Re: 1964 Sport Fury -- "Great Cars of the Sixties"

[Bob Crockett <64ragtop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mighty nice, folks! 

The 64 Sport Fury was (& still is) my favorite car of that era.  A customer on my paper route bought one with the 426 for his "family car"!  Well, he wanted a race car and his wife liked the looks of the Fury.  Excellent choices and family harmony, right??  Well, the race car part worked out pretty well, and daddy took Street Eliminator at the local dragstrip pretty often.

Unfortunately, mom got kinda tired of going to the grocery store and taking the kids to school in a thinly disguised race car and hubby got a little tired of detuning the car for street use (as well as possible) then tuning it for max race-worthiness every Saturday afternoon!

It didn't take too long for him to get the dealer/sponsor to donate a worn out '62 Plymouth cop car to the cause.  The 426 went into the cop car and the 383 cop  motor got rebuilt and installed into the Sport Fury and they lived happily ever after...

And I got to play pit crew on the former cop car turned racer and had lots of fun...

Sweet memories!

BC

On 1/12/2018 4:18 PM, Douglas Sutherland wrote:

Found this vintage, Consumer Guide,

hardbound book from the 1980's.

Very well written and also has some cool,

color, factory photos too!

Nice to know a few of our cars made 

the cut -- even back then. 

I received written permission from the 

publisher (easier than I thought) to scan 

the pages and share it with the club.

Gary was nice enough to create a 

downloadable link of the pages at: http://1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/temp/1964-plymouth-1980%20article-douglas-large.jpg

If any club members own factory photos 

of '64 Plymouth B-bodies -- please contact me. 

Enjoy,

Douglas Sutherland

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