For Sale 1976 Plymouth Gran Fury Police Interceptor, 440 V8 - $1 (Minneapolis)

[CBODY67]

"The pistons were knurled" it was garbage to begin with.

Knurling of piston skirts and valve guides was somewhat common before many shops had boring bars and power hones in their "arsenal". It might not be as good as NEW pistons, BUT you know the piston weight is the same the rods and crank were balanced for, so running smooth as it did when new. Don't have to pay for boring either! Good rings and it's ready for many more miles. More than some of the "rebuilder" blocks I've known about.

When knurling the pistons was more popular, many people didn't drive over 10K miles/year and many of the cars didn't normally make it past 100K miles before wrecks or rust took over.

JSYK,
CBODY67

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Yea learned about in my youth, didn't think anyone or for that matter find anyone that could do it. Racers use to do it under the assumption (?) that it would hold oil on skirt.

1930ish to me from seeing picture in my old Motors books. IIRC.

 

[Rapidtrans777]

The 440 I dropped in my '70 Super Bee came from a FHP Fury of the same vintage.

 

[FK3 Sport Fury]

And there they are. The cop bucket seats in a Formal.

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Is it unusual to see cop buckets in a formal?

 

[commando1]

Is it unusual to see cop buckets in a formal?

Civilian Formals never had buckets available. Bench or 50/50 only.
Factory buckets in Formal cop packages very rare.

From what I have learned, the buckets were from the B-body. But don't etch that in concrete.

 

[FK3 Sport Fury]

Civilian Formals never had buckets available. Bench or 50/50 only.
Factory buckets in Formal cop packages very rare.

From what I have learned, the buckets were from the B-body. But don't etch that in concrete.

Good to know.
I just acquired this 77 Gran Fury ex RCMP cruiser for parts that's rusty but complete with buckets that appear to be factory.It has some interesting cop goodies like a big RV looking dome light over the front seat,power trunk release and rubber floor mats.Now that I can get a couple of the doors open,I'll try and grab a couple interior pics of the buckets.

 

[polara71]

And.... what color is that ? Looking at the charts , I'm not seeing it ...

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Looks purple to me!

 

[polara71]

Agree .... V09?

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

It has some interesting cop goodies like a big RV looking dome light over the front seat,power trunk release and rubber floor mats.

The dome light, trunk release, & rubber rug is pretty much standard cop fare. Don't know if it's in a all in one package. My 68 PK21 had the extra dome light between the visors, excellent for reading a map in the prehistoric daze before GPS. (cops needed it for reading the race results in the newspaper, opps did I say that?) Later years had the ubercool stealth red tinted bulb.

 

[monaco75]

Good to know.
I just acquired this 77 Gran Fury ex RCMP cruiser for parts that's rusty but complete with buckets that appear to be factory.It has some interesting cop goodies like a big RV looking dome light over the front seat,power trunk release and rubber floor mats.Now that I can get a couple of the doors open,I'll try and grab a couple interior pics of the buckets.

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Nice! Try and save that rubber mat, if its saveable. Reproductions arnt near as good. Its hard, but doable. Another cop car owner removed the seats, and proceded to clean it. After cleaning he condioned it for a few days. After a week or so, the rubber was pliable agian. Enough to where he could remove it without tearing it. Once out, he continued to clean, and condition it. He got that mat looking brand new again with a lot of elbow grease.

 

[commando1]

Now that I can get a couple of the doors open,I'll try and grab a couple interior pics of the buckets.

YES! Please and thank you.

 

[65Fury440]

"The pistons were knurled" it was garbage to begin with.

Didn't catch that but agreed.

 

[69CoronetRT]

Good to know.
I just acquired this 77 Gran Fury ex RCMP cruiser for parts that's rusty but complete with buckets that appear to be factory.It has some interesting cop goodies like a big RV looking dome light over the front seat,power trunk release and rubber floor mats.Now that I can get a couple of the doors open,I'll try and grab a couple interior pics of the buckets.

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Now that's an interesting tag. The B superceeds the K in the VON.

V09= Special Order paint

A1B3 interior = low level trim, cloth and vinyl bench seat, blue

 

[commando1]

A1B3 interior = low level trim, cloth and vinyl bench seat, blue

.??.

 

[69CoronetRT]

.??.

The 1 tells us cloth and vinyl bench seat.

 

[commando1]

The 1 tells us cloth and vinyl bench seat.

yes. I was thinking about the fact that this car has buckets.
Now, I'm wondering if it came from the factory with buckets or not.

 

[69CoronetRT]

yes. I was thinking about the fact that this car has buckets.
Now, I'm wondering if it came from the factory with buckets or not.

Fender tag says no.

 

[FK3 Sport Fury]

Had a good look at the car this afternoon and the buckets appear factory but I'd have to dig deeper to confirm.Hopefully there's a broadcast sheet somewhere inside or something else to match the seats to the car.The color of the front seat vinyl matches the rest of the interior (and rear seat vinyl) and the pattern of the fabric (covered by the seat covers for now) matches the rear seat fabric so they're a matched set front and back.Whether this was factory or done later,I can't say for sure but the car looks pretty much unmolested.

Not sure about the V09,maybe it's a Chrysler in house paint code for the special blue that the RCMP ordered on their cars for many years.I remember this color throughout the late 70's and much of the 80's country wide on their cruisers so they had a lot of cars painted the same shade of blue.
This car was painted a slightly different blue by the previous owner but the original blue is visible in the door jambs and under the hood.
Many years ago I had a 84ish Plymouth Caravelle (Diplomat clone) that originally came that same unique blue with the blue bucket seat interior as well so maybe they spec'ed all their cruisers with buckets.

 

[69CoronetRT]

Fender tag says no.

However...what's intriguing is the 999 interior code. Typically, you would see another color code. Here's another 77 PK41 car with A1B3 interior but with PB3 code following. (also notice the B "for sale in Canada" supersedes the K "cop car" VON.)

FK3, as you look at the car, see if you can find the vendor tag attached to the bottom frame of the seat. It's about .75 high and a couple of inches long. There should be some info on there that could be interesting.