I have a 66 fury 3 383 super commando with 4 speed, how rare?

[Radical Fred]

I cant find much info on # for factory big block 4 speed cars built. Mine is a odd duck with bench seat, tilt/ telescopic, pr steering. drum brakes and 3:23 8 3/4 sure grip. rear speakers and rear defrost.
I am interested if anyone has production # for the car. I have been told less than 2% were bb 4 speed cars.

 

[69CoronetRT]

Try this thread:

'66 C body production info aka "How many?"

 

[commando1]

Please start a new thread on your Fury. I would love to know more about it.

 

[CBODY67]

Given the time the car was built, finding ANY Fury III with a 3-spd manual would be a trick. Much less a factory 4-speed car. In many cases, unlike GM, Chrysler seemed to be a bit lax in keeping records after a few years of production. Available file space was the issue.

Generally, the C-body records did not become "desirable" until many decades after the cars were built. Although the "hot rod" B, E, and A-body cars' records were deemed to be "worth saving".

It's one thing to worry about how many were produced, BUT the bigger issue is "How many survived"!

MIGHT want to consider putting some sort of "agreed value" insurance coverage on the car! That means that if the car is a total loss, you CAN get paid on that amount.

Neat and special car.
Enjoy!
CBODY67

 

[SportFuryman]

I cant find much info on # for factory big block 4 speed cars built. Mine is a odd duck with bench seat, tilt/ telescopic, pr steering. drum brakes and 3:23 8 3/4 sure grip. rear speakers and rear defrost.
I am interested if anyone has production # for the car. I have been told less than 2% were bb 4 speed cars.

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The fact that it’s a Fury III alone with that combo and options has got to be extremely rare. I have a 66 Sport Fury 383 4-speed and it’s rare as it is but I have seen a couple of others with the same combo but I’ve never seen a III with that combo. The tilt/telescopic steering is one I’ve never seen on a 66 Fury and Sure-Grip rear is very uncommon on a III also. I found a list of manufacturers numbers for 4-speeds and such for 66 fury’s one time. I’ll have to see if I still have it somewhere saved.

 

[CBODY67]

The issue of SureGrip equipment is probably, for those produced, more of a regional situation. The majority of normal cars not related to any "performance" activity, are most probably in the snow belt than in other parts of the nation.

As 4-speed cars were "highly-suspected" to be used in some kind of acceleration trials, adding the SureGrip would have been the icing on the cake, so to speak.

Just some thoughts,
CBODY67

 

[fury fan]

Although I don't have production #s, I've been following 4-speed Cs since the early 90s.

Of all the Cs, I would put the 65-66 Sport Fury as most common to have 4-speed, followed by the 65-66 Fury III.
And in those, 383-4 is by far the most common engine.
I do not recall seeing a Fury III 4-speed that didn't have a bench seat.
The tilt wheel is an oddity in your combination, for sure, but otherwise it's pretty typical in its overall combination for a FIII.

We can always split a car down into colors, radio, and other options, but that's what the B&E-body guys do. You can always get a car to be 1 of 10 if you go far enough.
It's a rare car regardless.

Can you post a pic of the fendertag so we can verify the pedigree?
If so, then I'll request you post it into a special thread we have for these cars.

 

[Radical Fred]

Although I don't have production #s, I've been following 4-speed Cs since the early 90s.

Of all the Cs, I would put the 65-66 Sport Fury as most common to have 4-speed, followed by the 65-66 Fury III.
And in those, 383-4 is by far the most common engine.
I do not recall seeing a Fury III 4-speed that didn't have a bench seat.
The tilt wheel is an oddity in your combination, for sure, but otherwise it's pretty typical in its overall combination for a FIII.

We can always split a car down into colors, radio, and other options, but that's what the B&E-body guys do. You can always get a car to be 1 of 10 if you go far enough.
It's a rare car regardless.

Can you post a pic of the fendertag so we can verify the pedigree?
If so, then I'll request you post it into a special thread we have for these cars.

 

[69CoronetRT]

Your car appears to have been built for sale in Canada.

If that is true, then any production figures, probably depends on the context, DO NOT apply to your car. Production data listed is, typically, applicable to cars built for sale in the US.

Was it built at the Windsor plant?

 

[Dick Landy]

Read here:

Factory 4-Speed-C-Body-Photo-Thread

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[fury fan]

Upon looking at your FT, and seeing some differences between my list for decoding a 65, I remembered that you have a '66.
For instance, letter D signifies the transmission, but your tag is blank. I believe your car has a trans.
E signifies the HVAC, and 3 = AC w/o a heater. While it's possible on a 'sedan', it would seem this rare option is for a convertible - and a southern-climate one at that. Seems illogical on a closed-roof car built for Canada? So I think that code location changed between 65-66, too.


I did some googling and got quite a few hits that '66 tags don't have a good decode site.
If anyone has one and can assist?

 

[69CoronetRT]

If anyone has one and can assist?

Different plants coded differently.

We need to find out if the car was built at the Windsor plant before we can apply other plant coding to this tag.

The engine code and SO number indicate, to me, the car was built for sale in Canada raising a suspicion it was built at the Windsor plant.