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The Plymouth Fury was an automobile made by the Plymouth division of the Chrysler Corporation from 1956 to 1978. Introduced as a premium-priced halo model (a production automobile designed to showcase the talents and resources of an automotive company, with the intent to draw consumers into their showrooms), the Fury was sold only as an off-white hardtop coupé with gold anodized aluminum trim in 1956, 1957 and 1958. A Fury convertible was first offered in 1960. Plymouth sailboat logo used from 1996 to 2001 Plymouth was a brand of automobile based in the United States, marketed by the Chrysler Corporation from 1928 to 2001. ...
The Chrysler Corporation was a United States-based automobile manufacturer that existed independently from 1925–1998. ...
Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...
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A hardtop is a term for a rigid, rather than canvas, automobile roof. ...
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Gold is a shade of the color yellow closest to that of gold metal. ...
These inexpensive carabiners have an anodised aluminium surface that has been dyed and are made in many colors. ...
Aluminum is a soft and lightweight metal with a dull silvery appearance, due to a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when it is exposed to air. ...
Saab 900 Convertible 1962 Rambler American Convertible can also refer to a convertible (security) A convertible (sometimes called cabriolet in British English) is a car body style with a folding or retracting roof (aka soft top or top in USA, hood in UK). ...
In 1959 Plymouth introduced the Sport Fury as its top model, and the Fury name was stepped down to replace the Plymouth Belvedere at the top of the regular Plymouth line-up. In doing so, the Fury range now contained sedans and station wagons as well as a hardtop coupe and sedan, while the Sport Fury series had only a 2-door hardtop and convertible. The Fury remained Plymouth's sales volume model through the troubled early 1960s, when the full-sized Fury was saddled with odd styling and an intermediate (or mid-sized) platform. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 529 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1714 pixel, file size: 2. ...
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The Plymouth Belvedere was an American automobile produced from 1951 through 1970. ...
The Sport Fury was dropped at the end of 1959, but was reintroduced in mid-1962. The 1962 to 1969 Sport Fury came as a hardtop coupe or convertible.
From 1965 to 1974, Plymouth sales owed a great deal to the Fury's popularity. When Plymouth reintroduced a full-sized car in 1965, the Fury was available in four trim levels, dubbed Fury I, Fury II, Fury III and Sport Fury, which were priced to meet Chevrolet's Biscayne, Bel Air, Impala and Impala SS models, body style for body style. 1964 Chevrolet Biscayne The Chevrolet Biscayne was a series name of automobile produced by Chevrolet, a division of General Motors, in the United States from the 1958 through 1972 model years. ...
1956 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door sedan The Chevrolet Bel Air was an automobile series produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors from 1953–75. ...
The Chevrolet Impala is an automobile built for the Chevrolet division by General Motors. ...
1968 Chevrolet Impala at the weekly Garden Grove, California car show on April 16, 2004. ...
The Fury I was marketed to police and taxi fleets, or sold to private customers wanting a basic, no-frills full-sized car, while the Fury II and Fury III were the bread and butter lines. Many Sport Fury models (as well as Fury III models) came loaded with options such as automatic transmission, power steering, white sidewall tires (along with full wheel covers), stereo radios, vinyl tops and air conditioning. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
The automatic gear selector in a Ford Five Hundred vehicle An automatic transmission is an automobile gearbox that can change gear ratios automatically as the vehicle moves, thus freeing the driver from having to shift gears manually (similar but larger devices are also used for railroad locomotives). ...
Power steering is a system for reducing the steering effort on cars by using an external power source to assist in turning the wheels. ...
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Vinyl roof refers to a vinyl covering for an automobiles top. ...
Note: in the broadest sense, air conditioning can refer to any form of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning. ...
From 1966 to 1969, a luxury version of the Fury, called the Plymouth VIP (marketed as the Very Important Plymouth in 1966) was fielded, in response to the Ford LTD, Chevrolet Caprice, Ambassador DPL. These models came with standards such as full wheel covers, vinyl tops, luxuriously upholstered interiors with walnut dashboard and door-panel trim, a thicker grade of carpeting, more sound insulation, full courtesy lighting, etc. In addition to options ordered for the Fury III and Sport Fury models, VIPs were often ordered with such items as automatic transmission, air conditioning, power windows, and power seats. It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...
The Chevrolet Caprice (later called Caprice Classic) was a series name of automobile produced by Chevrolet, a division of General Motors, in the United States from the 1965 through 1996 model years. ...
1959 Ambassador by Rambler Cross Country hardtop wagon The AMC Ambassador was an automobile produced by the American Motors Corporation (AMC) from 1958 until 1974. ...
Vinyl roof refers to a vinyl covering for an automobiles top. ...
The automatic gear selector in a Ford Five Hundred vehicle An automatic transmission is an automobile gearbox that can change gear ratios automatically as the vehicle moves, thus freeing the driver from having to shift gears manually (similar but larger devices are also used for railroad locomotives). ...
Note: in the broadest sense, air conditioning can refer to any form of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning. ...
Power Windows may refer to: Power windows, automobile windows that are raised and lowered by a switch Power Windows, a 1985 album by Rush Power Windows, a Rush tribute band This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The power seat adjustments in a Lincoln Town Car. ...
