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Plymouth Fury nicknamed "Christina"
The world famous 1958 car - Plymouth Fury nicknamed "Christina"... But, the history of this car began far from 1958, but back in 1956, when it was a limited edition and "sports car".So far, the not yet famous American Plymouth Fury 1958.
Between 1957 and 1958, this beauty had to undergo design changes. In those years, the Plymouth Fury was an example for the rest of the car. She had everything for success: a large bumper, flatness and elongation, double headlights and the famous fins. In the original, from the beginning of sales, this car was light beige, later it began to be produced in red. Possibly influenced by a Stephen King novel. On the engine grill, you can see the letter V, this is not a piece of decor at all. The letter denotes the shape of the engine in the car. Christina is made in a retro style, and arouses great interest among car lovers to this day.The 1959 model Fury became the most popular and liquid car of the series. This car was produced in four stages. In the same year, the plymouth fury Christina with a roof that opens was available.
Movie past of the plymouth fury car.
Surprisingly, the sales model first plymouth fury did not arouse interest and enthusiasm among buyers. Everything fundamentally changed after the release of Stephen King's novel " Kristina". Soon, King made a signature on one of these cars " Kristina"After which the car received such a nickname. The author made many mistakes in accordance with the reality of the car. plymouth fury 1958 Christina noticed these inaccuracies. There are 2 doors in the car, and in Stephen King's novel 4. Also plymouth fury 1958 filmed for horror films, where a car without a driver hunted for people. This film sparked a second storm of interest in this intimidating vehicle. The film is also called "Christine".A rare car for those who like to collect.
Now, there is a collectible model for sale Plymouth Fury 1958 years, it can be purchased in America, but it costs a tidy sum. Price, about $ 350. At the moment, there are very few real Fury models left.Good day to all! The other day I re-read Christina and wondered how, in fact, this car looks like and what is its history. I haven't watched Carpenter's film yet, but I will definitely watch it!
The Fury was one of the "top" models of the rather budgetary Plymouth brand.
Whether such fame is deserved or not is a moot point. It is possible that Stephen King simply has some personal associations with this car. For example, the 1958 Plymouth, as an ominous sign of the past, appears briefly in at least one of his other novels, It. Nevertheless, the car was chosen more than well as a symbol of the era, which is often called the "Detroit Baroque" for the love of pretentiousness and all kinds of excesses. Obviously, its name also played an important role in the choice. Fury in English means rage, fury (remember, furies in Roman mythology were called the goddesses of anger and vengeance). The most appropriate name for a car that has become the embodiment of hellish forces.
Plymouth, of course, is not a very prestigious American brand, but one of the most popular. It began in 1928. Car tycoon Walter Percy Chrysler, who had founded his own brand Chrysler four years earlier on the wreckage of Maxwell and Chalmers, was hastily building an automobile empire that could rival the likes of Ford and General Motors. To do this, he needed an inexpensive mass-produced car. This was Plymouth, named after Plymouth Rock - Plymouth Rock, near which the famous Mayflower docked in 1620, bringing the first colonists from England to the future state of Massachusetts. The Plymouth was a cheap model and was never known for its expressive looks or advanced design solutions.
The Plymouth Fury has not been a cult target among motorists. But only before the appearance of the book (and then the film) "Christina".
“There was a web of cracks on the left side of her windshield. The rear bumper almost fell off and the upholstery looked like it had been worked on with a knife. Worst of all, there was a wide pool of oil under the engine. Ernie fell in love with a 1958 Plymouth Fury - one of those with large long fins. "
Few car models have the honor of earning a well-established moniker, and even less so through romance. But that's exactly what happened with the 1958 Plymouth Fury. WITH light hand Stephen King, who wrote the novel "Christine" about a bright red antique car possessed by an evil spirit, and then John Carpenter, who shot the film based on this book, all such cars received the status of cult among fans are known by the female name Christina.
In fact, the Plymouth Fury was not painted red and white. In the original, they were like this.
Meanwhile, the Chrysler concern, which in the mid-1930s seriously burned out on the futuristic but unpopular Airflow model, went to the opposite extreme - excessive conservatism. Therefore, the models of the corporation from year to year lagged more and more behind automotive fashion... That changed in 1955 when the corporation's new designer, Virgil Exner, created the Forward Look style, characterized by the sweeping lines and oversized fins that swept America at the time.
