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  • Fateful Fury - GL Auction Block '64 Sport Fury and story

    Sharing another of my favorite pieces, this time with an interesting story to go with how I happened across it and ended up owning it years later.

    September/October 2009, Cash King Variety Store, "Four Corners" area of Eugene, OR:

    I was a frequent shopper at this funky little place, sort of like a dollar/dime store with cigarettes and smoking materials and assorted (often expired/off-brand) human and pet food items, when I first moved into my neighborhood. I mostly was into 1/24 scale at this time, and didn't trust Greenlight because I had lost a bunch of my Racing Champions and some older European and Japanese 1/43s to metal fatigue not long before and figured that if Racing Champions and my Yonezawa/Diapet/Sakura/Eidai castings were crumblers, then Greenlights were too, but still loved the styling of the casting for how close in styling it was to the '64 Oldsmobile Cutlass I owned then (and which was often mistaken for a Plymouth or even a Rambler). I never bought it, but went back one day to find it gone, and always wondered whatever became of it, especially so once I got into Greenlight customization/collecting years later.

    November 2018, my friend Brian's hobby shop and diecast boutique, Springfield, OR

    Brian gets in a box of older GL, M2, Jada, etc. On top, there was the '64 Sport Fury in all its glory, unopened. and still wearing a Cash King pricetag. I bought it, at long last, liberated it promptly, and it's still to this day one of my top GLs in my collection.

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  • #2
    Sweet you got it for your collection.

    I'm not a MOPAR guy but I do like the Fury (the name alone is cool) and that rear window is so unique. Neat body color as well.
    Scotty "Mustang (+Matchbox) Mad Man!"

    RIP.....Pop.....David Blase Garascia 9-17-35 12-3-20.

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    • #3
      Don't have to worry about the roof crumbling, it's plastic.

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      • #4
        GREAT STORY!!! I bought one off eBay a couple of years ago and love the subtle color and stock looks of it. It looks like something you would see on American streets in the '60s and '70s.

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        • #5
          Thanks! I have a few other stories attached to other castings, that I'll share

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          • #6
            I'd definitely say that baby was well worth the wait. I would have bought first time I saw it though. That is one casting I have not one vary of. It's gorgeous to the max!!!
            Looks like ebay time for me!!!

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            • #7
              I went skipping through ebay and found one, I also looked through some old files and found I do have the drag racing vary of it...
              My ebay find...



              The one I have and didn't realize I had a 64 Fury!!!



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              • #8
                Originally posted by Stangfreak
                I'd definitely say that baby was well worth the wait. I would have bought first time I saw it though. That is one casting I have not one vary of. It's gorgeous to the max!!!
                Looks like ebay time for me!!!
                I learned that lesson about buying it the first time, basically anything I see and contemplate buying, if I would have even an inkling of regret toward passing on it, I buy it (in most cases)

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