Joined: Tue Oct 11 2005, 12:30PM
Location: Home of the SuperSpeedWagon
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Special order 71 Plymouth Suburban. Scheduled Build Date of June 13, 1971 and sold and tagged in France a week later on June 20.
318 3spd manual transmission on the column. Engine and trans were already removed when I bought the car, but I did get all the clutch pedal linkage up to the clutch fork.
Don't really know yet what would make this car a special order car (perhaps the G33 racing mirror?), but this will be a nice big block 4spd conversion project...
Also, this is the first C-body I came across which had the fender tags riveted to the radiator support, instead of screwed.
Joined: Tue Oct 11 2005, 12:30PM
Location: Home of the SuperSpeedWagon
Posts: 49
Thanks for the additional information.
I did take a closer look at it since we got it home and obviously the car has been repainted at some stage, as the original color is TX9 black. One rear door had the door panel removed and the inside was still black. Floor boards are also black (and brown from rust).
The door jamb does show the blue "Manufactured for Export" sticker, which was not painted over. Other than the fender tags, the radiator support also has a French tag (did not take a picture) and some additional stampings in the radiator like the complete VIN. The font looks like it was added later, after export/sale. Dashboard also has the 200km/h speedo. As you can see in the dash picture, the car has rubber floor mats.
Driver's front door has been replaced at some point by a door with a vent window (the passenger door does not have a vent window). The car did suffer some body damage, as the driver's front fender shows signs of (poor) repair work and perhaps this also explains the replaced driver's door. The VIN sticker on the driver's door was painted over, but maybe I can remove the paint to see where the door originated from. I can also remove the door panel to see the original color of the door.
Should be a fun project. I do have a parts car for it, as the 70 Suburban I got last summer had too much hidden rust issues covered up by fiberglass and bondo. Too bad, that was a 1st week of production car (August 6, 1969) built in Windsor. It was also exported to Germany/Austria/Switzerland at some point as it also had the black/silver Chrysler Corporation data tag on the firewall in German, but the fender tag mentions no intention to export it as a sold car to Europe.
