SOLD 1977 PK41 Fury Police Package
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78Brougham
"Chump"
Mine is like that. But i took the heat shield off. It has some leaky valve cover gaskets at one point and became a catch pan for the oil. It would get hot enough that you could smell the oil, but not hot enough to burn it off. Drove me nuts.
Kept thinking i still had an oil leak even though i already fixed it. Off it came into the storage bin. No more hot oil smell!
I'm with these guys, get that thread started.
Kenny, can you post a picture of your emission sticker? It is on the core support if I remember correctly. I think your sticker says N95.
68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
None exists for any of my mopars, had some pictures of the 2nd PK21 for some accident damage from when a lady backed into it and also my Fury III when it got rear ended by a drunk for the insurance, but all those got tossed in one of many moves since those days.
Kind of your getting tired of boxing things and loading so you quickly have a look at a junk box and decide to toss it as moving a hoard can get expensive.
I forget that many on here weren't even born when these cars came off the production line and on the road so a little refresher. Back during the first energy crisis around 1972/74 when the price of gas went from 29/39 cents a gallon to 59/79 cents it wasn't too bad on people but muscle cars and big block gas hogs that got 6 to 9 MPG were getting old and the gubber'ment was mandating gas saving vehicles as the world was coming to a end when fossil fuel would run out by the year 2000. It was all fake but then OPEC got smart and the second crisis of 1979 was worse when gas went over 1 dollar, really hurt people hard, weekends away was not happening as all gas stations would be closed on the weekend, like only 1 gas station in the state was open. I can remember taking my motorcycle out on the weekend and by that time I had installed 5 gallon tanks that were punched out to hold 6 gallons plus a 4 gallon plastic gas jug on the luggage rack gave me about a 200 mile range to go somewhere and return.
The highways were empty, not even any troopers were out, I was fly'in, a one-way away trip that would normally take a hour or more could be done in 35/40 minutes.
This crisis and the results of the Jimmy Carter Iran fiasco went on for the next 4/5/6 years.
I was lucky to get what I got for my 1968 PK21 4406bbl (sick money) at the time.
Then in the early 80's I kept driving by a used car lot with a bunch of 77 PK41's on the front row. Fresh from the State auction, just the police equipment and decals removed, think I stopped and checked out a few, didn't even go in as I think they had a price of $1,200 on the rear driver window, passed. Many months later 2 or 4 (leftovers) showed up at the junkyard a little up the road, not a yard I frequent that often but I've been there before an'na I'm sure he remembered me, ha ha. Stop in too kick the tires, wants $500 for the best looking one, I have a peek under, say gonna need a tailpipe or two, and some rust is starting in the lower quarters, this a Turnpike car I ask, gonna need tires & paint, I'll give ya 300 right now. SOLD! Then months later I got another one that some kid had a temper tantrum over the leanburn for $100 plus the ramp truck tow from a friend that IIRC was a barter speed tune on his 836 Honda M/C for cost of labor.
These weren't prized cars back then, I held on to them for 5/6 years, didn't drive the running one much as I acquired the 1976 Brougham which was running fine and had A/C, plus still had the 68 Fastop (hadn't totaled that yet), 68 Fury III, 79 BB Caddy, 3/4 motorcycles, work truck etc. The original plan was to swap the Brougham's tinted glass, A/C & interior to the running 77 PK41 but a lot of nights & weekends overtime at work and being in my early 30's the social life get's in the way, girlfriends had their careers and could care less about grease monkey **** and just wanted to get out of the city so to say.
Held on to them for a couple of years after I left my garage, but you start adding up the storage. Sold the block/core from the one that didn't run for $600, got a hundred for the trans, rolling chassis went to the boneyard as did the running one think I got a hundred for both. So be it, threw out a hoard of Mopar parts, just couldn't sell the stuff back then, no internet/eBay/Craigslist just the free local want-ads & stick something up on the grocery store bulletin board, even went to car shows to mingle and make contacts, when I suggest I had some used part the response was "I'll just get it from 'YearOne'". Heck if that crowd was more (I'm searching for the word) I'd give the stuff away, nope, into the metal bin at the dump it went, so be it.
So I think you can understand as to why tags & papers with funny numbers were of little concern back then.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Oh, I do. That's a great summary of what the automotive world was really like starting after the peak of the muscle car era.
78Brougham
"Chump"
I'll get one today
LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
Well, what'd ya get then?
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