Assuming "Hemi Commando" is a play on the term "Golden Commando"... then
they were a year early spoofing a name that did not yet exist... Right?
-Dave
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From: David Homstad [mailto:Dhomstad@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:32 AM
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [FWDLK] 57 Belvedere Hemi Commando?
I am not an expert on 57 Plymouths, but I have seen this car several
times here in Minneapolis and am acquainted with the owner. He claims it
is factory and that he has documented it. I have not asked to see the
documents. The 392 is a very tight fit. Everything under the hood looks
like a factory installation. Nothing looks homemade or altered. The
aircleaner is the major visible unique item. All of the Mopar 2x4 carb
performance packages (300C, D500, Fury, Adventurer) I have seen in 57
had 2 aircleaners, offset to opposite sides of the engine. This one is
very different. It has 2 snorkels on the same side running into a common
air chamber, with one oval filter element. It is black with a very old
decal says "Hemi Commando".
Dave Homstad
56 Dodge D500
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[mailto:L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marty Stewart
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:17 AM
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Hemi Commando?
Now, I am not sure how the Mopar factories were set up but here's a
little not urban myth story for you. My uncle worked for G.M. Canada
for a number of years. The employees often took advantage of buying
cars direct from the factory. Now, if you had friends in the right
places there were some tricks to be pulled. G.M. had a special area
that repaired major assembly line gaffs that couldn't be fixed "on
line". So my uncle ordered a 1971 4 dr Acadian ( a Canadian Pontiac
version of the Nova). He ordered it with a Power Glide and standard V-8
(307). But it "accidently " got a 6 installed in the assembly line so
it had to go to the repair area. Most guys used this trick to get a
350, or free a/c or upgraded stereo. He decided a 455 and turbo 400
were more appropriate. In 1971 G.M. had stopped putting big blocks in
the Nova, but they used mounts etc from the earlier models. As far as
G.M. records show and the build records,! the car left the factory with
a base V-8 and automatic, not the upgraded engine that actually went out
in the car. I had a little run in the car when I was young and it was
snappy, though he seemed more tickled with his free A/C. DOn't know what
ever became of the car, but he said there was a small number of the big
block cars made like this. I don't know how the accounted for the
missing engines. Perhaps someone knows if that type of midnight shift
stuff was possible at the mopar factories. Given that the Plymouth cars
were the designate export factories, there was likely a lot of custom
building to suit overseas needs.
Tuff Shift <nitekatt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yessir, and I am probably as big a skeptic as you are about it being a
"factory" job. But at least the rumors that it doesn't exist at all, are
dispelled for the time being. That was my only real purpose in
mentioning this.
Karl
>From: "Mark J. Hash"
>Reply-To: "Mark J. Hash"
>To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Hemi Commando?
>Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:30:29 -0700
>
>Cool car and all, but I'd have to see a copy of the build sheet from
>Chrysler Corp before I'd ever believe it was installed by the factory.
>. .
>
>Mark mjh
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tuff Shift"
>To:
>Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 4:40 PM
>Subject: [FWDLK] Hemi Commando?
>
>
> ! > Remember the discussion about the '57 Fury/Belvedere with a 392
>Hemi being
> > nothing more than an Urban Legend some time ago?
> >
> > Well, you'll never guess what showed up at the Mopars in the Park in
> > Shakopee Minnesota this weekend. That's right, a cream colored
>Belvedere
> > hardtop with the 392" 2 4bbl hemi nestled comfortably in the engine
> > compartment complete with official looking decals which read "hemi
> > commando".
> >
> > The owner swears it came that way from the factory. Good show by the
>way,
> > over 400 cars including quite a few FWDLK fins, '56 Dodge D500 Hemi,
> > '57 Fury, '58 300D, '58 & '59 Desoto, '58 Plym 2dr Wagon w Fury
> > package, '59 Dodge 4dr, '61 300G, etc etc etc.
> >
> > But it was that "Hemi Commando" that really made my day.
> >
> >
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