New to this forum - '68 Fury III

[Silverick]

Hello all,

My name is Rick, I registered this morning and just wanted to say hello.

Last summer, I was looking for a Mopar, was leaning toward a mid to late 60's B Body and kept coming across this '68 Fury. Finally went to look at the car... Southern California car, one owner, garage kept, 383 and 95,000 original miles. I drove her home that day and shortly after, I named her "Abigail". Abigail has been a lot of fun and she gets more attention than I would have ever thought! She's not perfect but, that shall slowly change.

I look forward to good advise and hopefully sharing advise, when I may have an answer!

Rick

 

[Silverick]

A couple pictures of Abigail.

 

[AlleyOop2]

Welcome to FCBO!

 

[detmatt]

Welcome to the site, great looking car, love the color!

 

[polara71]

:sSig_greetingsthor: Nice looking Fury, the best cars are one owner survivor C bodies.

 

[65&66Fury]

Nice Fury... love the Furys1 I have a 65 wagon and 66 sean.

 

[Silverick]

Thanks for the welcome, everyone

The blue Fury is my second '68 Fury III.

My first Fury (turquoise 2 door), I bought from my parents in 1975 and drove it for 14 yrs. I left the body and interior totally stock but, installed a '69 383 Magnum from a Charger (Crane, Torker, Carter, Accell, etc.), a '77 Torqueflite from a CHP car with the factory high stall converter, driveshaft from a '76 Monaco Sheriff's car (with the big U-joints), 3.23 Sure Grip from a Roadrunner and a factory rear sway bar from the Monaco. With the fender skirts and whitewalls, it was a total sleeper! With the original 2.76 gears, the car would do 70mph in low (I'd shift when the valves started to float ), 102mph in 2nd and 120mph on the speedo would come and go into the gearshift numbers!

I'm older now . I found this Fury.... and 4 door or not..... I had to have it and the price was right!
I installed 4 new tires, a set of KYB Gas A Just shocks, split the exhaust with Flowmasters and bought a set of original '69 Magnum 500's last week with all of the center caps and trim rings but, I think I'm going to order a set of re-pops, with the chrome wheel, like a '68 is supposed to have. I would like to find a factory rear sway bar from an '70's B body as, on my other Fury, it was the best thing that I did to it!

 

[rapidtransitrick]

welcome to fcbo

 

[polara71]

Your first Fury was a nice looking car too.

It sounds like a few B bodies gave up some parts for your C.........you are very welcome here.

 

[Fratzog]

:sSig_welcometoourclGood looking Plymouth from a Dodge boy. Post lots of pics and keep us up to speed as you make those changes.

 

[Silverick]

Thanks everybody and I'll keep everyone posted as things progress. Rick