The car pictured is a '62 Dodge, which makes it a . . um, Dodge! Additionally, the Fury I, II, and III started in 1965, which was a C-body. This '62 is a B-body, of which there was the Savoy, Belvedere, Fury, and Sport Fury . . . if it was a Plymouth. In this case, it'd be a Dart, Polara, or Polara 500. If it truly looks like this car pictured, I'm gonna guess it was a Dart 330.
Mopar is bascially what people use to refer to old Chrysler products, generally of the musclecar era. You can still buy mopar stuff for even brand new cars, but only ricers associate the term mopar with things like neons. Mopar is the only old school term that really hung on through the years. FoMoCo didn't seem to hold up well, and most Pontiac fans don't remember the old PMD days. Even GM Goodwrench is gone now. When I was little we had an early 70's Dart with vent windows. That was the real poor mans A/C. That car didn't even have a cool lever or vent to play with.
Nice. This thing's got some vent windows as well. They're kind of neat, actually. Anyways, I went ahead and took some pictures with the bad camera, and they actually turned out alright. Granted, the car doesn't have that radioactive glow in-person, but at least you'll get a general idea. Oh, and I also made a video detailing what I consider to be the awesome throaty engine sound. I'm surprised a little 318 can manage that where my 350-powered orange beast wasn't half as beefy-sounding. Watch 'till the end, I stupidly recorded the engine compartment first rather than the muffler. http://www.mediafire.com/?b4545ee59w3j4 Thoughts? Criticisms? Suggestions?
Sweet ride. My first car was a '65 Ply Fury III four door w/a 383 2 bbl with a cast iron dual point dist. Got it from my parents to go to college in '74.
Some of the early 60s Dodges and Plymouths were among the ugliest cars ever built in America. Having said that, they were also pretty good cars. They were not known for any consistant mechanical problems, the Mopar electrics were good. Chrysler Corp was using reliable alternators years before any of their competition. The Chrysler-built automatic transmissions were the best in the industry, the engines were strong and reliable, the suspension systems were excellent. Unfortunately, their stylists spent too much time snortin' stuff. To this day, I think the Mopar "typewriter" push-button transmission controls were the right way to go. Chrysler also spent too many engineering dollars on mechanicals, and not enough on "the small stuff." Their engines didn't break - their door handles did. Chrysler body quality fell apart in 1955. It took decades for them to get things back to the level of their competition - and the body quality of their competition was not very good.
I think quality started to fall in '57, not '55. :twocents: That's why they came out with the 5/50 warranty.
Futuristic and unusual in the Exner style but not ugly.p My spouse's 63 backs the competition down at every show.
It backs the competition down because of the motor, not because of its looks. Compare a '63 Buick with a Dodge and there ain't no comparison. As for ugly, I think this is what he really had in mind:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That '61 Belvedere looks kool as heck! QPhsycosis - that '66 Fury looks good. Enjoy it for what it is. They are well engineered and sturdy cars. I have a couple of '62 Chrysler 300 convertibles I picked up last month. One with a factory 413, 3 speed manual trans and posi rear.:TU:
It may look cool, but it also looks ugly. Meanwhile, over in downtown Detroit, General Motors was designing perhaps its best penta-fecta ever - special props to the '61 Chevy and Pontiac bubbletops.
Fords got ugly even earlier. They almost managed to ripoff the Belair, but they managed to screw it up with them headlights
While '57 Fords are not my favorite, I don't think they're ugly. They're quite nice. I also don't know how it's a ripoff of the Bel Air considering they look nothing alike. Did you know the Fairlane and the Custom had two different wheelbases?
I beg to differ, I'd buy one of those things (whatever it is) in a heartbeat, a beautifully unique design. Same goes for that Exner style.
My Mopar friends think my 69 Special is ugly,and my 75 Regal even uglier.My Buick/GM friends think my 72 RR GTX is ugly!!!!My neighbors wife thinks my GN is disgusting!!!! ??????Can't please 'em all. And then there's my aunts 73 Lemans Sport Coupe,14k orig miles!!!!!!
Just because you feel it's unique and you'd buy it doesn't mean it's ugly. Compare it with this: I think Exner was subjected to some LSD experiments by the government. Or he watched too many Godzilla movies.
This is true!!!! LOL With the big following now of the wing cars,it's funny that back when they were new,nobody liked them,they were practically giving them away,now everyone does backflips over them.Forget the rarity or value,they do nothing for me,and would never want one.
