Friday Afternoon Follies: Hell’s Fury

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Melissa Kean

I don’t think so—those kids are pretty mild looking to me.

Bonus: Speaking of follies, this is my 500th post.

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10 Responses to Friday Afternoon Follies: Hell’s Fury

  1. Michael Joe Thannisch says:
    November 10, 2012 at 12:37 am

    Isn’t that a Plymouth Fury?

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  2. marmer01 says:
    November 12, 2012 at 11:37 pm

    It’s a 1973-75-ish Plymouth Fury sedan that someone chopped the roof off of. Identifying details are obsured by the paint so I can’t be more definite. I will say that I hope it didn’t drive much faster or farther than a Beer-Bike parade because the roof was part of the body structure. Real convertibles have the frame reinforced. This poor chop job probably had approximately the body rigidity of spaghetti. They could probably open the doors but I wouldn’t bet on closing them again.

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  3. Deborah Gronke Bennett says:
    November 13, 2012 at 3:02 am

    I wonder why there is a basket of something (groceries?) behind it in the archway?

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  4. Syd Polk says:
    December 14, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    Isn’t the second person from the left Mary Lowery? I am pretty sure that this was prep for Beer Bike 1986 or 1987.

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    • Joseph "Chepe" Lockett (Hanszen '91) says:
      November 20, 2013 at 12:27 pm

      Yep, I’m pretty sure that’s Mary — who now, of course, works for Rice in Admissions, I believe, coordinating campus tours and the like. I wonder whether she knows the photo is here. 🙂

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  5. grungy1973 says:
    August 14, 2023 at 7:55 am

    That looks like it could still be driven.
    When did they change the rules to make the parade safe road hazards like this?
    Bertha the Baker Beer Bike Beetle, the latest in the series of parade entries, meets the current standards – stops and steers.
    Bertha doesn’t “go” – the engine, and just about everything else that added mass not part of the shell, or involved with stopping and steering has been removed, including all of the front brake parts, and the pedal cluster.
    Braking is done with the parking brake handle.

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