1970 Fury console options
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Console is exactly the same as found in 69-70 b-body cars, woodgrain tops with woodgrain ball shifter handle.
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Those are pics right out of a 1970 dealer walk in customer brochure.
70 chryslers had the padded tops
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He inquired about 70 Fury's, not Chrysler 300's or new yorkers...
I know you car is a 70SF but my all original 69SF came with the brushed silver top with wood grain shifter ball and was curious if wood grain top would be an option in 69? Why didn’t my car come with the chrome shifter knob?Where these actual options or what the guy on the line decided to use?
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Interestingly, Bill Mounteer (RIP) red 70 Fury III convertible (made by order for sale in Canada) had the upscale Chrysler console installed. Bill could never offer a reason - it's just how the car arrived.
So am I to understand that the console is just like many other things mother Mopar did. There is the “correct one” that most cars got but then there are oddballs that were installed by accident or because that is what the factory had left when the car came down the line.
Yes, that's my take on it, too.
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There always seems to be an exception to the rule for cars made in the Canada plants. And yes, there are times at the beginning of the years production they used leftover previous years parts to clear the bins along the assembly line. Here is another better pic from the dealer showroom brochure showing the bucket/console set up for 70 furys(USA brochure).
You can probably consult the Dealer Order Guide for 1970 Plymouth C-bodies at
www.hamtramck-historical.com . Might need to manually input that address. I suspect there would be a better picture of the console there than in the sales brochure.
ONE thing that should be considered is that both the Order Guides and Sales Brochures were photographed a few months ahead of actual production starting. Just like the Factory Service Manuals, so as the fine print on the back of the sales brochure mentions . . . the OEM can change things from what is in the sales/order document at their discretion, when they decide to do so.
Personally, I like the woodgrain top of the "traditional" console more than the (harder to keep clean) brushed aluminum, but that is me. As woodgrain was also more upscale in those times, too, related to dash and door trim. Yet the padded console might better fit the "padded" orientation of the Fuselage interiors.
On the "traditional" console, there are a few threads in here about the console SHIFTER being longer on the C-body-only applications. Maybe an inch longer/taller? Yet I suspect they all have the same mounting flange where they attach to the floor pan.
I have a Slab factory console out of a Dodge that has the aluminum trim on top, with the "Performance Indicator" at the front. A padded cushion at the rear, too, in black. Carpet on the side in black, too. I bought it at a swap meet back in the 1980s to possibly replace the buddy seat in my '67 Newport (white seats and black carpet). The aluminum trim will go nicely with the '67 Newport dash trim, too.
Years later, not installed, but "under the bench" in the shop.
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www.hamtramck-historical.com . Might need to manually input that address. I suspect there would be a better picture of the console there than in the sales brochure.
ONE thing that should be considered is that both the Order Guides and Sales Brochures were photographed a few months ahead of actual production starting. Just like the Factory Service Manuals, so as the fine print on the back of the sales brochure mentions . . . the OEM can change things from what is in the sales/order document at their discretion, when they decide to do so.
Personally, I like the woodgrain top of the "traditional" console more than the (harder to keep clean) brushed aluminum, but that is me. As woodgrain was also more upscale in those times, too, related to dash and door trim. Yet the padded console might better fit the "padded" orientation of the Fuselage interiors.
On the "traditional" console, there are a few threads in here about the console SHIFTER being longer on the C-body-only applications. Maybe an inch longer/taller? Yet I suspect they all have the same mounting flange where they attach to the floor pan.
I have a Slab factory console out of a Dodge that has the aluminum trim on top, with the "Performance Indicator" at the front. A padded cushion at the rear, too, in black. Carpet on the side in black, too. I bought it at a swap meet back in the 1980s to possibly replace the buddy seat in my '67 Newport (white seats and black carpet). The aluminum trim will go nicely with the '67 Newport dash trim, too.
Years later, not installed, but "under the bench" in the shop.
Enjoy!
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