Updated Photos of my Former 1971 Sport Fury GT

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About 6 years ago, I sold my B7 blue Sport Fury GT to one of my best friends in Finland. He restored the car and has been enjoying it for many years now. He recently had it out for driving during their short summer and took some updated photos of it this week and sent them to me. He is a great owner for the car and gives accolades as to how well it drives down the highway - quiet and smooth. His car did not come from the factory with power steering despite most all the other options, and he says the tracking and steering feel of the car on the highway is far superior to the power steering cars he has, with the obvious downside of a lot of effort at low speeds. He has a bunch of other cars he bought from me over the last 10 years and has restored them all to a very high condition.

I really enjoyed seeing them and thought I would just share them with this group.

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Strange. The Sport Fury came with power steering so someone had to opt to have it deleted.

Same color combo as my old GT sold several years ago.

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Why o why would you have sold such a beautiful beast?

Interesting question, as I had to think about it some to reply. I guess in the end, I just like the 1970 SFGT better, even though mine has the usual standard 440 in it rather than the 440HP in the 71s. I prefer the cleaner styling of the 70 with its hidden headlight grille that is simple, elegant and beautiful whereas the 71 was a little more busy. Same for the tail lights. And I thought the turn signal indicators on the 70 were preferable too compared to the a bit over done ones on the 71 that consist of more pieces (3 on each side - two were ornaments on each side to mimic the actual indicators). Also, the rear bumper guards were also overdone to my eye too. They just tried too hard on the 71s, even though I still really do like them overall.

So I concluded I would rather keep my 1970 SFGT that needs a complete restoration, and is optioned just the way I want it and it too is B7 blue but without a vinyl roof, which for some reason on SFGTs I prefer to the vinyl roofs.

But my favorite Chrysler products, aside from my Forward Look cars, are the fuselage Chrysler 300s, with the 71 model being my clear favorite of all of them. I also have some 1970 models and one 1969 300. And I have a bunch of those cars. Tying for number one are the fuselage Imperials, and I am down to a meager 5 of those now.

My second favorites are the fuselage Dodge Monacos, including the Polaras too. And I have a bunch of those too.

Fuselage Plymouths come in third in my preferences. And I only have one left.

When I retired 6 years ago now, I decided I had way too many cars and tried to downsize some and decided to sell many of the cars I knew I would never get around to doing a restoration on. The 71 GT just didn't quite make it as a keeper, so I let it go.

My 70 SFGT needs a full restoration but I still decided to keep it because I liked it a little more, despite its current condition.

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Except for surface rust, it has no other rust on the body - everything is solid. It is B7 blue. It has a/c, am/fm stereo, disc brakes, bucket seats and console, as the major options I wanted. It runs and drives now, and is a numbers matching car too. The 71 SFGT didn't really need a complete restoration, and I prefer doing a complete restoration rather than just partially restoring a very nice car to begin with. Yeah, I am a nut case, in short. :D
 
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About 6 years ago, I sold my B7 blue Sport Fury GT to one of my best friends in Finland. He restored the car and has been enjoying it for many years now... He has a bunch of other cars he bought from me over the last 10 years and has restored them all to a very high condition.
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Very nice car! This photo arose my curiosity... The background looks a lot like it was taken somewhere near the city of Vaasa... Which is a small city by the sea, the shores of which are full of rocks and boulders like in the photo. - And the owner of this car has several C-bodies?

BTW, this year we had an exceptionally long and warm summer. It lasted from the beginning of May until the first week of September. It’s been warmer than ever. Excellent cruising weather all summer long.
 
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Why o why would you have sold such a beautiful beast?

If you are asking me why I sold mine, I sold it because it needed extensive body work. It looked great at 10' but it was a daily driver year round in northern New Jersey when I bought the car in 1995. Here are some photos of some of the rust issues.
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Is this the SF/GT issued in V8 Magazine some years back? Looks even better in the first post than in the mag!
 
I believe it was the one, but not entirely sure since it was a few years ago now and I don't have a copy of that magazine/article.
 
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Very nice car! This photo arose my curiosity... The background looks a lot like it was taken somewhere near the city of Vaasa... Which is a small city by the sea, the shores of which are full of rocks and boulders like in the photo. - And the owner of this car has several C-bodies?

BTW, this year we had an exceptionally long and warm summer. It lasted from the beginning of May until the first week of September. It’s been warmer than ever. Excellent cruising weather all summer long.

Yes, I do believe it is near Vaasa, but I am not so familiar with the territory to be sure - but he does live near by, so very likely.
 
I dug my magazine collection and found that from issue 1/2012. Saforwardlook, that is not wierd as it'sa Finnish magazine. I promise to repost clear ones when my hands are not that shaky.
 
Is this the one where if you're on Life Support, don't let Carsten visit you alone?
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

best joke in a long time for me.

But I do prefer the world with my friend Steve even if it means I have to continue to wait for a long time:thumbsup:

Carsten
 
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