But who even thinks of things like that when it looks so darn exotic? Nobody else had the mirror on the dashboard. This must be a very special car to have the mirror on the dashboard!
Scott from Cold War Motors channel took one of these in about the same condition and restored it to an amazing vehicle. Worth looking into to see how much work went into it
One of my favourite cars from the tail fin era. The Fury in the two door model looked fast, even standing still !! And the front end/front fender body styling looked every bit as good as the tail fins. And the dash instrument cluster and steering wheel continued to tell you that this car was something very different than everything else on the road.
These Exner era Plymouths are beautiful. Almost 20 years ago, I picked up a pretty haggard but solid 1960 Plymouth from an old farmer that bought it when he was a teen and used it for cross country road trips. It was a slant 6 with a 3 speed. When he used up the best years of it, he delegated it for farm truck duty, then it was retired to parts car. I saved it from the crusher. Not wanting another average finned Plymouth in the fleet, I took a '68 Power Wagon chassis, shortened it 9 inches and put that car on that 4 by 4 frame and put 36 inch military rubber on it. The project got sidelined a decade ago by other Mopar crusher rescues, but is still sitting in the yard. This may be the inspiration needed to get it done.
No VIN, can't win, but easy to figure out, no doubt: 3 for Plymouth V8, 3 for Fury, 0 for 1960 model year, 3 for Lynch Road, Detroit, MI assembly or 9 for Windsor, Ontario Canada assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Lynch Road facility operated until April 1981 and now has a powder coating business on that site, among other uses of the property. The Windsor, Ontario facility still operates today under Stellantis. That's an old "Flying A" gas station service sticker on the driver's door post. Flying A became Phillips 66 around 1966. That's a four door (not two door) sedan. No tag, can't brag, but can be figured out, no doubt: 334 for Fury V8 four door sedan, 121 for Blue interior trim, W for White Oyster exterior paint, among other codes. The address where Wright Motor Company was now appears to be a bunch of legal offices and the actual address appears to have been combined into other ones in use now.
At 3:24 I see a 1970? VW Squareback. My wife and I had one (same color) when we had 2 young kids in the early 70's. I got my only two speeding tickets in it. 65 in a 55 mph zone and 37 in a 30 mph zone (crazy days). It was a great car and we kept it till there was nothing left.
My Uncle had one of these for his work car in the Central PA strip mines in the late 60's. It got a beating every day. It was so dented up and rusted out when he was done with it, he just drove it to the junkyard and left it.
Whenever I see these big mopar sedans of the late '50s and early '60s I always think of an old guy from California named Norm Thatcher. He owned a Chrysler dealership and I remember him running big Dodge sedans on the Bonneville salt flats, big aerodynamic bricks that he got up to near 200mph back then. I also remember reading a big Chrysler ad in BOYS LIFE where their engineers drove a new 1961 Plymouth from Detroit to Chicago and back without a battery connected in the car. The as was to tout it's new alternator, the first of it's kind in a mass produced automobile. A very effective way to introduce their new feature.
As nh5er237 mentions, Scott of Coldwar motors took a very rusted out derelict 2 door and totally redid it, but found a good, running pillared 4 door Dart sedan that had a bunch of work done to it and looked "straight" and ran (primered), and had a good, running 318 and auto in it, drilling out the welds where the body met the frame, left the A pillar/cowl/front clip behind and grafted the 2 door Fury hardtop to that working chassis and gradually rebuilt it. Again, he did the Dart the same way and just lifted off the body and plopped the Fury HT to it. It's now almost fully complete, plated and is street legal, is blue with white top, that is, light metallic blue with white in the front fender area in front of the front wheels, blue the rest of the fender. It took him a full running chassis, and 2 donor Fury's to make it possible. The car now sports a period correct 318 poly, but not numbers matched as the original motor either was not running, or was replaced long before he got it as it got destroyed in the late 60's or early 70's before being left in a horse pasture for about 50 years to rot. He also has an original, well kept survival '59 Fury 2 door in a light yellow that is absolutely cherry.
