Blame this one on a late-night viewing of the movie Fargo. Now that I have that accent stuck in my head I have been trying any and every possible trick to get it out of there, but with everybody sounding like the mom from Bobby’s World, it’s been difficult. In a desperate attempt to try to rattle something loose, I hit the Fargo Craigslist looking for the perfect escape vehicle on the cheap. Luckily, it didn’t take too long before this 1965 Plymouth Fury showed up for $2500, right at the purchase limit of the Rough Start game.
Yes, it’s a beige four-door Plymouth, but is that a bad thing anymore if it runs and drives? The one photo of the car shows what I would refer to as a “grandpa fresh” sedan that looks to have been garage-kept for it’s near-fifty years on Earth. This is the perfect car for someone who wants to relive the old days, relax with something vintage, or if you’re Lohnes, cruise around while listening to jazz tunes to get in the mood before writing some columns. Whatever works. At least cruising will be effortless with a 383ci big-block under the hood. The ad is short on details, but as clean as everything looks with the two pictures, it’s at least worth the drive to investigate. I’d expect it to be a one or two-owner car, with the current owner short on words but big on action. This car is just too clean to have survived North Dakota winters.
Would I do anything to this one? Other than add an overdrive transmission and maybe finding some widened steelies and correct dog-dish hubcaps, not a damn thing. This one looks too clean to hack up.
CLICK HERE to see this Plymouth’s Craigslist ad!
Fargo…….Check the trunk for blood or bodies. 🙂
If I were in a position to buy it, I’d just treat it like the Buick Special that Freiburger rescued from Pewe’s yard: give the suspension a nice going-through and cruise on.
Rust or not, it would be a fun car.
Cool car, my mom had one of these years ago.
If I was still in the street race game it’d make a great sleeper.
That’s in my hometown! Detroit Lakes, MN, not Fargo. The Japanese lady looking for the money from the movie Fargo did die in Detroit Lakes, though.
LMK if you want me to check it out on my lunch tomorrow.