April Fury
1959 Plymouth Fury along Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. This is the standard Fury. The Sport Fury had a wider side chrome trim panel, and other features.
The '59 Chevy had a comparable roof-line on the Impala, and big tail fins like these but rotated 90°. Fords were boxy and pretty ugly, with rear lights forming angled finlets.
In 1960, Chevy repeated the sideways tail-fin design, and Ford joined in with its own elegant redesign, but the 1960 Fury was noteworthy for some of the biggest vertical tail-fins ever, along with a unique front end treatment blending to quasi-fenders over the front wheels. Or perhaps it was way cool instant camp: certainly the interior is futuristic eye candy.
In a major redesign in '61, Plymouth finally got its own hint of sideways tail-fins theme with stuck-on lamps, but by then, Chevy & Ford were moving to more boxy designs:
www.motortrend.com/classic/roadtests/12q2_1962_chevrolet_...
April Fury
1959 Plymouth Fury along Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. This is the standard Fury. The Sport Fury had a wider side chrome trim panel, and other features.
The '59 Chevy had a comparable roof-line on the Impala, and big tail fins like these but rotated 90°. Fords were boxy and pretty ugly, with rear lights forming angled finlets.
In 1960, Chevy repeated the sideways tail-fin design, and Ford joined in with its own elegant redesign, but the 1960 Fury was noteworthy for some of the biggest vertical tail-fins ever, along with a unique front end treatment blending to quasi-fenders over the front wheels. Or perhaps it was way cool instant camp: certainly the interior is futuristic eye candy.
In a major redesign in '61, Plymouth finally got its own hint of sideways tail-fins theme with stuck-on lamps, but by then, Chevy & Ford were moving to more boxy designs:
www.motortrend.com/classic/roadtests/12q2_1962_chevrolet_...