The Incredible Plymouth "Fireball 500" From 1966

This is the Plymouth Fireball 500 by Barris Kustom, it was built as Frankie Avalon’s character’s hero car for the 1966 film also named “Fireball 500.” The car wasn’t just a show pony, when new it was said to be powered by a 426 cubic inch (7.0 liter) Hemi V8 mated to a 4-speed manual gearbox, and it had a reported top speed of over 160 mph – a highly-respectable achievement in the mid-1960s.

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This is the Plymouth Fireball 500 by Barris Kustom, it was built as Frankie Avalon’s character’s hero car for the 1966 film also named “Fireball 500.” The car wasn’t just a show pony, when new it was said to be powered by a 426 cubic inch (7.0 liter) Hemi V8 mated to a 4-speed manual gearbox, and it had a reported top speed of over 160 mph – a highly-respectable achievement in the mid-1960s.

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This is the Plymouth Fireball 500 by Barris Kustom, it was built as Frankie Avalon’s character’s hero car for the 1966 film also named “Fireball 500.” The car wasn’t just a show pony, when new it was said to be powered by a 426 cubic inch (7.0 liter) Hemi V8 mated to a 4-speed manual gearbox, and it had a reported top speed of over 160 mph – a highly-respectable achievement in the mid-1960s.

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