I had a 1975 Unmarked "Police Pursuit Package" Fury back in 1988 and 1989. It had the 440 cubic inch (7.2 Liter) 4 barrel that would melt the rear tires. Had a lot of fun driving that car around. For the time it was extremely fast.
@@markusantonio4866 ..Fury isn't the same model, the Gran Fury was the same as Blue Brothers Dodge Royal Monaco (monaco for the 74-75 year)..Confusing,in 74-75 it was the Monaco,in 76 the Monaco was the Coronet(name swap) 76 and on the movie car is the Royal Monaco ,confused?
There is actually a 75 Roadrunner in my hometown. It's red with a white vinyl top, white graphics, and white interior. The guy who owns it actually drives it quite a bit. It looks 100 % original. The paint is faded and the dash is cracked but there's no rust on the body anywhere. The interior is in pretty good shape especially for being white
This was my first car. My dad worked for a Chrysler Plymouth dealer and he bought his demo. I was mad because they got rid of our old 1965 Plymouth Fury which I loved. The 1975 Fury was a good car and protected me well in a horrific accident (only a bruise on my shin). Even after car was declared totaled, a friend of my brother's salvaged the engine and transmission which had no damage and ran for many more years.
We always referred to those stylish halo roofs as "Toupee Roofs". I always felt the 2 door Fury's were very nice and stylish cars. Up to about 10 years ago, I used to see this older lady driving her 2 door Fury around town. She always had a cigarette dangling in her mouth with all the windows closed. But her car looked like it was in really nice shape, but the interior prolly smelled like an ashtray.
Here's one from Alberta: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1975_Plymouth_Road_Runner_(9564790150).jpg And another from Florida: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1975_Plymouth_Road_Runner;_Weeki_Wachee,_FL-7.jpg
@Right Lane Hog When I turned 16 in 1984, my very first car was a blue 1975 Fury two-door with the 318 V-8 & bench seat. It was one hell of a good car. Wish I'd kept it.
Is it true that only California Fury and Coronet models could get the 440 engine? If so then that was odd for a Cali model to have the 440 and a 49 state car to have a 360 or 318.
Had a used 1975 plymouth roadrunner. Purchased in Houston in 1979 and owned it till 1982. White vinyl roof, forest green body, white vinyl seats & a dark green shag carpet. Plus a big roadrunner sticker on the truck...it was my first car!👍
It seems as a kid I remember my mother having a friend that had a 78 Chrysler Cordoba with the red crushed velour interior it too smelled like stale cigarettes LOL😂😂😂
Because it was the Cordoba,just different sheet metal..All are B bodies and based off the 71 Road Runner,Charger etc..More so the slight changes in the platform for the 1973 version!! Mopar's always had a nice ride and great handling!
Thanks for posting! I’ve always liked these and feel they were usually overlooked and under appreciated! For there having been so many different styles, examples, and color combos around at the time, it would be next to impossible to find well optioned nice survivors today....that’s putting BOTH Fury’s and Monaco’s together!
I think a very high percentage of these cars went into fleet sales. The Fury had a huge back seat making it very suitable for taxi passengers or arrested criminals. Ours had a very reliable engine and transmission but almost everything else was shot when we parted ways at 135,000 miles.
@@bighands69 Many modern cars easily last twice as long as these old ones. Mine has 115,000 miles and is infinitely more reliable than cars of the 70s.
Well, Neil Ouellette, I had the 225 slant six with the ES (extra slow) package, with the light that went on when you stomped on the gas. It had steel-belted radials and electronic ignition and power windows. I once won a drag race with a pregnant gerbil. So there.
My dad had a '75 Buick Regal that wasn't too dissimilar to the Fury hardtop coupe they show here, it had a little more flair and wasn't as boxy, but overall didn't look a ton different. That was a beautiful car. It was dark green with a gold fleck, black interior with wood grain and factory mag wheels. The hood could double as a football field 🤣
I had the Fury Custom. Luxurious, roomy. Slept in the back seat on many occasions. 318 cubic inch engine had plenty of power. It was burgundy. I named it Christine of course. I would pay two prices to have that car back new.
A little disappointed that because of the Arab oil embargo, they only showed the one quick photo of the Road Runner. The last true intermediate version...
I think Chrysler vehicles had that basic heating/AC setup into the 1990s. My parents 1987 Dodge Caravan's system was exactly the same, and as I recall, even a 1990 Horizon/Omni had the same thing. Chrysler Corp also loved to put their windshield washer on the wipers! Quick question: if the lever type hood release was optional, what was standard?
@@eltonjohn3236 Interesting, so basically anybody could open your engine compartment from the outside, Jeep Wrangler-style. Love some of your music, by the way.
The hood release can be in two locations on a car, outside and or inside. In most cases, cars in the 70's didn't have inside hood releases, you'd reach under the bumper or into the grill and release it there. Back in the day, it wasn't unheard of to go to your car and find your battery stolen because someone opened the hood at night and took it. It was normally an extra cost option to have an inside the car release.
I did a burnout in front of the house in my mom's 75 Sport Fury I never drove another one of her cars till I was in my forties she would not let me great car
Don't get me started on this, I don't understand why there are Packard people that say a 1957 or 1958 Packard isn't a Packard when it was built by Packard?
@@OsbornTramain When I turned 16 in 1984, my very 1st car was a '75 Fury 2-door, robin's egg blue with the 318 V-8 & bench seat interior. That little "slow down" light stayed on ALL the time, due to my heavy foot, Lol😅. It was one hell of a good car & I wish I still had it. The 318 is a great engine that's never gotten its due, pretty much bulletproof.
