifter to the right of the steering wheel in 55 and early 56.... Mid year 1956, they went to the pushbutton setup.
Hey... You're doing GREAT with the channel! Your reviews are very enjoyable to watch.
Cheers!
Thank you so much for the insight
Glad you dig this channel =)
I love your channel. Your research on each car is extensive! You don't miss anything. This is what I like. I am a retired stationary operating engineer/electrician so that is where my interest in your channel comes from because that is how think. Keep them coming!
Thank you it means a lot, I really try I hate given out false information it gets hard with some of the older vehicles because the information is all over the place.. i’m in outside the box kind of thinker going to do a reflection episode in a couple days that’s going to cover everything about how the channel got to where it’s at where we are right now and where I’d like it to go. =)
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I learned to drive on a '56 Plymouth Fury. What a machine! Great video overall, but just a few thoughts. I never heard that the '56 was available in in 3-speed automatic. That would be the TorqueFlite that was the standard auto beginning in 1957. The door handle was pulled backward to unlatch the door. It was pushed forward to lock the door. The doors had to be locked from the outside with a key. Wish the owner hadn't removed the P L Y M O U T H badging from the hood. The cars did indeed rust out badly. The '55s and '56s were the best-looking Mopars of the decade.
Thank you so much for all those corrections this one was a little bit customized.
I wonder when they freeze that feature out I just reviewed a car yesterday that had a key lock on the driver side door but it was from the 40s.. I think if I remember correctly it was the Pontiac silver streak.. I did like 15 cars yesterday back at classic auto Mall that place is epic =) I heard a rumor or a story saying the reason for that the reason for blocking your car or truck on the passenger side was if you parked on the street it would force you to climb out of the car and perhaps not get hit in traffic.. it’s super annoying I have a 52 Chevy truck that’s why I sure the glove box test because if you have something of value in your car or truck and it’s a pain to lock the car or truck at least you can put it in the glove box and lock the glove box and you don’t have to lock the truck or car.. with the battery in the floor it’s harder to steal.. can’t jump spark from battery to solenoid (not saying that it can’t be stolen just saying it’s hard to steal when the battery is in the floor a lot of people don’t know the battery is in the floor just like the master cylinder is on the floor in the other side)
The 3 speed automatic transmission came out late in the 56 model year. They were more common starting in 57
Thank you for sharing that information =)
My first ride from the hospital was in a 52' Oldsmobile in the late 50s.
Nice what color and body style =)
@@What.its.like. Yellow, 2 door 88.
Nice with the rocket motor?
Not sure of the engine. I don't remember it, just seen pictures of it.
My dad had a '55 Belvedere, red over black with a black top, 3-speed manual V8 (1st year for Plymouth). I was 4 years old so I don't remember what size V8. The major differences between the '55s & '56s was a completely different rear end style. The front grills were similar, the interiors seem to be identical and the Belvedere side trim was different. Mom never knew that it would go 115 MPH!
Great information thank you so much for sharing. =)
Friend of mine in high school had a 55 Dodge Coronet. 318 Red ram. 2 speed automatic. Four door. Bought it off an older couple cheap perfect paint perfect interior low miles. Of course we all thought it was a dark mobile back in 1967. Wish I had that car today. Roomy interior good road manners. Mileage sucked is they all did back then.
Dodge Red ram was their hemi? It’s confusing mopar is because they all did versions of the hemi and they are all different also Plymouth used red ram name and it wasn’t a hemi then they offered poly heads on same engine.. owner of this on was telling me that one can’t simply change the heads because water jackets don’t line up.. go figure
@@What.its.like. I don't think it was a hemi.
Great memories, my friend. The first car I knew, intimately, in childhood. Thanks.
Thank you so much for watching =)
If you see the movie Houseboat with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, a 1956 Plymouth Belvedere convertible is prominently featured about 20 minutes into the film! Beautiful car! Great video! 👏👏👏
I’ll have to watch that video
Thank you =)
Hey Jay, great review!!! I'm a big fan of cars from the fifties & this Savoy is gorgeous!!!! Thanks for sharing this exciting video!!! 👍👍🙂
Me too I love the 50s always have =)
I owned a 56 Plymouth Savoy 4-door sedan. It was my first car at 16. My brother and I drove it 100 miles every Sunday morning delivering The Detroit Free Press to our customers in the country rain or snow. It was very reliable, but we wore it out.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with your car. I absolutely love these one of my favorite mid-50s designs and there’s tons of space inside of them.
