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The path into the world of automotive obsession is usually a long and strange one. Often it is an infatuation with one particular car that pushes us towards a lifelong love of most things automotive. It could be a car you spent time around growing up, the first or fourth car of your own or perhaps even a car you saw only in magazines or on TV. Whatever it might be, chances are you remember it. What car made you love cars? More »
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Eliot Handler, the creator of Hot Wheels, died at his home on Thursday at the age of 95. In honor of the man who created the first vehicle most young car lovers ever owned, we present a special QOTW. What is your favorite Hot Wheels car? More »
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If you were to pick a year where in your opinion most car manufacturers were the closest to getting it right, what would it be? What is your favorite model year of cars ever made? More »
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We can probably thank the Spaghetti Western craze of the mid-1960s for this bewildering Fury ad. More »
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Über Bird team captain and PCH Poster Child Mad_Science has vast quantities of photographs of old and interesting street-parked SoCal machinery for us. More »
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Last weekend we found ourselves amongst the Achievers in Louisville for the 8th Lebowski Fest. Among the attractions was the ringer fling, a green Plymouth Fury acting as a stand-in for the Dude's Gran Torino. More »
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The vast majority of you feel that $5,300.83 is too much for a Renault Le Car, but what happens when you consider a super-rare, numbers-matching Detroit classic… for more than seven times as much? More »
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Yes, we've got another POLAЯ DOTSBE car for you, this time a 1967 Plymouth Fury III (much like the one we saw in Orange County last Sunday). More »
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We're still in lovely Costa Mesa, California, where Tomsk photographed this '67 Plymouth Fury for us. The hood ornament and "Commando V8" badging indicate that the car shipped with a 270- or 325-horsepower 383 under the hood (although there's no telling what sort of powerplant lives there now, what with the ready availability of so many flavors of Mopar engines over the decades). Jump like the cost of filling this thing up with high-octane to read Tomsk's observations. More »
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"Dawn Of A New Day" sounds much better than "Plymouth: Only 34 Years To Go," though of course Chrysler's marketers at the time had no idea that the Plymouth brand would barely outlive the current century. What we have here is the '67 Belvedere (a "whale of a lot of car for the money"), the "rich-looking compact" '67 Valiant and the '67 Fury, whose "beauty and luxury make it hard to believe you're in the low-price field." Hmm, for a minute there we were thinking we were actually listening to Chrysler's most recent "new day" marketing campaign. Well, except without the animated kid, of course. More »
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What was it with Detroit and the word Brougham? GM, Ford, and Chrysler each slapped their share of "Brougham" emblems all over various crypto-upscale models of the 1960s and 1970s, apparently believing that buyers would feel that the elegance of 18th-century horse-drawn vehicles would rub off on their gasoline buggies. This '78 Dodge has all the Malaise Brougham features, from its vinyl top to its lo-po powerplant, and there's some puzzling Fury-ness to it to make things interesting. More »
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We all loved the New Orleans Impala, so A Strolling Player took it upon himself to photograph six Down On The New Orleans Street cars for us (I couldn't help but use a HOTRS reference in the post title, having just read an interesting book about the history of the song; otherwise you'd probably be getting a bunch of Algrenesque Big Stingaree jokes). Make the jump to see the entire collection and read Strolling's descriptions. More »
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I try to post cars made by defunct manufacturers on a regular basis (e.g., the Studebaker Lark of a few weeks back), but it's been months since we last saw one of Alameda's street-parked Plymouths (and even longer since we've seen an Olds). So here we go: a nice rust-free '72 Fury to start our day! More »
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Back in the October Altamont 24 Hours of LeMons race, we were all impressed by the Size Matters Plymouth Fury. It wasn't all that fast, but the ol' 318 never gave up and the car finished a respectable 23rd place. Now that today's race is officially on, we're pleased to report that the Size Matters Fury is here and doing its thing once again. Of course, its team can no longer claim to have the oldest car on the track, as Team Field Find's 1965 Mercedes-Benz takes that honor today, but we'll see which car is still driving in the next race... More »
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While they may not have the obsessive mimicry of the Corvette Speed Boat, Chrysler produced a rather large line of their own boats, including the pair of Chargers pictured above. The folks at ALLPAR have a great history of models from 1969, which included popular models such as the Valliant, Fury, Barracuda, Dart, Charger and Polara. Though none of the '69 models were HEMI-powered (and a few had GM engines), you could still get one with 225-horsepower. More »
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What do you do with a beater '67 Plymouth Fury four-door hardtop with a 318? Why, you race it, of course! The Size Matters Fury came in 23rd in last weekend's 24 Hours of LeMons race at Altamont, overcoming its handling disadvantages thanks to a combo of driver skill and reliability. The team members claimed it got pretty good mileage, too. Jump like an Eclipse bouncing off a big Mopar's flank to see the Size Matters Fury gallery... More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=314354&view=rss&microfeed=true You can just imagine the ad-agency guys brainstorming on how to get the new generation of young car buyers to dig the '68 Fury. Get Petula Clark! Get a strangely earthtoned psychedelic set! Stick some fake sideburns and mustaches on some actors pretending to be acid-droppin' freak musicians! Then, of course, make everyone play the car! Petula's obvious English accent kinda takes away from the desired effect, since of course it triggers Americans' subliminal fear of the Prince of Darkness; they'd have been better off with Grace Slick, huge pupils and all. More »
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We've already taken a look at Chrysler's vintage cabbie-friendly offerings, and now it's time for the cop-grade Fury and Satellite for '72. You've seen this car in countless 70s action movies, usually driven by evil free-spirit-persecutin' Smokeys but sometimes piloted by heroic scumbag-bustin' lawmen bent on stemming the tide of lawlessness sweeping the land. Now we totally want a '72 Police Special Satellite with 440, 4-speed, and vintage gumball machine on the roof! [The Old Car Manual Project] More »
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The Crown Victoria has reigned supreme in the cab world for so long that it's hard to imagine a time when other cars served as taxis. Oh, sure, we know about the Checker Marathon, but it's easy to forget that each of Detroit's Big Three used to put a lot of effort into pushing their full- and mid-sized models to cab companies. Here's a factory brochure for the taxi-ized Fury and Belvedere for 1968, courtesy of the folks at the amazing Old Car Manual Project. [TOCMP.com] More »
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While modern automakers try to infuse us with computer generated images of brush strokes morphing into luxury cars or show us smarmy future executives happily tossing their light blues and khakis out of the window on their way out of town, they seem to have long and truly forgotten something. Driving is supposed to be wicked fun - and budget performance counts. To think that Plymouth had an entire system of budget minded performance machines in 1970, yet went out with a mere breeze thirty years down the road makes for a sad ending to the once mighty name. Glorious text excerpt from the 1970 Rapid Transit Brochure after the jump. – Mike Bumbeck More »
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