Projects got a new ride today................mopar

had a car adventure day, drove 80 miles out to the middle of nowhere desert to pickup this 51 plymouth, it runs good all stock except for y'd straight pipes, needs the usual, brakes gone through, shocks, maybe a little tune up but not much.
the sheet metal is real good went over the whole damn thing with a magnet before i bought it only a little 3inch spot on each rocker with any bondo other than that super solid even the wheel wells dont have rust through. drove it home and lost a hubcap on the freeway oh well aint gonna use the stock ones anyways.
it will be a future custom but not for a long while (till i can afford to do stuff to it) just gonna redo all the brakes a safety stuff and make it a decent driver for now

 

I like it! That dash is great, how did you find it?

 

Looks like a good score!

 

Wow that is in really nice shape - great score!!!!

 

I'm thinking WWW, drop it a few inches and pry the beer bottle off the roof and start cruising in style!

 

Nice Belvedere. Next to the convertible they are hard to come by. Good luck with it.

 

craigslist, its a little rougher than it looks in the pics but is still in really good shape (mostly little stuff wrong with it) its been on and off cl for a while but the guy was asking way too much before he lowered the price like 3 times then i offerd him even lower than that and he took it, the woodgrain paint will get painted over eventually all the garnish inside is wood grained

 

Nice 1951 Belvedere 2dr hardtop. First year of the 2dr hardtop for Plymouth and first year of the Belvedere line. Pretty rare, i have one with 40K org miles that i am the 3rd owner of, dad being the 2nd, it not nearly that nice since dad tore apart in the 80's.

 

yeah considering how ive heard these are kinda hard too find
i think i got a real good deal he wasnt real happy to take my offer but he said he needed money real bad (and i wasnt lowballin him i just offerd what i had to spend and he bit)

 

Congrats.Nice car.Did you get it in Phelan?

 

To each their own and it's your car but IMO that woodgrain is pretty cool.

 

Sweet!

 

yep thats the one (dude was a little odd, but nice guy)

 

yeah im not a huge fan of the woodgrain paint but it will be a long while before i start changing anything major maybe ill change my mind all the garnish in the whole interiour is the same also

 

I thought it looked familiar.I think it's the same guy I bought my moredoor Merc from.

 

yeah eventually i will kustomize a lot of stuff on it but for now it will be make it a safe drver and maybe lower, and the beer was my reward for driving 55 for 80 miles

 

really? older guy with kinda a big beard? (a bit hyper) he told me about all kinds of stuff but never mentioned he had a merc

 

There were several people living there.The guy I got it from didn't have a beard but his friend did.They had all kinds of stuff there a shoebox,67 El Camino,nova,lots of 70's chevy 4X4's,chryslers,lots of stuff and a Model T for yard art.

 

the only other old stuff there was a flatbed f1 and he said he just sold a 36 humpback body, he was an older white guy with a beard but there was a younger latino dude hangin around

 

looks great enjoy that old MoPar........

 

In the pic it looks like a hard top! Is It?

 

yes... no post belvedere

 

that is one sweet find; hard top belvedere, can't say i've seen one person.

if it were mine, i'd re-paint in the factory colors, skinny whites, kaiser caps on black wheels, drop it, split exhaust on that sweet 6 and just cruise the hell out of it.

that thing is rad...

 

Nuthin better than a new project, except maybe beer. Nice ride bro.

 

Sweet.... nice score

 

Nice!

 

thanks guys

 

Can I mess with your brain a little? My FAVORITE Mopar ever.......

 

thats frickin sweet, one day mine will get the kustom treatment

 

Belongs to Slapshot here on the HAMB..........car is in Belgium.