Thanks very much for posting this one. First car was a '55 Belvedere. And have a Happy Channel Anniversary. We all love your format.
Thank you so much you don’t know how much that actually means to me I will address all of it in the reflection episode.. about the channel thought process
Like I said if you wanna know any more about me I’ll be more than help happy to share it September 21
Love that car. I had one for a few years. Comfy and quiet to drive on the highway.
It definitely seems like it would be a super comfy ride =)
I find it quite sad that there are so few of the old Plymouths still around, because I recall when there were a lot of them like this one when I was a kid. But your right in the fact they didn't seem to get the love that Chevy did. But they were good looking cars for sure.
Owner told me that the mopars from this time rusted out easy they cheaped out on metal finishing brand new cars sitting on lots with rust problems
It really doesn't matter if it's a Savoy or if its a Belvedere because outside of the trim it's the same car, now a fury is a different car and I believe the 303 only came in the fury .
Yeah I just left that in there to show the powerful engine
Thank you so much for that correction =)
Beautiful Plymouth 👍
Yeah it was I’ve been trying to do that car all summer I met him earlier this year and our schedules just never lined out great guy great car =)
Great car, and great review. I look forward to more of your vintage rare care videos. Keep going and growing.
Thank you so much my goal is for all the cars that got suppress and never got reviewed will get reviewed on this channel =)
Happy Anniversary! Just found your channel a few days ago, and I'm really enjoying it. Keep up the great work. The Savoy/Belvedere is gorgeous and very different from the '64 Belvedere I had as a teenager. The car and I were the same age, lol. It was a "three on the tree" with a great running slant six but it still had push-button controls for the heater and defroster.
Just one suggestion for your anniversary videos: could you ask a female friend to help you show what it's like for women to drive these cars? I had to sit on a pillow to drive my Belvedere because without it I couldn't see over the steering wheel. I'm 5' 3".At least it didn't have huge tail fins!
When I was a kid, my 5' 2" mother had a '57 De Soto (don't remember which model, but it had two-tone paint) with those enormous fins. I vividly remember how she struggled to see around them when she was trying to park that beast. A few years later she had a '57 Chevy Bel Air. Let's just say that Virgil Exner and Harley Earl were fairly cussed at times.
Thank you so much I’ve been trying to get my wife to come do some of these reviews with me but classic cars isn’t her thing she tells me it would be the equivalent of her asking me to take about make up or something to that effect
BEAUTIFUL RIDE MAN!
It was that my favorite between ford Chevy and Plymouth.. Plymouth wins I never drove the Plymouth though so idk what it’s like to drive
I knew a guy who had a 55 Savoy. His was a 6 cylinder 2 door stick car. Also all black. Neat car. His had a radio. I restored it to play.
Plymouth especially in the 50s seem to be rare owner said in 57 they cheaped out on metal treatment he said cars that were brand new had rust on them
@@What.its.like. The 1957-58 Chrysler products were particularly bad due to poor quality control and no rustproofing treatment whatsoever leading to rusting out after only a few years. In my area (New York City) by the mid 1960s most of them were already gone.
I wish that my 2004 mercury marquis had as much legroom that this Savoy has. I would really enjoy it
50s Mopar Chrysler products have the most legroom of any car in the 50s at least.. It’s not even a contest in the four-door are like limos
On the engines: The 270 ci engine was a holdover from the 55 model and was the same engine that Dodge used from 55 thru 57 and was a poly design (intake & exhaust valves slanted away from each other, think 396 chevy or Ford 429/ 460). The 270, 315, 325 Dodge poly & hemi engines used the same block pattern, you could put the hemi heads on a poly block. The first Dodge hemi was in 54 & it was 241 ci. The 277 & 303 were completely different engines from the Plymouth & Dodge 270. The 270 poly had a separate sheet metal valley cover while the 277 & 303 used the intake manifold as a valley cover. The 277/ 303 morphed into the 318 poly which was used up until about 65 when it was replaced by the 318 LA block. I have heard many call the 318 poly a wide block. Not true, the poly & LA small blocks are almost identical. If you check the stroke, rod journal diameters & main diameters of all the engines from the 277 thru the 340 LA block you will see something in common. The 318 poly & 318 La have the same stroke, bore, main & rod journal sizes. End result, that 56 Plymouth block design lasted all the way from 56 thru the last year for the 318 (5,2) magnum in 2001. I have a 318 poly (65 year) in my shop & a 2000 5.9 (360) magnum block. Sitting side by side there is not much difference. I have rebuilt a Dodge 270 poly, Dodge 325 poly that was converted to hemi, a 303 out of a 57 Plymouth and 3 318 poly engines.The 270 poly engine is a completely different engine than the later polys. Just a bit of MoPar trivia.
