From: John Hagen <00000286f008fa61-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:12:49 -0500
Boy this is going back a bit and memory is, well, let’s just say it isn’t ……..
One of my friends who is mildly Mopar –optic and I had a rather lengthy discussion about how many things were incorrect in the book. I had forgotten about it being a four door in the book but yeah …..
My brother owned a 58 Fury, purchased new (sort-of … it was a demo used by the dealers owners son who a manager in the dealership by then). That was one sweet car. Like most cars, models of cars, or whatever, certain years and options were the zenith for that particular car. The 1958 Fury was one. A case can be made for the 56 but the 58, with the newer, largely de-bugged body and the350 cu. In. Golden Commando engine was the best overall combination. The buckskin beige didn’t hurt anything either.
This was just the year afore I got my driver’s license. Parked in our driveway for several weekends late that summer/early fall when Dad was home (he was an on-the road rep. for Dodge Division) was Erv’s Fury, dads 1958 Custom Royal Lancer our door hdtp field car with the D500 engine and his 1958 Dodge Regal Lancer field car with the dual quad version D500! Of course by the time I got my license nearly a year later all these beautiful beasts were gone. Sigh.
John Hagen
From: Rich [mailto:richfrederick5@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 2:45 PM To: John Hagen Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Christine on Graveyard Carz
Yes the book was a 4 door fury but the movie did not want to go with a four door. Anyway the movie destroyed 20 belvedere and Savoys. But is credited for the public restoring and saving hundreds of 57 and 58's that just we're not popular without the movie.
You certainly can like whatever cars you like. Christine was still a neat car, just not a Fury … and the book, story, movie was most certainly about a Fury as it starts out with Arnold buying an old, beat 1958 Fury from its previous owner. It is referred to several times as a 1958 Fury.
The movie was about a kid who fixed up a old Plymouth with various parts from a junkyard. Never meant to be a story about a fury. I would rather have my red Christine than any cream and gold Fury any day.
I have great dislike for “Christine” cars, nearly as much as I hate General Lee Chargers.
Too bad Stephen King never really looked into what a 1958 Fury was. Then maybe he would not have written about how Arnold Cunningham “slid into the seat and moved the shift lever to drive”.
I don’t know if any real Fury’s gave their lives to be a short-time movie star but several Belvedere’s and other 1958 Plymouth’s did. And how many 1969 Charger’s were made into inane General Lee look a likes. But at least most of them could be later repainted to0 normal cars. The bad part is how many Fury’s and Charger’s were destroyed in filming the shows.
The movie itself was okay. Just okay but watchable. I did marvel that one of the scenes with the hood open I could identify a real Golden Commando motor (or at least a correct looking substitute).
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