performance plymouth dealerships

[polywideblock]

as the title says, looking for performance Plymouth dealers from back in the day . if you were looking for a performance dodge you went to grand Spaulding and saw Mr Norm( and luckily he kept his records ,got mine ) . so if you were looking for a hot roadrunner ,GTX or cuda back in the day ,who did you go to see ??
was there a Plymouth "house of performance" or did you just pester the "local " dealer ?
any insights would be appreciated

 

[Tempest 455]

I have often wondered this as well.

 

[71charger_fan]

Our local dealership (Broad Street Garage in Hopewell, NJ) never stocked any performance models. Not once did I ever see a Barracuda, Road Runner, GTX, etc on their lot. It was usually a sea of Valiants and Belvederes with slant sixes and 318's. The only hemi I ever saw there was in a '50s Chrysler in a service bay.

 

[Darter6]

Buddy Martin of the Sox & Martin fame had a Plymouth Dealership back then.

 

[bevlh4]

Do you have any manual 70 roadrujners that don't cost an arm or leg?

 

[Rick@Laysons]

Back in the late 60's and early 70's, the majority of the Mopar muscle cars were sold thru the local dealerships where the local economies were booming.

A lot of performance cars came out of central Kansas as they had an oil boom, same for parts of Texas as well. SoCal and the Pacific NW had their share, and of course anything close to or arond the Detroit/Great Lakes/St. Louis region where they were produced.

Look at where the money was back then and you'll more than likely find a lot of muscle cars in those areas.

 

[polywideblock]

:eusa_think: thought there would have been a "go to " Plymouth dealership in Chicago, Detroit or in so-cal at least .

there must have been someone competing with Mr Norm, mustn't there ?

you guys with the hemi/6pack 4 speed roadrunners /GTX, cuda's where did your cars come from?

 

[Photon440]

One Vancouver Plymouth dealer that sold a fair amount of hot cars was Johnston Motor Company on Kingsway.

 

[mmissile]

Most guys I knew, worked on their own stuff, or went to secondary builders. There were lots around Detroit. Chrysler started the "Hustle-Stuff/Direct Connection" program at the parts counters of dealerships....for an outlet to "factory-technology".

 

[Tempest 455]

Wonder where this was?



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Few more.





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And the last I could find.

 

[Photon440]

Wonder where this was?

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Few more.

That shipment was a famous photo, taken at First Avenue Plymouth in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. May 1970. Of an order for 50 AAR Cudas, this was the first 28 of them. The sign on the trailer says "Largest Single Shipment of TRANS AM AAR Cudas in the US".

Apparently this dealer also kept a constant inventory of between 100 - 150 road runners in stock at all times, and a minimum of three hemicudas at any one time while they were available.

Perhaps Cedar Rapids would be a good place to look through old barns...

No longer a Plymouth dealer, this is what the place looks like today on Google Maps:

 

[polywideblock]

thanks for the input (28 AAR's wow ) , it does seem that the area around that dealer would be a good place to go "exploring"