Just goes to show you they are still out there in the barns. A friend of mine just found this yesterday. A 1964 Plymouth Aluminum light weight car. It is a 2 owner car.It was only a few miles from where it was bought new. This car is super clean.It has all the history from day one with old Polaroids. Dark Blue Metallic with a blue interior. It still has the original American Racing Bear Claw Magnesium Front wheels. It was always raced with a Hemi instead of a Max Wedge from day one. It has a 1964 Date coded Hemi with the K Heads. It has an original Hemi factory magnesium cross ram.It has the original factory Hemi Tri Y headers.It has all the right and original aluminum components. Even the right bumper abd brackets. The last year it was ran was 1971. It was bought by the second owner around 1980. He never ran it. The car was never tubbed. Engine was freshly built to stock 64 Factory Race Specs a few years ago but never fired. It has a 4:56 Posi 8 3/4.

Another Barn Shot.

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Side

Engine shot.

WOW!!!!!!! Just unreal and super effin' cool.

Very cool.

BTW, what was the little car in front of it. Sunbeam Alpine or a TR-4? Just curious.

the car in front is an off brand, called a "light snack"

Why no single headlight setup?

Yes Bill, you are correct.This was one of the first Lightweights to be raced at Pomona for the Winternationals in 64' with the Max Wedge and the aluminum components.The Car was still registered to Chrysler via the MSO. It was shipped along with two other cars right to Pomona.It was stolen out of the parking lot @ Pomona the same night it was delivered.It was found a week later missing the Engine and trans, Grille and hood and trunk battery. Here is a shot of it in the LA PD police pound when it was found. This is classic. The pic has 2/64 written on the back. It was taken by the original owners when they were called from Chrysler.

These are the original owners, two brothers.When they brought it back Home they were given a complete 64 Super Stock engine and trans from Chrysler. Guess where it was shipped from. The King himself Richard Petty. It was ran for awhile with that combo in the NHRA West Division. it also was ran with a HilBorn Injection and a Clutchflite.It also had a Straight Axel in it.This was Dec of 69'

Wow...that little kid was holding a gun on em to make them stand still for the pic!

I think it is more lIke he wanted to see how big his kahonies were driving this thing.

That's pretty awesome. What's the story of it in the barn? Just a retired race car? How did you find it?

Ryan

Hi Ryan, It was a friend of a friend might be selling his car deal. Well going thru the paperwork which is a lot this car happens to be really cool.There were just two more owners than originally thought. It was celebrity owned in 1968. The first owner bought it for his son. He owned a big trucking co. Obviously money was no object.Joe Schermie Jr. the original bassist for Three Dog Night bought it in 1968 when they received their first record deal money. He owned and raced it with his brother in law. Well a bad divorce in 1971 forced him to sell it for a $1,000 dollars. The third owned for awhile but never ran it. The fourth owner who just sold it had it for years and never ran it either. He did put it all back to stock with the original parts.

That's crazy. Awesome story.

I am speechless. This is one of the coolest Mopar finds in a while. I love this story. Love the car. I want to pull the trigger on some aluminum fenders, but I think I'd rather have a whole car.

Thanks Ryan and GTX. Here are some shots with just a good wash. Paint is really nice and looks original on the top part of the car. Fourth owner did the sides in White and was going to have it lettered up. The engine comp was just cleaned up with Simple Green. Going to go thru the carbs, do a few things and fire it up Weds. nite. Coming out real nice.
Dean

Front right.

Interior.

Another Interior shot

The rear shot. You can see the original paint on the rear wheel wells.

Engine comp now.

Engine shot two.

wow that doesn't happen everyday.

No It sure doesn't. Here is the tag.

Some underside shots. This car is super clean.

More Underside.

WOW this is just WOW!

Damn...why cant I ever find something like that! The underside looks perfect. Looks to be undercoat delete and radio delete but came with the heater is that normal? Keep more pics coming please.

What are the plans for it? leave as is(which is pretty close to perfect) or repaint the white back to blue and try to keep as much blue as possible? Awesome find, the underside is unbelievably clean!!

Dean, you have all the luck............

I don't think I'd change a thing.

You are now the care taker of a piece of Mopar history.

Incredible!

As stated above "wow, just wow!"

I know this may be a little out of line, but how much did you get it for?

Should really put this in the general forum, get much more attention.

Looks good all cleaned up.

WOW!!! Great find! I love those old Maxie's!

Wow. That's a lucky find. Beautiful car.

Isn't there a solution or method to pull off a top layer of paint? Not sure if it's a solvent or what it is but I have heard of it being done. Be great if you could get that white paint off without painting over it. I guess it depends on what kind of paint was applied?

I love 64s.

WOW very nice car.

That's just CRAZY to find a car like that!!!!!!!! VERY, VERY NICE!!!! Great story too!!!

Awsome!! nice car, and could,nt be cleaner.

