73 Plymouth Fury Commercial

[uglycondor]

Yeah I had a 73 furyIII back in my high school days, it was brown with a tan vinyl roof, it had a 360 with a 2-barrel carb in tt. Great car, I eluded police once with it, I owned it for 13 years. These days I miss that fury.

[kdemonde]

My father bought a 73 Fury III in 1974 i was a little kid then and i remember my father driving it up to the lot, and i remember marveling at how huge it was. By the time night came, only one headlight was working and my father was pissed LOL He took care of it the next day. I remember my pops having so much trouble with the carburetor until he had it replaced. He later had the car painted brown ( it was originally gold) with a white top. He had in for 6 yrs, sold it and bought a 74 Monte Carlo

[skin666]

i have a 73 fury III sitting in my front yard with a 440 and a LS1 tranny.. tucking 32's in the back and a B&M slap shift

[OsbornTramain]

i gotta tell you, the 74 thru 77's are great too! They were so much better than Fords.....Chevys were nice riding cars too. But the Plymouth had just bit more road feel.

[itsmegp46]

When you bought a Plymouth new back then, about 20% of the assembly was done again at the dealer with so many parts falling off the car. Good ride, lightly loaded, but max out the car with 6 people and luggage and that big car ride flew out the window. The car would bound up and down, crashing against the bump stops. If you wanted a good ride fully loaded in this price range, you had to go with a Chevy.

[OsbornTramain]

@monkeyboy27476 That was Arthur Godfrey, He was a famous Radio and TV personality of the day. He even acted in some movies. So he may seem like an old fart now, but this was 1973 and he was still popular.

[DTD110865]

@OsbornTramain

Arthur Godfrey died in 1983.

As for the '73 Fury, I like it, but I like the '72 even better. Personally I think the '73 Fury was a better looking car than the '73 Chrysler.

[monkeyboy27476]

Woinder why they hired an ashmatic old fart that sounds like he couldnt give a f**k to do the presenting?

[younghoss]

@monkeyboy27476

Their target audience wasn't first yr drivers. This model was aimed at older people with more money than just the economy model, and wanted a bigger car and better ride. Older people knew this announcer. See Duster commercial for young, pretty girl. Different target.

Like today's commercials for Cadillac playing music from Led Zeppelin. The crowd that has the desire and the money for that car is old enough to remember Zep when they were young.

[SkylarkGSX]

Yeah, I have a very rare car, it's a 1975 Plymouth Fury Custom, two door hard top! The condition is nearly show room quality. It's a 318, two bbl with factory AC and Power disc brakes. It gets a lot of attention, especially from black guys. lol

[captbarnacles1]

i own 1 of these land yachts as it was my first car and to yellowscooter, fyi this particular model came for the most part; a 360-2 barrel, also the first year for electronic ignition out of all the big three, that's right, mopar was first!

[Miradart]

Is it just me, or does this guy liiike he maaybee brought some adult beveragesesss to the shooooot? Haaaa. hick! <:P

I think he sounds a bit sloshed.

;-)

Cool car!

(71 Chrysler Newport when I was a kid.)

[JWROWE3]

At :41 note the ill fitting trim on the upper left part of the grill! Ahhhh, this was the era of The Big Three forgetting what quality control was. It's almost funny to look at so many of the car ads from those days and see how ill-fitting so many parts on these cars were.

[averageworkinggal]

The 69-73 C bodies were the best of the big mopars.

I love the styling. Lots of curvature to escape the square boxes of the 60s.

I've got a 73 Plymouth Custom Suburban wagon. Tons of room inside.

[102Help]

the 58 fury is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better

[MrMeisterneumann]

MOPAR forever!!!

[yellowscooter]

Now these were cars. Theres no sound like that of a quad kicking down and propelling these heavy cruisers with authority. Today we ride around in little plastic eggs.

With a compression bump up to around 12.5:1 them old school Mopars even run well on ethanol E100. Rotton Shame we gotta limit our own progress and work back-ass-wards.

[gratefuldeb1966]

My mom had a 73 Fury. What a pumped up beast that car was! It would run like a scalded cheetah!

[crue426]

;-) MOPAR

WE HAD A 73 NEWPORT

[spencnaz]

I have a '73 Monaco, that car is super smooth on the freeway, I don't think it's because of the weight but the torsion bar ride. Love the car, gets all sorts of snobby looks from SUV drivers as I blow by them at 80!

[ricedraja]

ahh, the good old days, i loved how affordable those cars were compared to now, i could get a muscle car for $4000!! i feel bad how chrysler is in the dumps right now,

[harley145000]

did not know arther had use a cane

[70Kenny]

I wish I could go down to the Chrysler/Plymouth Dealer right now and buy one of these.

[devildriver024]

Love the classics, They put s much pride in engineering cars back in the day.

[williamastanier]

I love Mopars of this era. I dont see many because I live in England though. My favourites are the 69-73 C bodies and the 75-78 B body Fury/Monaco. The 74 on c bodies (The Blues Brothers type) I did'nt like as much. I would love to own one, one day perhaps..

[regency98us]

It sure is a nice car. My grandfather had a 70 Fury, and he was always a Chevy and Pontiac man. I always loved the GM full and midsized cars, along with Mopars, they all had more styling, power and reliability than Ford.

[ted102989]

that you for putign this on i have a 73 fury thers nothing liek driveing an older cer

[TrickiWoo]

Awesome HUGE car. I rode around in the back of one of these when I was a kid and every time we went off an exit the centrifugal force would knock me off the seat.

[gnws6]

What a boat, lol.

[TonyBeazley]

thanks this is soooo cool!

[ingledude]

yeah but Arthur Godfrey as a pitchman, I was a kid then but was he even still popular by '73?

[charlie8575]

Remember, the vast bulk of the clientele for the full-sized Plymouths were a good deal older than the people who bought Chevies and Fords, so Arthur Godfrey was actually a good choice, because they could relate to him better. Neat ad, thanks for sharing.

[generatrix999]

Front looks a lot like late 60's chevy. Electronic gizmos...cool. 15000 V8 engines a week, thats 2143 a day, 89 every hour, about 1 every 35 seconds. 17,144 pistons were needed/used at the factory every day. Ye hahhh, Plymouth quality control was streeeeetched right before the gas crunch.

[jupitr2]

One of the BEST looking Mopars to come out of the factory. In my opinion, '73 was the last year that the Chrysler full-size cars had some design character to them, '74, '75 and onward started to get too mushy (i.e. fender skirts, landau tops and opera windows) Thanks for the post!

[frankd1965]

That car was from the "Fuselage" era which ran from 1969 to 1973. This was Arthur Godfrey pitching ads For Chrysler/Plymouth.

[drunkmekinik]

My first car was a 1974 Plymouth fury 3, never had a car like it that you could bury the needle past 125mph and it felt like you were doing 60. Not bad for $400.

[spaideri]

OMG...Thank you modeljunkies big time. I've been searching something like this for awhile since I own one :)

[floyjoy]

Looks like Arthur Godfrey is in this commercial

[gschoneman]

It is Arthur Godfrey, I remember these commercials.