This 1957-58 Belvedere hardtop is the car Stephen King made the villain in Christine.
Median 90 hp across 179 similar cars
Lead trim: Belvedere "Powerflow 6" 230 L-head I6 · up to 305 hp
Plymouth BelvedereBELVEDERE-1957 · 1957–1959
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FactThis 1957-58 Belvedere hardtop is the car Stephen King made the villain in Christine.
The 1957 model year had high sales for Chrysler Corporation and for Plymouth, whose revolutionary design was promoted with the slogan "Suddenly, it's 1960!". Standard on all body styles except the convertible (V8 only) was the "Powerflow 6" L-head engine, with V8s available in other Belvederes, including an optional "Fury" 301 cu in (4.9 L) version and a "High-Performance PowerPAC" at extra cost; manual transmission was standard, with the push-button two-speed PowerFlite and three-speed TorqueFlite optional (the latter on V8 cars only). The front suspension introduced Chrysler's Torsion-Aire torsion bar suspension, shared with all Chrysler products from 1957, and buyers could choose single or dual headlights. The Belvedere returned as a top-level trim for 1958 for the last time, with a 350 cu in (5.7 L) big-block "B" V8 with dual four-barrel carburetors, dubbed "Golden Commando", optional on all models; for 1959 the Fury became the top range and the Belvedere the middle range, the Savoy the cheapest and the Plaza discontinued. The convertible was only available in the Belvedere between 1956 and 1958. The 1957–58 Belvedere two-door hardtop gained notoriety from the 1983 film Christine. Wheelbase 118.0 in (2,997 mm), 122.0 in for station wagons. The page gives no power figures for this generation.
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Trims & Figures
2 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belvedere "Powerflow 6" 230 L-head I6 | 1957–1959 | 3.8 L Inline-6 | 132 hp | — | — | RWD | — | — |
| Belvedere 350 "Golden Commando" twin four-barrel V8 (1958) | 1958–1958 | 5.7 L V8 | 305 hp | 370 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
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Photographs
Richard Petty won the NASCAR Grand National title in this Belvedere generation, the last before the nameplate was dropped for Satellite.
A 1967 Belvedere played the LAPD's standard cruiser in the pilot episode of Adam-12.
This Belvedere introduced the 426 Hemi and swept the top three spots at the 1964 Daytona 500, Richard Petty among the winners.
Chrysler shrank the Belvedere for 1960 and buyers punished it for being smaller, even though a magazine test called the six-cylinder version pleasant transportation.
This 1957-58 Belvedere hardtop is the car Stephen King made the villain in Christine.
Chrysler's PR chief drove a Belvedere with a turbine jet engine bolted in across the country to prove the idea worked.
Plymouth buyers waited until March 1954 for their first real automatic — the two-speed PowerFlite, arriving right in the middle of the Belvedere's debut model year.
The 1953 restyle moved this car's gas cap under the trunk lid — and promptly caused a full tank to spill gasoline straight into the trunk until Plymouth added baffles mid-year to fix it.
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