It was really smog laden. Power was down with the 1975 cat converter and single exhaust. You could get rid of all that pollution stuff or swap in a crate engine with headers and dual exhaust.
nope, it wasn't a true hardtop in that sense, only the door windows rolled down. The C bodies cars did have a true hardtop where the rear windows rolled down up until 1977, the Royal Monaco or the Gran Fury. That was the end of that body style forever
Funny how that worked out. My parents bought a 1972 Mercury Montego MX 2 door hardtop and the rear quarter windows rolled back into the C pillar. In 1974 the 2 door Montego and Torino eliminated the roll down windows , even though they were the same exact car as the 72's save for the huge bumpers.
@@OsbornTramain ..The 2 door was a hardtop,no b pillar when front and rear windows are rolled down!!! 4 door versions were not a hardtop...Look at the video to see for yourself!!! I owned one that was a 2 door hardtop! Cordoba wasnt a hardtop as the 1/4 windows were fixed,even if they rolled down the b pillar was in the way! C body versions had both hardtops and non hardtops..The higher trim 2 door c bodies were not hardtops as they had a b pillar etc.. Higher trim 4 doors the hardtops were top models,cheaper versions cop cars,taxi's were not hardtops!
@@01trsmar I didn't think the rear windows rolled down, I thought they were fixed....that's why I said not a "true" hardtop. I stand corrected. I see in the video it is rolled down....but did it stay that way thru 1978?....if it had the landeau treatment, I think the window is fixed.
Wink narrated several of the 1970's Mopar dealer films that Osborn has uploaded to UA-cam. I remember watching Wink on "Tic Tac Dough" back in the day.
The 1975 Chrysler Cordoba was originally planned as a Plymouth Satellite to match the Dodge Charger but Chrysler took the car and kept it for their own, then Plymouth used the Dodge Coronet body and named it Fury! They should have kept the Satellite name for two reasons; the Satellite was a better name for the intermediate especially since it was already established and because Plymouth already had the Fury name on it's full size cars! And as far as the Road Runner goes, it was already established as the Belvedere/Satellite!
Well, almost right....The Cordoba was suppose to be Plymouths new Satellite Sebring. If you recall, There was no Satellite 2 door sedan or Hardtop from 1971 thru 1974. Like the AMC Matador Coupe of 74 thru 78 and the Buick Century Coupe of 75 thru 78, they were divorced from the same styling cues as the Sedan and Wagon. By not having a Dodge Coronet Two door hardtop or Sedan or a Plymouth Satellite 2 door Sedan or Hardtop to compete against the Ford Torino or the Chevy Chevelle, they forfieted a lot of sales. The Charger and the Sebring were nice cars and fit in the Personal Luxury car market against the Monte Carlo or Cougar, but they were wrong in not having a 2 door sedan/Hardtop Coronet or Satellite......moving the Sebring up a level to a Cordoba and bringing back the Coronet and Fury intermediate Hardtops was a good idea particularly when you think of how bad sales were in 1975, had they not had those two cars to launch, they could have literally gone bankrupt. The Cordoba saved Chrysler's ass in 1975
@@OsbornTramain, Plymouth did have the 2 door and 4 door Satellite right up to 1974! Dodge stopped making the 2 door Coronet from 1971 to 1974, in favor of the 2 door Charger! Then in 1975, the Coronet was again, available in 2 and 4 door, the same as the smaller Plymouth Fury! But what I said was that Plymouth should have kept the Satellite name to match the Dodge Coronet, since the Plymouth Fury and the Dodge Monaco already shared the same platform! The 1975 Cordoba and the Charger were good where they were because the Charger was always different from the Coronet and the Cordoba was a new addition! Then in 1977 Dodge dropped the Coronet name and transferred the Monaco name to the car, matching what Plymouth did in 1975! Dodge changed the name of the full size Monaco to Royal Monaco in 1977! Satellite, Sebring and Coronet were always great names for those cars, and Belvedere was a great name in the fifties and was still a good enough name in the seventies not to drop it after 1970!
@@oliasofsunhillow7116 you're totally missing my point. The 2 door version of the Satellite of 71 thru 74 had no resemblance to the Satellite Sedan or Wagon. Nothing looked the same. They were divorced of any common styling cues. It was a Satellite in name only, a specialty car like a Monte Carlo or Grand Prix. They abandoned the tradtional 2 door sedan and 2 door hardtop model segment. The segment where cars would have been sold to the low price conscience customer. The Sebring verson of the Satellite was sporty, not plain
@@OsbornTramain, I didn't miss your point but I think that you misunderstood what I originally said! But I do see some of what you say, between 1971 and '74, Plymouth should have kept the Satellite name as the 4 door like the Coronet and name the 2 door Sebring and Sebring Plus like the Charger! Then in 1975, the Satellite and Coronet would have been both reavailable as 2 and 4 door and then Sebring, Sebring Plus, Charger and the new Cordoba should have been the slightly different 2 door models to match the personal luxury car market!
They still would have made this car!! This was the Fury the Cordoba was to be a Plymouth and the Cordoba would have been a model above this one.. Remember they change all the time! The PT Cruiser was to be a Plymouth! The Jeep Grand Cherokee was planned to be a Chrysler! This is a B body Mopar started in the 1960's and this version is based on the 1971 Dodge Charger,Plymouth Satellite platform..Cordoba,Fury,Sport Fury,Road Runner,Charger,Charger Sport,Magnum... ***They also made a Charger called the Charger Sport that was this exact car,they also had a Charger that looked like a Cordoba for 1975..Confused lol!!
