I am also going to change the way I show the 59 Plymouth this year (2018) which I will spell out in my “Colorado Belvedere Convert Progressing” thread or a brand new thread but also here.
Since I had been running the 413 RB 4bbl Golden Lion for the last 4 years and late in the car show season out here, Rick Clapham and I put in the dual Quad 300E intake on he sourced for me from the 300 Club and Rick’s rebuilt the Carter AFB carbs I picked up on Ebay a couple years ago and he fine turned them extremely well, a drove on late in the car show season of 2017. Rick also has a set of 300E heads that flow better, that I will put on my car this Spring once we freshen them up a bit at a local machine shop. That will complete the notion that it is a 300E power plant engine.
With that being said, I am going to do a Variation of Tom Fox’s theme of " The car that Chrysler should have built" by mimicking an Rumored Drive Train test mule car that might have existed back in 59, of doing what I did in having the largest Corporate Engine available (the 59 300E 413RB Dual quad) in a smaller wheel base car.
Kinda the thought of what would later be the start of the everyday man’s muscle car in a lower trim level and smaller wheel base car. Arguably Chrysler was the first 'Muscle Car" maker in 1955 with the Chrysler 300 but it was in a large wheel base, top of the line trim package, The Banker’s Hot Rod"! Good for bankers and stockbrokers but the common man needed a big block and a lesser trim level package they could afford. John Delorean’s Pontiac Division did this a few years later in 1963 ,(with this same notion I just mentioned) in the 63 GTO and Dodge/Plymouth later did in 1968 (five years later) with the Super Bee/Road Runner Packages in an medium trim line (RM and WM).
Such a notion like this by Plymouth, would have been vehemently opposed by the competing Dodge Division’s offering of the D500/D501 high performance cars that Plymouth should not be the performance line leader as it belongs to Dodge . My take is that Chrysler product planning might have (strongly Might) gone ahead with a actual prototype of such a car to show to the Chrysler upper management in Highland Park, of a big engine car in a small wheelbase, lower trim level offering. None of this existed but “What if”..
So I will work on snazzing up the front end of the grill with paint similar to the 300E in a reddish orange accents in that area. And also putting under the Front Plymouth vertical emblem in now a black mesh the “500 Emblem” that I have from a 68 Coronet 500, to make a “One of None” 59 Belvedere “500” with a '59 300E 413 RB 2 x 4BBL Proto-type car that never existed other then in my twisted and dreamy mind.
Well, that is a mouthful of letters and words to describe what I am doing but I will display this car as a “What if” car 2018. It is the only way to explain the 59 300E power-plant in it. And when I bring this to Carlisle in 2019 it will be presented there also, (after I have it repainted next fall) so it will be more presentable to a bigger audience.
I also will be putting back on my Clear Acrylic deluxe wheel that I procured two years ago and the dual antennae’s onto the car this winter (also sourced to me by Rick Clapham) and the all important "Matthew Keij painted rear Wheel well skirts. So stay tuned for those changes but wanted to let the Forum know what I was doing for 2018 with my Belvedere convert. I will cut and past this again to the Show Your Ride section when I get some of the changes made to start an new thread.
Comments, suggestions and sarcastic remarks are welcomed but won’t be acted on…sorry! 
John Q.
