Larry Baker’s first new car was pretty cool — a red 1965 Plymouth Sport Fury convertible. Baker was a young, eager Chrysler employee at the time, so the purchase made sense, even if it might have been a lot of car for a kid just out of college.
Some 38 years later, when Baker was looking to revisit some of his “good old days,” that same Plymouth ragtop was definitely high on his wish list. “It’s the nostalgia part that creeps in for old guys like me,” chuckled Baker, a resident of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Baker had been keeping an eye out for a collector car that looked appealing, and eventually a car buddy – who was also a longtime Chrysler employee – spotted a 1965 Sport Fury convertible similar to the one Baker had when he first joined the company.
“It was not in terrible shape,” he said. “I would say it was in in decent ‘3-minus’ condition. It ran pretty decent, but it had some lower quarter panel rust, and when I took it in, I found out there was a lot more rust and one thing kind of led to another. I just kept going with it and it was about 3 1/2 years before I got it done.”
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