1965 Plymouth Satellite - 15 Minute Introduction
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- čas přidán 9. 12. 2013
- This is a 15 minute clip about the 1965 Plymouth Satellite. 1965 was the first model year for the Satellite and this one was ordered in November 1964 by Nathaniel Anschuler from Max Barish Plymouth in Los Angeles, CA for his wife Bertha. It was optioned with a 361cid big block engine, console shift TorqueFlite automatic, A/C, power windows, power steering, tinted glass, dash clock, bumper guards, courtesy light package, retractable seat belts and black vinyl roof. Subsequent owners brought it to the Boston area in the 80's where it sat in a garage until it was relocated to the Catskills from where I bought it in 2006. Restoration started in 2007 and finished in the summer of 2013. It's been a rock solid performer, the 2.76 ratio rear diff is easy on long trips.. front and rear sway bars keep it planted on the road. The all-drum brakes could use an upgrade to front discs.
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Hats off! Beautiful restoration on a vehicle that's under 20K!!
I had a 64 Sport Fury for my first car in 1978. I loved that car, it only had a 318 but with 230hp it had plenty of power for a 17 year old. The engine and trans were bullet proof, plus the bucket seats console and floor shifter looked cool. These cars handled well too.
I totally agree. My first V8 was a rusty ‘67 Satellite convertible w a 318, I bought in 1989.. I drove that thing into the ground and it only left me stranded once - after I neglected to replace the points for like 20,000 miles or something. Lol. Great car, good handling, and super fun to own.. my friends wept when I sold “Junior”..
Love this car - and video 👍
Takk Morten, veldig hyggelig å få kommentar. Er du fra Danmark..!? Jeg er oppvoskt i Østfold, Norge.. har mye familie i Norge borte ennå. Jeg håper å legge ut mer video av '65'en, den har vært en fantastisk pålitelig og solid Mopar. Herlig lyd og. Hjertelig hilsen!
I always thought that the 65 Satellite was the best looking of all the 62-65 "B" bodies.
Hi Paul, thank you for your comment. Yeah, those years, as I’m sure you know, were pretty chaotic for Chrysler. I think that’s when they let Virgil Exner go, and they hired Elwood Engels in his place. The ‘64 Fury is probably the other Mopar most fans think of from that time period, even if it was the “full size” model. And ‘65 marked the beginning of the A, B and C-body structure to their line up. Most people are so used to that A,B,C-body line up, it’s hard to imagine the earlier years and those transitional years before that existed. Cheers!!
@@65SATisfaction Hi there Arthur. I built many a Satellite and Belvedere during the 80's and 90's in SoCal. Like I said I love the look of the 65
and know that the 65 was the first to loose the push button trans and also use the first modern 8 3/4 rear end. I always thought that this was
the first of the "Modern" Mopar's.
Never liked the "Forward Look" of the Exner cars. Paul Rose. (Still looking for the right 65 Plymouth).
You have a beautiful car all the max wedge cars are my favorite love the body style you did a great job
Nice tour. I think the 1964-65 Belvedere, Fury and Satellite are some of the best mid-size cars from the sixties. I got my driver's license in a 1964 Fury. Loved that car and I thought the push button transmissions were neat. BTW: beautiful neighborhood. Hope you have put disc brakes in the front.
rizzle razzleuno Thanks, glad you enjoyed the clip. Love the look of the ‘64 Fury! Found a convertible Sport Fury in a salvage yard before we bought this and considered buying it to restore, but it had no engine and required a lot more than I knew how to do. I’ve never driven a push-button Mopar, only seen them on ‘63 and ‘64’s. We’ve continued enjoying this lovely machine, it feels solid as a tank and the doors shut like a Mercedes. Recently I pulled the AC compressor off, sealed the tubing and reworked the pulleys and belts to get that weight out of the engine bay. Also removed the 2bbl Carter and switched it for a 4bbl Carter AVS that works better with the longer duration cam. I am still fine tuning the jets to get the mixture right. Discs are still in the future! Cheers!
Thank you for sharing this with us! I am building a 1/25 scale model of this car for a friend of mine, (his Dad's first car!) and like to play this video as I am working on it!
