Fuel tank needs replacing.
Power steering needed to be rebuilt.
Fuel pump died.
Very fast with its optional Golden Commando engine (it has 2 Four Barrel Carbs) -- first year of the Chrysler Corporation Big Block Engines.
Torque-Flite transmission is amazing. Shifts are quick and smooth.
Very good looking, turns heads and drops jaws everywhere.
Handling is surprising for a late '50s American car.
Parts are very hard to come by.
The car's value has rapidly increased.
Rust ate most of these cars by the time Johnson took office, so one has to be very vigilant and take precautionary body care.
Sounds awesome -- engine and exhaust note create a threatening burble that makes young children run and hide.
Perhaps the most alluring yet overlooked car of the 1950s.
Very curious to know how you managed to find a 45 year old car with only 13 miles on it? Was it locked in a time capsule somewhere?
Or does it's odometer run backwards a la the notorious Plymouth Fury in the movie "Christine"?
Or is this just yet another made-up review?
Given the implausibility of the first two scenarios, the third one is the most likely.
Someone with nothing else to do, but fantasize about having a car whose "threatening burble" makes children "run and hide" (yeah, right).
The 1958 Plymouth Belvedere is one of the most pure, beautiful, automotive designs, ever created. A much overlooked car, principally because it was considered to be a 'cheap' car by 1958 standards. The Plymouth line had been purchased primarily by 'older' persons, and never did catch on as a 'happening' auto. Poor plymouth, they had a diamond and sold it like a lump of coal.
David of Las Vegas, NV.
It's really annoying when people are too dumb to type the correct numbers into the report.
Spoils the entire review.
Hmmm, I saw that movie christine. I then read about it and it appears that this model (not the 58 fury) was used. Btw, does anyone know where I can find a fury of this year? From the moment I saw a picture of one, its now my dream car and its really too bad because even if I did find one, I can't buy it. I get my license next year and most likely, with the value of the car since they're so hard to find, I wouldn't be able to buy it anyway. Hmmm... this car has 13 miles on it? Interesting... this must be christines phantom, or another person with, surprisingly, no balvadeer, but who has nothing else to do, but review it. It did come out looking like this person knew what he was talking about, though - convincing. 50s furies are like collectors items now, anyway.
The Christine movie used '58 Belvederes made up to look like Furies for the car wreck scenes (Belvederes being much cheaper and easier to find). The actual '58 Fury was only available in a cream beige color, not in the red color like the one in the movie. That was explained by saying the owner
"special ordered" it in that color.
Remember, people, that before the 80's, American cars had 5 DIGIT Odometers. So if it says 00013, then it could be 100,013 miles.
Yeah, and it could be 400,013 miles. What's your point?
If the '58 Fury and Belvedere had an engine sound anything like in the movie Christine, it probably is enough to scare children, thank you very much. And besides, no one, but an owner or at least someone who has spent a great deal of time around one of those cars can say for certain how the engine's exhaust note sounds.
The '58 Fury and Belvedere are shining example of how unappreciated Plymouth always was, a lot of the time by consumers and always, always by Chrysler. Plymouth pulled them through the Great Depression, but that clearly meant nothing to Chrysler's executives over the years, who repeatedly shoved Plymouth out of the way to put the spotlight on Dodge instead. Plymouth is also the same type of brand that Scion is today, and no one can say that low-priced, reliable and easily customized vehicles have no place in today's car market. And it's not like Chrysler's having the time of their lives nearly seven years later; out of the Big Three, Chrysler is doing the worst in their attempts to return to profitability. Maybe they'd be doing better if the low-priced, easily-obtainable Plymouth was there to help them along.
Regarding the above comment: the Plymouth in the "Christine" movie ran people down and killed them. The "exhaust note" was the least of their concerns.
And far from being "unappreciated", the late '50's through the early '70's were probably the golden years for the Plymouth brand. With DeSoto gone, it was able to shed it's image as a low-priced brand it had had since the '30's and got it's own distinctive models, that were not just plainer versions of Dodge models.
Alas, by the mid-70's, the bean counters at Chrysler decided it was too expensive to have distinct Plymouth and Dodge models and from that point on, (with the exception of the short-lived Prowler), all Plymouth models were almost identical to Dodges. Thus Plymouth started its decline from which it was never able to recover. Even the Voyager minivan, as popular as it was, was outsold by the Dodge Caravan. Whether you agree with it or not, it is not hard to understand why Daimler quickly killed off the Plymouth brand after buying Chrysler--it had been withering for years.
Given the current financial problems Chrysler is having, it seems very unlikely that Plymouth would ever be revived, no matter how much we would like to see that happen.
Plymouth is the only division of the Chrysler Corporation that I would ever consider buying a car from. As for Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep I would definitely stay away from them brands. I think the Chrysler Corporation should be ashamed of themselves for dropping the Plymouth Division.
Well, you can thank DaimlerBenz for killing off the Plymouth brand, but I wouldn't count on Chrysler's current owners to even consider a revival of the nameplate either. The Japanese brands are proliferating (I read that Toyota may come out with a FOURTH brand name, just for hybrids), the American brands are dropping by the wayside. Would not be surprised if Mercury, GMC and perhaps even Dodge have disappeared 10 years from now.
"The Japanese brands are proliferating (I read that Toyota may come out with a FOURTH brand name, just for hybrids), the American brands are dropping by the wayside. Would not be surprised if Mercury, GMC and perhaps even Dodge have disappeared 10 years from now."
That's the saddest thing I've ever heard, but it could be true. Plymouth and Dodge built some of the greatest cars ever, but brands don't disappear because they are necessarily bad, just not profitable. DeSoto, Plymouth, Nash, Cord, Hudson, Packard, and Studebaker all built good cars, but that isn't always enough if the profit margin isn't there. The American love affair with the automobile will be over when there is nothing left on the road but little japanese-crappers putting around. But then Toyota and Honda are becoming bloated and oversized like GM and Ford, and will be undercut by cheap competition from China and India and disappear as well. The days of cars with real personality from the 1950's through 1970's are over, so who cares anyway?
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