I noticed that too. Steve has so many details to remember daily about whichever car he's highlighting that day that minutae like that can slip under the radar. That's the way the Petty family worked numbers within their family race team: Papa Lee started off with the 42, when Richard came along, he adopted 43. His son Kyle started his career driving the 44 until his son Adam was killed while driving his #45 in practice at New Hampshire. At that point, Kyle put Adam's 45 on his car in his son's memory. I admit to never being much of a Kyle Petty fan (and I have no idea why), but that was a wonderful memorial for his son. That and building the Victory Junction camp for children with disabilities in Adam's honor. Maybe I ought to rethink the way I feel about Kyle Petty.
Thanks Steve! I'm glad I missed this era, My favorite's started with the Fuselage era. I noticed the 73 Fury was the only other Fury since 1960 to have vertical tail lights, even up to the Fury's (full size) demise in 1978. Good stuff!
Hey Steve-O, the crew over here are BIG fans of your insight on these historic vehicles. Congratulations on the cusp of achieving that TH-cam 100K plateau. Many Thanks Yo ! 🔜. 📺. 🥈
My dad had a 60 Fury 4-dr hardtop with the Golden Commando RB 383. He loved that car (and its power)! Kept it well into the 70s. We had some fun in that car! My intro to the Mopar world.
Since my grandpa sold MOPARS from 1946 to 1977 a '58 Fury {just like Christine} was my first car that he sold me at 15 for $300 {same price Christine's owner was asking in the movie years later} because it had been sitting on his lot for quite some time {it was a trade in} & I had been eyeballing it every time I went to see grandpa at work as I would check out all the new cars! I put around $1200 into it {brakes, dual exhaust, seals, new carb, shocks, etc} & it was a great ride until a year later when a drunk ran a light & Tboned my passenger door & she wasnt able to pull herself back together so off to the crusher! My 2nd was a '73 2dr Fury III 360 4bbl that I got from my dads buddy {original owner} when the '58 got totaled ironically for the same $300 & then I got my dads '72 2dr Fury II 318 2bbl when he passed in '79 ✌💖☮
That's something that Dodge and Plymouth returned to a decade later with the Charger Daytona and Road Runner Superbird. Their wing uprights served a dual purpose: not only to get the horizontal "wing" up above the greenhouse and into the airstream, but also to stabilize the car at high speeds. It worked so well, of course, that NASCAR revised the rules to penalize these aerodynamic homologation specials to the point where they were no longer competitive.
I always thought the poly motors were overlooked for performance....They have a valve arrangement kinda like the Cleveland Ford's..... Almost a hemi but with a single rocker shaft....
Great job, Steve! Perhaps, at some time, you could discuss "What makes a fin in a car design?" Obviously, the Mopar "Forward Look" involved prominent fins, but in places, might the term be used too loosely? Take the 1957 Chevy - a great design of course, but in the 1950s it wasn't (usually) considered to have fins because they didn't "rise above the beltline" of the car. They had very evident extended rear fenders that gave the impression of fins. I'd like your opinion on this, if you ever get a chance. Thanks for giving me something to look forward to every morning!
I find that car absolutely beautiful! You know! As a kid growing up in the 70s, I always thought that the 66 Batmobile was built using that body style!👋😂👍boy was I wrong then!
Had 2door post 318 poly torque filght from 2010 to 2016. Great car and it was great to see those fins in the rear view mirrors. Was a Belvedere but I had the skirts.
I love that body style my father had a 1960 fury station wagon in the early 60s. That $2659.00 price would be about $ 27,555.32.in today's money. Great video as usual Steve and Shane.
Mr. B. Here ! Morning Mags & Good Evening to does not in 🇺🇸🇺🇸. ☕️☕️🍩🍩. 🍺🍺… Aussie John that is what I said that vehicle that Steve has showcase ! That many need little more or skill set ! They are cool !
