1973 Plymouth Fury & Satellite Station Wagons vs Ford & Chevrolet
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2019
- 1973 Plymouth Fury & Satellite Station Wagons vs Ford & Chevrolet
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Back when you could order a car the way “you” wanted it! 440 with 3.90 gears and tow pkg! You built a muscle car and didn’t even know it!
In the 1960’s this was such a different world. Cars were just one way of demonstrating that fact. I was a California teenager in ‘68, the first year “side lights” were mandated. We got a new ‘68 Plymouth midsize woody wagon in green with the 383. What I wouldn’t give to have that car today.
I chose the 1977 Ford LTD Country Squire. The best damn car I ever owned. The 351 Windsor got 10 gallons an hour. I never had people in the 3rd row seat, I used the area for emergency supplies instead. Half the time I had a queen size mattress in the back for camping. When I totaled the car, I replaced it with 1990 Ford Taurus Wagon, What a mistake that was.
I had the 1977 Ford Country Squire with a 460. That thing would fly!
We had nothing but wagons growing up. There were 8 of us kids. I remember we once had a 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne, and later a 1971or1972 Plymouth. After my daddy passed away my mother bought a brand new 1973 Chevrolet Caprice wagon. That thing was nice and had a 454 in it! I got to drive it many times on trips to South Carolina on I-20. Good times!!
We had a 73 Caprice wagon with the 400.
Yeah, I myself grew up around some of those old station wagons as well, some models were more rare than others. It seemed as though my dad briefly had a 59 Rambler six wagon that he bought for a work car but the front suspension collapsed on it I guess a real problem with Ramblers of the time. After that it was a 62 Ford Falcon wagon which we all got some good use out of . Didn't try to push that little wagon over 65 on the freeway though. Then it was traded on a new 69 Pontiac custom s wagon, if anyone doesn't remember what that model was. It was a more top of the line Tempest. I remember we drove that car to Gettysburg when I was thirteen in a trip that almost turned out to be my families version of national lampoon s vacation, still that car served us well even though my sister, right before my mom traded it in backed into a telephone pole and did200 plus in damage, this was in 1972 mind you. Look I can get on here and share memories of station wagons as everyone Anyone who grew up in post war America can, are station wagons a. Thing of past?Believe it or not they do have advantages over suvs and minivans and even crossovers, Their ride is better. More attractive and compared to most SUVs their fuel milage might be better and as collector vehicles their still very useful and getting hard to find!
the best wagons ever made! I grew up with them - my family’s first wagon was a new ‘66 Belvedere II 3 seater - my dad traded every two years and he bought 4 Sport Suburbans beginning in 1968 up through the introduction of the Gran Fury Sport Suburban in 1975 - my favorite was the 1970 model - the dual air conditioning system was a great Chrysler Corp innovation too
I'd love to have an AMC Grand Wagoneer.
My 1st car in '82 was a '73 Fury. Loved that car, worked my ass off for it.
We had a '73 Plymouth wagon when I was a kid. It was my first car when I learned to drive so this really brings back memories. Great for long-haul travelling - these things were absolute beasts. When I inherited it at 16 I basically used it as a camper on fishing trips. We would lay a tarp in the back and haul dirt and gravel too. I'd like to see you do that with your crossover SUV!! LOL
Wagons rule!!
Carbon copy dat! My name is also Mark.
Ours was blue. Bought it brand new from Ray Thomas Chrysler Plymouth cuyahoga falls ohio!
Still have one of the original keys to it.
I grew up in a Chrysler family, seeing as how my Dad lived big MOPARS. The first I really remember was his beloved 1964 Imperial Crown Coupe that he proudly owned till 1968, when my third sibling was born, he traded his Imperial in on a special ordered 1968 Chrysler Town&Country Beach Wagon, loaded with just about everything you could get! From dark red leather three rows of seats, Temp-Control A/C, factory towing package with hitch an 3:55 Posi Trac with a honking 440 Commando 4 brl Dual Exhaust. When I went in The Army in 1973 at 18 years old, I bought a used 1970 Plymouth Fury Wagon, that I bought off a Retierd Railroad worker, that hated trucks, but had ordered the wagon as a stripped but HD tow vehicle that also had a 440 just like the Wagon back home. Mind you I bought it in 1974, just after OPEC, that made big cars worthless. So I had a very powerful big safe HD car for the mountain roads that was like having a real Suburban 4x2, that I was able to raise a bit by cranking up the front torsion bars and adding air shocks, that allowed me to add big wheels and tires, all around, in the winter i got a great deal on four Firestone Town&Country Snow tires with studs in the rear! That car was amazing in the snow! Especially with the tire chains I always had on me! Then I had plenty of room for all the stuff I had gathered over the two an a half years before my honorable discharge! Only to sell it when I got home, because dad gave me the family wagon!
