Christine is not the only famous Plymouth around! Check out this bad girl....
This 1957 Plymouth Savoy Hot Rod Magazine project car named "Suddenly" was driven to a record 166 mph on the sand at Daytona Beach in 1957. Under the hood sits a mean fuel-injected 392 Chrysler Hemi. As the story goes with most projects of this type, it was eventually retired from the track and served as a grocery-getter and commuter car for many years until it was sold and disappeared without a trace. As time passed, Wally Parks, founder of the NHRA and the mastermind behind Suddenly, began to miss the old yellow Mopar. So much so that since the late 80's he has been looking for the original, to no avail. Wally then set out to have a replica built which would be appropriately dubbed "Suddenly II." Using old magazine photos as a guide, Jim Travis (in charge of project Suddenly II) built an almost identicle twin of Parks' record breaking Plymouth. Unlike her predecessor though, Suddenly II was a two-door Sedan; the original Suddenly was a two-door hardtop. -from HotRod Magazine '97
Because the preceding info dates back to 1997, the picture below of the original Suddenly leads me to believe either the original car was found in the last few years or yet another replica was made, this time out of a proper two-door hardtop. It's currently on display at the NHRA Motorsports Museam in Pomona, California, USA
