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PHOTO BY FRANK M. CHELLEMI by Eddie Sachs Farmingville, New York How I got my Fury When stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1955, I went into town and saw my first 1956 Plymouth Fury. It was beautiful, fast and expensive. At that time $3600 was way too much for me. My 1955 Plymouth Savoy with a V8 engine and a Powerflite automatic transmission had cost $2100. Fast-forward to 1959. I was working in Hempstead, Long Island, and one day I drove past a dealer on Hempstead Turnpike. Sticking out on the lot was a white car with the gold on the fender. I made a quick U-turn and, sure enough, it was a 1956 Fury. It looked good, ran fine and was only $1350. On May 28, 1959, it was mine. That was 47 years ago and the car will always be mine. It has been to Massachusetts and Pennsylvania about 20 times and to Delaware, upstate New York, and Dearborn, Michigan. It is the only 1956 Fury on Long Island. The car has more than 285,000 miles on it and has had its 303 CID dual 4BBL V8 engine rebuilt twice. It still runs well and will continue to do so as long as I run well. My advice to all Plymouth owners: do not to let them sit. Run them. That is what Plymouths were made for. Good luck to all club members. RUSTED BOLTS AND BUSTED KNUCKLES, NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND REGION, JANUARY 2006, AS REPRINTED IN PLYMOUTH BULLETIN 281 Ed and Rose Sachs with Jack Lewis [CENTER] and their ‘56 Fury at the 2004 Golden Fin Society National Gathering held in conjunction with the All Chrysler Nationals at Carlisle in 2004. Ed and Rose's ‘56 went over the 300,000- mile mark in 2010! -40- Fury ury Fifty-six ifty-six PHOTO BY LARRY NUESCH PHOTO BY RON SWARTLEY
Still Original by James Cloer Tulsa, Oklahoma Igrew up in northwestern Arkansas where, in the late ‘50s, I would see a ‘56 Fury being driven around town quite often. Then, I would see a ‘57 Fury and a ‘58 Fury at times. That made me want all three and now I have all three. It would only be right to mention a friend, Bill Sossaman, who was instrumental in the acquisition of my ‘56 Fury. I was finishing school at the University of Arkansas, after a four-year interruption in the Navy, when I noticed that a ‘58 Fury had appeared on campus. I left a note on the car, and it led to a good friendship with Bill, the original owner of this Fury. I helped him locate parts, since I had just purchased a ‘58 Fury of my own and had extra parts. I graduated and went to North Carolina after a job offer. Bill , who had gone on to pharmacy school in Norman, Oklahoma, called me later that year to tell me that a ‘56 Fury was in Norman and that the lady who owned it was going to trade it for a newer car. This Fury had 63,000 miles on it and Bill said he could drive it to northwestern Arkansas on his way home for Christmas. I sent the money and when I arrived home for the holidays, there the Fury was, at my father’s house. This was only the second ‘56 Fury I had ever seen. It still had the plastic seat covers but was missing one hubcap and the tach sending unit. I drove it around home for a few days and then put it in storage at my father’s home. Back in North Carolina, while taking a short trip to Level Cross to see the Petty shop, I spotted a salvage yard which had hupcaps hanging over the parts counter. Stopping there on my return trip, I found a beautiful set of ‘56 Fury wheelcovers. No one seemed to know what they fit, so I got a super deal on the set. -41- Fury ury Fifty-six ifty-six The tachometer sender came from Canada and, upon installing it, I found the tach worked like a charm. The rest of the car is original, having a single four-barrel carburetor topped by a gold air cleaner. Before leaving North Carolina and ending up in Tulsa, I had gone to the Sanford, N. C., Chrysler dealership and was given permission to look through their attic for parts. There, I found a gold mine of ‘56, ‘57, ‘58 and ‘59 Plymouth parts, among them all kinds of Fury gold and other trim pieces which I bought. My three Furys and ‘59 Sport Fury convertible have been put on hold in storage for years, waiting to be put back on the road. The ‘56 is still original and I love looking at it. My collection of Six Pack and 426 Hemi cars has taken priority over some of my earlier ones, but I will always love these early muscle cars that were built during the prime of my life. PB
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