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The Plymouth Fury is a model of automobile which was produced by Plymouth from 1955 to 1989. It was introduced for the 1956 model year as a sub-series of the Plymouth Belvedere, becoming a separate series one level above the contemporary Belvedere for 1959. The Fury was a full-size car from 1959 to 1961, then a mid-size car from 1962 to 1964, again a full-size car from 1965 to 1974, and again a mid-size car from 1975 to 1978. From 1975 to 1977 the Fury was sold alongside the full-size Plymouth Gran Fury. In 1978, the B-body Fury was the largest Plymouth, and by 1979, there was no large Plymouth. This was rectified in 1980 with the R-body Gran Fury, followed by the M-body Fury in 1982. Production of the last V8, RWD Plymouth Fury ended at Kenosha, WI, on December 23, 1988. Unlike its sibling brand, Dodge, Plymouth would not live to see the resurgence of the large, V8/RWD sedan. The last Plymouth rolled off the Belvedere assembly line in 2001.
The word "fury" denotes a type of anger, inspired by the Furies, mythological creatures in Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman mythology.
The model appears in popular culture as the subject of interest in the 1983 New York Times Best-selling
novel Christine by Stephen King about a 1958 custom red and ivory Plymouth Fury that is part of a frightening love triangle. It was later adapted into a movie.
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some of these pictures that say it is a fury is not correct,part of them are belverderes (ms) the reason i know is most or at first they were always white with gold trim,i had a 1958 bel. ply. and it had the golden commandor 305 horsepower with two 4 barrel carbs and the day they took it off the truck from the factory that night i had it at the drag strip in chester s.c. and turned in the nineties that night with about 60 miles on it and run it many times around hickory n.c. and never had a bolt turned on the engine the five years i owned it ,it was not a fury but a black with a chrome strip down the side belv.,after i sold it to a teenager he had it painted red and totaled it racing on the highway!
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