1966 Plymouth Fury 3

[PhilA]

I now own this.

 

Yes, I put a big scrape down the door loading it. It'll hammer out though.

All being well it should be at the house tomorrow.

I've got the car loaded up with parts, heading back home tonight, the seller offered to haul it down with his truck for the price of fuel so I jumped at that.

So, a bit of backstory. Guy bought the car back in 2010, running (ish), smoked about in it for a while then realized the original engine was toast. So, be bought a complete beater of a Fury which he broke for parts.
He rebuilt the engine a bit bigger, it's a 327 (5356cc) now, not a 318 (5211cc), tubular dual exhausts, few other ninaks. Gearbox was gone through he says.

Then the sad part. He's originally from California, posted in the navy police. He was serving back there for a while and while he was away he found a guy who was all about restoring old cars and sent the car to him to be rebuilt.
So, the guy chopped out a fair bit of rust, replaced it with metal, did a bit of bondo work then painted it. The car was originally white, and was chosen to be repainted by the seller in mauve.

He said "Whatever parts you need, let me know if I'll send it you", so was ordering parts.
He arrived back in Mississippi, stopped in at the place... The guy has skipped town, done an epically poor job of painting the car (though he did hang the doors and trunk well, I'll give him that), and applied a random sheet of steel with some pigeon-poop in the trunk where the trunk floor had rusted out.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but I think I may actually get the car back down to metal, straighten it out and paint it. I've done better paint with aerosol cans.

So, he gets left with the car as you see it. Sad, but he got gypped out of a five-figure sum for essentially what comes down to a $200 paint job and a bit of crummy welding.

There's a spare block (might do something fun with that) and some trim, dash, odds and ends in boxes, some new lights, but there's a bunch of stuff I'm going to have to source. Looks like the car might have been in a hail storm at some point too, so that needs straightening up.

So, yes. Work, but should be fun.

Phil

[vulgalour]

Unpleasant experience for the previous owner aside, that's a fantastic colour for this car, very much like all those extravagant metallic vinyl interiors of the era.  Looking forward to reading your adventures with this one.

[PhilA]

Long road home...

The car was originally white.

I'll show you some of the superb* paintwork on it when it gets here.

At this time it needs a repaint. I'm thinking either a royal purple or candy apple red.

(That's obviously a ways down the road, I've got a lot of eBay/Classic Industries in my future, I think).

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Already found the correct rear quarter panels and trunk pan.

Took all of 5 minutes on Google.

I think I'll be ordering those at some point, then.

[sutty2006]

Porn. 
 

 

 

 

that is all. 

[the judge]

Yum yum yum.

More of this sort of thing!

[eddyramrod]

Oh I'm going to enjoy this one!

[danthecapriman]

Sweet! I love these. Theres a white one not far from here but it’s painted up like a period NASCAR. I think it’s actually this one https://www.carthrottle.com/post/3lx4krr/ It looks and sounds absolutely amazing! something to think about!!

[tooSavvy]

ColdWarMotors lives on..

 

[Rocket88]

I leave this here...........440 with a four speed manual.............

[Bren]

Looks fab. Love the colour. MOPAR engine bits are not particularly cheap.

[Rocket88]

8 minutes ago, Bren said:

Looks fab. Love the colour. MOPAR engine bits are not particularly cheap.

True.....but suspension /brake parts are ludicrously so..........pair of A arms £130 delivered [within 4 days of ordering from the States.......]

[PhilA]

Looks like I'm mostly going to be looking for random bodywork fittings, trim and interior. And a few interesting parts like the air-conditioning compressor, wiper motor, etc.

But I've yet to dig into it too far... But quite a lot is available aftermarket, these cars are fairly popular. Not as popular say as as mustang of the same era but they're still popular.

 

Just waiting for it to arrive.

[Jikovron]

Mopars are the thinking man's Americana,  and the 60s is my favorite era before they stopped being able to effortlessly fry the 'tires' 😆

[cort16]

Love it. Fury is a great name for a car, Americans had a knack for car names back then.

[Rocket88]

Is it going back to standard spec, or going for the NASCAR look? Might be easier than trying to source endless "unobtainium" stuff......

[PhilA]

52 minutes ago, colc said:

Is it going back to standard spec, or going for the NASCAR look? Might be easier than trying to source endless "unobtainium" stuff......

This look is tempting.

I'm not sure yet.

[hairnet]

Best nascar livery ever ( I know it's not a plymouth)

 

[LightBulbFun]

for those curious on the NASCAR looking car you can find a few more details in this video here  

 

the youtube channel is worth having a look at if your into car based video game shenanigans, the survive the hunt series is particularly good  (and other fun ones like the entire grid of stock 2CV's round the ring that I have posted before)

 

but back to @PhilA's I would vote to keep it stock, I particularly like the steelies it has with the wheels tucked quite far into the bodywork it really gives it that barge look which I like  

sorry to hear what happened with it and its previous keeper, but I am very much looking forward to seeing you sorting it out properly  

[PhilA]

I just buffed at the corner of a headlight surround to see how well it would respond to polish. I think they will come up nice.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

had this car as an avatar pic on forums maybe 15 years ago

cant find actual pic as had many computers since then (it was facing the other way )

has been in top 5 want for far longer than that

phil you evil man

[PhilA]

13 minutes ago, hairnet said:

had this car as an avatar pic on forums maybe 15 years ago

cant find actual pic as had many computers since then (it was facing the other way )

has been in top 5 want for far longer than that

phil you evil man

That's a 67-70 though. 

However, I do like that color combination.

[PhilA]

Car should hopefully be here in about an hour.

Unfortunately it's forecast to rain.

[hairnet]

14 minutes ago, PhilA said:

That's a 67-70 though. 

However, I do like that color combination.

68 (special uh huh :D)

 

[PhilA]

That's a ways away though, first things first is making a list of what I need.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

[hairnet]

when the two coolest american car threads on here are posted one after the other you are

 

[PhilA]

Ooh, yeah.

[wuvvum]

Nice!  Although even in that photo you can tell that the paintwork is perhaps not the best...

[PhilA]

22 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Nice!  Although even in that photo you can tell that the paintwork is perhaps not the best...

 

It's fiiiiiinnnne.

 

Threw a fan in because they caught a small amount of rain as they got near here and one side of the rear seat is a bit damp.

 

Phil