Interesting Fury on FBBO...

[The Horvaths]

What does the special order mean?
http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/showthread.php?101182-bought-this-Fury-over-10yrs-ago-finally-got-it-home

 

[The Horvaths]

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Economy 4 door with no power steering.

 

[The Horvaths]

Economy 4 door with no power steering.

So it was a fleet car or something?

 

[69CoronetRT]

q/5 code
y/9 = special order

Low Level trim four door.
Likely a fleet car of some sort ("police" car?)

 

[69CoronetRT]

Economy 4 door with no power steering.

Was power steering even coded on a 67 Belvedere plant tag?

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Your asking the wrong guy, my guess for the sake of discussion would be that a M or H price class would standard power steering, the E makes it kind of neat because someone really low lined/priced the car. Then there is the loss leader Sunday paper ad car that was sold when you get there and you are talked into the M price class.

 

[69CoronetRT]

PS was optional across all models or included the Basic group.
We forget that cars in most lines came with few items standard like they do today.

 

[1978 NYB]

My grandpa had several Mopars in the 60's and 70's.....all without PS and PB. He was an old man than too. Took forever to parallel park. LOL!

 

[70bigblockdodge]

What is E, S

 

[69CoronetRT]

What is E, S

E= EXTRA (optional)
S= STANDARD

 

[Pete Kaczmarski]

Both my '78 and '79 New Yorkers were special ordered. I'm personally aware of my '78 being a Chrysler executive car. Perhaps the term special handling means something different from 1968 but I suspect any variation regarding options or how the car was handled was "special". I cannot remember how my '70 Fury III "Pursuit" is tagged but I suspect the same notation.