Are Fuselage Mopars Most Sarce Generation?

[Turboomni]

I will say in my search for a 69 I did stumble on seemingly more convertibles than hardtops. I guess people tended to take better care of them. When someone is looking at my Fury many times I will ask "when was the last time you saw one of these?" The usual answer is the late 70's to early 80's.

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

I haven't counted them lately, so I honestly don't know. Lets just say there are way too many still after selling more than 30 in recent years. That is why I call my place the "asylum".

A good point to offer you help again my friend. I can take a couple of blue cars off your hands if you want to.

Carsten

 

[commando1]

A good point to offer you help again my friend. I can take a couple of blue cars off your hands if you want to.

Carsten

 

[cm23uoc]

Until you finally buy one. Then it seems they're all over the place!

And all of them seem to be in a better condition than the one you bought.

 

[bluefury361]

When Jazabelle is out and about I hear a lot of "I've never seen one" comments. The younger crowd often ask, "They made 300's back then"? Everyone seems to like her though. She opens a lot of doors.

 

[polara71]

Many factors including weather factor in

 

[cantflip]

I see and lot of formal Chrysler New Yorkers and Imperials, but not so many Dodges and Plymouths though either.

I must be hanging in the wrong neighborhoods...

 

[saforwardlook]

You guys should stop beating me up so bad - I sold 34 cars in the last 5 years and my neck and jaws are still sore from trying to hold on! These are my step children gathered over literally decades and preserved, and I let them go so they could grow up in better homes. I haven't shown you this one for example, that I let go fairly recently to Bob Baker as part of my appreciation for all the work he has done on reproducing our parts. He just had to have it, and it was my second to last Fury. It is a 1970 Sport Fury Brougham with all the options and a 383-4 engine that ran really sweet, with only 60K miles on it. And straight as an arrow. I have never seen another one. But he is doing good things for it already and I like seeing that. And I let it go for a good price. How easy would it be for you to let that go? And it is getting harder as I start considering digging into my more valuable stash yet! But I do still have my favorites. So I am making progress. (I am taking it with a good sense of humor. Keep it up, as I need to hear it! )

 

[CanCritter]

your fulla surprises

 

[SeaFuse]

And all of them seem to be in a better condition than the one you bought.

This is the truth. Better and cheaper is even worse.

 

[Turboomni]

This is the truth. Better and cheaper is even worse.

I think that will happen less and less as these big bombs become more scarce. A 1967 anything is half a century old.

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

You guys should stop beating me up so bad - I sold 34 cars in the last 5 years and my neck and jaws are still sore from trying to hold on! These are my step children gathered over literally decades and preserved, and I let them go so they could grow up in better homes. I haven't shown you this one for example, that I let go fairly recently to Bob Baker as part of my appreciation for all the work he has done on reproducing our parts. He just had to have it, and it was my second to last Fury. It is a 1970 Sport Fury Brougham with all the options and a 383-4 engine that ran really sweet, with only 60K miles on it. And straight as an arrow. I have never seen another one. But he is doing good things for it already and I like seeing that. And I let it go for a good price. How easy would it be for you to let that go? And it is getting harder as I start considering digging into my more valuable stash yet! But I do still have my favorites. So I am making progress. (I am taking it with a good sense of humor. Keep it up, as I need to hear it! )

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Great car and tough to let it go as the interieur could have been used on a different car that needs a new blue interieur badly.

We are all family. I glady take care of Stevechild

Carsten

 

[1978 NYB]

I must be hanging in the wrong neighborhoods...

There isn't a single Formal in a junkyard within a 100 miles of me....

 

[commando1]

There isn't a single Formal in a junkyard within a 100 miles of me....

Even the K's are drying up. LH's still around. PT Cruisers seem to be coming in now.
Still no Vipers.

 

[1978 NYB]

A friend of mine owns a junk yard a 1/2 mile from my house. We've been friends since I got here in 1992. He hasn't had a Formal in at least the last 15 years. Boatloads of Chevy's and Ford's....