EXELLENT FIND!! Thanks for sharing the pics
and story with us too Dean
Like the ole man says from the movie:
"A Christmas Story"..." WHY..IT'S, IT'S, INDESCRIBEBLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!"

Hi Guys, Thanks for all the good comments. Sorry i could not post any more pics intil today. My Mother has been in the Hospital the last two weeks. I just brought her home. The car is now running. Went thru the carbs. No leaks. Great 80 lbs of oil pressure. The motor sounds wicked and nasty. Played with the timing some. It is Very crisp and responsive. You can tell it is an old Super Stock cam and profile. Very pleased with it. It was rebuilt and fired years ago on a dyno but never was finished enough to fire it when they did drop it in the eng. comp. here are some pics after running it.
Merry Xmas to all,

Dean

Another shot

Some more Underside shots cleaned up. This car is super clean underneath.

whole underside shot

Left Qtr extension

Right extension.

Right Shock area.

You can see the original lightweight steel bumper with the original aluminum bracket.

Monday the car is getting rubbed out and it is going to be fine. Did a little just messing around and it came out good. Bled all the brake lines. Trans seems real good. Might take it out for a spin late Monday or Tuesday.would have loved to drive it when it had the Hilborn Set up.

Oh Lucky You.......................

Wow,

Everything we go through to store our cars and this thing just sits in a dusty shop and it's unreal how nice it is. The bolt heads aren't even rusty. Nice job cleaning her up. Enjoy it.

Thanks guys. The car was wet sanded with 1500. Wheeled with rubbing compound. A finish glaze with the wheel. A hand polished and then a good cornuba waxing. The car looks awesome. The Dark Blue Metallic just came to life. Engine is dialed in and runs awesome. It blistered the hides off the old slicks all the way down the complex even shifting into second. It has a 3500 stall converter. It Stalls real nice. Fresh 115 octane racing gas was added. It has great oil pressure and idles at 1200. Very Pleased it turned out great.

Tracked down and talked to the original owner Yesterday. He was a very cool guy. He is coming to see it today. He was very pleased to find out the car was not destroyed or tubbed or parted out and is in great condition. His father owned a big Trucking co. and they were big Mopar Drag Racers. They owned a 3 or 4 lightweight Mopar Drag cars. All purchased from Town & Country C.P. In Phoenix. The first one was a 63 Plymouth Savoy Max Wedge Super Stock. Then this 64' and a 65 A 990. This one he liked the best and kept the longest. With the Hilborn Inlection and straight axel Three wheels came off the ground. Just the left rear stood planted. The car would hook to the right and some savy steering it flew down Beeline Raceway. He said it was the most adrenaline rush driving car they ever had. He is going to look for some old pics. He said he had a lot of 8mm films of it back then but they all dried up and crumbled years ago. Thats a shame.

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Nice looking car. Those 64's really had it together.

What happened to make them change it all to Belvedere interior?

I'm sure we would all like to find something like that Congrats

This is the most jaw-dropping thread of 2010.
Incredible. Talk about a day-two race car!

Amazing! Please snap a bunch of pics of the previous owner with the car & post! Congrats on finding the needle in a haystack!

Does the SO number on fender tag match radiator support? And what year did it get restored? Beautiful car!

Yes the SO MATCHES THE RAD SUPPORT AND THE REAR DECK BY THE RIGHT SPEAKER HOLE. The vin is in Darryl Davis's book. The interior panels are stock. This car came with a bench seat. No back seat. This was an early built Jan 22, 1964' Aluminum car. They did more changes to the later ones built in late April and May Hemi cars.

Would love a ride in this one anyway you could post a sound bite of engine to give us a taste?

Really, they put Belvedere seats, door panels, and steering wheel in a Savoy? I wonder why they would do that? Chrysler sure did some strange things back then. Was that a option?

Actually was posted for sale on 8/3/10 on Craigslist in Phoenix. So you could call it a Craigslist find.

Talked to the owner but can't find my notes right now.

It was listed on it but that is not how this one panned out.

Great Car, and glad it's "Come back to Life"

Enjoy it!!

Tom

Ok, Here are Photos of first Previous owner. He was delighted to see the car. He went over a lot of racing history and a lot of facts about the car.

Sitting in the car and firing it up. Could not wipe the grin off his face.

Pulling a good hole shot by just stomping the pedal.LOL

THATS AWESOME!!! I bet that smile will be on his face for a long time after today. Too cool! Thanks again for sharing.

Shoot some video, would love to hear it run. Beautiful car

I do not really know how to do the U tube download video thing. I have the second owner coming today also. He was the brother in law of Three Dog Night Base Player Joe Scherme Jr. He is bringing some more old pics. He had a bunch of 8 MM films at BeeLine Raceway but they disintegrated years ago. Here is a pic of First owner and his wife.

What happened? More pics?

i saw the car on craigs list . i tryed to e-mail the guy but wont . i found his number but when i talked to him it was gone great buy for the money

I not so sure I'll be able to think straight for a while. This whole thing has me numb.