Showing posts with label Greenwood Car Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greenwood Car Show. Show all posts

Monday, August 18, 2025

2025 Greenwood Car Show: Ford

  

From 1954 to 56, Ford would sell you a car with a transparent plastic top, like this 1955 Crown Victoria. Not for Arizonans I think.
 

  


You're looking at about $200K these days to purchase a 1968 Shelby GT500 Mustang in top condition. Many of the factory Mustang body parts were replaced with fiberglass.
 

 

This 1940 convertible is one of the best-looking cars Ford ever made.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The original Ford F-100 made between 1953 and 1956 is the classic truck everyone wants. This 1953 has the last of Ford's old-fashioned flathead V-8 engines.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


A very rare 1966 Ford Fairlane GT 390. Ford sold only 4,200 Fairlane GT's that year. They sold 607,000 Mustangs.


Monday, June 30, 2025

2025 Greenwood Car Show: Chrysler-Dodge-Plymouth

Perfect weather for this year's Greenwood car show, and it was bigger than ever! Let's kick it off with my favorites: Chrysler-Dodge-Plymouth.






 

For the fourth and last year of the Dodge Super Bee, 1971, it was made an option on the Charger; sort of a budget Charger R/T. A very rare car.



  
 
I've written about the 1966 Plymouth Satellite pictured above as far back as the 2018 show. I'm sure most people don't realize that this plain-looking car is one of the show's most valuable entries. The 426 hemi was available only from 1966 to 1971, and the 1966 edition is considered the best. This car is certainly worth six figures.

Pictured below the hemi in yellow is a 1967 Plymouth GTX. The GTX was a new premium edition of the same car as the Satellite, but standard with the 440 "Super Commando" V-8 rated at 375 hp. You could order an even more powerful 426 hemi in the GTX - for about $600 more than the 440!

  
 
Even this little 1966 Plymouth Barracuda came with a V-8. In this case the 273.










 

 

In 1970 the Dart was Dodge's cheapest car. But like everything else then, you could option it out with a pretty ferocious engine. In the case of this Dart GT, a 340 V-8 rated at 275 hp.











 

Between 1951 and 1958, full-size Chrysler products were equipped with the company's original hemi-head engines. These are so popular today that even very ordinary DeSoto sedans are being restored. This 1956 Fireflight coupe has the 331 hemi with dual-quad carbs rated at 255 hp.













 

 

Time was when cab over engine trucks like this were seldom seen outside of junkyards. But trucks like this 1955 Dodge COE K-Series are starting to show up at a lot of car shows. They're just cool.








 

I love the old business coupes, like this 1950 Dodge. That's an awful lot of car for a single bench seat.










 

This 1935 Chrysler Airflow was ahead of its time. But they didn't sell many. The public thought it was just too weird.



Tuesday, August 30, 2022

2022 Greenwood Car Show: General Motors

After a two-year absence, the Greenwood Car Show is back and the weather was perfect. I'm going to do all my favorites in a few posts. Here are the GM cars.

I think this 1969 Camaro SS is a "tribute" car. It's done up like the very rare Camaro SS 427 sold by Yenko Chevrolet, but I see a number of things about it that don't look authentic.

 
1969 Pontiac GTO.








 


1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS 396. This looks completely authentic.










1970 Oldmobile F-85 Cutlass Rallye 350. A budget muscle car featuring GM's forced air induction system (makes car go fast).

   
1970 Oldsmobile 442. Top of the line.

 
A rare 1957 Chevrolet delivery sedan.

 
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air.

 
1967 Pontiac GTO.

   
1955 Chevrolet Bel Air

 
Probably the most desirable Sting Ray. 1963 split-window coupe with fuel injection.


 
1967 and 1968 Camaros. The convertibles have the Rally Sport package, denoted by the hidden headlights.



 
1962 Chevrolet Corvette.

 
1967 Pontiac GTO.

 
1969 Pontiac Firebird.

 
1954 Pontiac. Sometime around August 1954, GM built its very last straight-8 engine.