bigmoparjeff
Senior Member
I finally got around to taking the Gran Coupe off the car trailer and took a closer look at the carnage that 30 years of poor storage has wrought. The big question burning in my brain: Has anyone else ever run across a 1972 C factory equipped with a console?
When my friend first called me about the car I was quite skeptical about the console being original, but a quick check of the '72 fury sales brochure shows that it was available only on the Gran Coupes. (BTW, the '73 sales brochure no longer lists it as an option). I was also surprised that it had the metal top plates instead of the vinyl covered ones, but I guess those were Chrysler and Dodge only.
For those who missed my first post on this car: A friend of mine made a deal on it over a year ago and we had been waiting for the ground to dry out so I could pick it up, but every time I was available to get it, it seemed to be raining during 2018. I was forced to pick it up in the snow back in March because the old barn that it was in was going to be demolished the following week. The seller was the son of the person who ordered the car new in 1972. The father and son were both long time car guys, into hot rods and racing going back into the 1950's, and also good friends of Don Rook, who we were discussing not too long ago. The car itself is about as bad as they come, and certainly the rustiest car that I've ever brought home. It looks like the quarters were pretty rotted when it was parked in 1989, and the rest of the mess occurred during storage. As you can see in the pics, the car is bent where the fenders meet the doors, and that's because the back of the subframe is no longer attached to the bottom of the car. It's now parked with my other parts cars, and some day I'll get around to taking off the few parts that are worth saving.
Fender tag coded for console. C16 Console, woodgrain.
Seller pointed out that assembly line worker wrote "console" on glove box door.
When my friend first called me about the car I was quite skeptical about the console being original, but a quick check of the '72 fury sales brochure shows that it was available only on the Gran Coupes. (BTW, the '73 sales brochure no longer lists it as an option). I was also surprised that it had the metal top plates instead of the vinyl covered ones, but I guess those were Chrysler and Dodge only.
For those who missed my first post on this car: A friend of mine made a deal on it over a year ago and we had been waiting for the ground to dry out so I could pick it up, but every time I was available to get it, it seemed to be raining during 2018. I was forced to pick it up in the snow back in March because the old barn that it was in was going to be demolished the following week. The seller was the son of the person who ordered the car new in 1972. The father and son were both long time car guys, into hot rods and racing going back into the 1950's, and also good friends of Don Rook, who we were discussing not too long ago. The car itself is about as bad as they come, and certainly the rustiest car that I've ever brought home. It looks like the quarters were pretty rotted when it was parked in 1989, and the rest of the mess occurred during storage. As you can see in the pics, the car is bent where the fenders meet the doors, and that's because the back of the subframe is no longer attached to the bottom of the car. It's now parked with my other parts cars, and some day I'll get around to taking off the few parts that are worth saving.
Fender tag coded for console. C16 Console, woodgrain.
Seller pointed out that assembly line worker wrote "console" on glove box door.
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