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Bob’s 1966 Hemi Belvedere that he has owned for over 35 years. Odometer shows less than 2,800 miles. Featured recently on American Icon Muscle Cars as one of the first street hemi cars available to the public.
Bob’s 1966 Hemi Belvedere that he has owned for over 35 years. Odometer shows less than 2,800 miles. Featured recently on American Icon Muscle Cars as one of the first street hemi cars available to the public.
This is a story of what not to do. I purchased my 1966 Hemi Belvedere 1 in 1967 after looking for a 66 Nova for months . A friend of mine called me late one night to tell me their was a Hemi Belvedere at a dealer in a town 20 miles from us. So needless to say we made a trip the next day to the dealer to see are first Hemi. It was in a back room covered with a tarp. AS the salesman was taking the tarp off he was telling us that people who looked at it could not get insurance (mostly kids) or didn’t like the color – midnight blue – WHAT! -It could have been pink, who cares. So after taking a ride and finding out my 56 chevy 265 was not the baddest hot rod around, I called a insurance co. that my parents had been with for years and also good friends. I told him the car was the cheaper belvedere with a v8 engine and automatic and that I was working steady and had a baby on th way. No problem it was ours. We drove it on the street for a year and a half then went racing. Now the bad part – A 480-Hemi C/dragster became available after I was having my own way at local tracks for 4 years. So I sold the belvedere and bought the dragster (wanted to go faster) The rail about broke me so I had to sell it. 25 years later I see a 66 belvedere sell for 155.000 . End of story.