pics of Hank Blank's chopped Plymouth from dad's collection.

My pop took these back in the day.

 

Wow. That ******* thing is beautiful. Amazing car, I saved these!

 

it looks like a hotwheels car.. thats awesome!

 

That car was in Car Craft . Its nice seeing the whole car, the magazine article dosent show enough of the car. Unbelieveable. I always liked this car. I think it was a real young guy who had it.

 

Gorgeous...thanks for posting this,and your other pics..love it

 

that is a nicely done chop, thanx for posting

 

That is one tasty Fury! Do you know what those taillights came off of?

 

That is bad ***, is it still around ?

 

awesome! Hopfully Teddy throws the Stude on here. Im not sure if theyre on the other thread.

 

Thanks, great to see these photos. I also do remember the Car Craft article and that those pictures do not do the car any justice. These photos are very nice. Very much appreciated!

 

That is beautiful!

 

That's a nice Plymouth...wow!

 

This is the first plymouth that i like very cool.

 

I believe the CC article said that a '61 Dodge rear window was used.

 

Here is the Car Craft article June 1963

 

Wow...I had heard stories and had seen a few faded pics of Hank's cars, from TeddyP, but those shots are new to me! Very talented builder...so sad he gave it up.

 

Cool looking chopped Plymouth. Thanks for posting.

 

beautiful! thanks for sharing.

 

Awesome photos of an awesome car! Did your father take photos of any other customs as well?

 

Somewhere he has pic's of the sam barris merc when tommy lee first got it. They used to cruise together. I'll see what i can dig up.

 

Marvin Lee had a 57 plymouth with Chrysler fins in 57. I loved that car on the streets of Pasadena. have never seen a photo. this one in the post reminded me. both are great customs

 

any Ideas of where the cars are now? *****in rides

 

that car is amazing! doesnt brian setzer have a chopped plymouth or mopar of some kind?

 

KILLER! Thanks. Slim

 

I remember being at Hank's shop and seeing the car in person. Is that the car that eventually had the fins taken off ? I was about 10 years old back then and it blew me away to see a "real" custom. Did Tommy or Donny Pitt have a hand painting it ?

 

Awesome....just picked up a '57 Plymouth, just have to decide which way to go with it.

 

I can't be certain, but I think that may be two different cars. One has '58 Fury trim and uses '58 Plymouth tail lights. The other uses '57 Belvedere trim and a completely different C-pillar. I guess it could be the same car through an evolution.

I've seen some chopped '50s Mopars, some good, most bad - but none looks better than that gold one!! That is sweeeet!

I believe I have a picture of this car.

 

At one point he had a chopped 58 or 59 dodge (maybe plymouth?). I believe it was a dark gold with packard tail lights.

Hank Blank's Plymouth is gorgeous!

 

From what my father tells me, he lent (or sold) the car to a friend, who got drunk and crashed it and was killed. He never did another car again.

And they are two different cars. one a 58 fury, the other a 57 belvedere.
Interesting note, it was another friend backing out of a driveway in a 57 plymouth that caved in the left 1/4 panel on my dad's merc. This was in 63/64. they tried to get parts from the dealer, but they were on back order. Tried the junkyard, but all the cars that he saw the 1/4 was unusable. Someone kept pestering him to sell him the car, and he did.