WAGON HO (HOHO)! DEPT
Texan Dave Schultz goes big (fins and fast) with his 9-second ICH wedge ‘60 wagon.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY GEOFF STUNKARD
“THE ’60 PLYMOUTHS have the tallest fins of any American production car. I’ve loved them since I saw my first one back in ’59!” For fans of the Forward Look models, 1960 did prove to the apex of the Virgil Exner styling era. The decade’s changeover year also found the Chrysler Corp. floundering due to executive malfeasance and changing tastes. The following two model seasons, with cars designed by committee after Exner’s efforts were rejected, would be a struggle from a sales standpoint. However, for fin fan and racer Dave Schultz, this car, a 1960 Fury Suburban station wagon, became the perfect basis for his current racecar. Known on the “the Old Hippie” on social media, Dave is also one of us, a long-time Mopar guy who, as men-
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tioned, recalls the ’60 fins he saw as a kid. He has owned everything from V-code Six-Pack SuperBirds to late 1970s Dodge Magnums, but his vintage Mope interest is still strong, with machines like a ’58 Dodge pickup, a ’59 Desoto Adventurer, Chrysler 300 and Imperial convertibles, and many ’60 Plymouths. But he is still a drag racer (we ran a 1972 Demon of his on these pages years back), so when this big’un showed up for sale in 2002, its past life of grocery getting would be over. “This car originally a 4-door, 3-on-tree with the “Leaning Tower of Power,” says Dave, who hails from Beasley, Texas. After taking the car all apart, Ken Presley from Hemi-Time Restorations media-blasted the car and sprayed it in primer. Dave next took the car to Mark
