Even some of his best work at Chrysler, the ’65-’68 big cars, were handsome retakes on the Continental. I’d have to hold out for the 440 though. Any 1974 or 1975 Plymouth Fury didn’t have Lean Burn as you say your friends car had. Let us know your thoughts on the styling of the ’74 Fury in the comments. Perhaps it’s unfair to level the blame for the 1974-77 full-size Plymouth’s failure entirely at the 1973 OPEC Oil Crisis. Chrysler was not hurting at the time, 1972 and 1973 were record breaking years and they had tons of money and profits flowing. 1974 Plymouth Fury For Sale This Yellow 1974 Plymouth Fury V-8 3 Speed Automatic is no longer in our inventory. I admired the bigger one as a kid, but since all my other cars were the smaller size, it always seemed to make more sense to get several of the “regular” size cars instead of one bigger one. The Chrysler brand sold about 225,000 cars in 1973.

I owned a 71 ex squad with a 440. Lawnside Classics Update: My 1960’s Sears Mower Is Still Ripping Through Tall Grass – Why Can’t I Buy A New Side Discharge Mower. I don’t see a single flaw in this car, really. They were big boats that actually handled well for what they were. I’ll have to admit, it’s a tough call on Engel. GM messed up their styling, thinking there was a rollover rule coming. Your email address will not be published.

Just give me the cloth interior and the 360 four barrel.

I think the ’74-’78 Chryslers, which actually looked like Chryslers, sold better for that reason.

I’d add fuel injection, air ride, and tasteful wheels. I have had a few low mileage ones that were “little old lady” cars and they all had this problem. Want to make your 1974 Plymouth Fury one of a kind, keep it running at its peak, or turn it into a high-powered beast? That first two-door, in blue with the road wheels, will work just fine for me. The four-door hardtop was dead after 1975, leaving just the pillared sedan, coupe and wagon. I just looked at it…its a brown car next to a building with a white roof on the east side of PA31. The gas crisis had just occurred and people were moving to smaller, more fuel-efficient cars but Chrysler knew that bigger cars meant bigger profits and they were hurting at the time. The 1969 Fuselage cars turned off middle aged buyers, and they were too big for 20-something Boomers. Copyright © 1995-2020 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Here is another photo of almost the exact same interior on a different car, Parts Car Included: 1973 Ford Pinto Squire Wagon, Low Mileage Fuel Miser: 1989 Toyota Tercel Coupe. great floating car did. The bodies on these cars never felt “tight” like earlier unibody Mopars. Got it from my aunt. The dealer system they have now could only have been done thru bankruptcy. That’s pretty fast! And then of course, beginning in the 1970s, Chrysler-branded vehicles seriously began moving downmarket into Plymouth territory. A slightly smaller 118 wb model with a standard slant six would have been a unique and ahead of the game offering for Chrysler, also a final vindication of the then too small 62s.

As a guy who grew up with several Plymouths in my immediate family, I liked that car, but not immensely.

Engel was content to essentially just toe the line at Chrysler, not make any waves, and simply adapt previous GM or Ford styling cues to the current Chrysler lines. Lack of cashflow is what crippled Chrysler in the ’70s, resulting in less-than whole-hearted efforts with its full-size models.

I think some understanding should be shown Mr. Engel for his seventies work. Chevy produced 629,847 of their Bel Air, Impala and Caprice models. RULES: No profanity, politics, or personal attacks. He went from being a small fish in a big pond to a big fish in a small pond.

They weren’t going to complain if a Plymouth looked like last year’s Chevrolet, or a Dodge adopted Pontiac styling cues 1-2 years after they appeared on the Pontiac, as long as they sold well. Advance Auto carries over 1,315 aftermarket parts for your 1974 Plymouth Fury I, along with original equipment manufacturer (OEM) parts. This is a big car, very big, I can’t imagine too many moms driving a car this big today.

(i know… just posing it to the rest of us “self quarantined”) There’s a great story about a Chrysler dealership that had a stoplight in front of it. C body. My friends bought a 74 Plymouth Fury when their VW crapped out. One from Ohio, one from Virginia. eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'barnfinds_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_1',134,'0','0'])); This is a big car, all 18-feet of it. The story goes that the answer they got from the Dodge execs was, “No”. GM could learn a thing or 2 here about spark plug accessibility WITH a/c. This big beauty can be found here on eBay in St. Paul, Minnesota. When you think about it, the Dodge dealer network’s ability to push around Chrysler execs to the detriment of Plymouth comes dangerously close to qualifying as a Deadly Sin. The Volare could have been skipped entirely and the Valiant could have been shrunk back to a 108wb in it’s next reskin and enough weight taken out to use the mitsu 2.6 and five speed as standard. If Engel had never penned another car after the 61 Continental he still would be considered one of the greats. Browse interior and exterior photos for 1974 Plymouth Fury. Something went wrong. i was in the rear wheel well many a time, just sitting cuddled up on the drive hump and the door (i was a small kid…) own little cubby hole!…belts weren’t mandatory back then! American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others, Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment, Curbside Classic: 1974-77 Plymouth Gran Fury – Struck By Oil, Curbside Classic: 1991 Chrysler New Yorker – Paging Bill Blass, Curbside Classic: 1947 Chevrolet Stylemaster – What’s New Became Old; Now It’s New Again.

fall of ’73.

