The condition of this car after 102,885 miles and 43 years is simply unbelievable. It’s one thing when cars are put away and stored shortly after being new, but this one was driven over 100,000 miles when it wasn’t that common for cars to last that long. I hope it finds as comfortable a home as the one it had! The Fury III is at a dealer in St. Louis, Missouri, and is listed for sale here on eBay with a starting bid of $4,500 and no reserve.
“But it’s a four-door from the Malaise Era, you say!” Yes, I know that, but show me a less expensive classic car that could be competitive in most Mopar shows with an under hood detailing? One that comes with it’s original window sticker, hand-written maintenance records, and original license plate? I doubt it! And just look at that original paint shining!
The Fury III was the second highest equipped model in the Fury lineup, with this four door sedan being one of the 228,873 Furies of all types produced in 1973. Just look at the beautiful chrome, too! A closeup of the vinyl roof shows there’s no rust hiding under there, either.
Here’s your interior, perfect and ready to go. The original owner paid $391.25 for the air conditioning back in 1973 and I’m sure it was money well spent with that black vinyl interior! It’s a shame we don’t know the story of who cared for this car so well! The selling dealer invites phone calls and I can only hope the new buyer can be put in touch with the family that had the car.
The 318 was the smallest V8 available in the 1973 Fury, and this is the only place where the cleanliness of the car could stand to be improved. Replace that red heater hose with a black one and spend a nice couple of days cleaning up under here and you have a show worthy car. Not only that, but a fun one to be seen in, too! So leave us alone, all you four door haters and let us enjoy this terrific find!
This is a nicely kept car. I would love to find a two door model in this same condition, but they seem to all have disappeared!! :-)
Older but pretty nice in Rhode Island………
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/cto/5823368028.html
I got me a Chrysler, it’s as big as a whale – and it’s about to set sail!
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about twenty – so hurry up and bring your jukebox money!
I’d LIKE that comment about 20 times, if possible.
Dad had ex-police. I was about 4 yrs old, loved the looks of that car. Traded it in for new Dodge Tradesman in 77.
Whenever I see one of these Plymouths I’m reminded of the one actor Bill McKenny drove in the movie Thunderbolt and Lightfoot from 1974. The rear of that car was sitting up so high, it looked like today’s 4 wheel drive trucks. Of course that one, being a two door, these two are not identical but, that rear fascia is the same.
I was thinking of that car when I saw the post.
I always thought that was cool looking in Black,except the extreme
rear end lift.
I spent some time in that area in the mid-’70’s,North –
of Helena,Montana.
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Also, you have to remember, that car was brand new when that movie was made. Production of the film was begun in 1973 so, they had to go out and buy one off the lot and start adding it’s modifications.
My old boss fred had a brown 4door hardtop with a parchment colored top 440 ci engine great car until opec2 he sold it to a co woker and got himself a datsun b210 .
That rusted out in 2 years
LOL
Great car my dad brought the 73 Fury with the 440 new and my mother a Plymouth 73 Cricket also new. Of course I took my driving lessons in the Cricket.On my 16th birthday my dad took me down for my drivers road test.I started to get in the Cricket but he said he would not be seen dead in it and said take the Fury(I had never turned a wheel in his baby).The tester smiled when he saw me and the behemoth.The test went well but the final exam was the parallel parking test, I lined it up perfectly and was going to back in but the tester said”Son,you have done so good up to here,lets just take it back to the office.I am sure you are never going to drive this car again.”
I took my road test in my dad’s ’69 Polara 2 door (383 2 bbl – quick but not fast) and before taking the test I had parallel parking down cold in that behemoth (my dad was a flight instructor in the Air Corps and he prided himself on his students, flying or driving, passing the first time). The road tester took me down the side street to park behind a ’68 Fairlane. I hit the curb backing up. Afterward I drove back that way with my mother. The black Ford sedan had State of NY decals on the doors, and the passenger side wheels were two feet over the curb onto the parkway.
The tester was obviously sadistic (but I did pass anyway)
They did 15 flat in the 1/4 mile with the 383 2 barrel,single exhaust and 2.76 axle ratio..
I had a 70 Monaco 2 door with a 383 2bbl…It was quick but like you said..
I also had a 69 Newport 383 high performance not the regular 383 4bbl but the Chrysler version of the Magnum,They had 3 versions of the 383..It was a high 13 second car..
I would beat my buddies very built 350 nice lumpy cam,heads,gears ,68 Nova by a length,he was stuck on my bumper and he raced his car all the time..and ran 13.89-13.99 all the time and a few hundred times down the track.I also had a 350 hp 440 C body with 2.76 gears and it felt like the high performance 383 4bbl with 3.23 gears in my Newport..not as quick but very close or maybe as quick,I wish I could have raced them..I crashed it 1 week after I bought it,car cut out infront of me,sad,sad…
I also had many other C bodies,I looked for 440 2 door hardtop cars…I own a 66 300 and a 68 300 today.Both with the 440 TNT,again not the base 440 4bbl,different heads,cam,exhaust manifolds than the TNT versions..I also own a 68 Charger RT,luckily bought in the 1990’s when they were really affordable..
Sweet ride!
Only a 318? Wow, most of these came with 360s and 400 s. Still a sweet old tank.
While this car is far too nice for racing many ended up in a demo derby, like the one above that was owned by my friend. Many years ago he ran it at the Riverside Park (MA) in a figure 8 race. The car did not last long but it was exciting to watch.
Nice C body. Plymouth version of the Bluesmobile(?)
Yeah, Dad’s Polara was quick enough for me to take a ’69 455 Bonneville out on Airport Road by a couple lengths. Those fuselage C-body’s were ‘as big as a whale’,
but their curb weight was less than 4000 lbs – my ’09 Challenger R/T weighs in at just over two tons.
My current (since 1978) full sized Mope is a ’57 New Yorker convert – again quick, but not fast.
My father purchased a used 1973 Fury III in mid 1974 4-door gold with tan interior and a white vinyl top with the top of the line 360 cubic inch four barrel motor. He bought it from the old McKenzie Chrysler Plymouth Dodge dealership on Gun Hill Road here in The Bronx NYC. When my father bought that car home and for me just being an eight year old kid the car was GIGANTIC to me. My father kept that car for seven years in between that time I grew into my teenage years and wanted to learn how to drive. After my father refused to teach me how to drive I decided to take matters into my own hands and when my father was asleep I would grab his car keys off of the top of the refrigerator and practice in that big Fury and eventually I was ready to hit the road. My father sold the Fury in 1981 and bought a 74 Monte Carlo but I will always remember that 73 Fury III as the car I taught myself how to drive and I truly would love to own a Fury similar to the one shown here on Barn Finds. I would personally prefer the hard top as opposed to the Fury’s with the pillars. Wow these Mopar Fury’s are extremely rare.
My mom had one of these in cop car green was a fury Roman numeral 2. We use it to tow our trailer up to Northern Wisconsin for camping many many memories in that car aka the Sherman tank
My dad purchased a 1973 Plymouth fury II in the spring of 1975. It was a “salesmans” car with less than 42000 miles on it. Cop car green with the center hup caps,but in remarkable condition! We had nothing but old beat up Rusty cars before this we thought we were rich LOL end up keeping that sucker for many years I ended up driving it into the ground when I was in my early twenties after purchasing it for my mother best damn car ever