TerryM
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Does anyone have a factory original picture of the trunk on a 65 fury convertible? Just wanting too see the correct set up for the spare tire hold down. Cheers Terry
Spare tire hold down
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What is shown in that pic is correct for USA verts, and all Canadian C body cars except wagons for 65-66 AFAIK. USA non verts had the spare perched on a special bracket up by the centre of the axle hump. As you know, the spare is held down with a hook and wing nut. The lug wrench is placed under the tire.
The jack bar and mechanism placed into the brackets in the quarter (there should be felt pads glued into the brackets which are almost always gone - the felt is the same as carpet underpad), and it is hooked on to the tab on the wheelhouse with that little spring. The jack is then clicked along to put the spring under tension to keep the assembly in place.
The jack hook is sometimes found bolted to the verticle tail light support near the spare using a special wing bolt through the smaller upper hole. This is what I've sern on 65-66 Monaco, Polara and Fury cars. I would expect it was the same for Chryslers too. Again, the wing bolt is often lost. If it has a threaded nut welded in the hook then it used the wing nut. If no nut is present then I am not sure where it was stowed. I've seen it on the spare tire hold down hook, but one has to have on with a long enough end to permit that (not factory). Yours doesn't look like that, and I see it tucked in with the jack bar on the wheelhouse. I'm not quite sure if that's right, but could be.
Wagons had a completely different arrangement.
While it can be hard to decipher, all this is shown on the jacking instructions sticker...
Your car is lovely Terry. If it's worth anything to you, your trunk lid latch plate technically should be body colour. Looks nice all shiny metal though!!
The jack bar and mechanism placed into the brackets in the quarter (there should be felt pads glued into the brackets which are almost always gone - the felt is the same as carpet underpad), and it is hooked on to the tab on the wheelhouse with that little spring. The jack is then clicked along to put the spring under tension to keep the assembly in place.
The jack hook is sometimes found bolted to the verticle tail light support near the spare using a special wing bolt through the smaller upper hole. This is what I've sern on 65-66 Monaco, Polara and Fury cars. I would expect it was the same for Chryslers too. Again, the wing bolt is often lost. If it has a threaded nut welded in the hook then it used the wing nut. If no nut is present then I am not sure where it was stowed. I've seen it on the spare tire hold down hook, but one has to have on with a long enough end to permit that (not factory). Yours doesn't look like that, and I see it tucked in with the jack bar on the wheelhouse. I'm not quite sure if that's right, but could be.
Wagons had a completely different arrangement.
While it can be hard to decipher, all this is shown on the jacking instructions sticker...
Your car is lovely Terry. If it's worth anything to you, your trunk lid latch plate technically should be body colour. Looks nice all shiny metal though!!
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TerryM
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Thanks mate. My jack originally came out of a 66. I had seen pictures of the jack hook where I have it, but the slot in mine wasn’t long enough so I had to make it around a quatre inch longer. Interesting about the threaded nut and bolted as I have seen a jack hook like that before here in a 67. I have replicated the felt sections. I had all the brackets, hinges and bolts silver zinc plated. Purely just a personal taste thing. I also left all the trunk area white instead of that speckled rubberised coating that was sprayed everywhere. I never understood why chrysler did that for. It was a real fun time removing that lol. Thank you for your reply. I actually never even thought to look at the jack instructions. I’ll check that out. Kind Regards Terry
Mudeblue
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Super clean trunk. Must be a new restoration? Pictures please?
TerryM
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I have an album in the member’s restoration section. 1965 pace car
James Romano
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Terry, you really have the making of a museum piece there. Lol
If you're going for super OEM... Everything on the jack other than the metal rod and tire iron is supposed to be Dove Grey. It's up to you, it looks great gloss black. You've done an amazing job on it all.
If you're going for super OEM... Everything on the jack other than the metal rod and tire iron is supposed to be Dove Grey. It's up to you, it looks great gloss black. You've done an amazing job on it all.
TerryM
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Thanks mate. Yeah I like seeing the factory correct finishes but this car I’m just doing to my taste so to speak. I always struggled liking that speckled grey rubberised coating they sprayed in the trunk. I like the crisp look of the white. I started out wanting to do it exactly correct but got sidetracked. I do get a buzz out of seeing ppl do them perfect but. I also took hundreds of reference photos for down the track for others if they needed to see things. It’s interesting to see some of the things assembled prior to painting and so forth. The jack in interesting. I didn’t know about them being grey. Do you know what sticker they used on the base? There’s so little info out there on these cars in regards to what’s correct. Ive struggled finding info on lots of things. Cheers Terry
All my 66 jacks have been black, with a silver bar. Perhaps it was different for 65.
James Romano
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I'll take a pic of mine. It still has the sticker on it.
Color is your choice. It looks great the way you have it and really, it's something that makes very little difference.
Color is your choice. It looks great the way you have it and really, it's something that makes very little difference.
Could be vendor/location differences too... perhaps the vendor(s) oscillated between black, grey, and I've seen blue too.
James Romano
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Here's mine
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