It’s kind of difficult to look at a Plymouth Fury that came with fins as standard equipment and not make a “Christine” reference, isn’t it? Stephen King turned the Forward Look Plymouth into the stuff of nightmarish legends when he wrote about the Autumn Red and Ivory White car, the one that had no trouble paying back everyone who ever wronged it. But think, for a second, that Christine was just a hormonal teenage girl that was obsessively protective over Arnie Cunningham. And that at some point in her life, she grew up, got over it all, and became a productive member of society.

Ok, that’s a bit farfetched, even for me, but seriously…turning a 1959 Plymouth Fury into a camper special is a bit jaw-dropping to say the least. And this isn’t some hacked-together home-built deal, either. Leichner Manufacturing Co. actually made these kits…you’d ditch the sedan’s trunk lid, mount the camper in the trunk and attach it to the trunk lid hinges, and away you go. You’d sleep over the roof of the car, while the trunk offered up some space to work with, be it for storage or whatever else you could come up with. On the plus side, you didn’t have to wheel around a gigantic truck or even better, a bus. On the downside, the Plymouth probably drinks fuel like a bus, and certainly doesn’t have as much room to roam around in.

With a 318 Poly to push you around and a pushbutton TorqueFlite to shift with, the Plymouth sits in a weird medium between retro-cool and freak show. What do you think?

eBay Link: 1959 Plymouth Fury with Leichner camper kit