These huge fins have become a symbol of the era.
“The beams of the headlights rushed forward, and behind them I saw the dark body of Christina, pressed to the ground, rushing at her prey. Large lumps of snow fell from the roof of Christina, falling on the street, where she was waiting for us in ambush. The V-8 howled furiously. "
The 1957-1958 Plymouth models became perhaps the most characteristic of the fin style. They have everything in place: aggressive and at the same time graceful lines, an abundance of chrome, twin headlights, fins, but at the same time there is no heavy weight and overloaded with details typical of many other models of this era, such as Buick, Oldsmobile or Mercury. A year earlier, in 1956, the Plymouth lineup appears new model- Fury. Initially, it was a sports car, produced in a single version - as a two-door coupe-hardtop. It was considered an exclusive model and was produced in small quantities.
And here Christina is at her usual business - the hunt for people.
The standard engine for the 1958 Fury was a Dual Fury V-800 eight-cylinder with two carburettors. Its working volume was 318 cubic inches (that's about 5.2 liters), power - 290 hp. at 5200 rpm. A 305-strong Golden Commando was also ordered. Frankly speaking, for those years the engine was not sickly. He accelerated the two-ton colossus to a speed of 100 km / h in less than 8 seconds, and the maximum speed of the Plymouth Fury with such an engine was 240 km / h. It is not for nothing that the hero of Stephen King, when he first met Christina, remarks: “The limit value on the speedometer was absolutely absurd - one hundred and twenty miles per hour. When did the cars go at that speed? "
For only 1958 model year 5303 Plymouth Fury cars were produced (total production of Plymouth that year was about 444 thousand units). Fury sedans and station wagons appeared only in 1959. And then the Fury acquired a full body kit, becoming the base full-size Plymouth model, and as such it lasted until 1975, when it was renamed Gran Fury.
Stephen King did not set out to be historical. For him, the spirit of the era was more important. Therefore, connoisseurs find numerous errors and inconsistencies in his novel. For example, Christina is described in the book as a four-door model, but as mentioned above, until 1959, only two-door models were produced by the Plymouth Fury. The Fury King calls the automatic gearbox Hydramatic, while this gearbox was produced by General Motors, and the Chrysler models used Torqueflite gearboxes, and they were controlled not by a lever, but by buttons. In Carpenter's film, some of these bugs are fixed (Christina becomes a two-door again). But others appear: for example, the doors on this model were blocked from the inside not with a button, but with an additional turn of the door handle, as in the old Moskvichs. Finally, Christina, at the behest of the author, is painted red and white colors however all 1958 Plymouth Fury's were beige with a gold stripe. However, the author himself explains the discrepancy by the fact that the car received just such a color by the special order of the first owner: "At my request, it was painted in red and white, like the model of the next year." Anyway, a real fan will tell you that Christina can only be of one color - red with a white stripe.
“One of her broken headlights blinked and lit the road. One of the deflated tires began to fill with air, then the other. The puffs of acrid, dark gray smoke disappeared. The engine stopped sneezing and ran smoothly and powerfully. The crumpled hood began to straighten, at first the numerous cracks on the windshield were reduced, and then completely disappeared; the tattered parts of the body turned red again. The second headlight came on, one lamp after another. The mileage counter spun in the opposite direction evenly and without stopping. "
Christina was indestructible - and she quickly recovered her "wounds"
Of course, this list should not include the "improvements" that the ominous car received by the author's will, ranging from inexplicable four-wheel drive to the ability to drive without a driver, and even more so - to regenerate after any damage. The latter property is generally not characteristic of mechanisms, nevertheless, something similar happens to the 1957 and 1958 Plymouths, which were sent to landfills. Fans are looking for them there and restoring them. Since very few real Plymouth Fury were released, any model that is turned into Christine by "cloning" is used - the engine, equipment and various accessories used on another model are installed on a car of one model. The main thing is that the bodies are the same. Therefore, the 1958 Plymouth, painted in red and white, could originally have been any other model - most likely not even a Fury, but a Belvedere or Savoy.
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Plymouth is an independent division of the Chrysler Group LLC that existed from 1928 to 2001. Was engaged in production passenger cars and minivans.