K.R.V.
Thank you for your service to our country. Especially at a time when many folks didn't like the military.
I joined the Marines in January of 74, I enjoyed being a Marine, but when I got out, a lot of people had no problem showing their hate for the military.
I'm glad military folks of today are shown respect .
That's right, ask the lady in the skirt to help you load plywood. #FirstDateLastDate On the other hand, you have to give credit to Plymouth for having the good sense to design intermediate wagons that could carry 4X8 sheets.
Sure miss those station wagon days...
Come ro Europe
@@LasVegar They still make up 20% of the market over there .
I always likex Chrysler products until I bought a new 1973 Plymouth Fury III hardtop. I know this video is about station wagons. The Plymouth Fury had 360 V8 and the car was plagued with problems that started to show up within the first month. List included carbuertor problems, blown seal on ac compressor, coolant leaks, wiring harness had shorts covered by a secret warranty after original expired. Burned oil on a 1,000 mile trip. Wrote Chrysler about the car about all these problems and they backed the dealer. That was the last Chrysler product I ever owned. It only had 23,000 miles on it when I traded the Plymouth in on a new 1976 Toyota Corolla wagon.
My dad bought a new 1972 Plymouth Fury III 2 door, I was 3 yrs old at the time. My mom told me the first week they had it that it would stall while driving. It seemed like there was always something wrong with the car. Passenger door window regulator was faulty, if you rolled the window down the glass would fall off the regulator, Burned up many electronic ignition modules, Sometimes it would not start and would flood,
I remember it quit running on the highway lost all electrical power and engine shut down. We walked home then my dad went to go get the car later and it started up and was driveable. Tell me more about the secret warranty that sounds interesting not sure my dad knew about it.
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@@06acc As I recall the secret warranty was for a particular part that had a high failure rate. It covered that particular part even though the original warranty expired. In my case Chrysler had bad wiring harness that went to the alternator that caused the voltage regulator to fail. The car was running off the battery because the alternator no longer was charging it. I owned a 97 Ford Explorer that had bad seals in the front differential. I was the second owner and the warranty had expired. Ford had problems with these seals so they had a secret warranty. The work wad going to cost $1,000 and Ford wanted owners to pay $200 for the repair instead of the full amount. Never will own a Ford or Crysler product again because both vehicles spent a lot of time at the dealers service bay.
@@06acc And yet my aunt and uncle in Mississippi bought a new 1973 Gold Duster, and it ran forever! They kept it over 12 years.
I was a teenager in the 1970s and I still remember the way girls dressed....long hair, short skirts, and go go boots.....no tattoos or shaved heads like today...😁
This video really brings back happy memories. My late parents bought a 1973 Plymouth Satellite Regent 9 Passenger Wagon with the 318 2-BBL 5.2L V-8 Factory Ordered and Delivered in June of 1973 one week after my 8th Birthday. It was the same as the one shown in this video in the Honey Gold/Woodgrain Colour and had all the options including AM/FM Radio...but NO A/C or Power Windows...only the Rear Tailgate Window power operated. When I learned to drive at 16 we still had this vehicle and when I entered University in 1984 it died that November lasting almost 12 Years😢. My late parents also had a 1978 Dodge Monaco Crestwood Brougham bought in March of 1981..."Fully Loaded" which also lasted more than ten years. They made amazing cars back then..."Built to Last". Much appreciated this video.🙂👍
I believe 1973 may have been the last year dual air conditioning was offered on the big wagons from Chrysler Corporation.
My 2nd favorite car in my whole life, a '73 Polara wagon. Paid $275 for it used plus $ to put it on the road in '84.
My 1st? A '96 Chevy S10 short, 4.3L.
An alarm system back then??? That's crazy cool. Learn something new everyday
This settles it, I’m buying a Plymouth.
Was there ever really any doubt?
