VLVL2 (9): 1966 Plymouth Fury

[bekah]

Fwiw, we had a '58 Plymouth Fury in '68, power seats and all.  Tim 
had put an old "Make Love Not War" sticker (script, saved from 
Berkeley nights, 1964?) on it. The poor car was broadsided one night 
by a neighbor who forgot to turn left. It was totaled so the 
insurance gave it to us plus a few dollars. We sold it to my 
sister-in-law who was very, very pregnant.  She really made quite a 
statement getting her big self out of that wrecked car with that 
bumper sticker.

Bekah




At 9:28 PM -0600 11/3/03, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
>133.3  "a '66 Plymouth Fury"
>
>"The Plymouth Fury was a car of history. A favorite of many police 
>forces, reportedly adopted by the tough New York Police Department 
>after proving its ability to take abuse in the hands of a cop 
>(driving his own Fury) chasing a drug dealer, it was a car that 
>could take it." [...]
>
><http://www.allpar.com/model/fury.html>http://www.allpar.com/model/fury.html
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><http://www.avonhill.com/thumbnails/sedan_domestic/1966_Plymouth_Fury.jpeg>http://www.avonhill.com/thumbnails/sedan_domestic/1966_Plymouth_Fury.jpeg
>
>
>Christine, by the way, was a 1958 Plymouth Fury. For whatever that's 
>worth . . .
>
>Also for what it's worth, note that DL "bought a wig at a place 
>across the street, went into a certain ladies' gas station toilet on 
>Olympic legendary in the dopers' community, and emerged a different, 
>less noticeable person" (133).  Just as the DL and Ralph coffee shop 
>exchange parallels the Zoyd and Hector diner scene (as I mentioned 
>in an earlier post), so do both Zoyd (on p. 4) and DL use a gas 
>station lavatory to alter their appearances.  We should continue to 
>watch for Zoyd / DL parallels, especially as they relate to the 
>theme of identity.
>
>Are there other such references we've missed?
>