NOT MINE 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury Coupe - $14,000 - Atlanta, Georgia

T-revorNobody

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 8, 2020
Messages
2,267
Reaction score
4,743
Location
Sidewinder, Colorado
Feedback: 0 / 0 / 0
At the time of posting, this FB listing is 1 day old.

1970 Plymouth Sport Fury Coupe - $14,000 - Atlanta, Georgia

FB Description

2 door hardtop LOF: 383 290HP 1-2BBL (440 added) 8 cylinder, original color burnt poly orange, black vinyl bucket seats, console with wood grain panels, full vinyl top. I really love this car and haven’t finished all I wanted to do. Pumpkin deserves a good home.
274135599_10227499730027032_453937398555994062_n.jpg
274136796_10227499729467018_10337958675416274_n.jpg
274000758_10227499729347015_248931463506611694_n.jpg
274140679_10227499731867078_2788642897595929579_n.jpg
274113233_10227499729907029_4909636708520676225_n.jpg
274179202_10227499731547070_6522339519558198670_n.jpg
 
Thank you for posting about PH23L0F100735 — the FK3 / black buckets combo gives it great looks. Very early SBD (8/7/1969). (Edit: Thank you @Georg/DFL for the link to the 2020 thread).

@69CoronetRT should like the tag and build sheet
 
Last edited:
Interested parties should read the previous thread where the prior owner describes the rust problems the car had 20 years ago. It's shiny but there could be some things coming back.
 
No I cant find the post but the car belonged to @fury fan I believe.
Correct, owned the car many years ago, details are in that thread.

For a general re-cap - the trunk floor had been replaced with sheetmetal prior to me owning it, and whole car (including trunk floor) were painted (likely 10+ years prior, as the paint was micro-checked). Not resto-quality work but whomever did hte work took some pride.
Had roofrust, I peeled the vinyl , ground/filled the rust as best I could, and painted with black Rusto.
Rust came back to the same extent within a few years, so spent a week repeating the Hail-Mary repair.
But this time it was also showing a lot of bubbling in the bondo that was along all the bottom edges of the quarters, rear wheelarches, bottoms of fenders and doors.
I knew it was going to explode within a few years (it was still somewhat shiny and one color at this point) and the rust repair was more than I wanted to tackle.
So I traded it to a buddy for a different car and some stuff.

He had some issues wiht it runing hot and being sluggish, and after a lot of diagnosing and parts-swapping, he installed a different 383-2 and it ran like new again (he gave me the orig 383 back).
He sold it to a local guy that was 'going to do something with it' - which was to immediately flip it on ebay with a lot of false info (original paint, orig engine, etc).
I contacted the winning bidder and told them the orig 383 was in my garage if they wanted it. I never heard from them. Eventually I scrapped that engine.

It could've had a lot of quality sheetmetal repair done to it since then, and it has a VT again, and it sure is straight/shiny.
But definitely needs knowledgable eyeballs before dropping $14k on it.

It is def cool with hte original color and early build - I do wish I still had it (minus the rust issues, of course).

My dream for it was body-colored wheels, PlyDiv dogdishes, and redline tires. Somewhat of an A-12 RR kinda thing...
 
This car have arrived to "Old Continent" in over year ago. It's on sale and asking price is $28k. Owner claims it has 440 now. Don't know about that, but rust under the vinyl roof has began to "bubbling" again.

Firefox_Screenshot_2023-08-11T04-10-35.542Z.png
 
@Lassard
Thanks for posting! How in the world is that your first posting in over 7 years of membership here?


Although nice to be seeing this car again, it does sadden me that it went to EU. Not that I would ever buy it again, but it's now an impossibility.
The emotional response of being unable to attain something you wouldn't attain anyway makes no sense, but I'm sure some of you understand.

Looks like the seats have been redone since it was FS in Atlanta.
The roof bubbling on the C-pillar - I don't recall having it in that area when I had it. It was mostly around the front/rear glass channels and trim and in the A-pillars.
The front tires seem to have bad camber, they are leaning in at the top. ???

Here's a pic I hadn't seen before, and I can see that those console lights are halogen kitchen under-cabinet lights I installed many years ago. Much brighter than the originals. There are much better (and better-looking) options now, but that was one of the few options for brighter interior lighting back then.

I did not do the speakers in the kick panels nor the tweeters in the doors.
I did make a bracket to hold a modern radio in teh dash, and that was more involved than expected. The dash plate is curved in that area and there was some curvature built into the factory radio's bezel. IIRC the radio goes into the dash at a bit of an angle, which I had never seen prior. I welded up a sleeve that would angle the radio and hit the factory mtg points.



1691757078156.png
 
And a favorite view - I loved looking down that double-bubble hood.
Gotta get me another 70 SF someday, or a 71 with a 70 hood, at least.

1691759108705.png
 
Picture of the roof bubbling enlarged.

ROOF.RUST.jpg


Having a Volt/Ohm meter and a couple of fire extinguishers in the center console doesn't give much confidence to a reliable ride ya'think. Why oh Why they don't remove that stuff for the photo shoot is beyond me.
It does have the seat belt clips +.

VOLT.OHM.CONSOLE.jpg




.
 
@Lassard
Thanks for posting! How in the world is that your first posting in over 7 years of membership here?

Hi Fury fan. I've been lurking and have nothing to say! I've been in C-bodies for a while. My first (your) domestic car was 1974 Monaco 2 D HT bought 1990. It was sold to Finland as new. Traded it to -70 Fury III in -97. Owned it ten years and stilli regret to sale. I loved to car but never used to it's FF4 color.

My previous Fury in pic. It was Californian and sold to Finland 1996 - poor car! C-bodies are familiar to Finns because they were sold here as new to purpose that Cadillacs and Lincolns did in US. It's a long story i'll tell later.

Copy of HPIM0615.JPG
 
Last edited:
@Lassard

Although nice to be seeing this car again, it does sadden me that it went to EU. Not that I would ever buy it again, but it's now an impossibility.
The emotional response of being unable to attain something you wouldn't attain anyway makes no sense, but I'm sure some of you understand.

the good old USA imports most of their stuff from China, elsewhere in Asia or in Europe.
But private guys in the US still consider it nearly impossible to ship an old car from somewhere else than just USA/Canada.
It will cost you about 3k $ from the Rotterdam Harbour to the US and maybe another 700 $ from its current location to the harbour.

It ain't cheap (including the car) but it ain't impossible if you really"need" to have it. Just in case.

There is a bunch of vintage cars swimming back and forth (mostly European cars) BTW

Carsten
 
Interesting, the shipping cost of $3-4000 is less than I thought it would be.

But for most of the C-bodies the EU folks seem to want, I can't swallow the price of the cars while they are still in the US, let alone even more to bring it back from EU.

I'll just need to be content with what I already have.
 
Back
Top