Manufacturer: Chrysler Group LLC
Production: 1956-1978
Class: Full-size / Mid-size / Muscle Car
Body type: 4-door hardtop / 4-door sedan / 2-door hardtop / 2-door saloon / 5-door station wagon / 2-door convertible.
Designers: John Samsen
Engines:
Carburetor, injection 4-stroke
277th (4.5 liters) V8 197 hp (144 kW) 1956
301st (4.9 liters) V8 215 hp (158 kW) 1957
303rd (5.0 liters) V8 240 hp (175 kW) 1956-57
318th (5.2 liters) V8 up to 260 hp (190 kW) 1956-78
350th (5.7 liters) V8 305 hp (224 kW) 1958-59
361st (6.0 liters) V8 305 hp (224 kW) 1959-64
383rd (6.3 liters) V8 330 hp (250 kW) 1960-73
225th (4.0 L) I6 145 hp (107 kW) 1960-78
413th (6.8 liters) V8 375 hp (280 kW) 1960-64
426th Hemi (7.0 liters) V8 415 hp (305 kW) 1960-73
440th (7.2 L) V8 up to 385 hp (287 kW) 1965-1978
400th (6.6 liters) V8 up to 230 hp (170 kW) 1969-1978
360th (5.9 liters) V8 235 hp (175 kW) 1969-1978
Transmission:
3-speed automatic transmission
3-speed manual transmission
4-speed manual transmission
Drive unit:
Classic, back
About the car
The Plymouth Fury is a full size car manufactured by the Plymouth of Chrysler Corporation from 1956 to 1978. The model was introduced to the market as sports car"Premium" class. The word "Fury" comes from Furia (Fury) - the goddess of revenge and anger in ancient Roman mythology. The marketing move, however, it is worth noting, is very, very successful.
1956-1958
lymouth Fury 1957 The Plymouth Fury was originally a modification of the Plymouth Belvedere. Produced exclusively in the back of a two-door hardtop with a unique metallic exterior finish. A year later, "Fury", in addition to the salon, got new bumpers. The base engine for 1956-57 was the 318th (5.2 L) V8 unit with a power system that consisted of two four-chamber carburetors. Beginning in 1958, the 350th (5.7 L) Golden Commando with 305 hp was available as an option. (227 kW), also "powered" by two four-chamber carburetors. I would also like to mention the version of "Golden Commando" with single injection, with a capacity of just over 315 forces. But due to the problems of the experimental batch with electronics, she never saw mass production... In fact, there were much more imperfections - here and frankly weak sound insulation, a dirty interior and the absence of a full-fledged anti-corrosion coating. But thanks to the low price and competent advertising, the car has always been in stable demand.
The American automaker took a rather bold and risky step - the Plymouth Furi was one of the first cars in Detroit to use the innovative Torsion Air Ride suspension with longitudinal torsion bars. This design first appeared at DeSoto in 1957.
Plymouth Fury Golden Commando 1958 The 1958 model is the most interesting for collectors, such a car is extremely rare, especially with fuel injection.
1959
The relationship with Belvedere is coming to an end. Plymouth began positioning the Fury as a full-fledged model. A premium sports model. In addition to the already beloved 2-door hardtop, the line of bodies for Fury has become richer for a sedan, a station wagon, as well as a 2-door convertible.
1960-1964
Plymouth Fury convertible 1960 Fins. Such an iconic attribute of the 50s is going out of fashion forever. The majestic forms of full-size sedans and hardtops are being replaced by more restrained "mid-sizes" and ponies. Fury also did not become an exception to the rule, having pretty much lost its former "forms" and switched to a monocoque body. For the first time, an in-line 225th (3.7 liter) six-cylinder power unit with a capacity of 145 hp appears on the model. (108 kW) at 4000 rpm.
Plymouth Fury sedan 1962 This is with regard to "European" innovations. For connoisseurs of the "old school", the 383rd (6.3 liter) block with a capacity of 330 hp is available. (250 kW), which replaced the already not small 350 (5.7 liters).
1965-1968
Plymouth Fury convertible 1965 This model year brings us back to our roots - to full-size styling (wheelbase was 3000 mm for sedans and 3100 mm for station wagons). Basic models three - Fury I, Fury II and Fury III. The differences, you guessed it, are in the configuration.