The dash mirror actuated the special brain cells that the adhd barney frank is known for. The driver would rarely exit in the middle of the dash. Only lil Suzy goin out for a ride to lovers point might go out the way of the rib teaser if lil johnny was drivin drunk.
I love the looks of the 60 Fury. It doesn't matter if it's got 2 or 4 doors, it's got style. I had a somewhat built Slant Six in a 67 Plymouth and for its size it was fun and very dependable. I would love a 60 Fury with the long ram 383, tho.....😁
@@shootshellz Nope, from my parents, we had a 64 Dodge base wagon with the slant 6 and it was very reliable, the original transmission finally went in the early 70's, a replacement from a junkyard got it back on the road and it lasted until 1977 before reliability took a major dive, mostly to the motor as it was never rebuilt, it had something like 145K on it at the time. We sold it as running, but rusty. We had other Chrysler products, mostly from the 70's, all were very reliable, only one exception, and that was a 1966 Belvedare where a piston collapsed and we ended up trading it to a friend who got it running. We had a 70 Plymouth pillared 4 door that likely had the 318 in it and it was super reliable. a slant 6 72 Dart and a 75 Gran Fury w/ a 360, all were solid and reliable before migrating to other brands in the late 70's and beyond.
Did you save it? Love these cars! I owned a 1960 Plymouth Fury 2-door hardtop in 1969. This would be a worthy resto or resto-mod project! Unfortunately these junkyard cars are usually badly deteriorated from rust by sitting on the ground in the dirt and mud and debris, along with being inhabited by rodents, and are not worth saving. Only dedicated mechanics will pull these out and restore them.
If you want to experience a complete restoration of the 2door version of this I would suggest the channel coldwarmotors. This is my absolute favorite mopar body style.
Featured in a mid-'60s movie 'Wait Until Dark' with Sidney Portier as a Philly detective in Sparta MS. Features a chase scene, SP in a 1950 Plymouth Special being chased and rammed by a '60 Fury. The contrast in designs is amazing, showing how far Virgil Exner had run amok with Chrysler Corp design.
Hey Steve, if you happen to come across a '59 Cadillac, that sure would be something to see along with those fins that came on them. Awesome video on the fury! Definitely a fin fan here!
Steve, could I have some model car information, please? A few years ago, I noticed that the chassis of the AMT '57 Chrysler 300-C kit looked the same as the Jo-Han 1960 Plymouth Fury wagon. How could that be correct if the Chrysler was body-on-frame construction and the '60 Plymouth was unitized? I kitbashed the two models to create hemi-powered Fury wagon for an online group build contest (build the car you would enter in the Cannonball cross-country race if it had existed in 1965). The AMT chassis fit the Jo-Han body perfectly. Not wanting to waste anything, I used the leftover Chrysler body and less detailed Jo-Han chassis to build a "what if" 300 Ute. Playing off Chrysler's New Yorker, I dubbed the 300 pickup the "Texan". Neither one ever got finished because other projects came along, but now thai you have me thinking about them again, it might be time to jump back into them. So tell me, if you have these kits, which is right and which is wrong, or are they both correct? My amateurish guess is that, since Jo-Han was a much smaller company, they reused a chassis whose molds they already had from a ChryCo model from before the Unibody era and pressed it back into service beneath the Plymouth. But thats just an uninformed guess.🤔
The people that claim the 1962 Plymouths and Dodges were hideous clearly never looked at a 1960 or even worse, a 1961. The 1962 was very normal looking compared to those.
