61 Plymouth 2dr army wagon

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Been awhile since I’ve been on here. Picked up a 61 Plymouth
2dr station wagon Dept of the Army car. Originally a /6 3spd manual. Has no motor trans currently. I have /6 M/T available from 60 Seneca to put in.

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Cool. Except that 61 was the year of " ugly" no matter what brand or model.
 
What a cool car!
I say get it on the road and drive it.
You're almost guaranteed that nobody else has one like it...
 
I have a friend local that has a 61 two door B body wagon even slant 6 equipped. He's up in north Bibb county just north of Macon. He has several old Mopars and even a 60 Chevy more door he got recently. Here's his 61 2 door.
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RustyRatRod said:
I have a friend local that has a 61 two door B body wagon even slant 6 equipped. He's up in north Bibb county just north of Macon. He has several old Mopars and even a 60 Chevy more door he got recently. Here's his 61 2 door.

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Wow, Just Wow.....Rusty this car and Darnells garage car have to be the ultimate daily driver....gosh, just awesome....anything from cruising them to hardware store trips etc etc.....they look great!
 
My 1st car was a 61 Belvedere 2 dr hardtop, 318 poly 2spd pushbutton trans, heater delete but add on AC, puk yellow ugly as hell. Bought it for $300 dollars in 1974.
 
Mexican Spec said:
The 1960 model Ford was very odd, but the 1961 was an elegant design.
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The 60 Fords exceeded the maximum width allowed for passenger cars established by the DOT I believe. I think FoMoCo blew it by a couple of inches. Something to do with width limits on many old highway bridges in existence at the time before the great standardization imposed by the new Interstate System. The old rule was that any two cars had to be able to pass each other without touching while crossing the old bridges. The Fords were an inch or two too wide to pass without hitting each other. I think that's the story. Anyone else know this story. The mistake wasn't noticed until 60 Ford production was well under way which would have cost billions to correct at that point. The Feds gave Ford a pass on the issue. I don't know of any documented instances of two Fords side-swipping each other while passing in opposite directions on a bridge around late 1959 through 1961 or so when further construction of the interstate system rendered the issue moot. But who's to say it didn't happen only to be covered up by the government and J. Edgar Hoover and Lee Iacoca.
 
vitamindart said:
RustyRatRod , we think alike 60-61 Starliners are Bad *** looking cars.
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I don't put the 1960 and 1961 Fords in the same category.

The 1960 model was not a standard design while the 1961 was a design that continued on afterwards.

The 1960 is kind of out in the cold for design flares.

I always associated the horizontal fins as being for the bottom the line cars like the Chevrolets in 1959.
 
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