The Plymouth Fury has proven itself well in the police and taxi industry, so for the average buyer looking for a spacious, no-frills full-size car, the base Fury I was the best fit. For young people and for all those who needed something more than a banal move from point "A" to point "B", the Fury III or the "sports" version - Sport Fury were more suitable. They differed from the Fury I / Fury II in the presence of an automatic transmission, power steering, white tire linings, the presence of a standard radio and air conditioning.
The maximum equipment was named Suburban. The station wagon, sheathed with wood-like panels, on the tailgate of which it is easy to recognize the real aerofoil, looked especially majestic.
Plymouth Fury Wagon Suburban 1969 Between 1966 and 1969, the most luxurious version of the Plymouth Fury, the Plymouth VIP, was available. It was a response to competitors in the faces of Ford ( Ford model LTD) and Chevrolet Caprice. In addition to air conditioning, VIP cars were equipped with electric windows and electric seats. The size of the wheels, like most competing models, was 15 inches.
1970–1973
Plymouth Fury 1971 In 1970, immediately after the Plymouth VIP was decommissioned, a 4-door hardtop was added to the Fury sports line. The most productive - Sport Fury GT, as an option, was equipped with a huge 440 (7.2 L) engine with a power system that consisted of three two-chamber carburetors (in various literature it was also called a six-chamber carburetor). Among the innovations not implemented in the Plymouth VIP model, the current Fury Sports boasted such innovative functionality as an electric sunroof and a stereo cassette recorder with a microphone, capable of recording music from radio stations or recording the voice of the driver / his passengers.
In 1972, Plymouth expanded the Fury lineup with two more models, the Fury Gran Coupe and Gran Sedan, albeit by diversifying the Sport Fury. A year later, they will once again be abolished into a single "Gran Fury", which will last on the conveyor until 1977.
Plymouth Fury Fury III hardtop 1973 In 1973, changes were made to the design of the bumpers, which meets the requirements of road safety. The essence of which boils down to installing on vehicles bumpers designed to minimize injury to the impaired person at speeds up to 5 mph (8 km / h).
1974
1974 was the last year in the segment of full-size cars and the C platform in particular. Plymouth decided to move towards the intermediate (midsize) size of their vehicles. The basic power unit for all sedans was a V8 360 (5.9 liters) with a two-chamber carburetor, and for station wagons and other body types, a V8 400 (6.6 liters) with a four-chamber carburetor was used. The transmission was used throughout the TorqueFlite three-speed automatic. Let me remind you that an additional engine, regardless of the body type, was offered the 440th, still an eight-cylinder.
Among the innovations, one can note the presence of a cruise and climate control for the maximum package of options for the Luxury Group, an electronic branded clock and LED indicators for monitoring the operation of engine functions.
1975–1978
Plymouth Fury hardtop 1977 This period did not bring any surprises, only minor style changes. So since 1975, Fury has acquired single round headlights in square frames instead of double round ones. The front direction indicators have "moved" from the edges of the radiator grille into the niches of the front bumper. The taillights have received an orange turn signal, instead of the "traditional" red lights.
The Plymouth Fury is now based on the new "B" platform alongside the Chrysler Cordoba, Dodge Coronet and Dodge charger... The wheelbase of sedans and station wagons was set at around 2980mm (3000mm in 1974), while the coupe body had only 2900mm.
The base engine for all Plymouth models of this era was the V8 of the 318th. The only exception to the rule was the Fury Sport, Road Runner, and other station wagons. The 360 and 400 could be ordered as options. While the 440 with a four-barrel carburetor was available exclusively to Police Fury in the sedan body.
1977 again passed relatively "quietly", the car received only a new radiator grille and updated headlights. The next year, due to low demand, turned out to be the last for the model. It has become economically unreasonable to compete on the new platform with the luxurious Chrysler Cordoba and Dodge Magnum.
Sources:
- J. Kelly Flory - American Cars, 1960-1972: Every Model, Year by Year. McFarland, USA. 2004.
