Stephen King’s novel Christine features a supernatural 1958 Plymouth Fury.
The car is bought by the teenage Arnie Cunningham, who becomes increasingly obsessed with restoring and possessing it. Christine appears to have a will of her own and influences Arnie’s behavior, turning a familiar object of American car culture into the novel’s central threat.
King published Christine in 1983. The choice of a 1958 Plymouth Fury gives the vehicle a specific period identity rather than making it a generic haunted car. The novel also uses the car to contrast Arnie’s changing personality with the expectations of his family and friends.
John Carpenter directed a film adaptation released in 1983. The film is widely associated with the same Plymouth Fury, although visual production sometimes used similar Plymouth models because surviving cars were scarce. The novel’s canonical make is still the Plymouth Fury.