# Rich Zocchi - Walnut Creek, CA, USA
**URL:** https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919
**Category:** Custom
**Tags:** original-builder
**Created:** [January 1, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919 "2026-01-01T18:00:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Faulkner](https://59plymouth.net/u/Faulkner)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919/1 "2026-01-01T18:00:00Z")
I picked up this Rod & Custom magazine from 2002, with an article on Rich Zocchi’s “Furyous I”.
> [@Rod & Custom](#):
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> This knockout of a '59 Plymouth Fury is the most recent Chrysler product to get the Zocchi treatment. Richard found the two-door hardtop in the Atlanta area. He likes to start his projects with good-condition cars, and **_this one was in primo original condition, including paint, interior, and all chrome and glass - and mileage under 50K._**
(_Sigh_.) “Primo condition”. Well, to each his own, I guess.
[custom.pdf](https://59plymouth.net/uploads/short-url/snFPSnB1n8CCWTkoM5dc5GVI2it.pdf) (14.4 MB)
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### Author:  [@big\_m](https://59plymouth.net/u/big_m)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919/2 "2017-07-30T15:05:58Z")
He was a good customer of mine, some of the cars he did looked great, in my opinion, some not. He passed away a couple years ago.
—John
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### Author:  [@Faulkner](https://59plymouth.net/u/Faulkner)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919/3 "2017-07-30T22:03:26Z")
Sorry to hear that Richard passed away. I wonder what happened to the custom… I’ve seen lots of pictures, but I have no idea how old they are, and if they were taken when the car had new ownership.
Dan
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### Author:  [@big\_m](https://59plymouth.net/u/big_m)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919/4 "2017-07-31T15:04:49Z")
IIRC, Dan, He completed that car late in 2001 and showed it at Sacramento Autorama the next February. As with most car builders or designers, after a few major shows it was sold, and he moved on to a different project. Last I saw this '59 custom, it was owned by someone in the southeast, maybe Florida.
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### Author:  [@Faulkner](https://59plymouth.net/u/Faulkner)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919/5 "2021-02-11T23:11:53Z")
Here’s a bunch more pix of “Furious I”. I don’t think it’s a lighting effect - the car appears to have once been painted yellow, and then green (or vice versa). Which color is it now - and, where is it?!?
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### Author:  [@Faulkner](https://59plymouth.net/u/Faulkner)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919/6 "2021-02-11T23:12:52Z")
A bunch of the interior and engine…
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### Author:  [@big\_m](https://59plymouth.net/u/big_m)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919/7 "2021-02-12T15:58:37Z")
Richard was a customer of mine before he passed away several years ago. The paint color was a pearl yellow-green, and would change in different lights. I recall seeing this car at its debut at Autorama, and a few later shows. Haven’t seen it for several years now.
—John
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### Author:  [@Faulkner](https://59plymouth.net/u/Faulkner)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/rich-zocchi-walnut-creek-ca-usa/2919/8 "2021-02-12T16:00:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> The paint color was a pearl yellow-green, and would change in different lights.
So cool, John! I think you mentioned in a previous post that it might be somewhere in Florida. I wonder if Dick Koch has seen it in his travels…