@@garyszewc3339 only because there not aligning with the ports. Long ram bolts on but the ports on anything other than 413 max wedge is a hack. They use the max wedge gaskets to seal it over the smaller ports
@shootshellz By 1960, the rust problem was pretty much taken car of with the seven step drip and spray. This brought rust inhibiting primer up to the top of the wheel wells. There is a channel called Cold Water Motors. This guy took a 1960 Fury 2 door hardtop out out the woods or wrecking yard and restored it. When he cut the body off a 4 door Dodge that he had, he showed how high up the primer was and how it helped protect the body. Chrysler learned a whole lot after the 1957 model year, which were rusting as they went down the assembly line.
I'm guessing if you are going through the windshield the last thing you are worried about is the location of the mirror....LOL
Until it plays your ribs like a xylophone LOL
Until you break the mirror off and it's pedestal is disemboweling you on your way through the windshield
Or it could puncture you hot saline implant breasts on the way through
But who even thinks of things like that when it looks so darn exotic? Nobody else had the mirror on the dashboard. This must be a very special car to have the mirror on the dashboard!
@@corvairjim1 this is an era were smoking was recommended by doctors 😆
Scott from Cold War Motors channel took one of these in about the same condition and restored it to an amazing vehicle. Worth looking into to see how much work went into it
Yes , lots of work went into that car 😊
More desired 2 door though
I think Scot's was in worse condition. 👍👍🇨🇦
@@johnkranyics281 The Alberta splice 👍
Is that the one he made into a two door FROM a four door?
One of my favourite cars from the tail fin era. The Fury in the two door model looked fast, even standing still !! And the front end/front fender body styling looked every bit as good as the tail fins. And the dash instrument cluster and steering wheel continued to tell you that this car was something very different than everything else on the road.
Scott at Cold War motors just finished a beautiful restoration on a two door hard top. You should check it out.
That is the coolest, most unique OEM steering wheel/horn button I’ve ever seen!
Yeah. Customizers love them.
No kidding crazy design. Looks awesome.
A Friend of mine had a 60 Fury and painted it a Menacing Black She was beautiful, He named her Elvira.
Love Virgil M. Exner's design for this car! The ultimate and most beautiful Plymouth ever built!
Wow! 1975-1978 Dodge Coronet/Monaco Crestwood wagon! I own a ‘75 Crestwood and rarely see one for parts.
These Exner era Plymouths are beautiful. Almost 20 years ago, I picked up a pretty haggard but solid 1960 Plymouth from an old farmer that bought it when he was a teen and used it for cross country road trips. It was a slant 6 with a 3 speed. When he used up the best years of it, he delegated it for farm truck duty, then it was retired to parts car. I saved it from the crusher. Not wanting another average finned Plymouth in the fleet, I took a '68 Power Wagon chassis, shortened it 9 inches and put that car on that 4 by 4 frame and put 36 inch military rubber on it. The project got sidelined a decade ago by other Mopar crusher rescues, but is still sitting in the yard. This may be the inspiration needed to get it done.
No VIN, can't win, but easy to figure out, no doubt: 3 for Plymouth V8, 3 for Fury, 0 for 1960 model year, 3 for Lynch Road, Detroit, MI assembly or 9 for Windsor, Ontario Canada assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Lynch Road facility operated until April 1981 and now has a powder coating business on that site, among other uses of the property. The Windsor, Ontario facility still operates today under Stellantis. That's an old "Flying A" gas station service sticker on the driver's door post. Flying A became Phillips 66 around 1966. That's a four door (not two door) sedan.
No tag, can't brag, but can be figured out, no doubt: 334 for Fury V8 four door sedan, 121 for Blue interior trim, W for White Oyster exterior paint, among other codes. The address where Wright Motor Company was now appears to be a bunch of legal offices and the actual address appears to have been combined into other ones in use now.
Thank you, Sir.
@@geoffkeller5337 Sure thing.
@@googleusergp Sure thing; got bling? No bling; can't sing.
@@shootshellz No tag, can't brag. No VIN can't win. When you get the SPID, we're glad you did. Without the buck (tag), we're out of luck. LOL.
What a great looking automobile. Rolling art!
At 3:24 I see a 1970? VW Squareback. My wife and I had one (same color) when we had 2 young kids in the early 70's. I got my only two speeding tickets in it. 65 in a 55 mph zone and 37 in a 30 mph zone (crazy days). It was a great car and we kept it till there was nothing left.
My Uncle had one of these for his work car in the Central PA strip mines in the late 60's. It got a beating every day. It was so dented up and rusted out when he was done with it, he just drove it to the junkyard and left it.
That 3/8 scale clear, color changing, plastic replica sounded like maybe the dawn of the phsychedelic era.
Fascinating.
LOL, maybe they only thought it was changing colors
Calling Dr. Leary, doctor Leary, white courtesy phone please......
“Something like them.” What salesmanship!
Whenever I see these big mopar sedans of the late '50s and early '60s I always think of an old guy from California named Norm Thatcher. He owned a Chrysler dealership and I remember him running big Dodge sedans on the Bonneville salt flats, big aerodynamic bricks that he got up to near 200mph back then.
I also remember reading a big Chrysler ad in BOYS LIFE where their engineers drove a new 1961 Plymouth from Detroit to Chicago and back without a battery connected in the car. The as was to tout it's new alternator, the first of it's kind in a mass produced automobile. A very effective way to introduce their new feature.
As nh5er237 mentions, Scott of Coldwar motors took a very rusted out derelict 2 door and totally redid it, but found a good, running pillared 4 door Dart sedan that had a bunch of work done to it and looked "straight" and ran (primered), and had a good, running 318 and auto in it, drilling out the welds where the body met the frame, left the A pillar/cowl/front clip behind and grafted the 2 door Fury hardtop to that working chassis and gradually rebuilt it. Again, he did the Dart the same way and just lifted off the body and plopped the Fury HT to it.
It's now almost fully complete, plated and is street legal, is blue with white top, that is, light metallic blue with white in the front fender area in front of the front wheels, blue the rest of the fender. It took him a full running chassis, and 2 donor Fury's to make it possible. The car now sports a period correct 318 poly, but not numbers matched as the original motor either was not running, or was replaced long before he got it as it got destroyed in the late 60's or early 70's before being left in a horse pasture for about 50 years to rot. He also has an original, well kept survival '59 Fury 2 door in a light yellow that is absolutely cherry.
Lee Petty mostly raced as #42, his son Richard in the #43.
I noticed that too. Steve has so many details to remember daily about whichever car he's highlighting that day that minutae like that can slip under the radar. That's the way the Petty family worked numbers within their family race team: Papa Lee started off with the 42, when Richard came along, he adopted 43. His son Kyle started his career driving the 44 until his son Adam was killed while driving his #45 in practice at New Hampshire. At that point, Kyle put Adam's 45 on his car in his son's memory. I admit to never being much of a Kyle Petty fan (and I have no idea why), but that was a wonderful memorial for his son. That and building the Victory Junction camp for children with disabilities in Adam's honor. Maybe I ought to rethink the way I feel about Kyle Petty.
Good Morning ! 🇺🇸
That convertible in the brochure was BEAUTIFUL 1
My uncle use to own a 60 Fury 4 Door.. I remember riding in it when i was a kid in the 60's.. Great Flash Back...
I know this is a repeat, but I'll say it again like I did the original time, that car is cool.
😎👍 Thanks, Steve.
Nice family sized touring car! Get well soon!
This has become the channel I most look forward too in regards to new content. Interesting and very informative, happily subscribed from Alberta!
My father had 3 of them in the 60s. I can remember them vaguely. Mostly remember the emblem on the tail fin
Thanks Steve! I'm glad I missed this era, My favorite's started with the Fuselage era. I noticed the 73 Fury was the only other Fury since 1960 to have vertical tail lights, even up to the Fury's (full size) demise in 1978. Good stuff!
