1967 Sport Fury Convertible Factory "H" Code 383 4bbl Restoration

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So It Begins, my stepfathers 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury convertible restoration. I explained some of the history and information about the car in my photo garage but will recap and/or add for those who are just seeing this.....

The Car- The car is a 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury convertible with a factory "H" code 383 4bbl Hi-Po engine with power windows, power steering, power brakes, and air conditioning. The car was built November 10th, 1966 (B10 on tag) at the Belvidere IL assembly plant. We are not sure if it is a numbers matching drive-train and transmission. See attached picture of fender tag.....

The History- We honestly do not know any of the history before my stepfather's ownership. The car however used to have a black bucket with "buddy" seat interior with a power drivers seat, and black top. The car also used to be a column shift with tilt-a-scope steering, and the original exterior color was SS-1 Yellow. The car had 1966 disc brake wheel covers and a Ford right hand mirror and was already painted the current blue color when my stepfather purchased it in 2003, the car was bought off of Ebay from Enid Oklahoma site unseen.

When my stepdad got the car he reupholstered the interior to how it is today the way he wanted it, light blue with a 3 spoke steering wheel and center console. He also put a white top on with a glass back window in instead of black with a plastic back "window". Now, before everyone scolds him on why would he do that blah blah blah I just want everyone to know he does not like black interiors on convertibles. He also does not really care for black tops on blue cars, and he wanted to make it to how he would have ordered it back in 1967.

The Plan- The plan is to redo the bodywork, repaint the car in CC-1 Medium Blue Poly, repaint the engine, and put better chrome on the car. My "personal" plan is to hopefully document the progress, and make an album of the car being done and sharing it on here when I have time.

The body and paint work are going to be done by a friend of a friend who we met in Carlisle 2020.

I hope you join us "along for the ride" in this journey.

Some pictures below from the ad that my stepdad printed in black and white back in 2003.....
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What the car looks like today, please note the car is NOT restored yet......
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This is all for now, more to hopefully come soon. Stay tuned......
 
for the most part id agree with the mods, tho as far as the top goes black or white works, but the tops look like CRAP up anyway, personaly id simply delete the top entirely

personaly id have likely gone with white seats, blue belts, with white or 2 tone door panels, as im a sucker for the 2 tone and it just makes the gut POP
 
Very similar color combo as my 68 Coronet R/T convert, except I have a black top. I think that bright blue goes well with either white or black.
 
It looks good to me, especially the interior changes. There's nothing you can do to improve the looks with the top up anyway :D but I think the white does look better with the blue.
 
Sounds like a good plan.
I like the idea of a white top.

I agree with the idea that a black interior in a convertible is not good.

I think the only thing that jumps out at me in the pictures - and it may just be a trick of the light in the pics - is the dark blue in the interior - on the dash and the seat inserts and maybe the console - is very different than any other blue on the car.
It's not a huge deal really, but if it were mine, I'd look to better match that with the body colour - at least the dash and the seat inserts. If not body colour, then something else closer to the interior colour.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
I think the only thing that jumps out at me in the pictures - and it may just be a trick of the light in the pics - is the dark blue in the interior - on the dash and the seat inserts and maybe the console - is very different than any other blue on the car.
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My 68 rag has 3 different shades of blue in the gut. It's pretty much the same with the seeDAN and the Hemi hdtp. Pretty much every blue Mopar I've seen is similar. Different suppliers, different shades? :unsure:
 
68R/T said:
My 68 rag has 3 different shades of blue in the gut. It's pretty much the same with the seeDAN and the Hemi hdtp. Pretty much every blue Mopar I've seen is similar. Different suppliers, different shades? :unsure:
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Weird. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying, it pops out in my eyes..

I'd probably match the exterior paint to that blue on the metal surfaces of the interior - since the exterior is getting addressed anyway. Also, that blue on the dash is pretty darn close to the steering wheel colour. So, that'd be my target colour for the exterior - rather than trying to change the gut colours.

But again, that' me being weird about it.
 
I think the rug really ties the whole room together. 😁

Nobody on this board is going to scold him for doing what he likes to his car. In fact, were it my car, I would've done it non-console blue/white bucket gut with a 4-speed. To each his own; if anyone says anything to him he should tell them, "Give me what I want for the car, and you can do whatever you want with it." That usually shuts 'em up.

Getting rid of that Tilt Tele-Turd™ steering wheel was the best upgrade he made to the car. That's the first thing I'd have lost too. It's a cool option... shame that the wheel is so unforgivably ugly. He couldn't have done better choosing a replacement.
 
im kinda with doc here tho..ida stuffed a 5spd in it

as for the missmatchery of blue..its a mopar thing and reds are useualy the same way but tend to get noticed "less" hell even the greens are this way as well but again its much harder to notice..and its why i prefer to 2 tone the guts, in this case, white seats, white door panels..with blue dash, carpet,, dash pad, seat belts, and all the OE blue interior steel...this helps hide the missmatchery and looks great doing it

i did my 67 fastback fish in this fashin, black seats, panels, carpet and headliner, but all of the rest remained the OE red, and it POPs
 
I'm back with a few more pictures of the car. Fender tag picture for all the decoding nuts like me, please note the car was painted blue when my stepdad got it so it is going back to that color blue....conv 11.jpg
 
Now pictures of the engine before body and paint. As you can see below there are things that are not at all supposed to be painted, and the last person who had the car before my stepdad did a half ass job.......
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Now onto the disassemby, BUT I will keep everyone in suspense and that will have to wait until next time. Stay tuned......
 
ask anyone..im not huge into OE correct, i actualy like what i see under the hood for paint wrong or not, its paint on hoses and connectors that bugs the crap out of me..including the OE way of painting the assembled engine including the bypass hose..just looks like shit even on a full concourse correct car
 
68R/T said:
The only thing that would make that car more desirable to me would be a snotty 440 with a 4-gear behind it. :cool:
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I'm not sure about in '67, but in '68 the factory built at least one. 'Twas a real-deal L-code 440HP with an 18-spline 4-speed and Dana 53 rear axle. I may be misremembering but as I recall it was a bucket seat car with a tach on the console. I think it was a similar shade of blue as well, with a white interior/black roof. I've not seen or heard anything about that one in decades, but 25 years ago it was in Hays, KS in a museum. The owner bought it in the mid-'70s. He sat outside a bar on the fender for a couple hours waiting to make an offer. The owner wasn't interested, but on the way home he got nabbed for drunk driving/fleeing & eluding. His "one phone call" from jail was to the number in pocket: The kid that offered to buy the car literally minutes before he got arrested. He needed bail money. 😁 I believe the car changed hands for $500 or so. 20 years later it was still a really-clean low-mile survivor, original paint and all.

A good friend of mine passed up on another 4-speed convertible C-body, this one a '67 Polara 383HP. White/white top with a red interior, also a bucket/console car. It was very low mileage, having been someone's "summer car" at their cabin in Oconto, WI (they lived in Milwaukee or Chicago) and was original right down to the tires. It was for sale on Velp Ave. in Green Bay, WI. They were asking $5K (which was a lot at the time--early '90s), but offered my pal $2,500 trade for his battered red '85 GLH non-Turbo. He still regrets not buying it and I still wonder what became of it.
 
Dr.Jass said:
I'm not sure about in '67,
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I had one, for about 3 years. Just prior to getting my R/T 'vert. Same color as this '67. A fury III 2dr hdtp, bench seat, satiny baby blue cloth interior, 440 & 18 spline 4-gear. But had an 8-3/4 w/2.97 open. Until I swapped it to a 3.55 SG. That is THE one car I wouldn't mind having back, if it even exists.:(
 
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