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_____________________________________________________________________ POSTER: Velvet Sparrow VEHICLE: 1969 Plymouth Fury III convertible. GOAL: Close to stock resto as possible for a daily driver without being brain-explodingly expensive. DIFFICULTY: Most of the difficulty is in obtaining parts, now. WINDOW WEATHERSTRIP is impossible to find, so they leak like a New Orleans levee. COSTS: I don't like to think about it...but about $5300 in the last two years for full engine rebuild and other parts, convertible top + lift cylinders & hoses. Transmission rebuilt in 2006 for around $1200. LINK: Engine rebuild + plus many other parts: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2670587 Interior Panels painted: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2764539 UPDATE: As of 11/10, this may be it for the old girl, she got rear ended.  http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3363097 Unfortunately, many of the things my mechanic repaired either failed immediately, were further broken, or he broke OTHER things on the car in the process, after trying 2-3 times to fix them. I've given up on him. However, it's still zoomin' down the highway, and I'm going to take it in this winter for body work & paint, then somewhere for the upholstery. I'm going to try and repair the dash cracks myself, and repaint the black areas of the hubcaps, stuff like that. I have several other things ready and waiting to go on: Correct pass. side chrome trim, new carpet, exterior mirrors, etc. AFTER the paint is done.Also, unless they tell me I can't (my car has a really high eyesore value right now, the pics below are from around 1992), I'm going to enter it in the Mopar Fall Fling in two weeks, Saturday, October 18th at Woodley Park in Van Nuys.  Strictly for fun as a 'work in progress', as I only saw one other Fury there, and it was not a convertible.   _____________________________________________________________________ Velvet Sparrow fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Nov 6, 2010 |
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