M ashina made it clear in advance that she had a tough disposition. Even sleek Jaguars with Lithuanian numbers were afraid of her for looking serious, gloomy, she was afraid. And the whole other public bypassed the car, realizing that it was better not to mess with it. A little more, and clouds with thunder and lightning would begin to gather over the Fury. But instead of joining the retreating crowd, I took a chance and went for a rapprochement. And this gamble was fully justified.
Loud name
The first thing that caught my eye when we met was the dissimilarity of this 1972 coupe from the progenitor of the entire Fury family. The triumph of the "Detroit Baroque" from the distant 1956 on the fifth generation of these Plymouths came to naught. All that remains of the fin style is the "vinyl-top" slanting roof. Imitating leather, for greater contrast it is painted in a color different from the rest of the body. As for the twin headlights, fanged bumpers, broken side moldings and a catchy tail, all of this is a thing of the past. But once such a combination in an automobile look brought Plymouth the awards for "the most beautiful car of the Year ”from the American press and the Society of Illustrators.
But these trophies were far from the only ones on the company's award stand. In 1969, the Chrysler concern approved a new style for lineup of all its divisions, Fuselage Look. "Fuselage" received massive bumpers, integrated "into the body" of the car, straight outlines of bodies with light side stampings, giving the appearance of swiftness.
Fuel:
This style was inspired by the F-105, MiG-21 and Dassault Mirage III supersonic jets. The Big Three have always had their hand on the political pulse of the country, so neither the Cuban missile crisis, let alone the Vietnam War, could not but affect the appearance of their cars. "Fuselage", as conceived by the manufacturers, resembled an arrow flying uncompromisingly forward. But for me this Plymouth caused a different association.
Five years later, as the last Plymouth Fury rolls off the assembly line, writer S. King and director D. Carpenter will make a film that will immortalize this model. But the Devil-Possessed Christina represented the first generation of Fury and was the very first instance of it. I don’t know whether the image that had taken hold in the mind played a role, but even with this personal luxury coupe, which looked like an ancestor, like gasoline on water, the squint of the headlights seemed so vicious that I felt a chill. That different appearances hide common DNA, I no longer had any doubts. And which manufacturer would call their top model "Fury" for no reason?
- Capacious names used to be given by the Americans to their cars, - said Rostislav, as if reading my thoughts. “For example, the Cadillac Eldorado sounds even better than the Promised Land. And then there is Barracuda, Challenger, Charger, Dart, Demon, Imperial…. There is a whole story behind every word! Where are the Europeans with their soulless indexes!
Indeed, the chief designer of Plymouth, and at one time the curator of the project, Virgil Exner insisted that this car be given an aggressive and memorable name. In his opinion, the ancient Greek goddess of rage and anger, Fury, had just the name that could attract young people. And the engineers of the brand with the motto "one smart thought after another" knew a lot about keeping these buyers behind the wheel longer. After all, the equipment and design of the Plymouth Fury outnumbered the competition for a whole model year!
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Sharing such considerations, Rostislav, the owner of Fury, and I quickly found a common language and soon he offered to get to know his iron friend better. The door, which looked like a hermetic seal, swung open with an effort, inviting inside. There was no time left for drowning in doubts. In addition, the situation has developed in favor of my superstitions: it is better to be at the same time with the goddess of Fury, being inside, than to test her patience outside.
By all the laws of the genre
When the hinges creaked and the massive sash slammed shut behind my back, I immediately felt better. Bribed with high-quality design inner space Fury. A true retro design with every detail. Every visible part of the cabin, be it the dashboard, the walls or the steering wheel, was draped with sky blue eco-leather. In some places, wooden inserts come across. “This is American walnut veneer,” explains Rostislav. - In the original there were paper prints with this pattern, but we decided to order panels from real wood in the States. So it looks more correct. "
Is it more correct? Wrong word guys! Fury's inner world turned out to be a time capsule. In the salon, restored according to the factory sketches, all the coatings shone with novelty, and even smelled new car just rolled off the assembly line.
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Sitting on wide sofas, I could play associations as much as I wanted, if my own did not take me 20 years back to my grandmother's house. It was also light and cozy there, mountains of pillows with sewn-on buttons. But heck, not even my grandma - the overlock champion - could have done a better line than this one in Plymouth. If I had such a car, I would have dragged books into it and came in the evenings just to relax, to remember ...
