Re: [FWDLK] L-FORWARDLOOK Digest - 1 Jan 2008 to 2 Jan 2008 (#2008-3)

[Brian Cooper <brianlcooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could be that the original dual quad motor ended up in a hot rod when the 
car was just another used Plymouth in the sixties.

Brian
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(#2008-3)


> Anybody else notice that, in the last-pic (with the car parked inside some 
> masonry-garage-type building), that the car's
> hood appears to be residing in a normally-opened position, but, in the 
> outside shots, that somebody had apparently
> "forced" the hood, and probably broke the hood hinges, in the process?
>
> I wonder if an "informed" restorer would install a (probably-correct, for 
> this car) 120 MPH speedo, or whether he
> would retrofit a 150 MPH unit  "just-because"  Furys were supposed to have 
> them ?
>
> If anyone is talking to the car's seller, I'd be curious to confirm the 
> carb's brass-tag model-number.
>
> The car's ownership history would be interesting to learn, too: 92K miles, 
> then basically abandoned, but,
> relatively well preserved, after being put-away, AND without a lot of 
> body-panel rust, or ANY significant
> body damage!!
>
> Neil Veddet
>
>
>
>
> Ron Allyn Swartley wrote:
> > ** *120 MPH SPEEDOMETER ON A FURY*
> > ** ** *  Back in 1958 I saw at least 3 different Fury's with 120 
> > speedometers. At that time they were brand new.
> > Two were sitting in the Chrysler Plymouth Showroom at two different 
> > dealerships. Years later I could not find one single one with a 120 
> > speedometer. When I saw the new one with the 120 I asked the salesman why 
> > it had the wrong speedometer and he said some of them had 120's and some 
> > didn't. I think one plant install the 120 speedometer for a very short 
> > time. Seeing the Fury on E bay is the 4th one I saw now.!!!!! Back then a 
> > lot of people took the 2/4bbl carbs off and went to single 4 bbl. Hey 
> > kids were not buying them and the older people that liked the body style 
> > did not intend to race them or even drive them fast.*
> > ** *      Ron Swartley*
> > ** *_PS._  After all back then gas was so expensive at .25 a gallon and 
> > if you made $50 dollars a week you had a good job.!!!!!*
> > ** 
> > *http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&viewitem=&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2F330201262949_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQfromZR40QQfviZ1&item=330201262949 
> > <http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&viewitem=&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2F330201262949_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQfromZR40QQfviZ1&item=330201262949>*
> >
> >
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