Not sure I agree with that. I think that the Great Depression and Stock Market Crash of 1929 is probably the worst. We almost lost the entire industry due to company failures. So many great makes of Cars are gone from that time period. Again in 2009, the Bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler, well again, they weren't prepared for the changes of the 90's and 00 decade.
@@OsbornTramain, plus the custom coach companies that forced car makers like Parkard to start making their own bodies! And Cadillac, Lincoln and the Chrysler Imperial, at the time couldn't offer alternative bodies for their cars! I remember seeing a Lincoln using the LeBaron body once! And also a bit of trivia: Cadillac and Lincoln were both started by a father and son company! I forget their names!
@@billyclub9733 I didn't see the emoji. My ancient phone shows a tiny white box with criss-crossing lines through it. I have heard MANY people ask me what an 8 track was, so i thought it was literal. My 91 s10 truck has an 8 track/cassette stereo and i wouldn't have it any other way😎
@@OsbornTramain Yep, they looked alike and came out at the same time. Kind of like cars now, a lot of them look the same. Or cars that came out before 1950, I never could tell one from another but my dad knew them all because he grew up with them. For some reason, auto designers seem to come out with designs that are similar.
When growing up in the early 80's my late grandfather inherited a used '75 4 door Fury sedan from a fellow patron of the business he partially owned. Our family had the previous car (;76 Olds station wagon) die, and we needed a immediate a replacement. Needless to say, this is one of the worst cars my parents ever owned. It would continuously stall (even at railroad tracks), starter went and the car leaked exhaust. My late grandfather was always working on this car to get it to run decently. About a year for two after having this car, it was scrapped and we then inherited my Uncle's Chevy station wagon which ran so much better. Chrysler Corporation made some very attractive cars in the 70's, but reliability was another issue.
But, it was a used car and sometimes you don't know how they are treated or maintained by previous owners. Their bad behaivor could have hurt the cars reliability. All cars from this time period did suffer a bit of quality. I remember my Mom's new 75 AMC Hornet always had starter issues and electrical bugs.. It wouldn't start and you'd have to open the hood and press a reset button, it use to embarass my Mother always have to open the hood of her new car to reset the button...she would joke that it was just like the reset button on her Garbage disposal unit in the kitchen under the sink.
Probably had the 318 with 2 barrel,those 2 barrel carbs were problematic when you never maintained them..The choke wasn't working on his! Remember kids,carburetor cleaner was invented for a reason!!! I will be honest and say some new 2bbl carbs were problematic for the 318's,but if you knew what to do or had a good Chrysler dealer they fixed it in 10 minutes! My dad had a few Dodge business vans for his company and 2 had 318's one would flood out when cold if you drove for 5 minutes..if you let it warm up it was fine,but most people jumped in turned the key on drove off,nobody warmed cars up back then..The dealer fixed the carb in 10 minutes and it never had a issue again..Dad also have Dodge vans with 360 2bbl and 400 2bbl and those worked fine all the time,had a few 4bbl 360's and 400's again no issue~vans were 1971-1986 then he sold that business...all went 300,000 plus miles on original engines transmissions lasted 130,000 miles on average and thats loaded to over max weight and multiple drivers! I bought many next to free mid 70's Mopars from dumb people because they stalled out etc..Most had well over 100,000 miles as the 5 digit odometer after 99,999 they rolled to 00,000 some had 6 but the last was a 1.10th of a mile digit never registered 1 mile and was a different color than the other 5! So after 99,999.9 it went to 00,000.0 I bought them most needed a simple tune up and carb cleaned up and a new choke then they ran perfect..The smog 2 barrel cars I replaced with a non smog 2bbl from the junkyard and the cars jumped and moved with just that carb swap!! Lean burn cars I converted it to points or a performance electronic ignition,distributor and carb..Hey,I sold good cars!
Jeez...no one treats it's viewers like brain dead children more than American commercial writers. Then and now. 'Look at these seats. They are red. Look at this taillight. It is also red. Look at this engine. It is fast. Now go and buy this car. Buy it now.'
I don't agree with you, This isn't a commercial for consumers, it's a training film. You totally mischaracterize what the narrator is saying, you make it sound like a "Dick and Jane" book. please.....stop trying to create myths. Also, stope using nationalistic bigotry, "American Commercials". This is pure ignorance, saying American Commercials are different from the rest of the world and all American commercials are alike is total rubbish comment here based on ignorance.
@@OsbornTramain 1) I will say whatever I wish, troll. It's called 'free speech'. DUH!!! 2) American commercials are FAMOUS for the childish way they talk to viewers. 3) If this is a training film? It is even more ridiculous. Why would you talk to salespeople like they are complete morons? 4) Calm the 'f' down. What the fuck do you care if someone has an opinion about a 40+ year old commercial/training film. Sheesh...what an old, miserable loser you must be to get THIS worked up over a simple opinion. You must have no life AT ALL. If you cannot put up with criticism. Don't post the videos on UA-cam...DUH. Fucking troll.
New Challenger's,Charger's and 300's are good reliable cars..The 05-10 had front end bushing issues,but cheap and easy to fix but the 2011 to current are very reliable,only issue on some are the infotainment screen,blacks out now and then (not all of them but thats the only issue).
probably because the Cordoba would have cost about 35% more dollars, there's a big price difference between the two, this was a sporty car for the low level low priced market where a Cordoba is a luxury car. They aren't' competitors of each other, but from two different market segments. I like a Caddy better than a Pinto my self.......but they were very different cars.
