For Sale 1971 Sport Fury $ 35,000

[Ironwolf]

Now this looks interesting however very little info or pictures.


1971 Plymouth Sport Fury - $35000

1971 Plymouth Sport Fury

1971 Plymouth Sport Fury Two Door Formal hardtop with GT appearance package. Beautiful touring car with a recent rest-mod. Featured in Hemmings Muscle Machines & Hot Rod Magazine. New crate motor 304 cubic inch from Blue Print Engines, installed by Vintage Auto Repair in Phoenix. Suspension rebuilt tubular upper control arms added, four wheel disc brakes. This is a large, comfortable road care, firm feel steering gear box added. Interior redone, body repainted in original dark blue with white reflective strobe stripes and graphics. This car has run cross country with Hotrod Magazine's Power Tour from Los Angeles to Nashville with no issues. Blue Streak BF Goodrich radial TA Tires on 15" factory road wheels. Factory A/C just rebuilt and keeps the car cool, cooling system rebuilt with desert core radiator. Great road car, very powerful with bucket seats, power drivers seat. For more information feel free to email or call.

1971 plymouth sport fury

fuel: gas
title status: clean
transmission: automatic

 

[Turboomni]

304 cubic inch?

I saw that car in hot rod mag. Beautiful car.

 

[300rag]

304 cubic inch?

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Dyslexic? Probably supposed to be 340.

 

[Ironwolf]

Or it could be an Oldsmobile 304 Engine !!!



Oldsmobile 403 Engine - Car Craft Magazine

 

[Turboomni]

My 72 fury 4 door I owned years ago had a 360.

 

[saforwardlook]

The listing says "with GT appearance package" but he should clarify that the factory never offered one on a regular Sport Fury and SFGTs didn't have that roofline (thank god).

 

[Pete Kaczmarski]

Way over priced......

 

[FURYGT]

The car is claimed to have been built with a 340. While the S/23 did not reappear in 1971 very few people realized that you could build your own as an option on the Sport Fury was to delete the body side moldings and get a strobe stripe. The strobe stripe was just the stripe, no hood graphics and no GT on the quarter panels. I have only come across one and that was back in the early '90's and the car had been repainted and the stripe removed. I still kick myself for not buying that car. Anyhow, I'd bet that if we got the fender tag information it would decode to show the stripe option and likely a 360.

A previous owner claimed that Jay Leno tried to buy the car from him.

Bill

 

[CanCritter]

questionable....
https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/m...ar---1971-Plymouth-Sport-Fury-GT/3749410.html

 

[Turboomni]

Thanks for posting that Cancritter. The whole thing does puzzle me but I am no C body authority by any means.

 

[tbm3fan]

Way over priced......

Yes, he is certifiable. See these kind of resto-mods all the time with loads of mechanical work not stock to the car. No problem if he kept it for himself but now selling it... who cares.

 

[Ross Wooldridge]

I kinda like it - I don't prefer the formal roofline either, but he's tried to do a good job on the car. If you read the Hemming's story, you can see it was a labour of love, and I completely understand that. Over-priced? Well, that's a matter of opinion - for me, if I was looking for a resto-mod like that, I would think it was OK, as you likely couldn't come close to building one with that kind of quality for the money. If one prefers a factory original resto, then you pass. I don't think we need to slam either his asking price for the quality of the work, or his choice on how he restored/modded his car, as his work is quite nice and he didn't disrespect the car's heritage however non-original it may be.

Whether the car was equipped with a 340 originally or not, and whether the GT appearance package was a special order factory original thing - well, maybe, maybe not. We've all seen cars that aren't technically supposed to exist from Ma Mopar, so never say never. It often boiled down to "if you had the money to pay, Chrysler often played". Someone either knew what they wanted and paid to get it, or the story is B.S. I kinda lean towards it being true, because of my car.

Remember, (and for those who don't know the story), my '66 Monaco was special ordered in Calgary Alberta with the 426 Hemi and 4 speed by a dealership employee in '65, based on his inside knowlege that the '66 300 was going to get the Hemi. He paid a high premium to get the car of his dreams as he called it, and added a pile of options like dual power buckets, tint glass, tilt tele, power windows, search tuner with reverb, the list is quite extensive.

Shortly after Mopar let the news slip that the 300 might get the Hemi, that project was cancelled and the B bodies got it instead. Calgary and Edmonton are the Hemi capitols of North America - with all the oil money, more Hemi equipped cars were sold there than anywhere else.

The original owner was not told that the Hemi 300 M had been cancelled, and because the dealership didn't want to lose the sale of a very well optioned (and therefore high profit) car, his boss pulled strings to get the factory to install the RCMP issue 440. Most police motors were special hand assembled engines, balanced built to design specs on a special dedicated assembly line. Contrary to legend, those motors had no special parts, and were simply extra well built with no other differences blah blah blah. The difference in my opinion is staggering.

When the car came in the original owner was pissed and wanted to cancel his order. His boss said "sorry - couldn't get you the Hemi, so we got you the engine in it that the RCMP cars get to catch a--holes like you who order Hemis. Take it for a test drive and if you still don't want it I have a line up of people who do".

He told me that he took the car out, came back, changed his underwear and took delivery.

