SportFury70
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I know what you are thinking..... "wait you guys are starting another project, what about the Sport Fury convertible". Well this is another project my stepdad also has going on at the moment, and actually was started before the convertible. He decided to restify it sooner than later because he was re-diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The Car- The car is a 1966 Dodge Charger with a 383 4bbl Hi-Po engine with a red interior, power windows, full length console, floor console clock, and air conditioning. The exterior color is currently WW1 White.
The History- The car was originally bought new out of Santa Monica, CA on Jan 7, 1966, and still has its original certi-card. According to the 66-67charger.com registry the car was built around 8.9% of the way through the production run, it is the 3,353rd Charger out of the 37,344 that were built, it was 1 of 2 1966 Chargers registered in San Jose California and was 1 of 24 registered in California. It also believe it or not did not come with a roof stripe. It was sitting in the previous 2nd owners garage and had not run since 1987, I have newspaper pictures from in the trunk to prove it. My stepfather who is the 3rd owner bought the car on August 14, 2015 off of Ebay because his very first car was a 1966 Charger.
The Plan- The plan although that could change is to keep the red interior, paint the car silver, put a modern A/C unit in, upgrade the front brakes to disc and keep the backs original but rebuilt drums, put on Magnum 500 wheels, and maybe a tti exhaust kit on it too. (Make a clone from the 1966 Charger brochures with a bit of a twist) 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.
Hope you join me "along for the ride" along this journey.
What the car currently looks like......
This is what we hope to turn it into, photo taken at Carlisle......
The Car- The car is a 1966 Dodge Charger with a 383 4bbl Hi-Po engine with a red interior, power windows, full length console, floor console clock, and air conditioning. The exterior color is currently WW1 White.
The History- The car was originally bought new out of Santa Monica, CA on Jan 7, 1966, and still has its original certi-card. According to the 66-67charger.com registry the car was built around 8.9% of the way through the production run, it is the 3,353rd Charger out of the 37,344 that were built, it was 1 of 2 1966 Chargers registered in San Jose California and was 1 of 24 registered in California. It also believe it or not did not come with a roof stripe. It was sitting in the previous 2nd owners garage and had not run since 1987, I have newspaper pictures from in the trunk to prove it. My stepfather who is the 3rd owner bought the car on August 14, 2015 off of Ebay because his very first car was a 1966 Charger.
The Plan- The plan although that could change is to keep the red interior, paint the car silver, put a modern A/C unit in, upgrade the front brakes to disc and keep the backs original but rebuilt drums, put on Magnum 500 wheels, and maybe a tti exhaust kit on it too. (Make a clone from the 1966 Charger brochures with a bit of a twist) 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.
Hope you join me "along for the ride" along this journey.
What the car currently looks like......
This is what we hope to turn it into, photo taken at Carlisle......