Chrysler just kept doubling down on using stupid car names right up to their near demise. Oooooh...look honey its a new Fury 123 Savoy Flapjack New Yorker Monobroughm. Sport.
But those stupid names has kept them in business, goodbye Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer, Checker, Mercury, Buick (only makes SUV's now) with their sensible names.
But but but, this isn't designed to compete against the Monte Carlo, this was designed to compete against the Ford Torino, Chevy Chevelle Sport Coupe and the AMC Matador Coupe.....it's a lower priced class median sized car....like 40% less expensive than a Monte Carlo or a Cordoba.........or Cougar..........this is a cheapy.....it's sporty, it's not a luxury car.
@@OsbornTramain I will vouch for its cheapness. I drove one for around 6 years and it was certainly built to a price point. Chrysler may well have realized how many were headed toward fleet sales.
@@rightlanehog3151 ..I owned one it was a well built car,no rattles,no shake solid ride..I had the 400 4 barrel and a few tweaks the car was very quick! If you had the base model ,cars back then all makes used less insulation(sound detonator) less power and cheaper tires..
Nope Monte Carlo ,Chrysler had the Cordoba and Charger,later Magnum!!! This was the Malibu and Chevelle fighter! All companies copy a car that another comes out with..Chevy Copied the Ford Ranchero,the El Camino was a Copy! GM/Ford copied Dodge with having 4wd trucks and extra cab trucks and then 4 door trucks and V8 engines with more power! GM/Ford copied Chrysler by adding more power to cars,Chrysler lead the way in performance in the 1950's and 1960's! They all copy..Camaro/Firebird copied the Mustang/Cougar,Barracuda came out before the Mustang! They all copy! And it makes better cars and more choice!!!
I could watch these all day long. I love these overlooked cars I grew up with.
Something about the combination of music, plus Martindale’s voice makes me so happy.
True
Always liked those cars.
Wink Martindale's crowning achievement! Then the good life on the game shows... smooth living 😎
I had a 1975 Unmarked "Police Pursuit Package" Fury back in 1988 and 1989. It had the 440 cubic inch (7.2 Liter) 4 barrel that would melt the rear tires. Had a lot of fun driving that car around. For the time it was extremely fast.
I think of the Blues Brothers.
@@markusantonio4866 ..Fury isn't the same model, the Gran Fury was the same as Blue Brothers Dodge Royal Monaco (monaco for the 74-75 year)..Confusing,in 74-75 it was the Monaco,in 76 the Monaco was the Coronet(name swap) 76 and on the movie car is the Royal Monaco ,confused?
Those cars, particularly the sedans, were on so many crime/action shows of the 70s and 80s.
There is actually a 75 Roadrunner in my hometown. It's red with a white vinyl top, white graphics, and white interior. The guy who owns it actually drives it quite a bit. It looks 100 % original. The paint is faded and the dash is cracked but there's no rust on the body anywhere. The interior is in pretty good shape especially for being white
Plymouth has always been the BEST OF THE LOW PRICE RANGE MAKES. To bad they are gone.
who knows, maybe they will come back....there's been a number of Barracuda or Cuda show cars and prototypes over the years from Chrysler
This was my first car. My dad worked for a Chrysler Plymouth dealer and he bought his demo. I was mad because they got rid of our old 1965 Plymouth Fury which I loved. The 1975 Fury was a good car and protected me well in a horrific accident (only a bruise on my shin). Even after car was declared totaled, a friend of my brother's salvaged the engine and transmission which had no damage and ran for many more years.
We always referred to those stylish halo roofs as "Toupee Roofs". I always felt the 2 door Fury's were very nice and stylish cars. Up to about 10 years ago, I used to see this older lady driving her 2 door Fury around town. She always had a cigarette dangling in her mouth with all the windows closed. But her car looked like it was in really nice shape, but the interior prolly smelled like an ashtray.
I'm probably one of the few that actually likes the 75 Road Runner.
No you're not I wish I had one
I have one. No. I have two of them
Here's one from Alberta:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1975_Plymouth_Road_Runner_(9564790150).jpg
And another from Florida:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1975_Plymouth_Road_Runner;_Weeki_Wachee,_FL-7.jpg
Like the 1975 Road Runner myself
The Road Runner by special order could be equipped with the 440 CI 255hp police engine.
Finally the '75 Fury gets the attention it deserves. 👏👏👏👏Ours was a dark green sedan with green vinyl seats and the Slant 6.
@Right Lane Hog When I turned 16 in 1984, my very first car was a blue 1975 Fury two-door with the 318 V-8 & bench seat. It was one hell of a good car. Wish I'd kept it.
We had the Sherwood Forest Green too, but our Fury was a wagon with a 318 ci V8. 9 passenger capacity.
@@justinl9077 I am genuinely jealous. Which interior did yours have? Was it green vinyl or something even better?
@@JohnShinn6078 Yeah, it was pretty quick, according to the police in my hometown! 😉
Is it true that only California Fury and Coronet models could get the 440 engine? If so then that was odd for a Cali model to have the 440 and a 49 state car to have a 360 or 318.
Had a used 1975 plymouth roadrunner. Purchased in Houston in 1979 and owned it till 1982. White vinyl roof, forest green body, white vinyl seats & a dark green shag carpet. Plus a big roadrunner sticker on the truck...it was my first car!👍
Which engine did it have?