Here's that car getting up to some simple "foot down at 20 mph shenanigans".
At the time I was still using points ignition, and there are no headers or any non-factory original parts. That says something! Enjoy (watch with sound up!!):

 

[fury fan]

...and if you still don't want it I have a line up of people who do".

A dealer once told my wife a similar thing as we were looking at a brown base-model Mini Cooper 3-door. Not sure if it was metallic brown or just dusty.

Ross, if you hadn't posted that video I would've. It's in my YT favorites list.

 

[fury fan]

questionable....
https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/m...ar---1971-Plymouth-Sport-Fury-GT/3749410.html

The sentence to ponder is :

One oddball note: The small-block that, in defiance of the option sheets, had somehow found its way under the Fury's hood prior to Tom's ownership.

I don't read that as a testament that it was original to the car. A simple VIN code would support it as original, but they don't mention that. If my C-body was VIN-coded for a 340, I'd sure mention that fact to dispel the naysayers...

 

[Kaptain_Kon]

The car is claimed to have been built with a 340. While the S/23 did not reappear in 1971 very few people realized that you could build your own as an option on the Sport Fury was to delete the body side moldings and get a strobe stripe. The strobe stripe was just the stripe, no hood graphics and no GT on the quarter panels. I have only come across one and that was back in the early '90's and the car had been repainted and the stripe removed. I still kick myself for not buying that car. Anyhow, I'd bet that if we got the fender tag information it would decode to show the stripe option and likely a 360.

A previous owner claimed that Jay Leno tried to buy the car from him.

Bill

My 1971 Sport Fury has the factory “Black strobe stripe” on the broadcast sheet. The last owner removed it and repainted the car... I’m putting it back on when my paint is fully cured.

 

[FURYGT]

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My 1971 Sport Fury has the factory “Black strobe stripe” on the broadcast sheet. The last owner removed it and repainted the car... I’m putting it back on when my paint is fully cured.

Konner, I would love to see a photo of the VIN tag on your car and the broadcast sheet. Off topic, I am still working on a deal for stripes.

 

[Kaptain_Kon]

Konner, I would love to see a photo of the VIN tag on your car and the broadcast sheet. Off topic, I am still working on a deal for stripes.

The fender tag lists V5X body black side molding, but the broadcast sheet lists V9. It doesn’t match up 100% from the tags to the broadcast sheet but they have the same VIN and production number stamped on it so I’m assuming it’s correct. I just moved so the broadcast sheet is in safe keeping in one of my adverts boxes. When I find it I will post a picture and maybe you can help me decode it a bit better?

I tried mailing something to FCA and they sent me back a few print offs for my car including one that lists side stripe appearance for the 71 Sport Fury as optional in 3 colours.

It’s a standard 71 Sport Fury; power brakes, steering, 318 2bbl car like the blue car that sold was.

It has a few extras like rear defrost, hood latch cable release, split bench with bucket tops, deluxe floor coverings...

There was also a second fender tag that the paint shop conveniently “misplaced” and are still looking for, it listed a “Y” letter and a few other things. I’m assuming its from it being a Canadian car? I was unaware how important it was until after the fact and now I’m kind of SOL unless they find it. I don’t know too much about the tags without using a decoder and Im told none are 100% accurate.

Unfortunately the original owner passed away and the dealership no longer exists so I can’t get a copy of the dealer invoice. Right now I’m at a loss without that second fender tag but maybe when I find the broadcast sheet I’ll get a bit more info on it.

 

[polara71]

Not sure what the 2nd tag would have had. The existing tag is light as it is

 

[ph23vo]

The fender tag lists V5X body black side molding, but the broadcast sheet lists V9. It doesn’t match up 100% from the tags to the broadcast sheet but they have the same VIN and production number stamped on it so I’m assuming it’s correct. I just moved so the broadcast sheet is in safe keeping in one of my adverts boxes. When I find it I will post a picture and maybe you can help me decode it a bit better?

I tried mailing something to FCA and they sent me back a few print offs for my car including one that lists side stripe appearance for the 71 Sport Fury as optional in 3 colours.

It’s a standard 71 Sport Fury; power brakes, steering, 318 2bbl car like the blue car that sold was.

It has a few extras like rear defrost, hood latch cable release, split bench with bucket tops, deluxe floor coverings...

There was also a second fender tag that the paint shop conveniently “misplaced” and are still looking for, it listed a “Y” letter and a few other things. I’m assuming its from it being a Canadian car? I was unaware how important it was until after the fact and now I’m kind of SOL unless they find it. I don’t know too much about the tags without using a decoder and Im told none are 100% accurate.

Unfortunately the original owner passed away and the dealership no longer exists so I can’t get a copy of the dealer invoice. Right now I’m at a loss without that second fender tag but maybe when I find the broadcast sheet I’ll get a bit more info on it.

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there would not be a second tag on yours... if there was it would not say END on the first tag... and since you didn't post a pic of the area next to the tag on the core support to see the second hole is empty its still a mystery...

 

[ph23vo]

V5X is body side mouldings.. has your car been repainted and the holes filled?.... do you have a PIC of your car before i twas painted?...possibly it had tape stripes.. usually you can find remnants of them at fender edges and door edges as some wrapped around.. never seen GT tape stripes on a non GT yet..but never say never!