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Old 08-11-2015, 02:04 PM
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My 1972 Plymouth Fury III

This is my latest addition to the fleet. A 1972 Plymouth Fury III, 4dr HT. A real deal completely untouched 66,000 mile survivor from New Jersey. Not your typical survivor car from down south or out west. This one spent it's entire life in NJ yet it never saw winters. It's a Y14 code car, so it was a dealer ordered vehicle. It was built on October 26th, 1971 at the Newark, Delaware assembly plant and arrived hot off the line at Pete Jackson's Chrysler-Plymouth in Parsippany, NJ where it was sold to Mr. Herbert Sohl on October 30, 1971.

Mr. Sohl was a German immigrant and worked as a baker somewhere in New York from what I was told. He drove the car until 1977 when he passed away at age 65. I'm not sure what Mr. Sohl drove in the winters, but it certainly wasn't this car. His wife never drove, so the car literally sat in the garage almost completely untouched from 1977 until 2014 with the only exception that it was very seldom driven by their son until 1990, probably just to exercise it from sitting all the time. Their son lived a few blocks away and worked at a hardware store, so he looked after his Mom for the next 37 years. After 1990, the car was basically never touched again for the next 24 years. It always sat in the garage of Mr & Mrs. Sohls home until Mrs. Sohl passed away in 2014 at age 99. Their 73 year old son sold the car to his friend from whom I purchased it from last month. The car still had Sears G78-15 bias ply tires on it from 1977...! Getting it running again required dropping the fuel tank and a basic tune up.

I'm a big fan of the '69-'73 Mopar fuselage C-bodies, with the '72 Fury III being my absolute favorite in the group. They rarely ever show up in the first place, and whenever they do, they are either completely destroyed by winters or torched in the sun and/or severely hacked by butchers.

This one wears all of it's original L4 code "Sahara Beige" paint. It has the standard reliable 318 - 2 barrel. Factory installed options include; front and rear bumper guards, AM-FM radio (Motorola OEM unit!), cruise control, fender mounted turn signal indicators, cornering lights, door lock reminder light, low fuel warning light, night-watch headlights (time delay shut off for headlights after car is turned off if headlights are left on), and right side mirror.

I rented a car hauler from U-haul and my Dad came along for the 830 mile trip from Chicago out to Jersey. It was a nice memorable trip for my dad and I and the guy selling it was totally honest and upfront. No unforeseen surprises when looking at a car which I'm so used to dealing with. Those old Sears bias plys were dry rotted pretty bad and I knew I'd have to use the front tires to lock the car down to the hauler. 830 miles is a long way to go, so before we left, I took two tires off my '71 Fury and brought them along to mount on the front just so I had a reliable anchor point.

Sadly, the guy I bought the car from said he had a number of people who were interested in the car with intentions of turning it into a low-rider or other modified crap, but those people never came back (fortunately). That would have been a total travesty, but goes to show once again that fewer and fewer people are appreciating these cars for what they are. So many people today want to change these original cars from what they were into what they think they should be, and of course history gets destroyed in the process only to fulfill their selfish and narcissistic desires. As a preservationist, I'm pleased I was the one who was able to save this one and will maintain it as a real 1972 Plymouth Fury!

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