--- In goldenfin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Doug"
<her_name_is_christine@xxxx> wrote:
>
> Ok. I think I agree with the last post about who actually knows
> what the factory made. Where can you find proof from the factory
of
> what color cars they made back then? Probably if you wrote a
letter
> to Chrysler-- they would tell you that it is private information
> that is not allowed to be distributed, which was the response I
got
> from GMC about a previous inquiry on another car. Even I dont
know
> for sure, just what Ive heard as the man demanding records and
proof
> said.
>
> Also-- about the actually Christine car being a 58 Plymouth Fury
or
> a Belvedere. It depends on which way you look at it. If you look
> at it as some people in this group do-- of "the facts from back in
> the day" she's a Belvedere. Red and White-- hmm thats not the
> Fury's colors-- they were only Beige and gold-- has to be a
> Belvedere. And they are right. But if you look at it for the
sense
> of the story-- as Ive said before-- Christine was meant to be a 58
> FURY. Why? Just like the people who are interested in "just the
> facts" say- all Furys were Beige and gold-- but Christine is a red
> and white- which obviously doesnt go along with the Fury's colors.
> But also- I dont see any of the other beige and gold furys coming
> with the standard equipment of the ability to kill people and
repair
> itself. So yes I feel that the car in the movie was purposly
meant
> to be a Fury- because it was different-- thats why it was a
> different fury. Also-- If you want to look at it-- King knew what
> car he was writing about. Here is one quote, for those who like
the
> facts, from an interview he had on the book.
>
> "Lofficier: Why did you pick a 1958 Fury as your subject?
>
> King: Because they're almost totally forgotten cars. They were the
> most mundane fifties car that I could remember. I didn't want a
car
> that already had a legend attached to it like the fifties
> Thunderbird, the Ford Galaxies etc... You know how these things
> grow. Some of the Chevrolets, for example, were supposed to have
> been legendary door-suckers. On the other hand, nobody ever talked
> about the Plymouth products, and I thought, "Well..." Besides, Lee
> Iacocca gave me a million bucks!"
> and for those who say he doesnt know much about the cars:
>
> "Lofficier: You seem to bring up the fifties a lot in your work,
and
> have a great deal of nostalgia about the times...
>
> King: Sure. I grew up in the fifties. That's my generation. I
think
> there's been a fair amount of that from writers whom I would say
are
> now the "establishment." When I started writing, with Carrie, I
was
> twenty-four, twenty-five, something like that. I was a kid. Since
> then, ten years have gone by, and 1947 has become a very
respectable
> birth year for writers.
>
> So, there are a lot of us who actually developed our understanding
> of life, and who grew to be, not adults, but thinking human beings
> in the fifties. I've got a lot of good memories from the fifties.
> Somebody once said that, "Life was the rise of consciousness." For
> me, rock-and-roll was the rise of consciousness. It was like a big
> sun bursting over my life. That's when I really started to live,
and
> that was brought on by the music of the fifties."
>
> So being from the fifties-- Im sure he knew the difference between
> the cars. And Im sure he didn't care about the "facts" when he
was
> writing the story-- because he wanted a car that was different
from
> the other furys-- a red and white car that kills people.
>
> Doug
,, many thanks for an interesting read,,gn.
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