Brings back fond memories seeing that. Three of us Aussies lived in one for 6 months when we did our hot-rodders tour of the US in 1966. We covered 40 states and 25k miles in it. We had planned to buy a Chevvy but a 60 Chevvy was $1000US and we got the Plymouth for $600US. Did the last 17k miles without an oil change as it had the largest o/size sump plug in and was still leaking! Just kept topping it up with reclaimed oil as that was the cheapest we could get. Phil Weiand gave us $300 for it before we caught the ship home. swifty
I agree. In that same vein, I've never understood the aesthetic appeal of g***ers. (heresy alert). Somebody else wrote about a bulbous roof. I see a very flat roof.
Nothing but pure cl*** dude! I got sick of moving the hood all around to do stuff in my garage so I just put it where it belongs. hahahaaa
The wagon is cool as all get out. I like the New Yorker better but all that same........ There just isn't very many of them around.
Probably all of the above, but it could be that few were built and even fewer remain. 1960 was a down year for all the automakers, then in the '60s, '70s, and '80s, wagons were more or less forgotten, except for the early Nomads and to a lesser degree, the '56 Ford Parklane. I would be willing to bet that if you rolled into a show, in '09, with a nice Plymouth wagon, it would get plenty of attention.
I don't think it has anything to do with it being Mopar. In the early days the only thing worse than driving your Mom's car was if it was a Station Wagon. We'd rather Walk because 4 doors just plain wasn't Kool and Wagons really ****ed!! It's only been since the Young Blood has started trying to be what we were back when that this Stuff has been accepted. I think it's just because there isn't a lot of the Kool stuff left laying around. I'd better be careful what I'm saying here because look what I'm driving now. OH MY GOD!! The Wizzard
I think '60/'61 The Plymouth models are missing 'mean-ness'. The problem is in the grill. Here's what I think could be done to the car to make them a bit 'cooler'... Original: Photoshopped version: But then again, you can't 'help' 'm all
The designer who did the front end never met the one who did the rear. Although, it is...uh, unique...kinda cool....sorta. You'll be the only one, for sure.
That is exactally why I like it. You don't see many of them around. I agree that most of the cars I am into now are the cars I would not be caught dead in when I were younger, now I love them.
Heck, I many times had to take the family wagon or walk. I still will drive whatever is available over walking.
My wife knows I'm a wagon freak. When we were dating I tried to buy a 62 Ford wagon. I had a 2000 Sable for a while but it just didn't cut it (and 2 transmissions in 150k was enough). There is a 59 Edsel near by that I WILL own some day... A guy in town is sporting a '59 Plymouth these days. I love it. I'd drive it to prom if I were a senior again!!
Carefull..... Once you take away all of a cl***ic Mopar's soul, you just left with a hemi powered AMC.
Wagons are for ummm,fun yeah fun,,who cares what the outside looks like and I think it looks fine,,in an awkward way
I always liked the looks of the Dart wagon, it would make a killer ride in black with LOTS of chrome trim- and jacked up in the back of course
These wagons are like perverted old men. When they acted that way in middle age, they got slapped down. But time's smiled on em and now the same behavior is "cute". Well, except for the wagon that started this thread. Those things are hopeless at any age. The black new yorker hardtop is flippin cool, and as much as I want to dig Gotgas's wagon, it's like seeing satan dressed in a pastel cardigan. Sorry dude. Librarian color's got to go!
We had one of those stick-em-up finned wagons when I was a kid. I loved it. Well, it was a car and I loved cars. Wasn't too particular as a sprat. Still not within a certain age range. Chrysler made some insanely ugly **** in those days, and I think takes the crown for the under-1970 years for those Imperials with the flashlight tail-lights and free-standing headlights. Whatta abortion. But I still love fins. Agreed that g***er-lift front patch of color on the original is about ****-ugly, but the lines are primmo, bruddah.
Find one with the gl*** broken out? How about a Bellflower Monkeemobile... Weld the front doors to the rear doors and adapt a lambo doors kit...
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