TheFearlessFury
Active Member
I had a blowout when I was driving my original 68 Fury back from Minneapolis to lacrosse. I think I was about 10 miles out of Minneapolis when the drivers front blew while I was doing better than 70 miles an hour. It blew so hard it shot the hubcap damn near across the grass divider into the opposite lane of traffic. I had a hell of a time finding that thing. Also there was a lightning storm with heavy rain pretty much as soon as I got out of the car to go looking.
The 68 held on surprisingly well considering it blew out at such a high speed. At first I thought I had just drifted over too far and had run over onto the shoulder of the road.
Predictably when I went to drive the 68 over to a safer spot it wouldn't start up. I found out later it had a bad starter. So i had to tow it with my VW golf for a hundred yards. Eventually it restarted, and it was still pouring rain out. I went to take off the tire and put on the spare, and guess what. The lug nuts were seized on. I actually stripped the original tire iron trying to get those things off. God what a debacle. Everything that could have gone wrong did.
We ended up coming back the next day with my dad's F-250 and a car trailer to pick it up. And of course the trailer was like an inch too narrow for the Fury. I just said screw it and slammed it right up the trailer, ended up scrapping the sides on the little metal fence things on the side of the trailer. Man that fury was just bad luck from the start. A year later it turned out to have a cracked block thats basically when I scrapped it and bought the 71 Sport Fury. Which has basically been the exact opposite of the 68, that was an excellent buy.
That's my dad's truck in the background. you can't quite tell but the quarters were basically shot on that thing and it was mexican bondo'd up (painted duct tape). Still that old 68 taught me a lot about cars.
