1971 GY3 Sport Fury 383 6 Pack Protoype

Beep Beep Dave said:
Kinda a neat car being a N-code GY3 Sport Fury. Too bad cars can't pick their owners.
Thanks for sharing the pics. I am sure that was a real treat meeting him in person.

Dave
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Mr C said:
In fairness, all the prototype BS aside (did they claim the flames on the air cleaner are original too? LOL!), high impact colours like Y3 on a C body is a pretty rare thing, and the car looks very clean from the pics.

The emblems on the top look all wrong (like 69 Fender emblems?)...I've never seen that.
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Well fella's.....

I had a slight flashback of car being on the Phantomwork TV episode and a previous thread on FCBO. I'm 99% sure I seen the car at Carlisle years ago but never talked to the owner or his wife before today.

He and his wife became very defensive as soon as they seen me walk up to his car and I took a picture of the fender tag first. I didn't know if he was going to close the hood after I starting looking at his car so I figured I should get a picture of the fender tag. Immediately him and wife started saying the car was real and they were the first owners and ordered the car as you see it. Then the 383 6 pack stuff and on and on. Then as fast as that started him and wife disappeared in to the crowd before I could ask any questions about the car, or how it got in the condition it was in before it was on Phantomworks, etc. I did ask him about the E65 code and that is when the 383 6 pack Protoype stuff was stated. Then he mentioned that some other shop built the engine to 420 hp. The entire conversation started and ended so quick.....
 
1) there wasn’t a C body 383-4 335 horse assembly from 68-70. Why would Chrysler suddenly develop a C body 383-6 for a down rated 71 MY?
2) the 340-6 was not carried over from 70 for any platform. Why would there be a 383-6 C body prototype? The most logical platform for a 383-6 would be the E body and newly designed B body RR and SB.
3) multi carbs being phased out due to emissions, insurance, etc. Why introduce a new one year variant?
4) with the introduction of the 360 for widespread use in 71, the 383 sales code changed from E63 in 70 to E65 for 71. Nothing special here.
5) Common VON on tag. No Y39. Nothing to indicate anything special.
6) Screws not rivets. I’m guessing the tag has been off the car at some point.

Good and legitimate cars don’t need hype. They stand on their own merits.

My 2 cents......
 
Who knows. There was a 6 pack Daytona running around Phoenix in the 1980’s and it was supposedly “dealer installed” to make it more legit. I just don’t get it, if it’s cool why bother to make stuff up. What’s more legit than a Daytona??? A freakin big block fury should be good enough for anybody nowadays, car’s cool on its own merits.

The late model 6V what if stuff never makes any sense to me, it was dead technology and Chrysler always looked to the future. I’ll always believe if the Hemi made the cut for ‘72 it would’ve had a single huge thermoquad sitting on top.
 
Fury440 said:
Strange car. Has a '70 hood, after market crappy (like mine) exhaust tips and I'm not sure what he did to the dash. The defroster vents have been carved out large enough to fit a hot-air furnace floor grate! The fender tag has been removed and either had the paint removed or that isn't the original tag. Be very interested to see the VIN code on the driver door, dash cap, fender tag, engine block, transmission case, front cowl and under the trunk weather strip. Probably a few surprises. As far as I know, Mopar never ever sold prototypes. They played with them, then destroyed them. Prototypes didn't qualify for any warranty or even any assurance they would work.
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I agree. I’ve read and still read a lot of auto magazines and have never read where any factory, Mopar included, sold prototypes or experimentals, on purpose or accidentally. When a prototype is found on the streets, it usually because The project managers somehow lost track of it before it was destroyed. There’s an interesting story like that about a ‘59 Catalina-El Camino prototype. It was a completed car but they decided not to green light it for production. For some reason it spent a number of years around the Detroit area shuttling parts around to Pontiac dealers. The guy who rescued the car was a GM employee who spotted it partially covered with a tarp in the back of a dealer body shop right before the dealership was about to close its doors for good.
 
Haha...bullshit. Unfortunately seems like this sort of thing goes with the territory more and more.
 
I think it was possible he was the original owner. Don't know for sure....haven't seen any documentation. It was just an E65 300 hp 383. He might of added the 6v at some point and messed up the electrical gremlins on his own before taking it to Phantom works.
 
We live in an age now where what you want to believe is the truth and people live their lives that way. Then when the end up in a shithole, they can't figure out why? The human mind is an amazing thing, capable of almost any aberration such as these mass murderers rampant everywhere these days.
 
Another factoid about prototypes and experimental cars, they didn't get fender tags and the didn't get VIN numbers. So no title and can't be plated.
 
Mr C said:
In fairness, all the prototype BS aside (did they claim the flames on the air cleaner are original too? LOL!), high impact colours like Y3 on a C body is a pretty rare thing, and the car looks very clean from the pics.

The emblems on the top look all wrong (like 69 Fender emblems?)...I've never seen that.
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I saw that show and had serious doubts about it. After reading this I googled Fantomworks 71 fury 383 6 pack and there is lots on it. Many people have doubted this car including myself.
 
Franken C...pieced and parted together...said it once..said it again
 
Maybe it has these rods in it?? :poke:

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"Multiplex" was the pre-cursor of "Stereo". Possibly some different circuitry than the later stereos had? Seems like I heard that somewhere?

Several years ago, a body shop customer's customer bought a '70 Charger at a name-brand auction. The data plate was blank "Body in White". Had a VIN which showed a 440. It had a 3x2bbl factory set-up on it, with factory a/c. The air cleaner base was very nicely sectioned to exactly match the rear of the RV-2 compressor. Was a 4-speed car, too.

If the car really was built with a 3x2bbl on a 383, it would have had to have a "Special Handling" note on the build sheet, I suspect. Using Edelbrock intake and such, most probably.

There were TWO "Code N" 383 4bbls in 1970. What went into the Road Runner and Super Bee, plus Challenger R/T and 'Cuda 383 had the HP camshaft. What went into the OTHER B/E cars had the normal 4bbl (256/260) camshaft. BOTH were nomenclatured "383 High Performance" in the VIN decode in the FSM. BTAIM.

To me, the car is nice enough, except for the sail panel emblems. YUK! But we know the 3x2bbl stuff is bogus, no matter what. I'd find a black air cleaner top for it, too. Is it really a 383 and not a 440 Hemi Six Pak?

CBODY67
 
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