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Wildbunch02
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Welcome from Long Island
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1970FuryConv
Old Man with a Hat
Welcome from Virginia! What Fury are you driving?
Eye_on_Fury
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Sorry I've been on a never ending crusade against the "honey do list" as of late. Thank you for your kind welcome.
I'm driving a nothing at the moment, I'm just starting very long process of bringing a 1969 Sport Fury back from the abyss. Maybe that's a bit much but I'm assuming a 6 year time frame to convert a good project car, all numbers matching, to a stroked resto-mod. '69 meets '22 kind of job. I did the recommended introduction post if you're interested in the deets.
1970FuryConv
Old Man with a Hat
Love the fuselage Fury. Pretty obvious, because I own 3 of them. Very cool choice of car!
Eye_on_Fury
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Yeah she's so sexy!!!! I honestly started out not wanting one, I had my eyes peeled for about a decade for a B body that was reasonably priced but if you get a well priced Cuda it's a rust bucket w/o a title or it's a peach and it is 25k for a project.... Well long story short I 'settled' by expanding my options to C bodies and I found that, like you, I found the Fuselage bodies are just as beautiful yet folks don't value the "grocery getters" in that same price range. Some really nice Imps out there as well.
1970FuryConv
Old Man with a Hat
I'm glad you decided on the C – body! Just for reference sake, a barracuda is an E – body. That may be what you meant but just pointed it out for accuracy sake. I have owned one B body, a 1969 Dodge Charger, which sucked up $30,000 faster than I knew a car could and wasn't nearly done. I sold the car. Then it was time to get something that I liked that could be done on a normal person's budget.
Eye_on_Fury
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I usually double check before I post, I meant to say A-body. I need to refresh my database apparently because when you said E-body, I was like what is this dude talking about???? Challenger was the only E, everyone knows that, pfft! I had no clue that they were on the E platform after '70. And it makes sense because I like the pre-E's kinda but 70 is an absolute work of art, it lost that eurotrash narrow frame and got mean. They say you learn something new every day, so thanks for the edumakation.
I should be able to say that I owned a '69 Charger as well. A friend of mine's brother had one for my entire childhood and when I was 17 he died in a car accident. (He was much older than me, 31 when he died) His brother, my friend, inherited it and just let it sit for well over a year. I respectfully brought up the car and how Joe would have hated to see it just sit, he agreed but didn't know Jack about cars. Well I offered him $2500 down and I'd leave it right where it was until I paid him another $2500. He shot me down and life went on, certainly didn't want to push with the emotions involved. I hadn't been over there for a few weeks and when I pulled up the Charger was gone. Long story short he sold a very, very solid body 1969 Dodge Charger with a 440 6pack, that Joe claimed was stock but I have my doubts, for $1800 to his neighbor.
We no longer speak.
I should be able to say that I owned a '69 Charger as well. A friend of mine's brother had one for my entire childhood and when I was 17 he died in a car accident. (He was much older than me, 31 when he died) His brother, my friend, inherited it and just let it sit for well over a year. I respectfully brought up the car and how Joe would have hated to see it just sit, he agreed but didn't know Jack about cars. Well I offered him $2500 down and I'd leave it right where it was until I paid him another $2500. He shot me down and life went on, certainly didn't want to push with the emotions involved. I hadn't been over there for a few weeks and when I pulled up the Charger was gone. Long story short he sold a very, very solid body 1969 Dodge Charger with a 440 6pack, that Joe claimed was stock but I have my doubts, for $1800 to his neighbor.
We no longer speak.
1970FuryConv
Old Man with a Hat
Agree about the E-body Cuda. Awesome car.
I guess you found out who your friends are and are not. Too Bad.
Eye_on_Fury
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I wasn't exactly truthful, we do speak on occasion and I still consider him a friend but it did drive a pretty big wedge for a good while. I'm 40 as of last Saturday so I moved on... Mostly.
Eye_on_Fury
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Thank you, glad to be amongst like minded people.
1970FuryConv
Old Man with a Hat
Seems strange. You have a pending offer of triple $1800, but you take the $1800. I would have to ask Why????I wasn't exactly truthful, we do speak on occasion and I still consider him a friend but it did drive a pretty big wedge for a good while. I'm 40 as of last Saturday so I moved on... Mostly.
Eye_on_Fury
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Oh God, first thing out of my mouth! According to him he didn't think I was serious, where as the neighbor came with cash in hand.
The reason I think he did it is longer to explain. He had been in a car accident as a child and his settlement was in trust until it matured, I'm assuming that was why because he got the money at 22 years old and I've never really understood why he'd get the money at such an odd ball age, and had he have left it in for 3 more years he could have got 60% more. I tried my damnedest to talk him into leaving it. Well he was "Idiot Rich" for about six months, blowing money on any dumb thing that crossed his mind and he still had cash when I offered and didn't when the neighbor came by a couple weeks later. I still don't know why in God's name he didn't just call me before he took the cash. I still get sh!tty when I think about it.
Or you could also say he's a fu**ing idiot!
The reason I think he did it is longer to explain. He had been in a car accident as a child and his settlement was in trust until it matured, I'm assuming that was why because he got the money at 22 years old and I've never really understood why he'd get the money at such an odd ball age, and had he have left it in for 3 more years he could have got 60% more. I tried my damnedest to talk him into leaving it. Well he was "Idiot Rich" for about six months, blowing money on any dumb thing that crossed his mind and he still had cash when I offered and didn't when the neighbor came by a couple weeks later. I still don't know why in God's name he didn't just call me before he took the cash. I still get sh!tty when I think about it.
Or you could also say he's a fu**ing idiot!
1970FuryConv
Old Man with a Hat
I have a relative who is: spend it until it's gone. No amount of advice will change her habit. One day it'll all be gone.
Eye_on_Fury
New Member
I used to be that way. I got a settlement from an accident where I was ejected from the car and broke my collarbone, I have NEVER ONCE ridden in a vehicle since w/o a seatbelt, and I tore through the cash like it would never run out. Well it did and I developed a serious and lasting distaste for wasting money ever since.
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