I've never posted in the O/T forum before, but here's my 1969 Plymouth Fury II 2 door formal roof sedan. I also had a clean 69 2 door hard top, for parts, but was too nice to part out. I wish i'd kept them both. The car originally had a 318/904 with 2.76 gears in the 8 3/4 rear. It was on five window slotted mags when I first bough it and a buddy made me a great deal on big and littles with sticky rubber. I fell in love with the look of the beast, especially that crazy concave/convex rear gl***. No A/C from factory, AM radio was only option aside from power steering, as it had manual 4 wheel drums. I put a 360, bored and stroked to 414, with 10.125:1 forged Wisecos on Eagle rods with a Mopar 4 inch steel crank, Edelbrock RPM Air Gap intake, and RPM heads with Indy Cylinder Head rockers moved by a 292degree, .509" purple cam. A Holley 850 double pumper with 50cc pumps and super crispy tune cost me a dollar at Every. Damned. Stop sign. But it made 480hp and 520lbft. I put a 3800 stall Coan converter in the 904 with a Cheetah VB, 4.2 apply lever, removed the ac***ulator spring, and upped the pressure. I swapped 2.76 axle out and put in the 3.23 from the 2 dr hardtop but I welded the spiders together first (Lincoln locker, hah!). The sticky MT ET Streets were 28/12.50s and fit in the stock wheel wells like a glove. Looking so huge, and being so empty/built like a beer can, she surprised alot of local mustangs, both old and new...She won a lot more streetlight slugfests than she lost. Wish i'd never sold her, but she was too crusty/rusty for my skillset and wallet. I sold the pair of Furys off but kept the power train, which is now in my 60 Falcon straight axle g***er resurrection-switching to a 4 speed instead of the Clutchflite I was saving. The THUG license plate was mine for several years until Kansas determined it was offensive and banned it. What a buncha horse shi+ that was... -rick
Love the beefy Mopars! Sounds like yours really hauled the mail. Hope you don't mind a pic of the movie Fury, I believe it's a '73.
Beautiful car, great stance. I love C-Body MoPars, great drivers, comfortable and strong performance with the right setup.
Always wanted one, but was distracted by other Mopars. It was something where you had to search hard to find a good one by the time it was in budget. There was a regular on a mopar forum that built a really nice one down in Texas. Big brakes, big engine, drove the snot out of it.
I had a 69 Plymouth Fury convertible. Blue with a white top, 318 car. A really nice car I bought as a souvenir in CO. My brother in law lived near Loveland, and his place was the final stop on a trip out west that included a few days in Vegas. He was going to look at another vehicle and we p***ed the convert sitting on a driveway as we went past, with the for sale sign on it. The car was straight and rust free, but had a couple mechanical issues (including a gas leak). We bought the car for $1100 (in the late 80s), drove it to my BIL's place where we changed the fuel line and did a few other things, then I drove the Plymouth home, my wife drove our car home (1000 miles, give or take). I found out that I really didn't like convertibles very much, we ended up selling it the next summer for $2500. It really was a pretty nice car. Didn't take many pictures of my cars back then. I had several beater C bodies over the years, they were always dependable cars. As it was, most C body cars became parts donors at my house.
I actually have that add somewhere around the garage! Love it! On the bottom pic you posted, see the key chain? I'd love to have a Follow Your Heart keychain/other item, but I did get my Fury airbrushed on a shirt with that logo! -rick
The big C bodies are the ultimate road cars, especially the Hi Performance ones. I love the 69-73 Fuselage ones the best. My avatar is an actual 71 Polara, Nebraska State Patrol car. 2 dr hdtp, 440, 2.76 rear and TTI exhaust. It's the most fun car I've ever had
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