I remember my family had a 1968 Plymouth Satellite station wagon. And then later dad traded it in for a 1972 Plymouth fury sedan.
My neighborhood was littered with all three marques.
The Mopar wagons were the rarest .
My parents were kinda weird because we had Opel's.
My mother had a 1900 wagon with a 4 speed and she could easily out run most of these behemoths as long as the A/C was turned off...
I want an Opel GT.
That little Opel could never outrun our big Chrysler!
And plus they didn't include the AMC Matador wagon. Which was in my opinion nicer than all three of these wagons.
I have to agree with you on that. The Matador was a nice car. It didn't get the recognition it deserved. My friend's dad had a Matador. top of the line. That was one nice car. It had a Chrysler Toque-Flite transmission, but AMC called it the Torque Command. He never had a lick of trouble with that car. Of course he was anal about maintenance. Like Chrysler, if you took care of your AMC, it took care of you as well.
@@imperiallebaron2391ours was a 76 Matador Station Wagon. Awesome car. Lots of memories.
I would have bought Matador or Ambassador wagon over any of these.
1st. yr. for recycled shitmetal and crummy emissions designs. My ChryCos. are all '71 and older.
Only thing I don't like about certain Plymouth wgns. is they share the same rear qtr. panels as a Dodge, and vice~versa other years. They'd even use the same rear qtrs. from last yrs. model, like a '68 Fury wgn. has '67 qtrs. Still bitchin' though! Only ChrCo wgn. I had was a '70 Cornet with that crazy-cool double-loop frt. bumper. That thing looked boss!!! Had Plym. rear qtrs. though :(
I feel like Chrysler really overestimated how many 4x8 sheets of plywood i would need to haul over the course of my lifetime
That's where we have to agree to disagree ;)
Don't drive with your tailgate flapping in the wind, people.
Love these! There’s supposedly one comparing the 1972 Imperial, Cadillac DeVille, and Lincoln Continental.
I love these old wagons
Still mopar or no car till my dying day
And I mean I'll still be Driving around my 2000 Dodge neon with 80K miles on it in Mint condition forever
Well this is a no-brainer. I am gettin' me a 1973 Plymouth Fury Wagon today!!!
Hahahaha!!!! Me too. 👍
In 1973 I owned a Plymouth and wanted a 9 passenger wagon. I preferred a Plymouth but bought the Chevy Impala because it had the front facing 3rd seat. I was concerned that the Chevy would be safer in a collision from the rear.
Always safer to have your back a foot away from the back window than your feet...right?
Them old chryslers were made like tanks
Великолепные автомобили. Необходимо возобновить производство данных моделей.
WoW!
Nice vehicles for a times almost 50 years ago!
I'm a Mopar guy and I dig this + I like the fact they had such items the year I was born = cool Plymouth 'wagon.
Don't see vehicles of this type that much anymore, and if one does, it's a runt compared to these road monsters.
...indeed these new-bad-days aren't like the good-old-days where these wagons are still rolling around.
Dang my mom in the mid 1980s had both those Chevrolet Impala and Chevrolet Malibu station wagons in Sumner County Kansas!!
She almost decapitated me with the 73 impala wagon that clam shell window in the back lol she beat the h*** out of those 350s and they never broke ever
When you started your comment with " my mom." I thought you were going to say that the woman in the boots was your mom.
@@kennethsouthard6042 I did, too.
I owned a 73 Satellite wagon it was good vehicle.
Wagons I miss them! Today we got four door pickups instead of wagons. If I could choice I'd take a station wagon in 2020 or a big Chrysler car!!!
I own a 2018 Buick Regal Tour X wagon and I LOVE it. No 3rd row or rear facing seats but HUGE cargo area and best of all, NOT an SUV, CUV or crossover!
wmalden It looks nice. I just love those old big cars with big blocks of the pasted. I had a 1973 Pontiac Grand Am 400 V8 4 bbl carb that moved good 1st an 2nd gear rear wheel tire spin. The 70's Buick Stage 1 455 has also fun to drive as well. I mostly buy used cars now. Also looking for a mint 70's car to buy.
That film needs restoration.
There's somebody's pubic hair at the beginning.
Around this time my father was buying a 1963 Plymouth Valiant wagon for $75.00 . After replacing clutch for about $35.00 he got Years out of it . After that he bought a 1973 Plymouth Satellite wagon for $100.00 got a few years out of that . See how I was mistreated as a child having to be seen riding in these clunkers ?