Wow thank you so much for taking the time to share all of that useful information =) really appreciate it
The 3-speed Torqueflite automatic was introduced mid-model year in 1956. If you found one outside of the Chrysler Imperial line, it is pretty rare. Even the early, atleast 1956 Chrysler 300B normally had a Powerflite. Plymouth always had the smallest engines and was one make which never got the 1st generation Hemi. As shown, they did have hi-po engine options. Still, Plymouth had larger V8's available than the standard Ford V8 and the only Chevy V8 in 1956.
Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing that information =) I wasn’t 100% on the three speed auto some sources said there was a three speed automatic on offer. Other sources said 2 speed automatic was the only automatic transmission on offer.
@@What.its.like. I've seen a few Chysler -Mopar 1956 cars and only Imperials had the 3-speed Torquefite. In 1957 the 3-speed Torqueflite was available on all Mopar vehicles. Although the Powerflite was on the books through 1961, the only Mopars I'd seen using the Powerflite were the Desotos.
Gorgeous car...thank you for the review.
Thank you so much for watching love the styling of this forward look mopar =)
Nice car! Liked the story of the badging.
Thanks
=) if given the chose between Chevy Ford or Plymouth I’d take the Plymouth all day long
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Given the choice, I would take two Ply 😊
The 6 cylinder with a stroke of 4.6” is very long for a non-stationary engine
Give me a 57 Fury over a 57 Bel Air any day. But which car has become an (undeserved) icon?
57 Chevy is vastly overrated I’d take the golden hawk =)
Lou ayer fui a la gasolinera del barrio y había un Plymouth 56 poniendo combustible ,había una empresa .Mateo Brunet que tenía una flota de estos autos para sus corredores de comercio,acá en Uruguay,fueron taxi,y para todo uso ,un autazo Fueron autos de Mama,la combinación de colores su trasmisión torquflite,y un pedal de frenos a prueba de mamá Con zapatos de taco Un Plymouth de estos rosado y blanco lo tenía mi maestra de 3er grado
I just saw your video of a later model of the Plymouth (1962, I think) where the tail fins had run their course and they were no more. The Plymouth and Dodge almost looked like compact cars by the mid 1960s . You commented that you could hardly tell whether those cars were coming or going much like the 1950 Studebaker cars. Interesting comparison to this car.
Yeah it’s a complete contrast like in my opinion the 56 Plymouth Savoy is one of the most beautiful I don’t think Chrysler made a ugly car and 56 Warren 55 for that matter 55 Desoto Ave. one of my favorite Chrysler designs ever and Virgil Exner design that one too if I’m not mistaken.. I said in an episode I don’t know if I if it made the final cut but to me the 50s is like being at the party I should say late 50s is like being at the party you know everybody’s having a good time by 1960 it’s like the worst hangover you ever experienced and I have no idea why styling had to suffer that much
@@What.its.like. What about the styling of today’s vehicles? Is it better or worse than the 1960s?
Everything is so generic… I bought a 2009 Prius that’s a car that in the car community you’re not supposed to like I am going to do a full-blown review on it next week I’m going to do the most in-depth review because I’ve watched lots of reviews on that car before I went to go buy one and there isn’t one that talks about every single aspect of that car.. that I plan on talking about all of it it’s really not a bad car in fact I think it’s brilliant
My 1955 Savoy V-8 was my first car--it was a 3 on the tree and low and second were "scream, scream, then high was blah. They did that to work with their "high drive" where you could leave it in second all the time in town, not use the clutch because of the fluid coupling. That was probably gone in "56 when the push button auto came out--not sure. Anyway, the '56 with the big engine would blow off the chevy's.
