Car showed up at Augusta for the last race the body year could run without a fuel cell ,never saw the car again. Was told was used in Fireball 5000 movie
@david-alfred-bayer14 years ago
That my friends is a full sized, C Body, 65 Plymouth Fury. These were raced sporadically by Mopar diehards during the Mopar boycott year of 1965 because Nascar didn't officially outlaw the Hemi, they said it could still run, but only in these full size long wheelbase (119" plus) cars but not the intermediate Belvederes and Sattellites. With only around 5 to 7 races left in the season Nascar finally relented to allow destroked Hemis in the intermediates on longer tracks and the 426s on shorter tracks, so these baby's were only run by independents and were very rare. The next year Ford did essentially the same thing when the sanctioning body said no SOHC 427's. A lot of silliness frankly, it would have been great to see these two run vs. each other every year, and against factory supported 427 Chevy's had GM not chickened out years earlier. Politics seem mighty silly today, well, they were pretty silly in many ways back then too.
@fallscity4814 years ago
This car was owned by Neil Castles & this would be November, 1966. The Augusta race was the 1strace for the 1967 season that year. The car was driven by numerous drivers that year (Fats Caruso, Jim Conway, Elmer Gilliam, Walter Wallace & Castles during the '67 season.I think the car originally was the Buck Baker '65 Fury that finished 2nd at Daytona & Darlington in 1965.
Good looking car
That my friends is a full sized, C Body, 65 Plymouth Fury. These were raced sporadically by Mopar diehards during the Mopar boycott year of 1965 because Nascar didn't officially outlaw the Hemi, they said it could still run, but only in these full size long wheelbase (119" plus) cars but not the intermediate Belvederes and Sattellites. With only around 5 to 7 races left in the season Nascar finally relented to allow destroked Hemis in the intermediates on longer tracks and the 426s on shorter tracks, so these baby's were only run by independents and were very rare. The next year Ford did essentially the same thing when the sanctioning body said no SOHC 427's. A lot of silliness frankly, it would have been great to see these two run vs. each other every year, and against factory supported 427 Chevy's had GM not chickened out years earlier. Politics seem mighty silly today, well, they were pretty silly in many ways back then too.
This car was owned by Neil Castles & this would be November, 1966. The Augusta race was the 1strace for the 1967 season that year. The car was driven by numerous drivers that year (Fats Caruso, Jim Conway, Elmer Gilliam, Walter Wallace & Castles during the '67 season.I think the car originally was the Buck Baker '65 Fury that finished 2nd at Daytona & Darlington in 1965.