For Sale Plymouth Fury (b-body) w/7 miles
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CanCritter
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actually used to drive one of these as a taxi driver in my youth...
70bigblockdodge
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That's a car for a collector that already has everything. Can't drive it, can't restore it, it's a museum piece.
GJS
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The rot on that thing surprises me. Seems more like it was stored in a lot under a bridge than in a building.
Fratzog
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This would be a great movie prop car. If I had the $ and space I'd patch it and use as a cruise night car. Guaranteed to be the only one there.
GregG48203
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For what it is, I'd say it's in good condition: these cars were used up and thrown away 40 years ago. However, I'd be curious how the blue engine turned black in seven miles.
commando1
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What a dilemma.
75LandYacht
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Someone Un-confuse me!! How does the car with "7 miles" on it, have rust in all the places of a 107,000 mile car? Either way it's a beautiful piece of history. Looking at the engine compartment, I would guess the engine was never painted and was left bare metal which would explain it's dark color. Just my 2 cents. I say this because while I was in the service all of our military vehicles that came from Chrysler back in the mid to late 80s Chrysler government bailout days, we're given to us bare-bones, no engine paint, no undercoating, Radio delete, A/C delete some even power steering delete and manual everything!! In order to pay back the government for the bail out Chrysler was ordered to produce thousands of vehicles for government service free of charge. That included military and the majority of other federal agencies. And when I say bare-bone cars, I mean bare-bones. We essentially got four tires on the paint job..
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I also saw many Mopar "fleet" vehicles without painted engines back in the late 70's and early 80's. Accessories such as starter were painted but the engine wasn't. I assumed it was because bolt on items were usually painted when delivered to the factory.
Carmine
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You guys realize it would require more effort and logistics problems than it would be worth to save .07 cents per engine. It's floorspace (that is precious real estate) sequencing (you pay someone to do that) build complexity (savings for 1000 cars lost if the engine gets installed in a retail car; someone gets paid to swap it) and an engineering corrosion buy off (thin parts like valve covers would never pass that spec; engineers don't work free) and service warehouse inventory. It's even a wasted line of text you pay someone to enter it into a parts catalog.
I do believe paint may have varied in quality or application across the line, so you may have seen those engines.
They started painting all engines black in '82, that was the cost-save.
Related tangent: (2017) Demon engines were originally planned to be blue. They used red because they didn't have a blue that passed the corrosion spec. That's not inside info, it's part of the press release material.
I do believe paint may have varied in quality or application across the line, so you may have seen those engines.
They started painting all engines black in '82, that was the cost-save.
Related tangent: (2017) Demon engines were originally planned to be blue. They used red because they didn't have a blue that passed the corrosion spec. That's not inside info, it's part of the press release material.
70bigblockdodge
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I think it went from blue to rust in 40 years with no leaking oil and heat to protect it the blue just fell off.
I'm digging the 100 amp alt. What accessories did they think the passengers where going to plug in to that thing.
300rag
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Could be. All I know is what I saw. The government got some really wacky vehicles back then. We had things like 1972 and 73 AMC Ambassador DPL and Brougham staff cars with standard transmissions after the standard tranny was deleted from the model. Once got some Dodge Diplomat patrol cars that had Dodge front ends with Chrysler LeBaron tags and trim on the sides and rear.
commando1
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WTH is that?
300rag
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I think that would be allowing the shift lever only to be put into D, or 2, with the mechanism not allowing movement into the 1 spot.
70bigblockdodge
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The real reason for this is. Keeps the driver from putting in low and holding to break the engine and sit and collect the rest of the days hours.
I would say that 1977 was still hourly and not lease drivers.
I would say that 1977 was still hourly and not lease drivers.
Samplingman
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I can't get past the fact that there is no A/C in a Taxi.
Carmine
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No problem believing any of that... that's somebody using up parts. When the Viper ACR-X race cars were built at the end of 2010, they used up all the painted parts that had been rejected for "retail" use in the prior years. Usually it was a speck of dirt, or a minor scratch from shipment. The thinking was that the race teams would repaint them anyway.
neat car ... looks like my old E86 '78 Monaco (private citizen ordered, never in fleet service).
my observations are is looks like a 7 mile car (lotta pristine parts) but that had a rough life in storage. rained on and "humidity/temp" attacked etc.
on engine paint it seems traces of blue remain. musta flaked off via what ever elements attacked the rest of it .. and what remained got powerwashed away recently.
cool car .. but a commando1 said a bit of a dilemma for its next owner.
my observations are is looks like a 7 mile car (lotta pristine parts) but that had a rough life in storage. rained on and "humidity/temp" attacked etc.
on engine paint it seems traces of blue remain. musta flaked off via what ever elements attacked the rest of it .. and what remained got powerwashed away recently.
cool car .. but a commando1 said a bit of a dilemma for its next owner.
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70bigblockdodge
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I have changed my mind on this I would if I could get it cheap, fix some of the issues with rust underneath and engine compartment, then drive it as i do any other of my old cars. 7 miles be damned made to be used, it never got the chance to go make memories with different drivers so time to have it make some memories with this driver.
That being said it's out of my cheap *** price range so I'm out.
That being said it's out of my cheap *** price range so I'm out.
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