For 1970, the VIP was discontinued, and the Sport Fury range added a four-door hardtop sedan. The Sport Fury added two new hardtop coupes to retain some semblance of a sporty image: the S-23 and the GT. 1970-71 Sport Fury GT models were powered by a 440 in³ engine, which could even be had with the "Six-Pack" option, which consisted of three two-barrel carburetors. Bendix-Technico (Stromberg) 1-barrel downdraft carburetor model BXUV-3, with nomenclature The carburetor, carburettor, or carburetter (see spelling differences), also called carb (in North America) or carbie (chiefly in Australia) for short, is a device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine. ...
Gran Fury and the end of the Fury
In 1975, Chrysler moved the Fury nameplate to Plymouth's redesigned mid-size models that had previously been marketed as the Satellite. A Fury Road Runner was offered on the redesigned coupe, but was moved to the Plymouth Volare the following year. The full-sized Plymouth then became known as the Plymouth Gran Fury. The Gran Fury was dropped after 1977, and the mid-sized models were dropped after 1978. There was no 1979 Fury, Gran or otherwise. The Plymouth Satellite was an automobile introduced in 1965 as the top model in Plymouths mid-size Belvedere line. ...
The Dodge Aspen was a midsize car of the 1970s from Chryslers Dodge brand. ...
The Plymouth Gran Fury was an automobile manufactured by the Chrysler Corporation from 1975 to 1977, and again from 1982 to 1989. ...
In 1980-81 a new Gran Fury was available, in what was a virtual twin of the concurrent Chrysler Newport intended mainly for fleet sales. For 1982, Dodge Diplomat was rebadged to create yet another Gran Fury. In reality, this was the Canadian-market Plymouth Caravelle sedan which had been available since 1977. This version was available through the 1989 model year, and was sold mainly as a fleet vehicle, and was a popular choice as a police cruiser. 1971 Chrysler Newport The Newport was a name used by the Chrysler division of the Chrysler Corporation used as both a hardtop body designation and for its entry level model between 1961 and 1981. ...
The Dodge Diplomat was a mid-size car and it was manufactured from 1977 to 1989 by the Chrysler Corporations Dodge brand and practically identical to the Chrysler LeBaron of 1977, the Plymouth Caravelle sold in Canada, and the Plymouth Gran Fury from 1982. ...
The Caravelle was Plymouths version of the Chrysler E-Class luxury car in the 1980s. ...
Stephen King's Christine
Arguably, the most famous Plymouth Fury in the world isn't actually a Fury. Christine, a 1958 Plymouth Fury, was played by a Plymouth Belvedere. The color and trim are custom for Christine. Although the 1958 Plymouth Fury is identified as the car in the film adaptation of Stephen King's Christine, two other Plymouth models, the Belvedere and the Savoy, were also used to portray the malevolent automobile. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Christine is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1983. ...
The Plymouth Belvedere was an American automobile produced from 1951 through 1970. ...
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. ...
Christine is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1983. ...
The Plymouth Belvedere was an American automobile produced from 1951 through 1970. ...
The Plymouth Savoy was an automobile produced by the Plymouth division of the Chrysler Corporation of Highland Park, Michigan, (USA). ...
Several statements about the car in the book version were factually incorrect for the 1958 Fury, referring to features that were found on the Belvedere model and not on the Fury. Some of these include:
- "rear doors" (Christine is referred to as a four-door, but the Fury was only available in a two-door model until 1959)
- the transmission (called a Hydramatic in the book—a GM transmission; Chrysler Corporation transmissions were called TorqueFlite)
- "gearshift lever" (refers to the transmission shifter; all 1958 Chrysler automobiles with automatic transmissions used push-button drive).
Another slight inaccuracy was shown in the film version of Christine: In the scene where Leigh Cabot chokes on a hamburger, Arnie is locked out of the car and can't help her. The door lock button clearly goes down by itself, yet these cars did not have lock buttons. They required the door handle to be rotated counter-clockwise to lock them. Transmissions provide a speed-power conversion known as gear reduction (in speed) to a higher torque (rotational force) using gearsets. ...
Hydramatic (also known as Hydra-Matic) was an automatic transmission developed by General Motorss Oldsmobile division. ...
General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is an American automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ...
TorqueFlite (also spelled Torqueflite) was the trademarked name of Chrysler Corporations three-speed automatic transmission, which was introduced late in the 1956 model year. ...
However, the author did note that Christine was "a special order", which could explain these inconsistencies. Also, since the car is possessed by a supernatural force (the previous owner in the book and an unknown force in the movie) it is possible that the car could do just about anything it (she) wanted.
See also Plodge is the informal name given to products of the Chrysler Corporation, sold in Canada, the letters for which are taken from PLymouth and DoDGE. These vehicles used portions of Plymouth and Dodge brand automobiles together, to make unique cars for the Canandian market. ...
Resources The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975, John Gunnell, Editor. Kraus Publications, 1987. ISBN 0-87341-096-3
External links - 1969 - 1973 Plymouth Fury at Fuselage.de site
- 59sportfury.net
- 1966 Plymouth Sport Fury in the Netherlands
- 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury
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