The Plymouth Mayflower ship emblem introduced in 1928 was shown sailing away (fantail or stern showing) until 1959 when this time shown sailing toward the viewer ( bow forward). It was not used at all on the 58 Plymouths and the 57 version is hard to recognize as a ship. Also I believe 1959 was the last year the emblem appeared on the Plymouth. (or did Neon use it in advertising??) Being an ex-sailor (not quite the Mayflower era) I found this info interesting. I pointed this out to a '38 Plymouth (hot rod) owner last week at a car show and he was "astonished" at this info and his wife remarked that if I was this "knowledgedlble" about Plymouths that I would find things wrong with their car - I told them their car was great - with one exception - it had a 350 Ch"*y engine in it - don't they all. Anyway - just a little trivia you can play around with. Quiz time - can anybody tell me where I obtained this valuable bit of trivia information????? John Z in WI -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Van Humbeeck <vincent.vanhumbeeck@xxxxxxxxxx> To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:13 PM Subject: [FWDLK] Some facts about 57-59 Plymouths >Did you know that : > >. In the 58 brochure, the play showing at the theatre behind the Fury is 'My >Fair Lady'. >. Some 57-59 Plymouths imported to Belgium were stretched into limos. >. The belgian king Baudoin used 3 stretched '59 limos for his wedding in >1960. >. The '58 Fury was road tested by a belgian comics magazine ('Spirou') in >July 1958. > Although they were impressed by the car, they said that brakes fading and >overzealous > power steering were the main defects when compared to european sports car >(I'll have > scanned pics of this article - with neat drawings - in the near future). >. The price in Belgium for a '58 Fury was 257,000 belgian francs or roughly >$5,200 at > the time (the US price was $3,067). That was 5 times the price of a >Renault 4CV (basic > popular transportation). >. There was a '58 Plymouth pedal car in the US pavilion at the 1958 Brussels >World Fair >. In that Stephen King novel that we all know, it is clearly stated that the >car was > converted to red color after LeBay bought the car new, and that it was not >a factory > color. >. Stephen King also made an error somewhere in the book, when he tells the >reader that > Arnold 'reached at the rear door from the front seat'. >. The french ad agency in charge of promoting the 'Christine' movie in 1983 >searched for > months before finding a restorable french '58 Fury. Three days after >finding it, the > barn where it was kept until they bought it caved in ... spooky isn't it ? >. The body shop chosen by the ad agency had all but three weeks to restore >the car before > the movie promotion began. > >Vincent Van Humbeeck (still craving for a '58 Belvedere 2-door hardtop >coupe) > ____________NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_________ Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Request a CDROM 1-800-333-3633 ___________________________________________________________ |