What became of this '71 SFGT?

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I had a chance to buy this car around 1997-ish. It was behind a machine shop in south Warren, MI without the engine. Noted "mopar guy" Harold Sullivan supposedly purchased it only to pull the date-correct HP block so the world might have another non-numbers-matching '71 GTX. :icon_fU: (And I love '71 Plymouth Bs, but how F'ing stupid!?)

Anyway, for whatever reason I didn't bite. Maybe the price was high, maybe because I'd just bought a house, dunno. I did take 3 photos, seen below. The car was the original Mood Indigo Metallic, original rims and black reflective stripes. I recall being told it was shipped up from Florida. Does anyone know what became of this car?

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That was a good looking car !!!
Maybe Carsten ( fc7-plumcrazy ) knows what happend to it..........
 
I could ask Harold or my good friend that has worked with him for long enough that he was probably there about then.
 
I agree that was dumb move ripping that drivetrain out.
 
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This Sport Fury GT was numbers matching and complete with all road wheels, the car went to the crusher.
 
even in 1998 there was a loyal following. Not too many on this board that were into Cs back then, or shall we say, not admittedly
 
I had a chance to buy this car around 1997-ish. It was behind a machine shop in south Warren, MI without the engine. Noted "mopar guy" Harold Sullivan supposedly purchased it only to pull the date-correct HP block so the world might have another non-numbers-matching '71 GTX. :icon_fU: (And I love '71 Plymouth Bs, but how F'ing stupid!?)

Anyway, for whatever reason I didn't bite. Maybe the price was high, maybe because I'd just bought a house, dunno. I did take 3 photos, seen below. The car was the original Mood Indigo Metallic, original rims and black reflective stripes. I recall being told it was shipped up from Florida. Does anyone know what became of this car?

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Mood Indigo.... with a white interior, that would have been the perfect GT
 
registry7

There's one car in the SFGT registry with that Body Color, restored with White stripes though.
 
I spoke with 2 guys today that would likely remember that car if it went through Sullivan's shop, one worked for him at the time and said he would have remembered such a C as that. There would have been no reason to import a car from Florida for a drivetrain, even without Craigslist, especially at that time, maybe you were mistaken about the Florida angle of the story. These guys were incredibly well connected in the Mopar circle here in Detroit. It is possible that it was a local car that gave up its drivetrain for a B body that someone was building, maybe even Sullivan. Anything is possible, of course, it was a long time ago. They did recall a couple of C bodies that came through the shop as doners for parts, one was a '68ish Fury that had a 392 Hemi transplanted in it, it of course was bought for the Hemi. My impression from the conversations was that they would have recognized a rare HP Mopar and they wouldn't have gutted it if it were restorable. These guys were and still are Mopar enthusiasts.
 
I know nothing of the fate of this blue SFGT.

But without engine it had a hard time to survive.
 
My impression from the conversations was that they would have recognized a rare HP Mopar and they wouldn't have gutted it if it were restorable. These guys were and still are Mopar enthusiasts.
75 % of the guys here didn't give a damn about C bodies 15 years ago I don't believe they would have saved it, The B body was much more important

Good story Matt be nice to find out the outcome of this car.
 
There's one more guy I can ask about it.
 
75 % of the guys here didn't give a damn about C bodies 15 years ago I don't believe they would have saved it, The B body was much more important

Good story Matt be nice to find out the outcome of this car.
Even three years ago most didn't give a ****, when that green GT was put up for sale on here(Refer the pic above) and the guy put what was it? $3K on it, everyone bagged him for it, I stayed in contact and got it down to $1K and even when I told everyone here about it near the end no one stepped up, that was almost two years ago. Thing is, any resto is going to be a minimum $25K or more, what does it matter if it's $1K or $3K to buy it? From what I understand the green car I bought, it was for sale for quite awhile before I stepped in.
 
You're willing to do a restoration. At this point in life i' m not.

At some point something clicks in guys and like a C then another and their beliefs change.

I've always been a C body guy and have had a hard time understanding over the years when the NOS vendors tell me of all the parts they threw away because they were only C body parts.
 
You're willing to do a restoration. At this point in life i' m not.

At some point something clicks in guys and like a C then another and their beliefs change.

I've always been a C body guy and have had a hard time understanding over the years when the NOS vendors tell me of all the parts they threw away because they were only C body parts.
Well, I was concurring with you on the same point, the only difference being that one doesn't don't have to go far back in years to see the same sort of malaise when it comes to saving rare C-bodies.
 
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