 

[70Tom]

You guys should stop beating me up so bad - I sold 34 cars in the last 5 years and my neck and jaws are still sore from trying to hold on! These are my step children gathered over literally decades and preserved, and I let them go so they could grow up in better homes. I haven't shown you this one for example, that I let go fairly recently to Bob Baker as part of my appreciation for all the work he has done on reproducing our parts. He just had to have it, and it was my second to last Fury. It is a 1970 Sport Fury Brougham with all the options and a 383-4 engine that ran really sweet, with only 60K miles on it. And straight as an arrow. I have never seen another one. But he is doing good things for it already and I like seeing that. And I let it go for a good price. How easy would it be for you to let that go? And it is getting harder as I start considering digging into my more valuable stash yet! But I do still have my favorites. So I am making progress. (I am taking it with a good sense of humor. Keep it up, as I need to hear it! )

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Wow, that's cool there will be another 70 SF in here in AZ. Bob's a good guy (he actually brought the new dash pad to my house--talk about service) so it's good to see it's going to a good home.

Interesting of note - the Sport Fury script emblem on the left side of the trunk lid. I don't think I've ever seen one there. The GT/S23 seem to get it right next to the medallion surrounding the trunk lock. And regular SFs don't seem to get one at all. Maybe this was the Brougham location.

 

[saforwardlook]

Wow, that's cool there will be another 70 SF in here in AZ. Bob's a good guy (he actually brought the new dash pad to my house--talk about service) so it's good to see it's going to a good home.

Interesting of note - the Sport Fury script emblem on the left side of the trunk lid. I don't think I've ever seen one there. The GT/S23 seem to get it right next to the medallion surrounding the trunk lock. And regular SFs don't seem to get one at all. Maybe this was the Brougham location.

I wondered about that myself. I think it was badly faded original paint, but I am not sure - it was in the desert for a long time before I bought it many years ago, so the obvious location of the emblem from when it fell off the car is there. Since I never saw another one, I don't know if it was a Brougham thing or not. The vinyl top had been replaced, though not well, and when they did, the Brougham emblems were not put back in place.

When I bought that car, it apparently had been sitting a long time in the California desert and the owner tried to start it up on the old gas. She ended up seizing two of the valves in the guides due to the varnish that built up when running the engine with old fuel. Thus two pushrods got bent, and it wasn't running well and making clanking noises from the loose push rods. She just wanted to get rid of the car and I had no trouble at all helping her out. One of my best scores, and when I went to actually see the car (there was little info in the listing and it just said Plymouth Fury), I was shocked to say the least. Got it home, got the valves freed up, put two new push rods in place, and it ran as smooth as any car I have ever had. I love the way those 383-4 packages drive with their higher stall speed converters than the 2 bbl versions. Bob got a nice car. He is already getting the seat covers made in the unique original pattern on those cars with material from SMS. I am looking forward to seeing him complete the restoration some day.

 

[70Tom]

I wondered about that myself. I think it was badly faded original paint, but I am not sure - it was in the desert for a long time before I bought it many years ago, so the obvious location of the emblem from when it fell off the car is there. Since I never saw another one, I don't know if it was a Brougham thing or not. The vinyl top had been replaced, though not well, and when they did, the Brougham emblems were not put back in place.

When I bought that car, it apparently had been sitting a long time in the California desert and the owner tried to start it up on the old gas. She ended up seizing two of the valves in the guides due to the varnish that built up when running the engine with old fuel. Thus two pushrods got bent, and it wasn't running well and making clanking noises from the loose push rods. She just wanted to get rid of the car and I had no trouble at all helping her out. One of my best scores, and when I went to actually see the car (there was little info in the listing and it just said Plymouth Fury), I was shocked to say the least. Got it home, got the valves freed up, put two new push rods in place, and it ran as smooth as any car I have ever had. I love the way those 383-4 packages drive with their higher stall speed converters than the 2 bbl versions. Bob got a nice car. He is already getting the seat covers made in the unique original pattern on those cars with material from SMS. I am looking forward to seeing him complete the restoration some day.

Very cool. It is getting pretty hard to find a 70 Sport Fury period, let alone one that runs well for a cheap price. Also cool it has the 4bbl option. It looks like a well optioned car.

 

[70Tom]

Also, as it's a Brougham, I assume this should be the correct material/pattern.

 

[saforwardlook]

Also, as it's a Brougham, I assume this should be the correct material/pattern.

We had a discussion on this a few weeks ago. The jist of it is that this appears to be an early release because the car I had had the same pattern to the seats as what you are showing, but there were no cloth in the seats in my car. They were all vinyl (or if that was cloth, it sure didn't feel like cloth) and looked better than what the color & trim selector shows. Instead of cloth, the inserts were a perforated vinyl material - very nice looking. And the contrast of colors in the photo of the interior in the trim selector showed more of a contrast in the seat design colors than was the reality in this car. Here is another photo that shows that maybe a little better: