Jim Isherwood takes Robert Fedyk’s channel for a ride in his Hemi Satellite GTX Belvedere — a genuine Super Stock build from Plymouth’s mid-1960s NHRA drag racing program, stripped of weight and built around the legendary 426 Hemi. It’s not a street car with a swapped engine; it’s the real thing, built from the factory to dominate the strip. Riding along captures what a car like this actually sounds and feels like under power.
Most Hemi Satellites you’ll see at a car show are street cars with an engine swap and a good story. This one is neither. It’s a genuine Super Stock Hemi build — the kind of car Plymouth built in tiny numbers specifically to dominate NHRA drag strips in the mid-1960s, stripped of anything that added weight without adding speed. Jim Isherwood is behind the wheel, and Robert Fedyk’s channel caught the ride from the passenger seat. What makes this particular Satellite worth watching isn’t just the engine bolted between the fenders — it’s everything Plymouth left out to make room for it.
What Super Stock Actually Meant
The Super Stock designation wasn’t a trim level or a marketing term — it was an NHRA drag racing class, and cars built to compete in it were purpose-built from the factory to be as light and as fast as regulations allowed. Plymouth‘s Super Stock Hemi cars swapped steel body panels for aluminum where the rules permitted, deleted sound deadening and non-essential interior components, and in some cases skipped items as basic as a radio or a heater to shave every possible pound. These weren’t cars built for comfort. They were built to be weighed at the strip and legal for a class where every ounce mattered. Some cars even shipped from the factory with thinner-gauge steel in the doors, hood, and trunk lid, a detail that’s nearly invisible unless you know to look for it, but one that shaved pounds exactly where NHRA‘s rulebook allowed.
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The Hemi That Made It All Worth It
Under the hood sat Chrysler’s legendary 426 Hemi, an engine so dominant in its early drag racing form that NHRA eventually restructured its rulebook around containing it. In a car stripped down to Super Stock spec, that engine wasn’t fighting against nearly as much weight as it would in a standard street Satellite, which is exactly the combination that made these cars so feared at the strip in period. Riding along in a car like this today means experiencing something very close to what made the Hemi‘s reputation in the first place — an engine built for one job, in a car built to get out of its way. Chrysler didn’t design the 426 for street manners, and it shows the moment the car comes off idle — there’s very little low-end civility on offer, just an abrupt, unapologetic surge that period road testers struggled to describe without resorting to superlatives.
Belvedere, Satellite, and the Naming Confusion
Plymouth‘s mid-size lineup in the mid-1960s created some lasting confusion that still trips up collectors today: the Satellite started as the top trim level of the Belvedere before eventually becoming its own model name, which is why cars from this era sometimes get referred to by both names depending on the source. A Hemi Satellite GTX Belvedere sitting in someone’s garage isn’t a mislabeled car — it’s a reflection of exactly how fluid Plymouth‘s model naming was during the years these Super Stock cars were built.
Why Ride-Along Videos Matter for Cars Like This
Static photos of a car this significant only tell half the story. Hearing a 426 Hemi come alive in a purpose-built, weight-shaved Super Stock chassis — the way it idles, how it responds under load, what the cabin sounds like with all that sound deadening stripped out — gives viewers something a spec sheet never could. Robert Fedyk’s ride-along with Jim Isherwood preserves exactly that experience, which matters more with every year that passes and fewer of these genuine Super Stock survivors remain on the road instead of behind glass. That scarcity is exactly why a simple ride-along video carries more weight than it might for a more common muscle car.
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Just a damn old Dodge
not a dodge
Plymouth belvedere 67
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I’ll take the Dodge LOL
yes it is original
and stock
Roger Howell
Sweet.
“One bad Mopar,,”
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Mopar Ed Dammit
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