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Lucky man!
I grew up the oldest of six. By the time I was 13, I had 1, sister and 1, brother, making three of us, where we coruld all fit very comfortably in Dads 64 Imperial Crown Coupe, a beautiful turquoise with black roof and leather interior, so Dad lived big cars. But one day Mom came home from the Doctors to tell us to expect another sibling, so Dad was forced to trade in his beloved Imperial in for a new 9 passenger wagon! Not just any wagon of course. So Dad special ordered a 68 Chrysler Town&Country Beach Wagon, loaded with every option available, including a factory towing package with hitch and a 3:09 posi trac differential, with a honking 440/4 brl TNT engine! With dual exhaust, in beautiful metallic maroon with matching leather interior! Plus the vinyl wood sides and bright polished aluminum roof rack, with big chrome handles down each side of the rear window! We all learned how to drive in that wagon! We all took our drivers license in that wagon!! Later in life at 21, freshly Honorably Discharged from The U.S.Army, Dad let me use it as a daily driver.
Voiceover by Wink Martindale
Paul Duca when he is not calling defensive plays for the Ravens.
@@fairfaxcat1312 The same name?
That girl was sure foxy
Get with it! She was a chick.
yes
2:59......I PITY THE FOOL WHO RIDES ON THE HUMP IN THIS CHEVY CAPRICE ESTATE WAGON!!!!!!!
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lolz
bad design - like sitting on a steel pumpkin! ..and that tailgate design is poor too
Thanks for posting, very neat.
Love them GO-GO Boots!!!
Back in the day raising a family I drove a station wagon as a family car for close to 20 years, Ford Fairlane and a Torino, both V8's Great cars !!! the equivilent of todays suv's except they did not have 4 wheel drive or AWD unheard of then except in some pickups !!!
My dad was selling new subdivision homes in the mid '70's. A guy bought a ranch with the standard garage and on move in day figured out his 22' long Plymouth wagon wouldn't fit.
22’? More like 19’.
Yes I bet like 73 dodge charger I had. It would pass anything including state police cars on any highway. But it could not pass up a gas station.😀 but sounded mean. Built for street mid to lite cam. High test gas only over very high compression you didn't treat each & every tank of premium gas very carefully with little extra boost. It would not even start. But Car would fly. Old owner missed it so much he paid double what I bought it for. Poor guy son got killed in it little after that took car without permission late one night.
I'd take any one of the 3 big wagons, Plymouth, Ford or Chevrolet, love 'em all!
01:35 You gotta love those miniature models they used: The Fury wagon is 4' 10' tall and the female in heels is barely that tall. The guy must be 5' 5" max himself.
Where's the Ambassador wagon??? There was the big 4 in 1973
I don't think AMC posed much of a threat to the larger Chrysler, was only interested in the bigger and more successful ford and GM
@@sutherlandA1 Right, and in return the competition in the US auto market went belly up and Japan crushed us. Everything after AMC was designed to fail to keep the economy moving
Very good! Thank you for upload!
Ride the hump. Lol. I don't ever recall seeing on of those front facing rear seat chevys. Glad they remember the dog. 🐶🐶🐶
Put me down for a Plymouth, I'm sold. Not even my modern has half those options!
Wow! I didn't know that car alarm systems already existed back then, at least in non-luxury cars. I thought it started in the 80s.
The girl has nice legs.
Doesn't really seem like the midsize Plymouth was really a midsize more like a full-size masquerading as a midsize.
The Ford Torino and Mercury Montego wagons were even larger. They were 77" wide rode on a 118" wheelbase and were 215" long.
@@larryhawkins3294 I grew up on a street full of station wagons. My parents were the only holdouts on the street to refuse to buy one they, had a two-door 1962 Thunderbird which they used to haul around myself and my brother. My uncle who was a Ford executive came into town one time with his family and picked up a 1972 Torino from the company pool that we used for his visit. That made eight of us and I remember my cousin and I had to ride in the very back seat. It was the summer and I swear the air conditioning did not seem to ever get back there. Perhaps the dual air conditioning on that Plymouth would have come in handy back then.
beats any suv made
1:09 that feature looks cool even today... The Chevy got my vote just for that lol.
Mopar wagons were the best. And I’m a Ford guy..