New for '75: larger vents... larger windows... yet the Fury still retains that cigarette scent.
😂😂😂
It seems as a kid I remember my mother having a friend that had a 78 Chrysler Cordoba with the red crushed velour interior it too smelled like stale cigarettes LOL😂😂😂
That's a groovy leisure suit to drive your Fury in.
Always wanted a '75 Roadrunner. Dad did get a 318 powered '77 Fury Sport. Nice ride that rivaled the Cordoba.
Because it was the Cordoba,just different sheet metal..All are B bodies and based off the 71 Road Runner,Charger etc..More so the slight changes in the platform for the 1973 version!! Mopar's always had a nice ride and great handling!
I heard him say 2;45 rear axle ratio. LOL. Never heard of a stock gear ratio that tall back then.
@@scdevon GM even used 2.21 ratio in some of thier cars in thr early 80's
Thanks for posting! I’ve always liked these and feel they were usually overlooked and under appreciated! For there having been so many different styles, examples, and color combos around at the time, it would be next to impossible to find well optioned nice survivors today....that’s putting BOTH Fury’s and Monaco’s together!
I think a very high percentage of these cars went into fleet sales. The Fury had a huge back seat making it very suitable for taxi passengers or arrested criminals. Ours had a very reliable engine and transmission but almost everything else was shot when we parted ways at 135,000 miles.
@@rightlanehog3151
Could you imagine what modern cars would look like today at 135,000 miles.
@@bighands69 Many modern cars easily last twice as long as these old ones. Mine has 115,000 miles and is infinitely more reliable than cars of the 70s.
@@rightlanehog3151 Don't forget to bitch about lack of air bags!
My first car was a '76 Gran Fury. Very similar to what is here. Brings back memories even if slightly different.
The only mid 70s car I heard of with a Nanny Light on the hood telling you ease off the gas! 😁
I just love these videos! Thank you from a new subscriber!
Well, Neil Ouellette, I had the 225 slant six with the ES (extra slow) package, with the light that went on when you stomped on the gas. It had steel-belted radials and electronic ignition and power windows. I once won a drag race with a pregnant gerbil. So there.
I always liked that generation of Fury. Reminded me a little of GM's late 60s/early 70's Nova/Skylark/Cutlass models. A bodies?
My dad had a '75 Buick Regal that wasn't too dissimilar to the Fury hardtop coupe they show here, it had a little more flair and wasn't as boxy, but overall didn't look a ton different. That was a beautiful car. It was dark green with a gold fleck, black interior with wood grain and factory mag wheels. The hood could double as a football field 🤣
The Road Runner is pretty rare... I’ve only ever seen one.
It was the last B body big block Road Runner available.
I believe there was also a high performance 400 rated @ 235 net bhp as opposed to the stock 400 rated @ 195 net bhp.
0:52 . . . That silver / burgundy "canopy" roof coupe is slick.
Had a 4 door 78, 318, got a whopping 12 MPG.
Sure was one great looking car! I had the sport version.
I saw a nice 75 RR with the 400 4bbl at a car show Last summer...
I had a Roadrunner, black, white stripe, tunnel decal on trunk. P/S, P/B, am/FM, R&H, 318. That's it no options. Wish I still had it.
I thought it was such a beautiful car when it was introduced.
My dad had a robin egg blue two door when I was kid. Thought it was a stylish car.
AMAZING- never knew the films continued for '75, I thought they tried to "under-emphasise" the Road Runner then!
need too bring these cars back, much more stylish
I have a 76 fury base with the only option being the 318 and an am radio
I had the Fury Custom. Luxurious, roomy. Slept in the back seat on many occasions. 318 cubic inch engine had plenty of power. It was burgundy. I named it Christine of course. I would pay two prices to have that car back new.
The interior was huge.
A little disappointed that because of the Arab oil embargo, they only showed the one quick photo of the Road Runner. The last true intermediate version...
I think Chrysler vehicles had that basic heating/AC setup into the 1990s. My parents 1987 Dodge Caravan's system was exactly the same, and as I recall, even a 1990 Horizon/Omni had the same thing. Chrysler Corp also loved to put their windshield washer on the wipers!
Quick question: if the lever type hood release was optional, what was standard?
They were in the grille. My parents had a B-150 van that opened that way.
@@eltonjohn3236 Interesting, so basically anybody could open your engine compartment from the outside, Jeep Wrangler-style. Love some of your music, by the way.
I believe that HVAC control was used until the mid 90s. Pretty much every K car derived vehicle had one.
'Optional Hood Release Lever'?! How else would you open the hood without a hood release lever? o_0
The hood release can be in two locations on a car, outside and or inside. In most cases, cars in the 70's didn't have inside hood releases, you'd reach under the bumper or into the grill and release it there. Back in the day, it wasn't unheard of to go to your car and find your battery stolen because someone opened the hood at night and took it. It was normally an extra cost option to have an inside the car release.
My 70s car hood release was on the outside below the bumber
0:45 But I like a big, round booty.
I want a Fury!
Okay, what's the tune playing?
Funny they didn't mention Torsion Quiet Ride...
or the lean burn engine
Nicer than Monte Carlo
I did a burnout in front of the house in my mom's 75 Sport Fury I never drove another one of her cars till I was in my forties she would not let me great car
Cool 😀 I really like the coupe's.
Notice the rear windows were rolled down. I'm pretty sure that didn't make it to production.
