1968 Plymouth Sport Fury 440 4-Speed at Mecum

Amazing, $30k for a really hacked car. Agree seller should have taken money & run.
 
That would be a Super Commando not TNT correct.

Looks like a spot on the fender well for the brace.
 
This bothers me for so many reasons.

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Screams Chevy restoration shop.
Black motor compartment.
Isn’t there suppose tin be a brace from firewall to the inter fender well by the master cylinder?

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There's so many things in this picture that are wrong that it'd be way easier to list the few things that are right. It is missing fender brace.
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Sourcing all the missing body trim would be very difficult and expensive.
 
And then there is the interior... WTF was someone thinking bidding $30k for this? What a shame that this car has been screwed up in so many ways.
 
Just More People with more money then brains. They are prolly all chevy lovers, dont know or care to see how correct the car really is. It Looks good enough for them so let's put a stupid high price tag on it and hopefully some other idiot with more money then brains, will buy it.

The genius is in the detail with these cars. Shame not many realize that and only care about lining their pockets.
 
I snuck this one into the What do y’all think about this? Mecum 1967 Plymouth Fury II Clown Cop Car thread.
I have a picture of the red 4spd Fury from 2011 at a Daytona Speedway show that I posted in that thread.
Funny thing is that when it rolled on the block it appears the bumper bolts were no longer chrome! (someone reading the comments?)

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I like the color of it and the cop rims with caps, but as others mentioned there are sooo many things wrong with it. Where is the side stripe, maybe its a real early build or Canadian cars didn't get one? Why also are the fender signals painted red and why is the firewall black, those are what really bother me. Well those and the painted bumpers, and especially **** rigged heater job.
 
We all know that with a little bit more effort and $$$$, the owner/restorer could have had a nice car worthy of its allegedly low production numbers and a higher price. Instead, they seemed to go for a more modern look with less chrome and one color, which also includes the bumpers (BUT the bumper bolts should have been painted to complete the look!). Obviously less $$ to paint the bumpers than to rechrome them?

The way the lh front seat looks "used", the whole car might have been a basket case that was saved. The seat covers and steering wheel cover might further imply that, too?

Underhood, the heater pipes might clean things up a bit from just bare hoses being strung from connector to connector. They obviously took some time to loom those plug wires, too, so they'd look nice and all if that, rather than find a good set of OEM-spec wires to run where they originally did. But they also fit with the MP aluminum valve covers, rather than some stock chromed covers. Then that air cleaner decal that doesn't fit the cleaner and is the wrong one.

What I see is a lower-budget "resto-mod", without the "resto" part. Playing on the "orig 4-spd 440 car", ultimate performance, orientation.

But it seems that a lot of what's not liked could be fixed, reasonably easily? Chrome bumpers, a well-finessed side stripe to mimic the factory chrome trim that's missing. some new heater hoses, correct plug wires, VN501 15x7s with BFG Radial T/As or 18x7s with BFG Comp radials, get the steering wheel covered in leather, and some better seat covers . . . might make it more worth what the seller perceives it might be worth. Black underhood areas? Just tell the gawkers at the weekend cruises that it was a black car that got painted red . . . until they decode the data plate.

Looking at the auction results, day to day, there was HUMONGOUS amounts of money that changed hands at that auction! Lots of high-level merchandise!

Might not be to everybody's taste, but I concur that it should have found its new home so that it might be what it could be rather than what it is.

Just some thoughts,
CBODY67
 
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