Awesome story thank you so much Chrysler in the 50s was ahead of everyone one else sadly they are a shell of what they used to be
I really appreciate you doing these videos when you say you think this is better than a chevy I don't think you have much of an eye for quality. I think I know where your channel is going.
Way more space than a Chevy.. is what I was getting at the savoy has more room than both the Chevy and the ford.. the savoy is different when is the last time you saw a savoy.. I’ve been to shows where it could have been a tri 5 Chevy and corvette show (nothing against those cars) just this is something different =)
Channel is going pretty good
Very sharp looking car! Another fine example of some of the great design and style of the 50s 🤩 great looking interior too, and WOW so spacious! I've seen a lot of Chrysler products of this era, in old movies, used for patrol cars, as well as taxi cabs, and no doubt, they made great ones I'm sure, with the spacious interior and the trunk space as well! Also looking forward to the upcoming anniversary review! Somehow I missed finding the channel until fairly recently, I think it finally popped up on the feed, from all my other vintage car related channels I subscribe to, and I have to tell you? I am so GLAD that it did! It's an awesome channel and I really DIG it! 🤘😃
Thank you so much for the positive vibes it took awhile to get to this format and always making adjustments to it, but it means a lot =)
Little Richard - Gonna Have Some Fun Tonight.
Long tall sally good guess tho someone got it before you
That car is simply deluxe!
56 that’s Plymouth Savoy is simply gorgeous
They road like a Caddillac Ran like a turtle
Most came out with 218 sixes
More space than both the ford and Chevy as well
If you ever get a chance test drive a 1956 Plymouth Fury Plymouths first muscle car built to qualify their special 303 cubic inch NASCAR motor. They all came with heavy duty suspension package all were eggshell White with gold anodized aluminum hubcaps and side trim and even a factory tachometer in the dash. Very rare today I have not seen one at a show in 25 years.
I never saw the 56 fury I saw a 57 fury but that was at least 23 years ago
For a while now I have thought most 56 Model cars look better than the 57 versions. A bit more subtle and classy.
I totally agree 57 is almost over the top not quite 59 is but in 56 I don’t think any automotive manufacturer made a bad car some better than others I don’t think Mopar made a bad looking car for 55 or 56 they get huge and 57 longer lower wider =)
thats a great car Justin, I love it 👍
Totally agree
Great video
Thank you, glad you enjoyed this episode =)
I noticed that too
Love these videos!.. ps. We're Plymouth on par with Ford and Chevy?... Like were there name snobs back then. Kinda like Gibson and Fender 1st and then everyonelse?
Plymouth was on par with Chevy and Ford.. glad you dig that car belongs to a friend of mine can’t wait to see him again soon =)
i've got one of these sitting in the driveway with the 277 polysphere V8. i rescued her from the crusher
That’s awesome thank you so much for saving that car do you still have it. Any cool stories of that car 😃
My father bought a new 56 Savoy. Why did these cars rot out so fast? Inside the rocker panels and rear quarters was bare metal, or the primer paint was so thin it provided no protection.
Thank you so much fir sharing that insight =)
The engine type was'nt mentioned. Looks to be a poly I believe the 260 was a hemi, so it is likely the 277.
Was written at the top of the specs
My first car was a 1956 Savoy --- two-toned green. Because I bought it used ($50 and that was wasted) and being my first car (used), it was a pile of crap, mechanically. The only thing I can say was interesting, is the automatic transmission was button controlled (left side) instead of a shifter off the steering column. I only had it for a few months then got rid of it.
Sorry it wasn’t good to you I will say mopars are finicky very finicky we had a 62 savoy if you looked at it wrong wouldn’t start ran good and hooked up well until you said it out load and then it would give you a hard time
@@What.its.like. The reason my car was a piece of crap was because of the previous owner who didn't care for it properly ... and because I was inexperienced at the time in buying a car. And it was a 4-dr sedan, the worst style of car in the industry (of course, necessary and the bread & butter of it as well). I'm either a 2-dr or wagon fan (I also owned a '57 Nomad wagon).
In 1957 the top banana was a 350 V8 dual quads ( fury ) when the car company's did the flying mile at Daytona beach the fury out ran the Chrysler , and the top brass was all kind a pissed off , the story's on the Webb !