Behind these thoughts, I did not immediately understand that Rostislav had been talking about the safety margin of his car for a long time. He said that absolutely any of his parts, be it a button for controlling an external light or a direction indicator, must be repaired. Everything can be unwound, replaced and put in place. If, for example, you sit on the hood lid, it will not bend - in the 1970s, Detroit did not save on metal. In a word, a car worth $ 3-5 thousand with proper care could be safely inherited by other generations. And this is another stone in the garden of modern cars, many of which begin to crumble, barely leaving the warranty period.
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“There was a time when cars were created by engineers, not marketers!” - sums up Rostislav. And here one cannot but agree with him. True, in our time, such a strange indexing, which Plymouth sinned, would certainly cause confusion. Indeed, contrary to the traditional designation, Fury III does not at all mean that the model belongs to the corresponding generation, but only its completeness. The top version in this line was considered the Fury VIP, but in 1972 it was abolished and the "ceiling" was the Fury Sport GT. Our heroine is a transitional link from the class of cars with poor equipment (Fury I and II) to the "major league". Even if the luxury of electric windows and seat servos was inaccessible to her, there was already an air conditioner, a power steering, a three-speed automatic transmission and a radio receiver on board the "troika". By the way, the latter is of no use in our latitudes - the broadcasting range of state radio stations has its own standard.
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On the road
Engine:
5.9 liters, 170 liters. with.
To find out who this Fury really is - an obsessed fury or a kind ... no, rather, a creature tolerant of the human presence, it remains to roll her out onto the road. But first, I would like to say a few words about getting into this car. Climbing and sitting comfortably in it does not present a problem for any of the six-seater crew members. The two three-seater sofas installed in the salon are originally designed for rather big people, and this strengthens self-esteem - lying imposingly on the seat, you do not need to apologize for your own size. At the same time, everyone else is comfortable no less than yours. Therefore, there is no need to talk about the phenomenal capacity of different Patrols - with this, even in the US coupes, there was always complete order.
So, Rostislav willingly agreed to a photo session, so we decided to go to one of the capital's factories. It's symbolic, after all: a kind of homage to Plymouth's Detroit past. Yes, and salvation from extraneous vanity.
Under the hood, Fury has a base "engine" with a volume of only 360 cubic inches - in our opinion - 5.9 liters. It starts up with a slip, not immediately. The owner calmly throws up his hands - they say, what to do, a single-chamber carburetor, with it the "engine" and in "native" years behaved no better. We try the ignition again, and somewhere in the bowels of the huge body, 170 horses from the Chrysler tribe come to life. We move gently and gently merge into the flow of traffic ...
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From my own feelings I will say right away: they lied to the Americans about sports coupe... This Plymouth Fury is as good as its full size body. Only the client of the veterinary clinic will drive in such a car into the sky-high distance. People who understand will drive measuredly, slowly, enjoying the driving process and even stretching it longer. Although you need to get used to the handling of this overseas guest. The steering wheel here is very soft, with a large backlash, and therefore uninformative. Because of this, it seems that the long body is out of sync with the driver's actions for a couple of seconds, like a computer freezing due to Windows 95.
Fury should not allow any daring maneuvers in the dense city traffic. After all, to turn around, this, if I may say so, "coupe" needed as many as three lanes!
Fortunately, the always busy participants in the capital's traffic jams did not become rude, staring with might and main at the newcomer from the past - the Plymouth looked too unusual next to the Juke and Octavia. The monocoque body, for which the manufacturer was one of the first to advocate, and the vacuum brake booster add potential dynamics to the car - with such dimensions, the frame "dreadnought" would be a sheer lump. But even a simple maneuver like changing lanes to the right lane makes you sweat through due to the absence of the right mirror. You are simply not ready for such branded pranks, therefore you helplessly grab the air. No rearview mirror will help here. This means that the course is only forward, because an even straight line is perhaps the most suitable element for this Fury. And on it, by the way, the car pleases with an unusually smooth ride. Fury's pits and speed bumps do not seem to notice, since the suspension features (torsion bar in front and springs in the rear) allow this. The torsion bars are also adjustable to increase / decrease the ride height.