They roll down, right up thru 1978, the last True Hardtops made by Chrysler Corporation
I still find it funny how certain Mopar fans still don't consider the 75 Fury Road Runner to be a "genuine" Road Runner.
Don't get me started on this, I don't understand why there are Packard people that say a 1957 or 1958 Packard isn't a Packard when it was built by Packard?
@@OsbornTramain When I turned 16 in 1984, my very 1st car was a '75 Fury 2-door, robin's egg blue with the 318 V-8 & bench seat interior. That little "slow down" light stayed on ALL the time, due to my heavy foot, Lol😅. It was one hell of a good car & I wish I still had it. The 318 is a great engine that's never gotten its due, pretty much bulletproof.
It is.
It was really smog laden. Power was down with the 1975 cat converter and single exhaust. You could get rid of all that pollution stuff or swap in a crate engine with headers and dual exhaust.
Same with the CordobaCharger haha
I’ll take the stylish formal halo roof!
Met my 3rd ex Wife in my 75 four Door 318 Plymouth Fury Green in Color .
The hood mouted turn signal that told ya to take your foot out of the gas pedal lol... eco 1975.. i had no idea..
Did the rear quarter windows roll down in the coupe in 75?
nope, it wasn't a true hardtop in that sense, only the door windows rolled down. The C bodies cars did have a true hardtop where the rear windows rolled down up until 1977, the Royal Monaco or the Gran Fury. That was the end of that body style forever
Funny how that worked out. My parents bought a 1972 Mercury Montego MX 2 door hardtop and the rear quarter windows rolled back into the C pillar. In 1974 the 2 door Montego and Torino eliminated the roll down windows , even though they were the same exact car as the 72's save for the huge bumpers.
Yes look at the silver one,its a 2 door hardtop,the windows roll down and no b pillar in the way!!!
@@OsbornTramain ..The 2 door was a hardtop,no b pillar when front and rear windows are rolled down!!! 4 door versions were not a hardtop...Look at the video to see for yourself!!! I owned one that was a 2 door hardtop!
Cordoba wasnt a hardtop as the 1/4 windows were fixed,even if they rolled down the b pillar was in the way!
C body versions had both hardtops and non hardtops..The higher trim 2 door c bodies were not hardtops as they had a b pillar etc.. Higher trim 4 doors the hardtops were top models,cheaper versions cop cars,taxi's were not hardtops!
@@01trsmar I didn't think the rear windows rolled down, I thought they were fixed....that's why I said not a "true" hardtop. I stand corrected. I see in the video it is rolled down....but did it stay that way thru 1978?....if it had the landeau treatment, I think the window is fixed.
I bought one brand new and had to have the interior redone because it fell apart . It was totaled in 78 with only 9000 miles by a drunk driver .
Probably the clips that held the door panels..Wouldn't fall off but rattled because of the clips. easy fix,these were well built cars..
The 1975 Plymouth Fury ... For your left ear only !
Narrator sounds like Wink Martindale
that is why I mentioned it in the title....and that's alway why Winkmartindale last week posted this on his facebook page! He's on my friends list!!!
@@OsbornTramain Didn't even notice his name in the header!
I'm enjoying these vintage dealer films and subscribe to your channel.
Wink narrated several of the 1970's Mopar dealer films that Osborn has uploaded to UA-cam. I remember watching Wink on "Tic Tac Dough" back in the day.
The 1975 Chrysler Cordoba was originally planned as a Plymouth Satellite to match the Dodge Charger but Chrysler took the car and kept it for their own, then Plymouth used the Dodge Coronet body and named it Fury! They should have kept the Satellite name for two reasons; the Satellite was a better name for the intermediate especially since it was already established and because Plymouth already had the Fury name on it's full size cars! And as far as the Road Runner goes, it was already established as the Belvedere/Satellite!
Well, almost right....The Cordoba was suppose to be Plymouths new Satellite Sebring. If you recall, There was no Satellite 2 door sedan or Hardtop from 1971 thru 1974. Like the AMC Matador Coupe of 74 thru 78 and the Buick Century Coupe of 75 thru 78, they were divorced from the same styling cues as the Sedan and Wagon. By not having a Dodge Coronet Two door hardtop or Sedan or a Plymouth Satellite 2 door Sedan or Hardtop to compete against the Ford Torino or the Chevy Chevelle, they forfieted a lot of sales. The Charger and the Sebring were nice cars and fit in the Personal Luxury car market against the Monte Carlo or Cougar, but they were wrong in not having a 2 door sedan/Hardtop Coronet or Satellite......moving the Sebring up a level to a Cordoba and bringing back the Coronet and Fury intermediate Hardtops was a good idea particularly when you think of how bad sales were in 1975, had they not had those two cars to launch, they could have literally gone bankrupt. The Cordoba saved Chrysler's ass in 1975
@@OsbornTramain, Plymouth did have the 2 door and 4 door Satellite right up to 1974! Dodge stopped making the 2 door Coronet from 1971 to 1974, in favor of the 2 door Charger! Then in 1975, the Coronet was again, available in 2 and 4 door, the same as the smaller Plymouth Fury! But what I said was that Plymouth should have kept the Satellite name to match the Dodge Coronet, since the Plymouth Fury and the Dodge Monaco already shared the same platform! The 1975 Cordoba and the Charger were good where they were because the Charger was always different from the Coronet and the Cordoba was a new addition! Then in 1977 Dodge dropped the Coronet name and transferred the Monaco name to the car, matching what Plymouth did in 1975! Dodge changed the name of the full size Monaco to Royal Monaco in 1977! Satellite, Sebring and Coronet were always great names for those cars, and Belvedere was a great name in the fifties and was still a good enough name in the seventies not to drop it after 1970!
