Hi every body!
My name is Will Walker. I have been a member here for about a year now and a lover of all things MoPar muscle, Forward Look and mid century modern. Feel like I know a lot of you all already as I have read most every thing in the message boards haha and I am even friends with some of you on FB. I’m quiet on the internet so you probably never see me post much, I just “like” every ones statuses haha.
About 3 years ago a beautiful emerald green with emerald green interior 59 Sport fury came up for sale on Craig’s List about an hour north of me, the price was right the car looked amazing, just needed a little TLC. But as they say timing is every thing and time is never on my side, I am a Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corp and was deploying to Bahrain / Iraq that week for a 8 month deployment to help drop bombs on ISIS and was literally living at work getting ready to go and I missed my chance at that fury. It was on CL for a month after I left, I kicked my self at not making the time to get there and buy it but I just did not have the time.
A few months after I got home a white SF came up for sale in Las Vegas, So what better reason to go to Vegas right? My wife, father in law and I drove up from San Diego to check it out, It was rough but complete, White with a copper interior and a Golden commando 395 with A/C!!! but the price was a little high. talked the owner down some but just could not get him to come down to where I was comfortable. Walked away and kicked my self all day. Decided to pay his price and called him that afternoon. He sold it to a guy who saw it a hour after I was there for more then he was willing to sell it to me, good for him but I had missed another 59 Sport Fury.
So I started watching CL and ebay again but as the Marine Corp often does it said I had to move again. unfortunately I got orders back to Okinawa Japan (my 3rd time here in 14 years). Oki is a small island chain about 4 hours flight south of main land Japan.
A few weeks ago I woke up to a Facebook message from my wife’s cousin, he is our racing/ demo derby buddy, He sent a CL link that had just been posted. A emerald green 59 Sport Fury for sale in San Diego! Some of you might have seen it when it was posted, I immediately called him and he said he would go take a look! I was already sold on it haha. he checked it out, sent me a couple hundred photos and we made a deal, transferred some cash and he picked it up and last week and put it in storage for me.
I have training exercises in Alaska and advanced courses for my job I have to go to all summer so I wont get to see it till August and even then I will just be able to be home long enough to play musical cars to make room for it in my shop at my house and do a detailed inventory. Our current list of cars are my 49 Ford shoe box (chopped custom) 63 Mercury Comet (my first car I bought at 13 years old for 900 dollars) my 69 Charger and my wife’s 64 Dart. We had a couple other cars but when we got orders we had to thin the pack, that was a sad day…
So, I have about 2 years left here in Okinawa before I can move back to Camp Pendleton. My goal is to order every part I need to completely restore it as well as build up a small mountain of cash to help ha-ha. every time I go home on leave do a little at a time to further the project (pull the chrome and send it to the platter, order interior, Media blast and prime, ect) and once I get home for good, blast it all apart and do a full restoration on it. Until then I will continue to live through all of you who get to curse your cars, and turn wrenches on them.
I just want to thank you all for the wealth of knowledge on this site and the links to parts and tech info! just about every bench racing question I have had I have found an answer to on here and I cant wait for the next 24 months to go by so I can get home and get started so I can start making real progress.
Feel free to msg me about any thing I can help with or add me on FaceBook (search: William Grant Walker).