Of the shortcomings of the car, the owner noted the poor lighting of the road. American optics is, of course, the talk of the town. At the same time, there is a clear overkill with illumination inside the cabin. Immediately I remember, which glowed from the inside brighter than the New Year tree. Otherwise, the Plymouth Fury III is a car with a big "+" sign, giving positive emotions not only to the owner, but also to everyone who sees it. It is appropriate to compare the ride on it with a rock ballad - languid, beautiful, unhurried, revealing the hidden meaning in the sexual "gash" of electric guitars.
Purchase history
Fuel consumption (per 100 km)
in the urban cycle:
American cars have sunk into Rostislav's soul for a long time. What, what, and spectacular appearance, they have always differed. A chrome body kit, a hardtop body, uncharacteristic for our latitudes, and the opportunity to touch the subject of a cult, even now, few people will remain indifferent. Having joined the local AutoAmerica community, he learned that there are many “dream cars” in Russia that require active participation. His choice fell on the Plymouth Fury III, not only because the car was in good condition. "Fuselage" - favorite bodies of Rostislav, because they embodied the "last sorry" of the impetuous American auto design. In 1974, due to environmental bans and the oil crisis on the other side of the Atlantic, the Japanese compacts ruled the show. Mitsubishi, for example, teamed up with Chrysler to push its subcompact cars to market under the guise of American coupes. There was nothing to choose from - local cars at once became ugly, turning into truncated, expressionless pieces of iron. But this Plymouth was not like that.
Before buying Rostislav carefully inquired about the car. It turned out that she arrived in the country in the 1990s, when customs duties were a minor nuisance, and not a serious measure of restriction. The compartment changed several owners, and they all treated it with understanding - they rode a little, did not keep it on the street, did not "farm". Therefore, Fury went to the capital of Belarus from Bryansk on her own.
Yes, appearance the car was not so hot, but the power units were almost in perfect order - they only had to service the engine and replace the shock absorbers. The state of the body was also surprising: the stale old paint had to be scraped off to iron, but it appeared in excellent condition - just prime and paint whatever you want. The owner chose the color closest to the "native" in the manufacturer's range - sky blue, and the roof was made white. The original vinyl for her was sourced from the States themselves. The Plymouth was then covered with three coats of lacquer, the entire bent molding was refurbished and auto-polished.
The salon, in contrast to the body, got stronger. By the time Fury arrived in Minsk, it looked like a dry cleaner destroyed by an explosion. It was not possible to restore this on our own, and Rostislav turned to knowledgeable specialists. They reacted to the request of the new owner of Fury with great understanding, without imposing the image of another show car on him, and restored the salon according to the factory patterns, while preserving all the lines and textures of the materials. Even the front console, the plastic in the production of which was always of poor quality and crackled in the sun, led to original view with fiberglass. As a result, six months of painstaking rebuilding led to Plymouth's readiness to make its first official departure.
The second and more pressing problem is the lack of a right mirror. Original part for this model simply does not exist. Paired "rear view accessories" such Plymouths, as luck would have it, began to be equipped only in 1973. Therefore, Rostislav is struggling with himself in the desire to install two complete, but unoriginal retro mirrors, or leave everything as it is, and drive even more jewelry. And this in urban conditions for a classic American full-size car is not an easy task.
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For all its formidable beauty, the Plymouth Fury III is not suitable for everyday use. Therefore, the car rolls very little during the season. From April 15 to October 15, taking into account all the solemn exits and weekend promenades, Fury covers a maximum of 2-2.5 thousand kilometers. The rest of the time she spends in the garage, and winters in a heated box. In such conditions and with the phenomenal safety margin that Plymouth possesses, this car has every chance to get the descendants of Rostislav in perfect condition.
Rostislav
owner
“With its formidable appearance and appropriate name, the car seems to make it clear that it is not worth joking with it. This is a real gloomy goddess! It should be treated with love, and then it does not fail. For at least two years of our acquaintance with me, this has never happened. Moreover, I know that, if necessary, I will sit behind the wheel of this car and calmly drive several thousand kilometers in a row. "
After these words, Rostislav slowly started the engine. The car rolled onto the road and began to disappear into the distance. I looked after her and admired. A truly unique car that evokes feelings of awe and delight - and you don't even know which is more. Probably, there is no other way with goddesses. Especially with gloomy ones ...
