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)
>
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