@@oliasofsunhillow7116 you're totally missing my point. The 2 door version of the Satellite of 71 thru 74 had no resemblance to the Satellite Sedan or Wagon. Nothing looked the same. They were divorced of any common styling cues. It was a Satellite in name only, a specialty car like a Monte Carlo or Grand Prix. They abandoned the tradtional 2 door sedan and 2 door hardtop model segment. The segment where cars would have been sold to the low price conscience customer. The Sebring verson of the Satellite was sporty, not plain
@@OsbornTramain, I didn't miss your point but I think that you misunderstood what I originally said! But I do see some of what you say, between 1971 and '74, Plymouth should have kept the Satellite name as the 4 door like the Coronet and name the 2 door Sebring and Sebring Plus like the Charger! Then in 1975, the Satellite and Coronet would have been both reavailable as 2 and 4 door and then Sebring, Sebring Plus, Charger and the new Cordoba should have been the slightly different 2 door models to match the personal luxury car market!
They still would have made this car!! This was the Fury the Cordoba was to be a Plymouth and the Cordoba would have been a model above this one..
Remember they change all the time! The PT Cruiser was to be a Plymouth! The Jeep Grand Cherokee was planned to be a Chrysler!
This is a B body Mopar started in the 1960's and this version is based on the 1971 Dodge Charger,Plymouth Satellite platform..Cordoba,Fury,Sport Fury,Road Runner,Charger,Charger Sport,Magnum...
***They also made a Charger called the Charger Sport that was this exact car,they also had a Charger that looked like a Cordoba for 1975..Confused lol!!
Intermediate size? Was similar to my first car--Geez, you could land planes on the hood.
Ginormous by today's standards.
Proof that the oil crises of the 1970s was the worst thing ever to sneak up on an unprepared automotive industry.
Not sure I agree with that. I think that the Great Depression and Stock Market Crash of 1929 is probably the worst. We almost lost the entire industry due to company failures. So many great makes of Cars are gone from that time period. Again in 2009, the Bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler, well again, they weren't prepared for the changes of the 90's and 00 decade.
@@OsbornTramain, plus the custom coach companies that forced car makers like Parkard to start making their own bodies! And Cadillac, Lincoln and the Chrysler Imperial, at the time couldn't offer alternative bodies for their cars! I remember seeing a Lincoln using the LeBaron body once! And also a bit of trivia: Cadillac and Lincoln were both started by a father and son company! I forget their names!
And WWII, when consumer auto production stopped altogether ...
@@diedonner299 They made a lot of money manufacturing military equipment.
I guess Corinthian leather wasn't an option?
That was one option that was saved for the more luxurious ( but mechanically identical) Cordoba
My life is nothing with out Corinthian leather
Rosco P. Coltrane has a new set of wheels for 1975 (Guuh, guuh, guuh, guuh, I luv it, I luv it...cuff them and stuff them) xD
Drag strip gear ratio.
I had one.wow!
Had 77
So thats what my car looked like when it was new. Such a shame she breathed her last breath 3 weeks ago. 😢
2 to the 72 sj grand prix. And then a jet black rr with sports stuff very cool road runner eneough said
satellite big change model
What's an 8 track? 🤣
Please tell me you're kidding.
@@phantomcorsair8476 Umm that's why I added an emoji. I've HAD an 8 track player 🤦♂️
@@billyclub9733 I didn't see the emoji. My ancient phone shows a tiny white box with criss-crossing lines through it. I have heard MANY people ask me what an 8 track was, so i thought it was literal. My 91 s10 truck has an 8 track/cassette stereo and i wouldn't have it any other way😎
@@phantomcorsair8476 91 had an 8 track? They were obsolete by then. Someone must've installed one in there
@@billyclub9733 truck is 100% original. The radio is what the first owner ordered from the factory.
Nothing was the best of 2 worlds in 1975!
The front end looks like a Ford Granada and the rear end looks like an Oldsmobile Delta 88.
you mean the front end of the Ford Granada looked like the Plymouth, They both came out the exact same year with this style.
@@OsbornTramain Yep, they looked alike and came out at the same time. Kind of like cars now, a lot of them look the same. Or cars that came out before 1950, I never could tell one from another but my dad knew them all because he grew up with them. For some reason, auto designers seem to come out with designs that are similar.
When growing up in the early 80's my late grandfather inherited a used '75 4 door Fury sedan from a fellow patron of the business he partially owned. Our family had the previous car (;76 Olds station wagon) die, and we needed a immediate a replacement. Needless to say, this is one of the worst cars my parents ever owned. It would continuously stall (even at railroad tracks), starter went and the car leaked exhaust. My late grandfather was always working on this car to get it to run decently. About a year for two after having this car, it was scrapped and we then inherited my Uncle's Chevy station wagon which ran so much better. Chrysler Corporation made some very attractive cars in the 70's, but reliability was another issue.
But, it was a used car and sometimes you don't know how they are treated or maintained by previous owners. Their bad behaivor could have hurt the cars reliability. All cars from this time period did suffer a bit of quality. I remember my Mom's new 75 AMC Hornet always had starter issues and electrical bugs.. It wouldn't start and you'd have to open the hood and press a reset button, it use to embarass my Mother always have to open the hood of her new car to reset the button...she would joke that it was just like the reset button on her Garbage disposal unit in the kitchen under the sink.
