1966 Plymouth Fury 3

[PhilA]

Another sweaty 30 minutes in the garage. Some worn out sandpaper on a wooden block to mark the high points.

Bloody hard work. I think I got the high points, need to get the low points now.

 

Phil

[AnthonyG]

No real relevance at all, but I watched the film ‘The Detective’ with Frank Sinatra at the weekend.

Detective Frank cruises around looking for bad dudes in a ‘66 Fury, presumably a ‘I’ model as it had the small rear lights you were given with this one. 

Great film for police chod, plus some evil gangsters in a ‘66 Mercury Monterey try to take him out but he lives to detect another day. The oldest car I could see was a 61 Chrysler, the New York climate was not kind to Detroit panelwork…

[somewhatfoolish]

The potholes are pretty legendary too.

[PhilA]

28C, heat index 32 and blazing hot sun. Proper heatstroke weather.

So, mad dogs and Englishmen occurred.

Continued to extract the car.

First decent look- it got a grande dent in the door and front wing.

Dink in the roof is less bad than I thought it would be.

Verdict: not so bad

[hairnet]

 

 

 

[PhilA]

Cleared a bit more tonight. Found my panel beating hammers at least.

The side of the car it all landed against. The door still opens and closes with one finger.

There was a 15' piece of triangulated roof beam slotted neatly between the car and the workbench. Doesn't appear to have touched it.

Quite bizarre.

[Rod/b]

WTF happened? 

[PhilA]

40 minutes ago, Rod/b said:

WTF happened? 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ida

[PhilA]

Liberation occurs.

[Datsuncog]

Dare I say... that looks better than might have been expected?

Maybe the layer of Bondo effectively gave it armour-plated properties?

Glad to see it looking relatively unscathed, regardless!

[PhilA]

There does appear to be very little damage, overall.

Seeing the paint made me stop and look at the colors again, too. I like the dark purple. I prefer the light purple but I know the car will get the nickname "Barney" if I paint it in that. Quite the dilemma.

It also looks stupid on short radial tires.

Phil

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, PhilA said:

 

I like the dark purple. I prefer the light purple but I know the car will get the nickname "Barney" if I paint it in that. 

Rogers Nelson surely

 

[Saabnut]

Barney is a good name for a car!  

[AnnoyingPentium]

3 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

Barney is a good name for a car!  

It is, but it'll send @barefoot into a blind fury. 🤣

[hairnet]

16 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 a blind fury. 🤣

cough

[vulgalour]

That's astonishingly little damage, it barely even counts as character.

[Zelandeth]

Given the level of carnage in general there all three of the cars on the property seem to have escaped almost miraculously well all things considered!

[PhilA]

Doing the numbers and the fleet needs to be rationalized some. This is up for sale. $4500 obo with all the spare parts I have for it. Clean Louisiana title in my name.

Engine runs, transmission unknown quantity. 

[hairnet]

If you were 400 miles away................

[hairnet]

for 6-7 hours wouldnt be a problem

when it landed later - different story

do the mopar pervs go for the smaller stuff like this?

 

[PhilA]

50 minutes ago, hairnet said:

for 6-7 hours wouldnt be a problem

when it landed later - different story

do the mopar pervs go for the smaller stuff like this?

 

Yup, Fury is a sought after stacklight. Obvs the Sport Fury is more desirable but this as Fury 3 is moderately well-specced (power steering, aircon).

[PhilA]

Might not be selling this just yet. We'll see.

First step to redemption: pov caps on the wheels.

Second, go to turn this over and find it's locked up, full of rainwater.

It's moving but it's really unhappy about it. Might come round yet.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

There was no way in hell I was going to let this defeat me.

So, I sat on Archimedes*, attached to the crank snout nut. I then repeatedly engaged the starter motor, which gave a shock large enough to fractionally move (1-2° a go) the crank round. It started to spit ATF out of the plug holes and finally it let go and span freely!

So, naturally at 8:30 on a sunday night I had to put the plugs back in and see if it would fire.

Which it did. Not well at all and only on a few pots but.. IT GOES.

 

Phil

 

*The name of my cheater bar. Don't you name your big tools?

[loserone]

Twat.

 

Good work Phil, it's a great looking beast.

[cort1977]

6 hours ago, PhilA said:

*The name of my cheater bar. Don't you name your big tools?

I do now.

Good stuff Phil, glad you're back working on this.

[Rocket88]

On 4/29/2022 at 1:34 PM, hairnet said:

for 6-7 hours wouldnt be a problem

when it landed later - different story

do the mopar pervs go for the smaller stuff like this?

 

Small my arse…. My old one

[PhilA]

"Small" is relative. This was Plymouth's biggest vehicle in '66.

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, Rocket88 said:

Small my arse…. My old one

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuggin stacklught hnnnnggggggggg

[PhilA]

5 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Fuggin stacklught hnnnnggggggggg

Yes.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, PhilA said:

Yes.

even in bits

oh yes

*splumph