It was our bard of Stratford who wrote: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Often, it is misquoted as ‘some men’, but the line may just as well be applied to cars. Cadillacs and Lincolns are born great and the Ford Mustang achieved greatness, but the ’58 Plymouth was one which had greatness thrust upon it.
It was 1983, when many big cars of the late Fifties were still cluttering up junkyards and lying, unwanted, round the back of used-car lots. Stephen King published his novel Christine, about a demonically possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury with a penchant for homicide. The book was followed immediately by a film, and ever since then the ’58s
