This sweetie of a Fury is being sold here on eBay and is located in the fine city of Camden, South Carolina (home to our 24 Hours of LeMons race parade every fall) The seller tells us they are listing it for a friend and will refer any questions to that friend. A buy it now price of $14,995 is proposed but the seller is entertaining lower offers.
The listing states that the car is original with no rust. If that truly is the original paint it has been preserved quite well, and the chrome looks great in these pictures as well. Unfortunately, our Scotty G. wasn’t taking those pictures so they aren’t quite as clear or as well composed as we’d like them to be. How much effort would it have taken to just completely remove the car cover? Or open the hood? Sorry, but my tolerance for sellers that don’t really want to sell their cars is running out. Anyway, what we can see of the car looks great!
The vertically stacked headlamps are a hallmark of these Furys. The Sport Fury was the top of the Fury line and offered quite a few amenities other models did not, like the standard fender skirts visible in the top picture and the “spinner” wheel covers that are still present. A convertible Sport Fury was even chosen to pace the Indianapolis 500 in 1965, a first for Plymouth.
Naturally, being the top of the line, the Sport Fury came with a fantastic interior, which looks to be in terrific shape. I think the reddish color on the right side of this shot is a function of the photography, not that it’s really burgundy. 38,348 hardtop Sport Furys were produced in 1965, and you can bet there are few remaining that look this nice. We’re also told that factory air conditioning is present, a must for a black coupe in the south!
I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that a black Sport Fury was prominently placed in the 1965 Plymouth full-line brochure and a white Fury was chosen for the cover as well.
Unfortunately, we don’t know which one of the three V-8 engine sizes were fitted, with the 318 being standard, while the two 383s and the non-Hemi 426 were optional. I think this car could be spectacular if gently detailed and a few minor changes made (like replacing the raised white letter tires with period whitewalls). What do you readers think?
Probably a 318 or else they would’ve touted it as a BIG BLOCK, or called the 426 a “Max Wedge Hemi.”
The first car my father bought new, & the first car I remember us having, a red w/black interior, Fury III, 2 door hardtop, fender skirts…my dad took good care of it…washing & waxing. We were a one car family until I was 5 or 6 years old. We pulled our boat with it…went camping, went to the drive in…my sister & I going to sleep after the cartoons…mom & dad watch Dirty Mary & Crazy Larry, or one of the Gator McKluskie/Burt Reynolds…a trip down memory lane in a ’65 Plymouth Fury. Thank you for this post…
I see dual exhaust, not a 318 thing.
I put duals on every v-8 I ever owned.
The auction is ended now but the seller had added a line to the description that the “engine is a 383 and all numbers match”. That’s a bit more than we had before although Chrysler didn’t begin stamping the engine and trans with the car VIN until 1968. Looks like a nice car though.
Wow! A old Mopar with no rust…….someone get me a magnet! Just saying?
I’m just kidding guys!……LOL!
My Dad had a white one, with a 318…it was his favorite car.
The fender badge says “Commando V8” and the hood ornament appears to have a horizontal black bar. 318 cars just had “V8” on the fenders and no bar on the hood ornament. I surmise the car has the 2 bbl 383 because the bar on the hood ornament would be red if it were the 4bbl. Clearly it has been upgraded to dual exhausts because the 2bbl engine came with a single. I’m basing this on having had a ‘67 with that engine.
I had a 66 Sport Fury with the Commando V8. It was a 383 2 barrel. I was told that the Commando engine had a forged steel crank versus the nodular cast steel crank.
It WAS original, until they put the ’68 marker lights on it!
Black cars in the dark stand a high chance of being broadsided. The desire to reduce the number of people killed by this was the primary reason behind the Feds requiring side marker lights on cars and trucks made after the 1967 model year. It was cheap, safe, and easy to update an older model car.
The first car my father bought new, & the first car I remember us having, a red w/black interior, Fury III, 2 door hardtop, fender skirts…my dad took good care of it…washing & waxing. We were a one car family until I was 5 or 6 years old. We pulled our boat with it…went camping, went to the drive in…my sister & I going to sleep after the cartoons…mom & dad watch Dirty Mary & Crazy Larry, or one of the Gator McKluskie/Burt Reynolds…a trip down memory lane in a ’65 Plymouth Fury. Thank you for this post…
I am falling in love with these mid-sixties Mopars.
In the mid-seventies our family had a couple of hand-me-down mid-sixties Mopar sedans from my grandparents, including a Coronet 440 that we called the Beige Bomber and a gigantic Fury that we called the Green Machine. I think both probably had 318’s with 727 automatics. Both knew how to MOVE. For some reason, ten year-old cars seemed a lot older than ten years old back then. Oil leaks, cooked dashpads, rusty quarters, leaky window frames. Nice to see the sweet examples. I’d like to have one or at least drive one someday. Sporty without the muscle-car aura.
eBay ad states the engine is a 383….
Had a blue ’67 Sport Fury convertible back in the ’80s, smooth running 318 and Torqueflite, great memories of that car. Could carry a 17-foot canoe on it with the top down, was like an aircraft carrier. Sold it for a grand in ’88 when I got a ’71 Skylark convertible for free.
Um, if I was a possible buyer, how is this picture going to help make a decision?
Seriously. Doesn’t $15K mean anything anymore? Push the car OUTSIDE, and take photos ALL OVER, IN and OUT!
There is insufficient photographic evidence to back up the claims made of originality and condition. None of the trunk, engine compartment, or underside. Ask a premium price for a non-runner, and you’d have to convince the buyer that the car was worth it. Come on, lister, you didn’t even take the car cover completely off of the car!
What color is that carpet, anyway? With several types of light on it, the pile looks orange, pale gold, and black. Sheesh.
LAZY.
I chuckle at many vehicle eBay listings, more often than not by Southern sellers (my apologies to the more educated from those states). Poor and often irrelevant pics, hopeless grammar and spelling, all CAPS (!) in the description and insufficient information in general. Oh… but I’ve been a long time eBay member they say. Doesn’t show.
Plus they usually won’t sell to anyone outside the US… what..? Maybe they still deal in cash only down there or moonshine trades, but an electronic funds transfer into the sellers account cannot be reversed once cleared.
Anyway, gives us Aussies laugh!
I preferred the (IMO) improved look of the 66, and I added marker lights to mine as well; you couldn’t see it from the side at night! :-)
Click on the link for the pix.
Listing updated: 383 Engine
65 Plymouth build quality was exceptional. Nice example.
Poor presentation by seller, with no engine pics
Neal, get a chance to ‘stand on’ a Wedge or Hemi and you will certainly be in love. It’s a fantastic experience.
My older sister & brother-in-law had a new ’65 Fury III 2dr. h.t. light blue metallic with a light blue interior , nice car even with the 318, they let me borrow it quite often which came in handy when I had a date to go to the Drive-In Movies. Nice car.
Here’s a convertible in central AZ…not quite as original but thousands less:
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/cto/d/cottonwood-1965-plymouth-fury-iii/6772447609.html
In 1981, I was selling Mopars in Lexington, KY. The dealership owner and myself were looking out from the front of the building, and in rolls two 75 year old TWIN spinster sisters (quite a combo) , driving their 1 owner (or is it 2 ?) ’65 Sport Fury, white with turquoise interior. Every available option for the year. Meticulously maintained, garage kept, not smoked in, with 75K miles. 383 2 bbl. The owner, being a collector told me “I want that car”. Gave them $750 toward a trade for a new Cordoba. It made me feel bad. The owner would drive it in from time to time.