Hey Steve-O, the crew over here are BIG fans of your insight on these historic vehicles. Congratulations on the cusp of achieving that TH-cam 100K plateau. Many Thanks Yo ! 🔜. 📺. 🥈
Beautiful find! Thanks for the details on that sleeping work of automobile art:)
The 1960 Fury style is still one of my favorite Plymouths ever made.
Morning professor Steve another great video thank you sir Good morning to one and all
My dad had a 60 Fury 4-dr hardtop with the Golden Commando RB 383. He loved that car (and its power)! Kept it well into the 70s. We had some fun in that car! My intro to the Mopar world.
The best car videos….what a great idea, and knowledge beyond words. Love it…thanks
Since my grandpa sold MOPARS from 1946 to 1977 a '58 Fury {just like Christine} was my first car that he sold me at 15 for $300 {same price Christine's owner was asking in the movie years later} because it had been sitting on his lot for quite some time {it was a trade in} & I had been eyeballing it every time I went to see grandpa at work as I would check out all the new cars! I put around $1200 into it {brakes, dual exhaust, seals, new carb, shocks, etc} & it was a great ride until a year later when a drunk ran a light & Tboned my passenger door & she wasnt able to pull herself back together so off to the crusher! My 2nd was a '73 2dr Fury III 360 4bbl that I got from my dads buddy {original owner} when the '58 got totaled ironically for the same $300 & then I got my dads '72 2dr Fury II 318 2bbl when he passed in '79 ✌💖☮
Morning Steve....love the fins
Look at the trees. We’re still in reruns.
I could tell by his hair..
I noticed a few vids ago. Steve must be on vacation, ah he deserves it, he gives us a vid every morning, enjoy buddy.
That car looked pretty complete and solid
It was stated that on NASCAR superspeedways like Daytona that those finds added some directional stability.
That's something that Dodge and Plymouth returned to a decade later with the Charger Daytona and Road Runner Superbird. Their wing uprights served a dual purpose: not only to get the horizontal "wing" up above the greenhouse and into the airstream, but also to stabilize the car at high speeds. It worked so well, of course, that NASCAR revised the rules to penalize these aerodynamic homologation specials to the point where they were no longer competitive.
What finds
Yep, and now everyone has essentially the same body with minimal differences.
I always thought the poly motors were overlooked for performance....They have a valve arrangement kinda like the Cleveland Ford's..... Almost a hemi but with a single rocker shaft....
It was at times available with quad and dual quad setups.
That's How They Came Up With the name ,Fury / Fear / Flower Blossom/ Fioavanti Forward.
Thank you Steve
I can’t miss that 68 Coronet next to it
Such a well behaved dog.
Like the backdrop. My first car was a Sage green 1968 4 door dodge Coronet.
I’ve always wanted a 58 Fury 4 door because in the book it was a 4 door.
nice to see the dog has found his way home
Great job, Steve! Perhaps, at some time, you could discuss "What makes a fin in a car design?" Obviously, the Mopar "Forward Look" involved prominent fins, but in places, might the term be used too loosely? Take the 1957 Chevy - a great design of course, but in the 1950s it wasn't (usually) considered to have fins because they didn't "rise above the beltline" of the car. They had very evident extended rear fenders that gave the impression of fins. I'd like your opinion on this, if you ever get a chance. Thanks for giving me something to look forward to every morning!
Love the beautiful fins, must have look so classy driving down the road, a real head turner that's for sure.
I find that car absolutely beautiful! You know! As a kid growing up in the 70s, I always thought that the 66 Batmobile was built using that body style!👋😂👍boy was I wrong then!
Had 2door post 318 poly torque filght from 2010 to 2016. Great car and it was great to see those fins in the rear view mirrors. Was a Belvedere but I had the skirts.
Another great video Steve get well soon
I remember D-Day driving away/absconding in one of these, at the end of Animal House!!!
Thanks for the info Steve!
I've often wondered how marketing handled or explained what happened to the "fin stabilizers" for 1961.
