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Kevin Erickson spent nearly two years swapping a wrecked Tesla Model S drivetrain into his 1972 Plymouth Satellite — and the 636-horsepower result just put a 700-HP turbo Dodge Dart on notice at the strip. Here’s how a home-garage build called ‘Electrollite’ pulled off one of the most convincing EV muscle car swaps yet.
A 1969 Plymouth Satellite convertible turned up on Gateway Classic Cars’ lot in bold orange with a black top, and the engine bay backs up the listing’s claim of a 383 Super Commando V8 under the hood. Nine photos show the paint, the interior, and the underhood detail that most listings leave out — but they still can’t confirm the one thing that matters most: what the fender tag actually says. Read on to see what the photos prove, and what’s still left to verify.
Before the Road Runner or GTX existed, Plymouth offered its 425-hp Street Hemi in the understated 1966 Satellite, and only 503 four-speed hardtops were ever built. Owner Randy Cook found one identical to the car he watched race as a kid and traded his own car to get it. Lou Costabile takes a ride in the Forest Green Hemi that makes two grown men laugh the moment the hood goes up.
Everybody remembers the Hemi. Almost nobody remembers that Plymouth’s first real street brawler wore a wedge-head 426 instead, a full year before the street Hemi even existed, and this ragtop is one of the rarest ways you could have ordered one. Read on to find out how a car with almost no advertising still out-muscled half the flashier iron of its era.
Long before customers ever saw a 1971 Plymouth Satellite, Road Runner, or GTX on a showroom floor, Chrysler’s own salesmen were trained on exactly how to sell them — using this internal film from the Master Technician Service Conference series. It breaks down engine options from economical slant six to the 440 Six-Barrel, explains what separated the budget Road Runner from the upscale GTX, and captures Plymouth’s B-body lineup right at the peak of the muscle car era. Watch to find out what Chrysler wanted its own people to know.
1967 was the year the Plymouth Satellite got quietly outranked by its own family. The new Belvedere GTX arrived that year with a 440 wedgehead V8 and the 426 Hemi, an engine Plymouth had already been selling in the Satellite since 1966. The Satellite carried on as Plymouth’s value performance pick, powered by a 383 available with either a two-barrel or four-barrel carburetor. Here’s how the B-body pecking order shifted in a single model year.
A plain four-door 1970 Plymouth Satellite with Chrysler’s 440 Super Commando big block hiding under an ordinary hood embarrassed a BMW driver who never saw it coming. Built on the same platform as the Road Runner and GTX but wearing none of their badges or bravado, this sedan is a textbook sleeper — read on for how a grocery-getter body ended up packing genuine street-fighting torque, and why cars like it are becoming harder to find and pricier to own.
Genuine 1970 Plymouth Superbirds are nearly impossible to find and even harder to afford, so this build started from a Plymouth Satellite instead and became a hand-crafted tribute complete with the aero car’s iconic nose cone and towering rear wing. Featured on Muscle Car of the Week, it lives in The Brothers Collection alongside vintage NASCAR racers and bone-stock originals. Watch to see how close a tribute build can get to the real thing.
210 episodes into covering the Brothers Collection, Muscle Car of the Week finally ranks the convertibles — pulling from a 1967 Mustang K-code, a 1964 Plymouth Satellite 426 Wedge, a fuel-injected 1959 Corvette, and a 440 Six Barrel ‘Cuda in Tor-Red. Each car represents a different era and manufacturer’s approach to open-top American performance. The comments are already split over which one deserves the top spot. Watch to see the full lineup and decide which convertible you’d pick.
A Plymouth Satellite that had not run in ten years gets a shot at redemption when Junkyard Digs creator Kevin, Dylan, and a newly introduced crew called The Rust Avengers attempt the first start. A decade of sitting brings real risks, including varnished fuel, dried seals, and the possibility of a seized engine, that make the outcome genuinely uncertain going in. A second installment is already promised on a collaborator’s channel. Watch to find out if the Satellite still has a heartbeat.
A station wagon is supposed to be the sensible choice, which is exactly what makes a lime-green 1972 Plymouth Satellite with a big block under the hood so entertaining. Plymouth’s B-body wagons rode a longer wheelbase than the two-doors and rarely got credit for being able to carry the era’s larger engines at all. Read on for where the Satellite wagon fit in Plymouth’s lineup, what engines were realistically available, and why the badge disappeared after 1974.
By 1974 the muscle car era was circling the drain, and Plymouth’s Road Runner was fighting to stay relevant at all. This orange Satellite recreates the look on B-body bones, complete with the correct purple Beep Beep horn. A 1974 Satellite even turned up on screen in the third Dirty Harry film. Read on to find out whether a clone like this is a tribute to a dying breed or the smartest way to enjoy one.
A 1965 Plymouth wearing rare copper paint and a 426 badge sounds like it should be running the legendary Hemi. It isn’t. A full year before the street Hemi rewrote what that number meant, Plymouth was already building a completely different 426 around a wedge combustion chamber. It lasted two model years before disappearing from the brochures almost entirely. Read on to find out what happened to the other 426.
Real 1970 Plymouth Superbirds are nearly impossible to buy — Plymouth built fewer than 2,000 to satisfy NASCAR’s homologation rules, and survivors now sell for prices most enthusiasts will never reach. So The Brothers Collection built their own from a plain 1970 Plymouth Satellite, recreating the wing car’s nose cone and towering rear wing on a more attainable platform. Featured on V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week, the build raises a real question about what a tribute car needs to get right to earn respect. Watch to see how close a handmade Superbird can get to the real thing.