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No, we need to see more restorations with factory wheel covers and whitewalls and less of people trying to make everything a muscle car. That having been said, it's odd to see many stating that whitewalls and dog dishes are inappropriate; that wasn't an uncommon thing back-in-the-day. People...

I'm already sad about not being able to drive my Fury as it slumbers for the winter, and there are still many months to go! Pics to keep me going until Spring...

'70s Chrysler quality being iffy? I can't believe it (extreme sarcasm) :rofl:My grandfather bought a then-new '71 Charger 383 and within a few thousand miles the transmission ate itself and the clock hands fell off. It proceeded to eat fuel pumps like candy for the rest of its short/miserable...

Oh dear... :(

I fully agree! Of course, I don't understand why people put dog dishes or torque thrust wheels on cars like New Yorkers, either; it's like everyone thinks every old car is a muscle car when, in fact, very few were. I don't know when factory wheel covers became such a "dirty word", but many are...

Some cars look good with a rake (like you, I saw lots of this kind of thing growing up, and so I associate it with typical "hot rod" styling), but these cars have such thin/high butts and so much "stuff" already visible underneath, from behind, that they just look silly: like a girl with shorts...

My first thought, too! These cars are NOT helped, visually, with jacked-up rear ends; they already show-off enough of their "under-butts" as it is :).

Ah, okay. No worries, but I'll keep it in mind for next time :).

All good points. I was worried about the inevitable rusty/coppery "sludge" that can be generated in not-well-maintained brake lines getting stuck somewhere along the way, especially given the sharp bends Chrysler seems to have put into its lines. In any case, I'm glad it was a simple fix! The...

An update for those curious: when I looked at the listing for the 1972 Dodge pickup flexible brake lines it said they were 13.75" long, while the 1973 Fury lines said 15" long. I wasn't sure what to do with that, so I went with the Fury line and ended up with the exact same length I already had...

That is a gorgeous and rare car! I didn't think they were "Fireflites", then, though; I thought all 1961s were just "Desotos".

My spare is even older than my regular rubber; if I get a flat I'm getting towed back home :).

I don't think that anyone would think to check the wheel to the rotor before assembly. Hindisight is 20/20 and all that, but I've never had this kind of fit issue before on other cars. Yes the parts are "off shore" but that's never been an issue before. I did end up grinding the wheel bore a...

If his shipping to Canada is respectable, I may consider that next time :).

I'm assuming that they're factory steel wheels; I mean, they fit the brake discs that just came off, so I'm assuming there's something different about the new discs. I just wondered if they were wagon parts, if those were different for some reason? I dunno, it's very odd to have everything the...

A place in London called "Brake and Steering Rebuilders". At $60 per caliper it struck me as a pretty good deal. They came out looking brand new.

No, it seems to be in okay shape, though again it is a bit short (on both sides). Maybe when the wheels are back on the ground and there's some play available it'll get better?

Boy, I've never had a brake job be so much effort and so full of disappointment as the one I'm doing on my '73 Fury! What should have been easy has been full of FML moments. It didn't desperately need new rear drums, but I sprang for them... and the parts place got me in the wagon ones (3" wide...

As an update to my saga: I got my calipers rebuilt, and they look great! For some reason, though, on that passenger side front I still have to have the car powered in order to get enough brake force to actually push through fluid for bleeding. It bleeds fine on the driver's side, but on the...

Okay, more on my BS brake saga: I'm trying to bleed the brakes to see if my pesky passenger side caliper will actuate now (after finally being able to be pushed in). My pedal is rock hard without the car running, which surprised me since there's tons of air in the line now. With the car running...