The dog didn't want to ride the hump. He felt the need to do the hump!
Plymouth, coming through!
Muy buenos
remarkable
I'm sold. Take my money!!
Rear facing seats way back, no seat belts... good way to deal with bratty kids 😁
Which Plymouth wagon did I choose? I would say a Satellite with a heavy duty suspension for towing and increased cargo capacity . Wagons - just say YES!!!! @SaveTheWagon
They didn't compare the Buick Vista Cruiser? Maybe they new Buick had the superior wagon!
This was about the bottom three cheapest offerings, though optioned-up; Ford, Chevy and Plymouth. A Buick would be more comparable to a Chrysler and a Mercury.
And it was Oldsmobile who made the Vista Cruiser, though mid-size Buick Skylark wgns. borrowed the same roof from the Vista Cruiser.
The Buick was ten times the car any Mopar could ever dream of being.
@@user-ss2ly1ir6j Ten times huh? Yeah, because old US cars were so different from each other, right?
@@UberLummox In fact they were. The basic technology was about the same but the build quality and finish varied remarkably. Dodge/Chrysler always ran a distant third, as I, a certified body/paint tech witnessed every day while working in dealership body shop departments. Dodge/Chrysler quality was absolutely breathtakingly horrible by comparison.
Com'on that full size Chevy's back hatch is pretty awesome tho am i right?? Not all cars nowadays have a power hatch or trunk.
I went to school with a family that had ten kids. They had a Plymouth wagon, could all pile in.
My Dad had ten kids (I'm #7.) He drove a 1970 Ford Ranch Wagon. Great car!
Me gustan los tres carros
The Chevy gate 👌🏽
Say what u will of 70's car being underpowered ugly not well built etc they was good for cruising and comfortable
Well there are '70s cars, then there are *'70s cars.* The decade has 2 distict categories.
'72 and older were some of the most refined, servicable cars the US ever made.
Then '73 on up got progressivley worse each year. Recycled steel started in '73, paint priming techniques were seriously compromised. Nonexistent in some cases. Interior materials got down-right shitty. Horribley engineered emissions. Fugly girder-like bumpers. Platforms of the cars were still great, but other than that, they aged horribley. Down-right bleak cars.
Comparing apples with bananas
I wonder if that chick saw some action in the Big Plymouth station wagon after the camera stopped filming....
She does look WOW. How do you think she got the part?
@@user-ss2ly1ir6j It was a different time back then. Didn't have to worry about get sued after a tryst nor worry about getting some deadly disease. I miss those days.
Really though how often do did you have to pick up plywood in a car.
Quite often actually. People actually had many do it yourself home projects back then. No internet to rot your life.
ok take my money !!!!
Where do you buy those pants the dude is wearing?
Back to 1973
...and ask Mike Brady.
Starting at 2:10 looks to me like he has a shit stain in the damn ugly things..
Checkout Goodwill or Salvation Army😃👍!
Why was plywood so important.......just wondering.
Scoreboard shows Chevy outsold all. Second was Ford.
I what to order one , white, 318 with a manual with a.c.
mid size bigger than todays full size, sad
An extra ballast resistor was a mandatory "option" for those rainy days when it wouldn' start. And if you're in the back seat with your date, y'all are riding the hump. lol
Most - if not all - of those people are dead now.
The Dog married a much younger bitch, got off the sauce and is a retired motivational barker based out of the greater Cochella area.
If hauling a full sheet of plywood is important to you, may I recommend a TRUCK???
Only farmers and construction workers drove trucks back when this was filmed.....
At 2:56, The exact same problem with today's larger SUV and crossovers.
You have to climb over a seat to get to the rear seat.
STUPID design!
The Chevy wagons are more beautiful and stylish
The Chevy (and all GM) midsize wagons are just plain _fugly._ That "colonnade" look came together on the '73-'74 Buick two-doors pretty nicely, but otherwise, they were a styling disaster, which continued even after the downsizing. Ugly, lumpy, misshapen, out of proportion. That taillights-in-the-bumper look is just terrible.
None.
I’m going to go to my nearest Plymouth dealer today to put down my deposit! Hope the chip shortage won’t affect delivery 🫰🏼
That was the year the gasoline prices spiked
And we all wondered what the world was coming to when gas prices hit 50 cents a gallon. I remember it well.