Great information thank you so much for sharing =)
Lincoln designers must have been spying on the Chrysler stylists. The front treatment of the 1956 Lincoln is practically a restatement of this Plymouth in nearly every way.
Lots of different designs in that one design
Great review. Usually isn’t the driver’s seat back the smaller of the two? I don’t understand the comment that in regard to fins _it wasn’t supposed to be that way._ Who decides what the future is supposed to be like?
Look at Ford’s cars the lack of fins, or how when the fin era came in car manufacturers were bolting fins onto their cars.. Virgil exner accelerated that design style
@@What.its.like. I see now. I’m splitting hairs, just know I enjoy your reviews! I think “we might not have had fins if not for Exner “ is closer.
Yeah for sure you’re right I should’ve totally worded it differently =) Virgil Exner technically wasn’t the first person to put pins on a car Harley earl was Exner took it to the next level
Little Richard long tall sally
You got it someone got it before you but great catch going to try and do songs from time period or year will work that way on cars that are older than 1940 it will be a free-for-all..
The Beatles had a #1 hit with the same song in 65.
I thought they did a cover of that song
Sadly soon all combustion cars and trucks including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-(
In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Car washs will be forbidden too because they are climate killers, now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime. (BABVVEN & TEBBVEN & BEFVO laws)!!!!
It’s super sad
"Long Tall Sally" By Little Richard!!
You got it =)
Good golly miss Molly
I had a 4 door hardtop
Belvedere.
Awesome =)
Why is their an outside mirror on the passenger side of the car?
Those were not put on cars until the early to mid-1970's.
They were optional or added after wards.. a lot of people just chose not to tick that box
Why is it's lesser brother the Plymouth Plaza? I looked at one couple weeks ago in mint condition
Yep plaza was base model
My friends dad had one with air conditioning.
=)
I love ALL the old cars in proper condition, but you have to be blind to think this looks better than 56 Chevy, or even Ford. It resembles the stodgy 54 from a couple years earlier from Ford. Chevy was way more trim & nimble looking, & apparently the public agreed. And I'm not prejudiced, my 1st car was a Plymouth.
Just my opinion the fins on this car Chevy stole the design and fitted them to their 57 design it almost looks like a baby Lincoln I’m not a mopar guy so that’s saying a lot =)
Plymouth's Savoy and Plaza were named after fancy NY hotels.
Thank you so much for sharing that information =)
And the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore was about as famous at the time. Savoy is in London not New York, at least it was the most famous of that name.
The fins were on this 56 Plymouth before it was on the “57” chevy
Yeah if you look at the fins on the Plymouth versus the fans on the Chevy you can definitely tell Chevy ripped those fins off of Virgil Exners design
@@What.its.like. now the front could be questionable. Both Lincoln and Plymouth had the similar front end. Both Lincoln and Plymouth had then rooflines starting in 56. There were plenty of spying going on in both camps. One thing that is not being said about Exne is that Exner started designing models without fins back in 59 for the 63 lineup. The 61 Fury’s were the first that didn’t have fins beside the Valiants
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Were you stomping at the Savoy?
Not sure I know what you mean
@@What.its.like. From the Disco song "Le Freak". - have a great Christmas
Had I been living in the 50s I would had purchased this over a 57 Chevy. This car was probably cheaper and more practical
Me too but in 57 I’d buy the golden hawk
It's still a belvedere.
The Savoy has different trim the Belvedere wasn't just a hard top in the 1956 model it also came as a post coupe. Every single model had a post coupe, so that's not a Savoy.
Owner said vin tags it as savoy had a 2 door sedan in the line up took the pictures straight from ad
@@What.its.like. It just seems a little bit incredible to me that someone would go through the time to drill all of those extra trim holes to put the wrong kind of trim on the car.
Unless the front fenders and doors have been replaced.
Or the car was a Salvage job at one point and has a Savoy body tag on it.
The reason I'm sceptical to call this car a Savoy is because it has so many interior and exterior features exclusive to The Belvedere line.
So it's more plausible that it started out as a Belvedere and had a Savoy body tag put on, instead of someone going threw to rebuild a Savoy as a belvedere. Seems like the latter would be a whole lot of extra work.
I love the 56 plymouths even as a kid.
But ended up with the more sensible 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook Club Coupe.
I see Plymouth styling in Lincolns.
