Comments on: 1960 Plymouth Fury Convertible, Somewhere, USA, 1961

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:33:01 +0000

I learned how to drive in a 1960 Turquiose Convertible. Swivel seats, clear steering wheel with glitter in it, push button transmission….. great car until my older sister wrecked it. My dad parked it in the garage for 15 years then sold it when they sold the house. It needed some body work but I think the guy that bought it restored it. I sure wish I had it. I always thought it looked so cool with the top down. My folks also had before the 60 a 58 Fury with a hemi….. Dad said it was crazy fast.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:23:58 +0000

My first car was a 60 fury conv. 318 and auto what a car had it from 63 untill 66 when i Traded for a 64 grand prix I can remember all the fun I had in that fury at the time it was a great chick magnet

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:04:16 +0000

I love the fury. My Grandma had a ’57 deSoto wagon, and Dad decided to take it in and trade it for her when she was about 75 in 1971. She lived on a hill, and when he went down it, the car dealer was with him in the car, and the brakes failed at the light. They pulled the emergency brake, and the rear wheels skidded it to a stop-in the middle of the intersection.

I’ve also heard of people buying a Pontiac Safari wagon that had some brake problems in Colorado!

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:57:46 +0000

I owned a 60 Fury Conv in red in 1984. I sold it like a dummy in 1985 to buy a 62 Galaxie XL Conv. I regret selling that car to this day.

By: Bill Ackerman

Bill Ackerman — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:44:16 +0000

The driver appears to be wearing a military uniform, and those buildings in the background definitely look like barracks. I’m thinking Ft. Ord, California, although it could be any military base in 1961.

By: Kevin Preston

Kevin Preston — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:50:19 +0000

Charles, you are not alone with doing “something stupid” when it comes to car brakes.

I bought my 1971 Dodge Super Bee about 14 years ago from a dealer in Santa Barbara (I am in Chino). We drove up in our other vehicle the night before, stayed in a nice hotel, made a little vacation out of it.

The next day we bought the car and I drove it home. Wouldn’t you know it, it was pouring rain. I didn’t notice this on the car before, but 20 miles from the dealership, intermittently the rear brakes would lock when I applied brakes, sending the tail sideways. I drove that thing for hours home like that, constantly questioning whether I should pull off and have it towed home or just “hoping it would get better”, and modulating the brakes the best I could in heavy rainy traffic—anything to keep it from jerking and skidding. My wife and child traveled behind me in our snug new Dodge truck blissfully unaware of my sweating, white knuckle drive back home.

Dumbest thing I have ever done (aside from the high speed runs in my Charger when I was a kid, along then-desolate El Camino Real outside of Encinitas, but that’s another story…)

By: Jerry Foisel

Jerry Foisel — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:00:56 +0000

Interesting comments about how “angry”, “mean”, & “hideous” the old Fury looked.
The designers at Plymouth would be PROUD TO READ THAT! I’ve read where some cars were never succesfull simply because, “They looked too nice.”
Interesting commentary on American virtues.

By: pg

pg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:38:32 +0000

MY GOD!!That thing looks like a battleship on wheels!!I remember as a young child growing up in the sixties and remembering the giant grills on some of these cars which I though made them look like some hideous monsters!!Some of them still look menacing to me even now. Can you imagine one of these tailgating you on the freeway in a tiny import???
Luv, this pic!!

By: Tom from Long Island

Tom from Long Island — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:02:35 +0000

I drove my 64 Falcon home from the last owner’s house…WITH NO BRAKES too. I’m glad to say it has brakes now. My mom had a 60 Fury. At the time I thought it was ugly, but I’d love to own it now
TM

By: Tom from Long Island

Tom from Long Island — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:55:57 +0000

My mom drove a white Fury. The front of that car always looked angry…the name Fury was perfect. My mom was a sweetheart, but she wore wrap-around sunglasses that made her look mean, and the mean looking car…watch out!. That car is long gone, but someday, I’ll get one again. Thanks for the time travel! Tom