Sweet looking car. Dad bought it new. Then, when they got burned again, it was a Japanese product, usually never to return to a domestic, again. You need to give me big cars just like that!”. C-bodies are sure great riding cars. I’ve never seen one so clean in person. Plymouth learned they could no longer count on even police fleets to save their biggest sedan. Clean. That year, all the cars were a root beer brown color with a matching brown vinyl roof. It would also belch black soot whenever it was started up in the morning. The subject car is actually about as nice as these looked with road wheels and lacking the opera windows. Bob McCurry, then head of Dodge, could sell ice to Eskimos but had the branding instincts of a gnat. It’s not only long but WIDE. While GM was downsizing their entire line and Ford was slowly following, Plymouth first dumped their full-size model and then dumped their intermediate Fury the following year.

Rare to see black on black from this era . I was enamored with Mopars then and wanted to love the new Plymouth, but even then it left me cold. If DeSoto had continued to soldier to the 1960s and 1970s, would Pontiac and Oldsmobile had taken the 3rd place so easily back then? as is! Nice one, Scotty! I drove it a few times and was impressed by the acceleration and the brakes. From another self quarantined Ontario boy. I wish I could find a ’73 Fury in two door hardtop form! I had one of these when I was in college – 2-door hardtop Fury III.

Click here to get it featured on the homepage instead. Some cars are very much cheaper to insure than others. The range consisted at first of Fury I, Fury II, Fury II and Gran Fury; wagons were labelled Suburban, Custom Suburban and Sport Suburban. I never like it when a brand dies or saying one should, but by the late-1970s, Plymouth had served its purpose.

Unfortunately these came out just as the Oil Embargo was in full bloom.

Considering how many were in Highway Patrol service it is a bit strange that they’re hard to find. The Gran Fury was a sales disappointment with private buyers, but one of its biggest customer bases loved them. Super easy.

State Police car. You have come to the right place if you need new or replacement parts for your 1974 Fury I. The migration to the single headlamp on each side beginning with the high trim cars in 1975 was ridiculous and even ugly. Unfortunately one year too late for me or I would be all over this one. A better lineup doable on a smaller budget. Good luck with yours. Or consider Bill Mitchell. The Gran Fury’s dynamic superiority wouldn’t be challenged until the down-sized 1977 GM B-Body’s arrival.

They just didn’t stand out back in the day, and they’re few and far between today. I really do like these cars and think some more clever thinking about the front and rear clips could have easily softened the ’71-2 Buick comparisons – perhaps a continuation of the ’73 Plymouth and Dodge Monaco themes, Plymouth, especially, would have benefited from some front and rear end continuity after whipsawing from ’71 through ’73. She went about 110 lb soaking wet and drove the big Mopar like a coked-up getaway driver. They are extremely rare. The two shapes clash with each other. Another idea would had been the A-body Dart/Valiant/Duster having a stretched version replacing the B-body Belvedere/Satellite/Coronet/Charger along with a chopped version a la AMC Gremlin who fill the role of a subcompact until the Omni/Horizon arrive.

Actually I do remember the Monaco, it’s sister car from Dodge, which was used as police cars at that time. Now think of Engel. Assuming it runs good, and everything on the car works like they should, I would think this would be a good restoration project, a restomod, or a good daily driver. How important was the Plymouth Fury to Chrysler Corporation in 1974? This is a triple play of sorts – a C-body of this vintage, a Plymouth, and a two-door. Would make a great builder. The Arab Oil Embargo occured in Spring Summer Fall of 1973. std. While Plymouth cribbed the ’71 Buick (with a healthy dose of 1970s Chevy), Dodge went straight for the 1972 Buick. I believe that the full-size C-body program for 1974 would have been one of the last ones developed under his watch. Cosmetically I wouldn’t change a thing, but Hot Rod did a 415 HP budget build of a 400. I dig that “long hood-long deck” styling. You can tell by the widely spaced rear bumper guards. The Gran Fury spotted in Far Rockaway (first two pics) is a 1977 model. Great catch. Roy Schieder may have said in 1975’s Jaws, “We’re going to need a bigger boat”, but in the choppy seas of the 1970s, a bigger boat didn’t help. It’s in “original condition” and they say it’s “SUPER straight! They were like “You know that girl!? Because this was a time-consuming process, the techs wanted to know if they should prepare a similar card deck for a Dodge version of the Roadrunner.

giving him fits, the electronic ignition opt. To say they outsold the Plymouth during 1974-77 would grossly understate it. He loved that telescoping wheel. On the contrary, Plymouth offered its full-sizer as a 2-door coupe, 4-door sedan, 4-door hardtop sedan and a 4-door station wagon. I’ve always thought that the 1975+ Dodge Royal Monaco copied the 1973 Mercury Marquis.

I’ve noted elsewhere that these cars, especially the 4 door sedans, remind me a lot of Engel’s ’67-’68 C-Bodies – they’re sort of the continuation the fuselage era interrupted. Also, the Dodge Boys were reputedly fierce individualists who insisted that anything Plymouth got they should get too. opt. ft/41.5 kgm) at 2400 rpm. Wow, this thing is cool. I don’t know how anyone couldn’t like the style or design of this car, but we all like what we like, and there is no such thing as a wrong opinion. I have been looking for a 440 coupe for years now, either a Gran Fury or Royal Monaco. Couldn't afford the gas. The white ones should be easy to spot on satellite maps. Nobody’s going to have one at a show, as I often say. Personally, with few exceptions I don’t see the appeal of the last truly large full-size domestics, but these are pleasantly styled and are said to be decent to drive. Describing Engel as “the master of automotive pastiche” really says it all. Though the reputed father of GM’s “sheer look” he is said to have hated that design direction.

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