The Fury was a favorite of many police forces, adopted by the tough New York Police Department; the story goes that the city’s Ford squads failed to stay together during a drug chase, immortalized in The French Connection, while a single detective in his personal Plymouth was able to catch the bandit because his car could take the pounding.
The Fury also set a record: Joseph Vaillancourt's 1963 Plymouth Fury, driven as a cab since the mid-1960s, reached 2,609,698 km, when it was struck and totalled by a truck. Vaillancourt was unhurt, and a Quebec actor, Michel Barette (who drove a Prowler at the time) spent roughly $20,000 to restore the Fury, the highest mileage car in North Amer
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