For Sale 1971 Fury project, 440HP

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Bought this recently and decided I won't get to it anytime soon. I doubt anyone here is interested, but just in case, details are here:

Mopar 1971 Plymouth Fury III - 440HP

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It is amazing to me that after closing in on 50 freaken years these things are still around at all. Of all places why would you think no one here would be interested??
I am glad you thought to post this here. You never know.
 
Thanks! Well, honestly I agree with you, which is why I'm not going to sell it for any less than what I paid. But I've noticed that non-running projects priced higher than scrap value are usually ridiculed on forums. I've seen the other green '71 on here that's probably a nicer car for dirt cheap, so I wouldn't expect mine to sell easily. Very few people willing to pay for something that needs a lot of work. If it doesn't sell, I'll keep it and work on it when I'm caught up on other stuff. But I feel obligated to put it out there in case it does find a good home. I also have a red '72 that I'll post after I get a motor set in it, hopefully next week.
 
I think its just a matter of finding the right person for this car, its got a desirable motor in it and it is a to door coupe, all good points in its favor, if the rust shown is almost all of it, I think you are in the ball park. Someone wanting to buy a car and put a 440HP in it will spend a fair amount of money to make it happen. It isn't an unrealistic price.
 
Thanks, I completely agree about it being a fair price. This car is a hard-to-find core, but that's it, is it's a core. I bought it thinking it was a fixer-upper (at which point it would've been a screamin' deal at that price), but it needs to be torn down and rebuilt. That said, these things just aren't out there like they used to be. As for the red '72, it's far from perfect, but it'll be a little cheaper than this one, with less rust.
 
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If it doesn't sell, I'll keep it and work on it when I'm caught up on other stuff. But I feel obligated to put it out there in case it does find a good home.
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I am really happy you said that. There was another thread here of I think a 72 in Canada that looked good going to a junk yard to be crushed I believe. No offers I guess and worth more as scrap to the owner. I was at the gas station today fueling up my 69 Fury III 440. Older gentleman comes up to me and compliments me on my car and asks 'What year is it?" And I say a 69 . He say ,,beautiful car,,,I have a bla bla year GTO and a Bla BLA year this and that. He obviously knows old American cars but again compliments my car highly. So I ask "when was the last time you saw a 69 Plymouth Fury III ? He thought a moment and said ,,the late 1970's. He was fascinated with the old "Big Boned Gal" as I call her. GTO's and Chevelles and Cudas etc are great but man I drive my lowly 69 FuryIII they are all guessing and scratching their heads and staring. It's great. Hang on to her if a suitable owner isn't found.
 
Yep, I'm with you 100% on that. My daily driver is a well-worn '71 Riviera. Back when it was gorgeous and perfect in the mid-'90s, all I got was crap about how it was a dumb old car, and the derby guys were after me all the time. Now it looks like hell, with the clear peeling off and the interior sunburned to death, and people give me the thumbs-up almost every day, and fuel stops always start conversations. Things change. I actually had the red Fury for sale on the c-body drydock a few years ago. Back then it was less weathered, and I offered it with a complete 408 stroker that just needed assembly, fresh from the machine shop. I was offering the whole car, with the stroker, for what I had into the motor- the car was basically free. Absolutely no interest whatsoever from the buying public. Well, motor's assembled, but I'm pulling it back out and putting it in my wife's green '72 Fury wagon that you see there in the background. A used 360 with fresh cam and bearings is going in the red car instead. It will still need some assembly, but hopefully it will be easy enough that someone will finish it and enjoy it.
 
Well hopefully maybe we are getting over the hump for the appreciation of these kinds of cars from the distant past. Many times drivers going the other way I see at the last minute giving me the thumbs up but I am too late to acknowledge them. These cars and your Rivi as well are larger than life when seen in person as all the popular old American cars today being restored and big bucks are really mid sized cars or smaller ,,like Nova's etc from that time period.
 
Again, I agree 100%. I see people complaining about efforts to raise the prices on C-body cars. If prices went up, maybe people would stop throwing them away, and maybe we could get some usable quarter panel reproductions. Last year we had a '70 Fury wagon and a '72 Fury coupe go through the derby here in town (and a nice '72 sedan the year before) because they were "just another dumb old big car." For every C-body guy around here, there are ten more guys who will happily demolish them for laughs. I'm keeping my '72 Fury sedan, it's like a factory cop car clone, with factory 440, HD cooling, HD suspension, black split bench interior with passenger recline, cruise, AM/FM, and cassette player on the floor. The only reason it didn't go through the derby was that I happened to be the first guy in line with cash the morning it was advertised.
 
Don't know if you posted in the welcome wagon if not Welcome to the site, any pic's of the other rides you have? If you stick around long enough you will find we LOVE pic's of cars including non mopars.
 
Oh yeah, that thing is awesome, and he's had it for sale for months. At that price I'd buy it right now if I had the cash. But I'm living the self-employed artist's life, and it's out of my price range. I'd consider getting a loan for it, but honestly my wife already has a '72 like this in the same color. That's what kills me about pricing- people will complain about how this car is "so expensive," then spend twice that on a bottom-of-the-line disposable piece of crap from Korea. I'd like to see what any one of those cars looks like in 45 years.
 
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