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Ken Soukup: 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury, 1970 Fury Convertible
I own a 1968 Sport Fury with a 383 magnum 4 speed which is all original. A gentleman in my home town bought specially equipped to tow his trailor to Florida. I also own a 1970 Fury III convertible. That was the last year they made the full size convertible and only 1,954 were made. The Sport Fury name was introduced in 1959 not 1962. At that time they had the fury and the Sport Fury was the luxury/performance model of the two. If you have any other questions concerning the Fury line you can contact my father, Harold Soukup. He has collected Chrysler product cars since the 50's as well as serving as the President of the National Plymouth 4 and 6 cylinder club during the seventies. He has quite a collection of original sales literature and other Plymouth literature. To my knowledge, he has owned a Fury from every year starting in '56 to '71. He has been a greater resource to me than any source I have ever found. Thanks for this great page on Furys.
Dwayne Schnell: 1965 Plymouth Fury III
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I rebuilt it over a course of a elongated and un-busy year. I am the fifth owner of it, my dad, who partially saved it for me was the second or third. Then he sold it to his brother, then he to another brother. I bought it for a dollar (for registration purposes) and rebuilt the 318 engine from scratch. I had to bore the cylinders 10 thou over, and put over sized pistons in it, other wise it is completely stock. I did the body work and gave it a paint job last spring/summer, and this summer I will do the interior. It has a column shifter automatic, and I can only get it up to 120 mph. Not much else to say about it, other than it is a fun car to learn mechanics on, and also to drive.
Tony Scales: 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury
My car has been completely redone with new interior from Year One, New Viper Blue paint, and a new built 440 HP. I have installed American Racing Torq-Thrust D's. Thanks and I like your web pages.
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| 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury (Matt Moffitt) Owned by the Ghent family, this car is midnight blue, with a sky blue interior. Mr. Ghent's family used to own one when he was first driving, it was the exact same paint and interior, and had a 440 4bbl, I think it was a stickshift, but can't be sure, the one that he's got now has a 383 2bbl. at an underrated 270 hp, it has a large front end, with two headlights stacked on top of each other per side, it tapers off towards the back, which, by today's standards makes it look backwards. A tall, windowed cabin contains plenty of chrome, and a stylish tapered post that connects the roof to the rear, it looks very similar to the Satellite, although bigger, statelier (sp?), classier, more pronounced, more intimidating, and more luxurious. interior resembles that of the Satellite, with two buckets, identical consoles, and similar dashboards, and "safety features" the Fury's speedometer is larger, and more pronounced, although goes up to 120 like the Satellite, and there are two lights in the rear posts it also features fender signals, skullcracker, and a gutripper. being a C body as to the Satellite's B body, parts are hard to come by. as with all mopars, the electrical system leaves much to be desired. There were 30,249 hardtops, and 2,981 convertibles that year. According to my mother , this was the first year to offer what is now known as cruise control, although this primitive system ran off of fuel flow instead of road speed, and had to be turned about 15 m.p.h faster than actual speed to keep actual speed |