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Sorry, I just had to hehe!
I've always wondered exactly where the Gran Coupe fell into the heirarchy, Being a Fury II post with SF stuff added & the top & interior just to make a package. I've always kinda though of it as an "equal" to the Fury III & below the SF. Strange thing is I saw one reference where the Gran had a higher BASE price than the SF did. Go figure!
I have to look up the name of the book for Scott, so I'll post the base prices of all the models tonight. Then we'll know.
I made light of the correction. I'm more a 71 buff. I likes them the best of that vintage. I also like the 72 Polara. There's quite a few similarities in the design
The 318 was the standard engine in the Sport Fury and the VIP, and I've seen a lot of SF's with that engine (including mine). I've seen fewer VIPs with 318's, but then I've seen fewer VIPs in general. There was a '68 VIP 4-door HT in eBay recently that was a 318 car, and that beautiful 6000-mile '67 VIP fast top that has shown up at Carlisle also has the small-block in it (neither of these cars had air, either--for a premium top-of-the-line model, there seem to have been quite a lot of low-optioned examples made).
The book I am looking at is "The Standard Catalog of Chrysler" 1914 to 2000. You can get it at Barnes and Noble. I always see one on the shelf in our local store. Good book to have
This particular section is confusing as hell In 1969 it says the Fury was standard with the 318. It doesn't even mention the other fury models, like the VIP. But I am pretty sure the VIP was a 318 also. However in 1970! It shows the 225 or the 318. The next mention is the Fury GT which it states the 440 was standard. But further on it shows the Sport Fury with a 383 2BBL standard. Gimme'a break. 71 follows suit except for the addition of the first year 360
I know for sure in 1968 the 318 was standard motor (and the 225) for the fury line up across the board. 383 was optional as well as a 440
What a flippin' mess this is! Like the other models, this catalog is not clear. The only clear info I have is on the 71, which has subtle differences
Yeah, the Standard Catalog of Chrysler is not without its errors or omissions. I've seen at least one '67 Fury III with a slant six and 3-on-the-tree. It's dark blue and has been on eBay a couple of times. PaulSUPERCARAmato has at least one '69 Fury I 2-door sedan with the 6-cyl-3-speed combo. The 440 is the standard engine for the Sport Fury GT, but for the regular SF it would have been the 318. I figure they didn't offer the 225 in the SF and the VIP because Chevy didn't offer a 6-cylinder Caprice and Ford didn't offer a 6-cylinder LTD. I think the '68 full-line Plymouth brochure I have socked away somewhere even claims that the 318 is the largest-displacement standard V8 in the SF's price class, which would be correct if the 283 (307?) and 289 (302?) were the standard Caprice and LTD engines.
The Standard Catalog of Chrysler is one of the things I was looking at, but it was a bunch of photocopies from the Library. I see it is in its second edition, my copies may have been from the first edition?
I hadn't looked at it in some time, I see Amazon has it dirt cheap. I will have to swing out over lunch and find a copy at Borders or B&N.
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I once had a 69' Fury Convertible and was always under the assumption that in 1969 the Sport Fury standard engine was a 383 . I was also under the impression that they came standard with bucket seats . This is of course 69 model only and from information I received in 1987 .
I do think that most, if not all, the Sport Furys did have buckets. Oddly, most Sport Fury convertibles I have seen didn't have air, most of the Fury IIIs did.