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I took the car on a road trip to the drag strip yesterday and made a time run just for fun. It did about what I expected, 10.96 at 65.5 mph in the 1/8. It weighs a bit over 5000 with me, the spare tire, a full tank of gas and all the spare parts in the trunk in it. The 60 foot sucks because it's...

I didn't see any straps on rockauto, just the silly universal pipe hangers and eye bolts they sell. Anyway, I did some research and it looks like Chrysler redesigned their fuel tank straps in 1977, they went to the strap like I have that has a more aggressive "T" slot on the rear and the front...

It's high time I start fixing the rust issues in the trunk and quarters of my car. I don't feel comfortable hanging 28 gallons of gas on rusty metal so I decided to cut out all the rust and fabricate some patch panels to provide structural rigidity to the frame and gas tank braces. They don't...

I took the gas tank out of my Gran Fury to put in trunk floor patch panels. While it was out, I laid the straps in my metal pile, and this guy I know from a salvage yard came by and took all of my scrap metal without my permission, including the straps, and by the time I realized they were gone...

The car doesn't look that bad to be honest, as long as the frame rails aren't rusty and there aren't holes in the body so big they can't be patched with sheet metal and basic tools, that can be fixed in time. The interior is actually in better shape than my car though that isn't hard to do. But...

If you do need a gas tank, I think a 74 Fury II gas tank is the same as my 77 Gran Fury. The part number is a spectra CR22A which I found on Amazon for cheaper than most other places, some crazy people on eBay want upwards of $800 but it's on sale for $277 right now, I already got one Amazon.com

Took the car on an 80 mile road trip today, temps were in the low 90s and it ran fine at 70 mph on the highway. The gauge stayed about 180 on the road and never went over 190 in traffic. The shroud is apparently not necessary on a big enough aluminum radiator with the stock 7 blade clutch fan.

Went and drove the car around town with the new radiator, no leaks, and in the early evening with temps around 80 it never went over 190. Interestingly it actually idles cooler in traffic than it runs at high speed, would that seem to indicate I'm not getting enough water flow at high speed...

Well, I got the water pump and thermostat changed, this engine is incredibly clean inside. It's actually less rusty inside the cooling system than it is in the trunk, the old water pump looks perfect, I'm saving it in case this crappy chinese pump craps out. I got the radiator in too, as I...

Well, I installed the Auto Meter gauges and fired the car up and once it got up to temperature the radiator sprung a leak at the top of the flues. It looks like there's pretty much only one type of aluminum radiator that's supposed to fit the later C bodies, the one I ordered is a Champion CC503...

Thanks, it seemed strange to me too, apparently the department wanted to skimp on their unmarked cars, they didn't order it with gauges or a positraction rear end and only a 400 instead of the 440, but it is a brougham and has a rear defroster and AC and other stuff. It was probably a...

I checked the bolts and they worked loose a bit, snugged them up and took it out and drove it around town and the smoking and smelling has completely stopped, yay. The oil film that was on the valve cover rail has been charred and burned and no new oil is there. Now there's a new project I need...

Yeah, it is pretty much just the right side. I used 3m weatherstrip and gasket adhesive to glue the gaskets to the cover but left the heads bare metal, hit the rails with a brass brush to get them nice and shiny clean. The main leak is occuring between the two middle bolts on the bottom of the...

I finally got the Gran Fury roadworthy and legal, it surprisingly didn't take that much work considering it sat in the woods since 1999. I put a new brake master cylinder on it and new rear hoses, put new wiper bushings and blades in it, some new bulbs and a flasher, new carburetor, new muffler...

It's the original engine for the car, the vin is on it. It was originally an undercover police car, the fender tag says it has the A38 package with an E68 engine and it was a special order body in white. But it doesn't have roof light wiring and was painted the color it currently is from the...

I just got my Gran Fury on the road and it has a bone stock 400 HP engine, aside from a Holley 4011 carb and points ignition instead of lean burn, 3.21 gear, and it'll spin the tires about 15 feet out from a dead idle taking off. It's a heavy beast so the actual performance isn't that impressive...

I replaced both front and rear bulbs with OE style incandescent lights and soldered in auxiliary ground wires to them to rule out all of those things. Both sides blink at the same speed and brightness now so the only thing that it could have been was the flasher. If this car is wired up like a...

Wow, what a coincidence, I just had to replace mine last week since the right signal stopped flashing. Interestingly enough the left side still worked, I have no clue why the flasher caused that but it did. Anyway on my 77 Gran Fury, which may or may not be like the other C bodies that year, the...

The rust is worst in the lower quarters and trunk, it's completely rusted through there. The floor pans have a few small holes, but the frame is still solid at least. I'm not going to pursue this car as a roadworthy project for now because of the rust. I'm just trying to get it where I can move...

I'm debating whether or not I should fix this car and drive it. It's a 77 Gran Fury that was used as an undercover police car by the Cumberland county sheriff's office. It's got a lot of problems, a broken left torsion bar, broken front door handles, dead gas in the tank and some body rust...