This model of the Fury was the best .Don't suppose you're gonna do a bit on that '68 Coronet beside it?
I love that body style my father had a 1960 fury station wagon in the early 60s. That $2659.00 price would be about $ 27,555.32.in today's money. Great video as usual Steve and Shane.
The ‘56 Fury was also the first Chrysler product with a tachometer.
Mr. B. Here ! Morning Mags & Good Evening to does not in 🇺🇸🇺🇸. ☕️☕️🍩🍩. 🍺🍺… Aussie John that is what I said that vehicle that Steve has showcase ! That many need little more or skill set ! They are cool !
Black dye job with bed head styling! Chick magnet bb ! A true barney frank exner
I don't really understand the hate that seems to be directed at these cars. I think they look great.
Hate is a difficult emotion to understand unless.... You're a hater.
Hate is a difficult emotion to understand unless...you're a hater.
@@kenttalsma7906 as I said I don't understand it. I think these cars look great.
Love the fin styles!
I think its a very good-looking car.
I think of the movie Christine. What a cool car!
Like the green 57 Ford pickup in the background
Cool cars, i got the johan police wagon in my to build pile and looking for the 2 door kit
The dash mirror actuated the special brain cells that the adhd barney frank is known for. The driver would rarely exit in the middle of the dash. Only lil Suzy goin out for a ride to lovers point might go out the way of the rib teaser if lil johnny was drivin drunk.
New to the channel. Cool video, I'm a Mopar guy. Heard about your channel from Uncle Tony's Garage.
I love the looks of the 60 Fury. It doesn't matter if it's got 2 or 4 doors, it's got style. I had a somewhat built Slant Six in a 67 Plymouth and for its size it was fun and very dependable. I would love a 60 Fury with the long ram 383, tho.....😁
Buddy, the words 'Plymouth' and 'dependable' NEVER belong in the same sentence.
There is that 63 belvedere slant six that was owned by a N.Y. city taxi medallion holder all original with 1.5 million miles on it. Research it.
@@michaelatkins9780 So what? 99% of them were crap.
@@shootshellz 100% of the people who have hate in thier hearts, has it coming out of thier mouths as well.
@@shootshellz Nope, from my parents, we had a 64 Dodge base wagon with the slant 6 and it was very reliable, the original transmission finally went in the early 70's, a replacement from a junkyard got it back on the road and it lasted until 1977 before reliability took a major dive, mostly to the motor as it was never rebuilt, it had something like 145K on it at the time. We sold it as running, but rusty.
We had other Chrysler products, mostly from the 70's, all were very reliable, only one exception, and that was a 1966 Belvedare where a piston collapsed and we ended up trading it to a friend who got it running. We had a 70 Plymouth pillared 4 door that likely had the 318 in it and it was super reliable. a slant 6 72 Dart and a 75 Gran Fury w/ a 360, all were solid and reliable before migrating to other brands in the late 70's and beyond.
Did you save it? Love these cars! I owned a 1960 Plymouth Fury 2-door hardtop in 1969. This would be a worthy resto or resto-mod project!
Unfortunately these junkyard cars are usually badly deteriorated from rust by sitting on the ground in the dirt and mud and debris, along with being inhabited by rodents, and are not worth saving. Only dedicated mechanics will pull these out and restore them.
Beautiful car
Scott Cold War motors 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
If you want to experience a complete restoration of the 2door version of this I would suggest the channel coldwarmotors. This is my absolute favorite mopar body style.
Cold war motors approves
Featured in a mid-'60s movie 'Wait Until Dark' with Sidney Portier as a Philly detective in Sparta MS. Features a chase scene, SP in a 1950 Plymouth Special being chased and rammed by a '60 Fury. The contrast in designs is amazing, showing how far Virgil Exner had run amok with Chrysler Corp design.
There were also some in the movie, It's a mad mad world.
I have a 60 Plymouth, I could use a few bits off that 4 door
I take it that this is an older video. Beautiful Fury.
