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greetings from rainy S.E. Alaska! Glad I found this forum the other day, as I was looking for info on the radiator that is in my '70 'Cuda.
Kind of a long story here, but I've been trying to track down what happened to a real V code '70 GT that I ID'd in my friends junk yard 20-25 (plus ?) years ago. My friends "DS" & JS" collected Mopars, had a junk yard and "recycled" trucks & cars before that term existed. One of many cool cars that sat around in their rock pit (and our 160 inches of annual rainfall) was a light (faded) Yellow 1970 Sort Fury GT, with a black vinyl top. It was what you would expect for a 20 + year old car at the time with some rust, but not too bad at that point. The worst was on the "sail" panel below the rear window, and above the trunk. Underneath, not too sure, as I never crawled under it to look.
I believe it had a console w/Auto shift, but can't recall for sure. The engine in it at that time was a 383, with the coolest set of cast iron exhaust manifolds I had seen: upswept like the Hi-Po versions, but the upper parts between the center two cylinders had Horizontal cooling fins cast in! I had/have lots of Mopar info books available at that time, and had never seen anything like them..?? Wish I would have taken pictures! I remember asking about where it had come from, and recall something like "it had been in Mexico" before making it's way North. So who knows what happened to the original motor.
I was working on my 'Cuda at the time, scrounging parts from a trashed 6-cylinder '70 Barracuda, and generally hanging out with them when I could. One night, we were BS'ing, and "J" said he was thinking about taking the SFGT body and making a "Monster truck" out of it. I felt sorry for the cool old car, and told him "you know, they actually built some of them with a Sick-Pack from the factory". I then grabbed a flashlight, and wandered over to the car to look at the VIN plate. As I wiped the grime off the windshield to take a better look, my eyes bugged out when I saw: a "V" in the 5th spot!!! I called out to him ""J, you are not going to believe it, this is one of them!!!" Realizing the rarity of the car, the monster truck idea went away, and the car remained there for some time.
Many years later, I asked what had became of it, and was told "it was sold to someone down South" (aka Seattle, or beyond). Looking through some of the threads here, I wonder it it is the one mentioned as being for sale in Seattle a few years ago, but with a high asking price (10K?), and very badly rusted. Most all the pictures associated with those threads are gone, so I was wondering if there are any other pics of that car, which might be around? Yes, I could spend a week looking/reading all the threads here, but figured you guys are all very in tuned with the SFGT's that are known.
I've often thought that I should have bought the car back then when we first "found out" what it was, but was busy working on my "dream" 'Cuda, and didn't have the room/time/etc. to do anything with it. So, if it is the "Seattle" car, here's a little more background story on it.
greetings from rainy S.E. Alaska! Glad I found this forum the other day, as I was looking for info on the radiator that is in my '70 'Cuda.
Kind of a long story here, but I've been trying to track down what happened to a real V code '70 GT that I ID'd in my friends junk yard 20-25 (plus ?) years ago. My friends "DS" & JS" collected Mopars, had a junk yard and "recycled" trucks & cars before that term existed. One of many cool cars that sat around in their rock pit (and our 160 inches of annual rainfall) was a light (faded) Yellow 1970 Sort Fury GT, with a black vinyl top. It was what you would expect for a 20 + year old car at the time with some rust, but not too bad at that point. The worst was on the "sail" panel below the rear window, and above the trunk. Underneath, not too sure, as I never crawled under it to look.
I believe it had a console w/Auto shift, but can't recall for sure. The engine in it at that time was a 383, with the coolest set of cast iron exhaust manifolds I had seen: upswept like the Hi-Po versions, but the upper parts between the center two cylinders had Horizontal cooling fins cast in! I had/have lots of Mopar info books available at that time, and had never seen anything like them..?? Wish I would have taken pictures! I remember asking about where it had come from, and recall something like "it had been in Mexico" before making it's way North. So who knows what happened to the original motor.
I was working on my 'Cuda at the time, scrounging parts from a trashed 6-cylinder '70 Barracuda, and generally hanging out with them when I could. One night, we were BS'ing, and "J" said he was thinking about taking the SFGT body and making a "Monster truck" out of it. I felt sorry for the cool old car, and told him "you know, they actually built some of them with a Sick-Pack from the factory". I then grabbed a flashlight, and wandered over to the car to look at the VIN plate. As I wiped the grime off the windshield to take a better look, my eyes bugged out when I saw: a "V" in the 5th spot!!! I called out to him ""J, you are not going to believe it, this is one of them!!!" Realizing the rarity of the car, the monster truck idea went away, and the car remained there for some time.
Many years later, I asked what had became of it, and was told "it was sold to someone down South" (aka Seattle, or beyond). Looking through some of the threads here, I wonder it it is the one mentioned as being for sale in Seattle a few years ago, but with a high asking price (10K?), and very badly rusted. Most all the pictures associated with those threads are gone, so I was wondering if there are any other pics of that car, which might be around? Yes, I could spend a week looking/reading all the threads here, but figured you guys are all very in tuned with the SFGT's that are known.
I've often thought that I should have bought the car back then when we first "found out" what it was, but was busy working on my "dream" 'Cuda, and didn't have the room/time/etc. to do anything with it. So, if it is the "Seattle" car, here's a little more background story on it.