Probably had the 318 with 2 barrel,those 2 barrel carbs were problematic when you never maintained them..The choke wasn't working on his! Remember kids,carburetor cleaner was invented for a reason!!!
I will be honest and say some new 2bbl carbs were problematic for the 318's,but if you knew what to do or had a good Chrysler dealer they fixed it in 10 minutes! My dad had a few Dodge business vans for his company and 2 had 318's one would flood out when cold if you drove for 5 minutes..if you let it warm up it was fine,but most people jumped in turned the key on drove off,nobody warmed cars up back then..The dealer fixed the carb in 10 minutes and it never had a issue again..Dad also have Dodge vans with 360 2bbl and 400 2bbl and those worked fine all the time,had a few 4bbl 360's and 400's again no issue~vans were 1971-1986 then he sold that business...all went 300,000 plus miles on original engines transmissions lasted 130,000 miles on average and thats loaded to over max weight and multiple drivers!
I bought many next to free mid 70's Mopars from dumb people because they stalled out etc..Most had well over 100,000 miles as the 5 digit odometer after 99,999 they rolled to 00,000 some had 6 but the last was a 1.10th of a mile digit never registered 1 mile and was a different color than the other 5! So after 99,999.9 it went to 00,000.0 I bought them most needed a simple tune up and carb cleaned up and a new choke then they ran perfect..The smog 2 barrel cars I replaced with a non smog 2bbl from the junkyard and the cars jumped and moved with just that carb swap!! Lean burn cars I converted it to points or a performance electronic ignition,distributor and carb..Hey,I sold good cars!
Jeez...no one treats it's viewers like brain dead children more than American commercial writers.
Then and now.
'Look at these seats. They are red. Look at this taillight. It is also red. Look at this engine. It is fast. Now go and buy this car. Buy it now.'
I don't agree with you, This isn't a commercial for consumers, it's a training film. You totally mischaracterize what the narrator is saying, you make it sound like a "Dick and Jane" book. please.....stop trying to create myths. Also, stope using nationalistic bigotry, "American Commercials". This is pure ignorance, saying American Commercials are different from the rest of the world and all American commercials are alike is total rubbish comment here based on ignorance.
@@OsbornTramain 1) I will say whatever I wish, troll. It's called 'free speech'. DUH!!!
2) American commercials are FAMOUS for the childish way they talk to viewers.
3) If this is a training film? It is even more ridiculous. Why would you talk to salespeople like they are complete morons?
4) Calm the 'f' down. What the fuck do you care if someone has an opinion about a 40+ year old commercial/training film.
Sheesh...what an old, miserable loser you must be to get THIS worked up over a simple opinion.
You must have no life AT ALL.
If you cannot put up with criticism. Don't post the videos on UA-cam...DUH.
Fucking troll.
When Murica made good cars.
New Challenger's,Charger's and 300's are good reliable cars..The 05-10 had front end bushing issues,but cheap and easy to fix but the 2011 to current are very reliable,only issue on some are the infotainment screen,blacks out now and then (not all of them but thats the only issue).
I like the Cordoba better
probably because the Cordoba would have cost about 35% more dollars, there's a big price difference between the two, this was a sporty car for the low level low priced market where a Cordoba is a luxury car. They aren't' competitors of each other, but from two different market segments. I like a Caddy better than a Pinto my self.......but they were very different cars.
@@OsbornTramain the 60s Fury was awsome
I'll take a Pinto and a 1960 Fury 2 door hardtop.
Chrysler just kept doubling down on using stupid car names right up to their near demise.
Oooooh...look honey its a new Fury 123 Savoy Flapjack New Yorker Monobroughm. Sport.
But those stupid names has kept them in business, goodbye Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer, Checker, Mercury, Buick (only makes SUV's now) with their sensible names.
@@OsbornTramain Plymouth. Imperial. AMC.
That Fuel Saving Light on the Front Fender has me thinking twice. But all in all I will take the Monte Carlo, over this copycat.
But but but, this isn't designed to compete against the Monte Carlo, this was designed to compete against the Ford Torino, Chevy Chevelle Sport Coupe and the AMC Matador Coupe.....it's a lower priced class median sized car....like 40% less expensive than a Monte Carlo or a Cordoba.........or Cougar..........this is a cheapy.....it's sporty, it's not a luxury car.
@@OsbornTramain I will vouch for its cheapness. I drove one for around 6 years and it was certainly built to a price point. Chrysler may well have realized how many were headed toward fleet sales.
@@rightlanehog3151 ..I owned one it was a well built car,no rattles,no shake solid ride..I had the 400 4 barrel and a few tweaks the car was very quick!
If you had the base model ,cars back then all makes used less insulation(sound detonator) less power and cheaper tires..
Nope Monte Carlo ,Chrysler had the Cordoba and Charger,later Magnum!!! This was the Malibu and Chevelle fighter!
All companies copy a car that another comes out with..Chevy Copied the Ford Ranchero,the El Camino was a Copy! GM/Ford copied Dodge with having 4wd trucks and extra cab trucks and then 4 door trucks and V8 engines with more power!
GM/Ford copied Chrysler by adding more power to cars,Chrysler lead the way in performance in the 1950's and 1960's! They all copy..Camaro/Firebird copied the Mustang/Cougar,Barracuda came out before the Mustang!
They all copy! And it makes better cars and more choice!!!