Old videos for several days now.
Rolling artwork.
Hey Steve, if you happen to come across a '59 Cadillac, that sure would be something to see along with those fins that came on them. Awesome video on the fury! Definitely a fin fan here!
That steering wheel is wild
hey Steve, can you tell us the miles on these old cars and trucks, thanks
Steve, could I have some model car information, please? A few years ago, I noticed that the chassis of the AMT '57 Chrysler 300-C kit looked the same as the Jo-Han 1960 Plymouth Fury wagon. How could that be correct if the Chrysler was body-on-frame construction and the '60 Plymouth was unitized? I kitbashed the two models to create hemi-powered Fury wagon for an online group build contest (build the car you would enter in the Cannonball cross-country race if it had existed in 1965). The AMT chassis fit the Jo-Han body perfectly. Not wanting to waste anything, I used the leftover Chrysler body and less detailed Jo-Han chassis to build a "what if" 300 Ute. Playing off Chrysler's New Yorker, I dubbed the 300 pickup the "Texan". Neither one ever got finished because other projects came along, but now thai you have me thinking about them again, it might be time to jump back into them. So tell me, if you have these kits, which is right and which is wrong, or are they both correct? My amateurish guess is that, since Jo-Han was a much smaller company, they reused a chassis whose molds they already had from a ChryCo model from before the Unibody era and pressed it back into service beneath the Plymouth. But thats just an uninformed guess.🤔
LOVE the Exner cars!
Steve or BAW is on vacation, I hope. Still many more vehicles there....
my dad had a 59 Desoto with awesome rear fins
See yall tomorrow!
Great vid!!!!!! 👍👍
Really enjoy your channel Steve! Any chance there's a video on the 57 Ford wrecker next to this car?
Mc flury, yum. 😊
Thanks,
The people that claim the 1962 Plymouths and Dodges were hideous clearly never looked at a 1960 or even worse, a 1961. The 1962 was very normal looking compared to those.
I do hope you are okay Steve. You usually tell us what you are doing before you post repeat videos
Steve, did you dip your head into a vat of black ink just before you shot this?
Repeat
Navy 64 drove grey wagon version Ford Island special services dream car for Chief Angy.
Long rams only fit max wedge 413 heads. I had a pair of those.
Yet he shows a picture of a 361 with them
@@garyszewc3339 only because there not aligning with the ports. Long ram bolts on but the ports on anything other than 413 max wedge is a hack. They use the max wedge gaskets to seal it over the smaller ports
@@marioncobaretti2280 Smaller ports like Everett, Washington?
I tough you was gonna say..ok..show me..and it was gonna start putting back together itself😅😅😅
Cool car.
The taillights on the 1960 Fury are much like the ones on the 1956 model, even though the fins were much bigger for '60.
Yeap, another re-upload.
Come on, what's going ' on , Steve???
Imagine going through that thick windshield.
Suddenly its 1960! No more shake rattle or roll.
..but the situation is finally in control.
Just plenty of rust in progress. Chrysler products were infamous for being rust buckets as soon as you parked it in your driveway.
@shootshellz By 1960, the rust problem was pretty much taken car of with the seven step drip and spray. This brought rust inhibiting primer up to the top of the wheel wells. There is a channel called Cold Water Motors. This guy took a 1960 Fury 2 door hardtop out out the woods or wrecking yard and restored it. When he cut the body off a 4 door Dodge that he had, he showed how high up the primer was and how it helped protect the body. Chrysler learned a whole lot after the 1957 model year, which were rusting as they went down the assembly line.
Correction. His channel is Cold War Motors.
@@rickloera9468 Nice try; no cigar. You do have a vivid imagination, however.
Steve needs a leaf blower 😊
Is that Fred&Franny Farkels final fin fury?
The radio tuned to Simon and Garfarkle?
Sorry, that kid would deserve instant surgery hitting a beauty like that