In the 1960s, the Fury was Plymouth’s version of the Chevy Impala and the Ford Galaxie. The problem was that the Chrysler division’s full-size cars had been downsized in 1962-64 because of some bad intel as to what the competition was doing. So, for three years, they were competing with a car slightly smaller than the others. This made them popular in NASCAR, but not so much with John Q. Public, and Plymouth was a distant third in sales behind Chevy and Ford. This 1964 Fury station wagon is the 9-passenger version and we’re told runs great. Now in Newville, Pennsylvania, it has loads of patina from living out in California. It’s available here on eBay where the bidding holds at $12,000. Thanks for the Mopar tip, Larry D!

As the story goes, Chrysler execs got word that Chevy was shrinking its full-size cars for 1962, so that’s the direction Plymouth and Dodge went. But it turned out not to be true, so the smaller vehicles would ride on a reduced B-body unibody platform that would eventually serve as the basis of the company’s “new” intermediates in 1965. Plymouth fell behind the others as recently as 1964 with the production of 551,000 automobiles, of which 88,000 were the Fury and (of those) 4,500 copies of the Fury 9-passenger wagon were built, making the latter a seldom seen commodity these days.

The seller bought this wagon to fix up and restore, but not long after starting the process another transport caught his attention, so this Plymouth must go. It runs better than it looks with no ongoing attention needed now on the 361 cubic inch V8 or automatic transmission (the last year for the push-button versions of the TorqueFlite). At nearly 80,000 miles, about 1,000 of those were put on by the seller before he/she fell in love with something else.

We’re told that the blue paint is original and has loads of Left Coast patina. But where you find surface rust, something bigger can be lurking, though the seller says the car has “very little rust.” From the photos, I’d be concerned about what lingers beneath the side rear windows, tailgate, and doors. Also, due to its unibody construction, repairing damage to the underbelly can sometimes be tricky. But these are cool old wagons and it might be fun to tool around in this one as-is for a while as they’re only original once.