I think it’s very interesting the Packard 55 Packard 55 Lincoln definitely see both of them in this design
@@What.its.like. Obviously the jet age was a big factor, but the ‘55 Plymouth front end is the same (other than the grill center) so makes me wonder who copied who lol.
The front seat is a 60/40 split
People still wore hats in the 50s
Yeah
Virgil Exner will never be duplicated. Ahead of the game seemed to be his style.
It’s sad in a way looking back how Chrysler is just a former shell of what they used to be
Virgil Exners only hit was the 57 Plymouth, yet Ford and Chevy still well outsold it in 57'. By 1960 Virgil was washed up, his car designs were so ugly Chrysler fired him. When I was a young kid these 56' plymouths were quite common but never caught my eye. They were bland. The 56' Chevy's and the 56 Fords was where it was at. We had a 55' Rocket 88 Olds 2 door hardtop, a true classic. Our next car was a 62' Olds Ninety Eight. All my father bought was strictly Olds.
To be fair Virgil Exner was fired because of a design dispute Exner wanted to keep the fins on cars he retaliated with the 1960-61 imperial which I believe has the biggest fans it’s a special imperial they didn’t make that many of them they are about as high as 59 Cadillac fins they might actually be bigger..
I did a review on a 62 Plymouth Savoy a while ago that episode has all of the information in it as to why Virgil Exner was fired.. Exner designed all of the Chrysler products in 1955 one of the most gorgeous areas of Chrysler 5556 1955 De Soto is one of the most gorgeous cars of the design by Exner.. Exner also gets credit for designing the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.. he had a Lotta good designs not sure what happened in the 60s early 60s but the car that got him fired that wasn’t the original design proposal the original design proposal looks a lot better than the outgoing product he only had a week to fix it to downsize it to the product that we saw.
Reading Virgil’s Exner bio now
Want to do an episode on him one day
Jay, seeing the inside of this car I'm almost positive this is a Belvedere. The interior is much too plain for a Savoy. Again, this is during my lifetime. Plymouth was Chrysler's answer to a "poor man's" car. I will not swear, but with Belvedere trim and the overly plain interior I don't see this as a Savoy, just my opinion.
Seats and interior are brand new as well forgot to mention that he had them done in same style as Belvedere they are the same car essentially aside from nicer interior and more trim and how the two tone paint was applied
I miss the days when with just a glance you knew the make and model of every car you seen. Today's vehicles can only be identified by looking at the badges. So boring.
I totally agree everything is so generic and blah now
@@What.its.like. Yes, back in the day each car had personally. They were more than just transportation, they were a reflection of their owner.
You asked for ideas re anniversary of your channel. How about the top 3 things you learned from reading comments made by viewers? Some random comments. Fins - when Elwood Engel chopped the fins off the 1962 Chrysler line up, Exner was quoted as saying the cars looked like "plucked chickens." Grammar, conjugation, and syntax - can you find a way to run your script through grammar-checking software, or at least have someone who is good with language read it over first? Grammar exists to make communicating clear, and errors only cause confusion as to what it is you are trying to say, respectfully.
I like that idea thank you so much I’ve learned so much from everyone in the comment section.. it’s like a car community and that’s one aspect that I really wanted this channel to be. That’s why I’m in the comment section and respond because I want to show I care. =)
The grammar is getting better.. I’m a one man show I don’t have a team of people grammar mistakes happen everywhere I’ve read motor trend articles where grammar wasn’t proper I don’t use double negatives or anything like that. Plus it shows I’m a real genuine person, that makes mistakes so grammar though important not primary focus
Savoy. Not Savory😉
Autocorrect to that I fixed it thank you for pointing that out
Oh please get a tophat.
The funny thing is I had two top hats I had a white one and I had a tall Abraham Lincoln style one my wife did not like them so they’re gone now..
@@What.its.like. thanx
If you compared the quality of this car with ford or chevy it was embaressing instead of chrome steel it was chrome pot metal. Corners were cut every you looked. Basically a piece of JUNK
Look at the fins Chevy ripped those off is what I was getting at and the 57 Chevy fin is basic the fin on the Plymouth it curves.. I would love to compare all three one day. I did a comparison on the ford and Chevy =)
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Quality of the photos in this are crap. Terrible job of scanning.
It must be on your end your the only one who has that problem.. not scanned either downloaded
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