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Yellow-Black 1956 Belvedere 4dr Sedan Moderators: ronbo97 Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 [50 messages per page] | View previous thread :: View next thread |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9883 Location: So. Cal | Nice looking car with great colors & original style interior, but terrible photos. With the light yellow color, I think it would look better if the top of the door frames were painted black like the roof. This car has some funky looking headlight surrounds that I've never seen before. Anyone know what they came off of? https://www.ebay.com/itm/383851906734 This Belvedere is an all original car with immaculate jaw dropping interior. Chrome is spectacular, runs and drives great, sure to be a show stopper. This ride was featured on “Back Road Gold” TV series in 2014. Features include:•277/187 HP engine with 2 barrel carburetor •Push button automatic transmission•Fresh paint and restored interior•All new trim and chrome plating •New whitewall tires from Coker Tires (56Belvy Yellow-Black LF.jpg) (56Belvy Yellow-Black Front.jpg) (56Belvy Yellow-Black RR.jpg) (56Belvy Yellow-Black Interior.jpg) (56Belvy Yellow-Black Door Panel.jpg) (56Belvy Yellow-Black RSide.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 56Belvy Yellow-Black LF.jpg (47KB - 129 downloads) 56Belvy Yellow-Black Front.jpg (53KB - 132 downloads) 56Belvy Yellow-Black RR.jpg (55KB - 133 downloads) 56Belvy Yellow-Black Interior.jpg (72KB - 133 downloads) 56Belvy Yellow-Black Door Panel.jpg (63KB - 134 downloads) 56Belvy Yellow-Black RSide.jpg (53KB - 136 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 10179 Location: Lower Mainland BC | Powerflite - 2020-12-12 9:05 AM. With the light yellow color, I think it would look better if the top of the door frames were painted black like the roof. This car has some funky looking headlight surrounds that I've never seen before. Anyone know what they came off of? I thought that the strange headlight surrounds would be from a 56 Desoto Diplomat (Plymouth based) but no. My next guess would be a Aussie Chrysler Royal or Ute but no there also. So ?? As for the door colour thing, I've always liked the blacked out B-Pillar area option: (56PlymouthSedanWithBlackedOutBPillarArea.jpg) (56PlymouthWithBPillarBlackedOut.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 56PlymouthSedanWithBlackedOutBPillarArea.jpg (72KB - 130 downloads) 56PlymouthWithBPillarBlackedOut.jpg (66KB - 135 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9883 Location: So. Cal | I would do the entire thing like this. (56Belvy Yellow-Black RSide2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 56Belvy Yellow-Black RSide2.jpg (63KB - 136 downloads) | ||
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13066 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Very nice car, I'd keep it as is, less the cheesy rain umbrellas on the doors. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1208 Location: Ponder, TX | I might be wrong, but the interior patterned fabric does not look stock. However, it does look unique and reminiscent of the stock pattern, so it works well. | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9883 Location: So. Cal | That's the stock fabric for a 4-door hardtop. The correct fabric for a 4-dr sedan would have been the Aztec design, just like for the 2dr hardtop & 2dr sedan. Convertibles could have come with the Aztec design or a plain vinyl. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1208 Location: Ponder, TX | So they used the hardtop fabric in a sedan restoration. ! I guess I've never seen a stock 4-door hardtop in real life, or I thought I would have noticed the difference. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1049 Location: PL / EU | Powerflite - 2020-12-12 6:05 PM This car has some funky looking headlight surrounds that I've never seen before. Anyone know what they came off of? 56 Lincoln ? (56L.JPG) Attachments ---------------- 56L.JPG (61KB - 136 downloads) | ||
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13066 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | I don't see anything special about the headlight bezels - looks standard to me. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1049 Location: PL / EU | wizard - 2020-12-13 1:30 PM I don't see anything special about the headlight bezels - looks standard to me. they definitely don't look standard. I found better pics of this car. https://www.classiclinc.com/1956-plymouth-belvedere Definitely not a Lincoln, probably aftermarket part. (vs.JPG) Attachments ---------------- vs.JPG (65KB - 134 downloads) | ||
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13066 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Thanks' Robert, now I see that the headlight bezel/fender has an extra chromed eyebrow - very nice indeed. | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9883 Location: So. Cal | Thanks alot for the better picture link! I wonder why they chose not to continue the black paint under the trunk? That stainless strip that goes along there is used to divide the paint colors on a two tone car, but they chose to paint the whole thing yellow instead. It would have looked much better with the black under there. Edited by Powerflite 2020-12-13 11:48 AM (56Belvy Yellow-Black LR.jpg) (56Belvy Yellow-Black LR2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 56Belvy Yellow-Black LR.jpg (141KB - 130 downloads) 56Belvy Yellow-Black LR2.jpg (148KB - 134 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9883 Location: So. Cal | Better picture of the 4dr hardtop fabric in the interior. (56Belvy Yellow-Black Interior2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 56Belvy Yellow-Black Interior2.jpg (240KB - 136 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 10179 Location: Lower Mainland BC | wizard - 2020-12-13 8:09 AM Thanks' Robert, now I see that the headlight bezel/fender has an extra chromed eyebrow - very nice indeed. So extra "eye brows" or maybe "eye lashes" (??). Looks like they were pot metal. Regardless, that is a lot of tooling for what must have been a fairly limited market, i.e. those who wanted to "doll" up their value-leader Plymouths. 100's? Probably. 1000's ? doubtful. I wonder what the business case looked like. | ||
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Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 10179 Location: Lower Mainland BC | Powerflite - 2020-12-13 8:44 AM I wonder why they chose not to continue the black paint under the trunk? That stainless strip that goes along there is used to divide the paint colors on a two tone car, but they chose to paint the whole thing yellow instead. It would have looked much better with the black under there. Agree. Back when I had my 55 Canadian Dodge Regent (Plodge) (1967-72) one of the first things that I did was to paint that area black (even though the car was green and white). I though it looked "Cool". Not sure where I got the idea from but certainly the factory painted some cars like that (when they were black and ....) : (These are probably all the same car): Edited by 56D500boy 2020-12-13 1:47 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 3156 Location: NY & VT | Nice car! I like the yellow B pillars myself. I've grown to really appreciate the '56s, particularly Plyms. They are far better assembled than '57s, more functional in that not too low and far easier to get in and out of, and the 2 spd PowerFlite, while not as efficient, was darn near bulletproof. Allegedly the interior fabrics were more durable than those used in '57/58s as well. And the cars themselves seem to have held up better over the years. My $.02 Edited by firedome 2020-12-15 10:37 AM | ||
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