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A lot of people associate the Plymouth Fury with the possessed car from the Stephen King story “Christine” and its film adaptation. But have no fear: that car was a 1958. The one featured here is a 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury and she’s a sweet one.
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My first car was a 1965 Sport Fury my brother bought from his employer for $40. After my windshield frosted over passing through a fog bank, I rear-ended a '65 Peugeot. The Plymouth needed $60 in parts, including a new hood, grille and cross-member off a '66 Fury (only the grille was a little different). My family drove it for decades and Dad sold it for $100 to a guy who rebuilt it. The Peugeot? It turned into a ring of rust with the seats standing up in the middle. I must have hit it at 5 MPH.
Ironically, in the movie Christine is a Belvedere and not a Fury, and SK's novel refers to her being a four-door car (Plymouth didn't offer a four-door Fury until '59). Nobody got poor Christine right!
When I had my '58 DeSoto people would often recoil in mock horror and yell "Christine!!!" Never mind that it was a blue four-door DeSoto...I guess those tailfins were enough to make the association ha!
When I had my '58 DeSoto people would often recoil in mock horror and yell "Christine!!!" Never mind that it was a blue four-door DeSoto...I guess those tailfins were enough to make the association ha!
Well, she is a Fury in the novel, just not the right body style. I like SK, but for such a good storyteller he often gets details wrong.
A friend of mine strenuously argued that she's a Fury in the movie too, but the opening assembly line scene disproves that. She's surrounded by real Furys and the differences in the trim is obvious. Yes...I'm a card-carrying car geek and proud of it ha!
A friend of mine strenuously argued that she's a Fury in the movie too, but the opening assembly line scene disproves that. She's surrounded by real Furys and the differences in the trim is obvious. Yes...I'm a card-carrying car geek and proud of it ha!
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