CC reader Teddy has been a prolific Cohort poster, not surprising since he lives in Curbsidelandia Grande. This mean looking customized ’57 Dodge is in his latest batch, and I couldn’t pass it up. But my search for the rest of the shots of its side and rear was fruitless. Did you only take this one, Teddy? I was rather hoping to see the rest of it. But that front end goes a long way in making up for it.
During the production of “Christine”(King), it was suggested
that several 1957 2-dr cousins(Plymouths) of this car were
used for wide shots and destructive sequences, in addition
to actual ’58 Furies for establishment and major scenes,
since they were close enough in appearance to get away with.
Just curious…does anyone know why some comments on this site (like the one above) have started wrapping about midway in the space provided, rather than filling the line all the way to the end?
It’s consistent on all of my devices and browsers…
Probably because the author put returns in(return)
like this.
I wondered if that was the case.
Depending on how often it occurs, it can make reading all of the comments (not just the ones with hard line breaks) a bit of a chore on mobile devices…a lot of unnecessary scrolling, and page reloads if there are a lot of comments.
Hopefully I’m not out of line (it may be my problem, as something unique to older iPads), but if that’s the case, I politely say I wish one wouldn’t do that. Thank you.
It would have taken some work, but using that ’57 Dodge lower bumper with the ‘teeth’ would have been great on the ’58 ‘Christine’ Plymouth Fury.
And, truth be told, this car is actually closer to the Christine in the book; it was a 1957 four-door (which would have truly odd, considering there were no four-door Furys back then). It was one of the more glaring technical errors Stephen King made in the book.
A lot of his errors were on purpose, he was trying to create his own altverse
Christine makes one last appearance in the expanded version of The Stand.
When I read the book Christine (long before the movie) I noticed a line that referenced Arnie moving the “shift lever into drive”.
I was a bit disappointed that Mr. King was not a car guy.
We all know that Plymouths of that era had push buttons for their automatic transmissions; 4 buttons for powerflite and five for torqueflite.
But then he also described a scene where Christine seemed to have 4 wheel drive (when some guys lifted the rear of the car off the ground) and a character mentioned that was probably not possible.
So maybe, altverse after all.
It’s also helpful to consider that sometimes, in his world, what seems like a car may not necessarily be a car in the technical sense at all. Like the titular Buick in “From a Buick 8” which has three portholes on one side and 4 on the other, among other oddities.
(Oddly enough, despite being a King fan and a car guy, I’ve neither read nor viewed Christine.)
No error at all. It was a 4-door 57 Fury
in the book, and a 2-door ’58 in the
movie. Simple. Happens all the time
whenever a book goes to film.
As for those of us who don’t use the full
width of the CC editing window, I started
doing that after getting complaints from
folks on Usenet which has a much narrower
window than what Google Groups interfaces
in.
not everyone can be happy…
I have a 27 inch screen so no problems
Ah, thanks for the explanation.
At least I now know it’s not my original iPad Retina, and I can put off replacing it for a little longer. 🙂
EDIT: SomeOneInTheWildWest beat me to it…I was also in the process of posting that you’ll never make everyone happy! Too bad I travel so much for my career, as a large monitor is but a distant memory.
There’s no need to do it here; this is not Usenet. I would prefer if folks didn’t, FWIW. It’s somewhat obnoxious. 🙂
I’m no fan of ‘ patina ‘ vehicles but this looks fun to me .
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-Nate
I am unable to upload any photos of this Dodge on my Flickr account from 2014 onto the Curbside Classic Cohort; I am sorry about that. Is there anyway to find photos from 2014 on the Cohort since that was when they were first uploaded?
I first found this Dodge in January 2014 and was super elated to find it! I had moved from Tompkins County to Sacramento to Portland in the past 18 months and was still totally in awe nearly whenever I saw a vehicle older than 1990 on the streets. I then saw it again in Mid-2015 which was awesome, late 2015, and June 19th 2016 which is this photo. I try to grab a photo everytime. When I get home this evening lemme see if I can dig up some photos to post here.
No problem. I was just giving you a hard time. 🙂
If you do find them, you could send them to me and I’d update this post and run it again.
Looks like that Dodge could play a role of subsitution as a “stunt car” for a Plymouth of the same model year (bonus point if it’s an export Dodge Kingsway or Canadian Dodge Mayfair) just like that 1960 Dodge Dart (althought it could also be a DeSoto Diplomat) did for a car chase scene of the movie “The Master Touch” as a “stuntman” for a 1958 Plymouth.
“The word is that some people around here have been giving my sister some trouble. You might know her. Her name’s Christine.”
That car would be positively terrifying to run across unexpectedly at night while on foot, especially if said night involved drinking. It’s even a little unsettling in a photo in broad daylight. Good job to the builder!