1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX "Silver Bullet"

1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX "Silver Bullet" by ACME using Highway 61 tooling. This car started out as a Chrysler test mule and the car was not silver but was blue. Due to internal politics the car was sold to a local mechanic at a Sunoco gas station named Jimmy Addison. Chrysler wanted an arms length relationship with the car, so they sold it to Addison for $1.00. There were serious players behind the scene including the godfather of the Hemi "Tom Hoover", "Bob Cahill" and legendary Ramcharger "Dick Maxwell". 

The goal was simple, turn this unassuming, well used GTX into a test tube on four wheels. Woodward Avenue in Detroit was the place where reputations were made and broken every week in the street racing scene. Chrysler didn't want the blowback from street racing, so Addison became the face of the Silver Bullet. 

Chrysler dipped into the the parts bin to turn this stock GTX into a monster that struck fear into the hearts of every car guy within 1000 miles of Detroit. They put the GTX on a diet, the front fenders, hood, door, glass and suspension parts were changed in favor of lightweight replacements. The back seat was turfed and the front factory buckers were dumped in favor of Dodge A100 van seats, the car shed several hundred pounds on the crash diet. The fenders, hood, doors and trunk lid were all replaced with fiberglass. 

The biggest change was under the hood, the original 440 was removed in favor of a 487 cubic inch Hemi with every conceivable upgrade Chrysler could find on the shelf under the guidance of the team behind the scenes. Jimmy Addison put the pieces together and built a legend. The key to success was the stealth factor because the boxy looking 67 Belvedere looked like every other 67 Belvedere to the casual observer. The massive rear tires and four 3 inch 1968 Cadillac mufflers told the observant car guys this unassuming Plymouth was out to dominate the street. 

The Silver Bullet ran consistent 10.5 @ 132 MPH in the 1/4 mile yet it was still street legal. 

Today the Silver Bullet is owned by Harold Sullivan, a loyal Mopar collector who tracked the silver Bullet down and restored it from a long life of hard knocks.