We all can rattle off our favorite model years for just about any given car model, but sometimes the water gets a bit cloudy. For example, I’ve always liked the ’65 Fury (a Sport or III hardtop would be fine, thank you) best, but I’ve instantly developed feelings for this ’67 Sport Fury “Fast Top.” Gold with a black vinyl roof? I’ve grown to love it. That sporty tri-color fender badge, those wheel covers? Who could resist? Barn Finds reader Mitchell G. has found us a winner today in this “rust-free survivor,” a 383-powered car that spent “56 years in a suburb of San Francisco.” It’s now being listed on eBay in Bloomingdale, Illinois, and the current high bid is $10,900 (which has not met reserve).
The Sport Fury was Plymouth’s entry into the big sporty car scene, which was starting to lose a little steam by 1967. Sport Fury buyers still got bucket seats, but they could order an “armrest/seat cushion center unit between the seats, or a very handsome console – at no cost, either way.” The original owner of this one chose the cushion, which basically gives you a bench seat: The times they were a changin’. You may have noticed the air conditioning vents, and this is indeed a factory air-conditioned Fury, although it doesn’t work (they rarely do). All the parts and pieces are there at least, and the seller has three cans of R-12 that will go with the car (and probably straight into the atmosphere if you try to use it on the car as it currently stands). As always, the system will most likely need a restoration if you want/need air conditioning.
Inexplicably, there are no engine pictures, but it’s a 383 big-block-powered car with a 727 Torqueflite. The 383 came in two states of tune in the Fury, a 270-horsepower two barrel and a 325-horsepower four barrel. The four-barrel engine had a dual-snorkel air cleaner, so that would be an easy tell, but in reality, either one is fine for modern driving. The seller says that the new dual exhaust system was installed last month, and it has a “fresh oil change and complete tune-up.” The tires are newer Hankooks, and the Fury “runs as smooth as silk and drives smooth and quiet at 70 mph.”
As I alluded to above, sales of the Sport Fury slowly declined as the sixties elapsed, but 28,448 Hardtops and Fast Tops were still sold in 1967, so it wasn’t quite done yet. There’s really nothing like an original car, and this one might have you reevaluating your favorite Fury.
Thanks Toth, totally agree w your article. Very cool Plymouth. 😎 👍
Great car! Maybe Stellantis should sell Plymouth again. CARS we could afford in abundance!
I bought one just like that one, except for the color, in 1973 for $300. I needed some temporary transportation until I could get my piece of crap Volvo back on the road. The Fury was very fast and would light the rear tires very easily.
I think this may have been at the beginning of the gas crisis. You could watch the gas gauge move while driving on the freeway with the AC on.
I had never owned anything that held that much fuel.
Both of our Fury III’s (a ’65 4 door sedan and a ’66 4 door hardtop) with 318 engine, Torqueflite and A/C had 25 gallon fuel tanks. The ’65 Fury clocked over 104K miles before we sold it. IIRC, the ’66 Fury had some 70K miles on it when I sold it to my brother who ran it well over 100K miles. Both cars were surprisingly reliable requiring only scheduled maintenance, the ’66 needing only an ignition switch replacement that had once stranded me in a parking lot.
The reliability of both cars led me to order a new 1967 Barracuda fast back which turned out to be a service managers nightmare on wheels. The Barracuda was plagued with water leaks around the cowl that flooded the front footwells, the torque converter and brake problems required multiple warranty claims (service manager quote,” that was the year Plymouth used green casings for the brake drums”). I traded my great looking but, problem plagued Barracuda fastback for one of the first BMW 2500 sedans to land on our shores and lived happily afterwards.
SOLD for 17K.