Hi Charles, Thank you for the comment and I'm happy you enjoy the clip. I'm a long time plastic kit modeler myself, mostly 1/72 WW2 aircraft (although I have a 1/24 Revell Dodge Charger and '67 GTX waiting on the shelf, you know how irresistible it can be to buy those extra kits!). If you need any detailed photos, let me know! Cheers, - Art
Really nice! Good motivation for me to get mine done.
auto on the floor was cool but I did like the push button
My first car as 16 year old kid. 500$ cash. Mayberry motors of Laramie Wyo.
That's awesome Tim, how long ago was that? My first was in 1981, paid $400 for a '66 Dart 270 convertible, with the indestructible 225 slant six. It wasn't all mine though, my dad insisted my brother and I share a car, so we split it. Cheers!
This car would compete with the Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS and Ford Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe for 1965. The Dodge Coronet would also be competing for your 1965 dollar for an intermediate two door hardtop model. However, neither Ford nor Chevy offered a big block V8. MoPar offered the 383 or even the 426 Wedge big block, which put it at a big advantage for racing. I am glad that you restored it stock, I prefer the showroom look to cars that are modified with custom wheels, paint jobs, etc. Great car, enjoy her!
+Bill Hershkowitz Thanks Bill, I'll include that comment when I get to edit the next driving review. To prove your point about the Coronet, I have the hand-written notes from the original buyer who ordered this back in '64. The cars he was comparing were listed as "SS" (probably a Malibu then) and the Dodge Coronet 500. According to his notes, the Coronet 500 would have stickered for $4,000.60 with the same options, except he listed the optional 383 4bbl engine. Thank you for the compliment on the restoration. It took six years and I swore I'd never do one again, but lately I've been kind of looking around for something… LOL.
Thank You gentlemen and Happy New Year! Indeed, DeSoto and Plymouth offered a wedge head 350cid engine based on the LB block (most often called the B block) in 1958. The B block was the basis for the 350, 361, 383 and 400 and it's fair to call them all "big blocks". The "small block" LA engine appeared first as a 273cid in '64. It's a little confusing that the new wedge head RB block appeared in 1959 Chryslers as a 383, so it overlapped with the B 383 that one year. In the following years the RB 383 became the 413, 426 and 440 wedge head V8's. The B 383 was offered until '71 after which it went to 400cid. I stake no claim the above is without exception, I'm offering it from an excellent book on Chrysler engine history by their former Chrysler Chief of Engine Engineering Willem L. Weertman. Cheers!
Well, things didn't go as planned this summer, and I barely got to drive it and get more video footage to share. It developed a nasty rumble sound from the rear end, which turned out to be a bad rear wheel bearing. Replacement was not as easy as it is supposed to be and took me most of the summer to solve, source new parts, and put back together. However, it is done and will be ready NEXT spring for more driving. I might post a short clip of the drive in which the rear end rumble became too obvious to ignore, if the footage is decent enough.. (in the past I have driven Mopars with rear differential rumble sounds for years with no problem, but this one got worse very quickly).. Cheers, - Art
nice car
MA Mopar had a BB 350 :)
It looks exactly like a fury other than a front end does the 64 not have dual tail lights my friend has a 64 sport fury and roof looks a bit diff it’s because of the vinyl is it not the 63 that has the single twilights also you said power windows and you have window winders my fried has a 426 max wedge 4 speed thers also a 273 commando so not just big blocks were commandos also I like the side trim like th shiny trim on the back of your car down the sides of the earlier or even later polara had the shiny side trim
Thank you Jeff - Yes, the '65 Satellite had common sheetmetal with the '64 Fury and Belvedere, including the 'Reverse C-pillar' and roofline. The '64 Fury taillights were similar, but the '65 Satellite are subtly different. Yes, there was a Commando 273, which is the 4bbl version with solid lifters and high compression. But that 'Commando 273' was called out on the chrome air filter housing, not outside the car. Only 361, 383 and 426 big blocks got an external "CommandoV8" emblem for 1965, no matter if it was 2bbl or 4bbl. The sparse side trim on the Satellite was said to be a European influence. Like any manufacturer of cars back then, there are lots of production and factory details that can vary from the norm, and change from year to year. Cheers.