Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1972 Plymouth Satellite Sedan

Back when I bought my very first car at age 15, the fastest cars on the island were three early-70s Plymouth Satellites. They had 440s, tunnel-ram intakes with great big carbs perched way over the hoods, wild lumpy cams, unruly glasspack mufflers, and absurd 70s-style "stinkbug stance" jacked-up rears. One of them even had a big "55″ with circle-and-slash emblem painted on the diff cover, complete with little spotlights to illuminate this statement at night. Rumor had it that these Satellites ran 10s at Baylands Raceway, but what they were really all about was street racing for cash. These cars were gloriously evil to the young driver of a '69 Corona, and I've wanted a '71-74 "fuselage" Satellite coupe ever since. Even though this one is a sedan, it still reminds me of the Fastest Cars In Alameda, 1981.
With a stock 318, this car was probably capable of running 17s at the dragstrip. Well, maybe not even that, if it was running at high-altitude Bandimere, where naturally-aspirated cars lose 20% of their horsepower due to lack of oxygen.
Back in the early 1970s, Detroit was very good at building big, cheap sedans with enough luxury to make drivers feel they'd hacked off a nice chunk of the American Dream. The Satellite and its competitors drank gas, but (prior to October, 1973) who cared?
The now-defunct Gates Rubber plant, where Neal Cassady toiled as a teenager, is just a few miles from this Denver self-service yard. Maybe this radiator hose was made there before the plant closed in '96.
This car has been pretty well used up, but there are still many good parts left on it. I might go back and grab the transmission kickdown linkage for my A100 Hell Project.

18 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 01 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 02 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 03 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 04 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 05 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 06 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 07 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 08 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 09 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 10 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 11 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 12 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 13 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 14 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 15 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 16 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden 17 - 1972 Plymouth Satellite Down On the Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Phil 'Murilee Martin' Greden

from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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