1967-68 C-body wagon weight specifications

[berg]

I recently bought a 1968 Fury Sport Suburban for my mom. It is a 383 auto and 3 seater. I live in Europe and I have hard times to register the car as a 3 seater, because of the payload capacity they have in the "database" is too small, so it cannot carry 8 passengers.
I did a long Google search and even tried FSM but I am unable to find any data about weights exept shipping and curb weight. Can someone please make a picture of the payload allowed and/or gross weight from some factory brochure, manual, etc so I could prove that their data is wrong.
I would send thousand thanks!

 

[CBODY67]

Those 3-seat wagons were classified as "9-Passenger" vehicles.

The "shipping weight" is how much it weighed when it left the assy plant to be loaded onto transports to head toward the deslerships.

The "Curb Weight" is supposed to be the actual weight of the vehicle, ready for sale, at the dealership. With a full tank of gas and such.

To that, in the tire pressure section of the appropriate owner's manual, that is where the "total capacity" computations are illustrated. Back then, I believe that each passenger location (defined by how many seat belts there were in the vehicle) was "supposed to be" about 150 lbs each average (which is just a general number they used), PLUS 500 lbs of luggage. In more modern times, I would count each passenger as 175lbs each, personally. This same loading and tire pressure information iv very possibly in the "Tire Pressure" area of the Factory Service Manual's front sections. www.mymopar.com for free downloads.

Hope this might help,
CBODY67

 

[berg]

Those 3-seat wagons were classified as "9-Passenger" vehicles.

The "shipping weight" is how much it weighed when it left the assy plant to be loaded onto transports to head toward the deslerships.

The "Curb Weight" is supposed to be the actual weight of the vehicle, ready for sale, at the dealership. With a full tank of gas and such.

To that, in the tire pressure section of the appropriate owner's manual, that is where the "total capacity" computations are illustrated. Back then, I believe that each passenger location (defined by how many seat belts there were in the vehicle) was "supposed to be" about 150 lbs each average (which is just a general number they used), PLUS 500 lbs of luggage. In more modern times, I would count each passenger as 175lbs each, personally. This same loading and tire pressure information iv very possibly in the "Tire Pressure" area of the Factory Service Manual's front sections. www.mymopar.com for free downloads.

Hope this might help,
CBODY67

Thank You for the reply! It is a extremly good advice to check the tires sections. Just for info that I was not able to access service manuals on www.mymopar.com - it directed me to Mopar.com and they only have online manuals for cars 2005 and up. But I had the paper FSM and checked the tire section and like You said the info was there. It is 1200lbs allowed in total.

Thousand thanks CBODY67!