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I am really happy with how solid both cars are! They are still going to be huge projects but that is ok, they will be worth it. I think finding all the hard to find parts for the SF is a huge step.
We have decided to name the Sport Fury Jade. She will be a full restoration with a few modern updates mostly under the hood, with power every thing, AC (I have a really cool dealer install under dash unit) and all the best bells and whistles I can get my hands on, hopefully including power windows…
The Savoy will be a down and dirty resto mod built to see daily driver duty. I am thinking a dirt cheep 5.7 hemi or one of my spare motors, a 727 and a late model 8 3/4, the Aspen front brakes, a 69 Dart booster and MC and kwik wire kit.
I have got tons more but I think thats enough for now hahaha 
Awesome stuff, Will! Jade looks to be in very decent shape. And what a parts collection you have!
Cool that you have a Comet. In high school I had a '60 Falcon, I had to double clutch to synch the trans when I shifted - that is, until I replaced the bronze shifter thingies on my parent’s basement floor. Somehow I managed to keep from losing any of the roller bearings, and successfully put it back together. 144 cubic inches, count 'em!
Yeah. Well, you have your work cut out for you when you get home!
Dan
Thanks Dan! I have tons of parts that I have been buying and have sent home. I didn’t even scratch the surface of all the boxes! These will both be huge projects especially because I have some home renovations planned that will be eating up a chunk of time / funds when I get home (including a expansion of my work shop and addition of some paved parking).
I love my little Comet, it’s a four door and has the 170ci Six and Merc-O-matic trans. Its a total grandma car but I rocked it in high school haha. The motor needs rebuilt. It sat for over a decade when I left home and joined the Marines. When my grandparents passed away and I needed to move it out of their garage I had it shipped out to my house in CA. My family back home started it and loaded it on a truck but it was bone dry on oil and the cylinders got wrecked but they are super easy and cheep to rebuild so I will get to it some day…
The 60-63 falcons are cool little cars too! its amazing how simple they were, but yea they don’t exactly roast tires at stop lights.
ohh yea I forgot to mention, the rest of the storage unit is FILLED to the brim with KISS memorabilia that my wife inherited from her dad LOL don’t suppose any of you guys wanna buy several hundred KISS toy’s, statues, clocks, posters, bar stools and just about any thing else you can think haha!
Hey Will, I just read through your deployment and simultaneous Plymouth history. Didn’t realize you have two of these gems, not to mention the Charger, Dart and more. I am determined to limit my garage space to one vintage vehicle. Can’t wait to see what you do with the untouchable Sport Fury. And the Charger. I have such great memories of mine.
Love the story about you traveling halfway around the world and back in one long weekend to buy the Savoy in Fresno. Sounds like something I would do.
Are you sure the sport deck was pulled off the Sport Fury in the earlier repaint? I just got a copy of the book about Forward Look designer Virgil Exner – “Visoneer” – and it has a caption next to one photo of a '59 Fury tail that reads, “1959 Plymouth. Another heavy-handed face-lift for Chrysler’s main seller, Plymouth, but the largest bone of contention was the superfluous “trashcan lid” simulated spare wheel that proved unpopular with buyers. Many paid extra to get a trunk lid sans spare wheel. Fins continued to grow longer and higher, with Plymouth sporting the largest available from the corporation.”
Trashcan lid? Are you kidding me? Maybe yours was intentionally built without it? Meanwhile, I have yet to see one in contrasting white on any photos or literature and suspect mine was originally blue, like the rest of the car. It would make sense, if you think the guys in Detroit were getting not great feedback on it. They wouldn’t try to make it stand out more than it already did.
That’s what you hear from one group of detractors. Another affectionately calls it a “toilet seat” 
Oh, and I think it the case that the “Sport Deck” was always painted the same color as the body from the factory. But, I think it’s eye candy to paint in a contrasting color, as John Quinn did with his Belvedere with a Sport Deck. It’s true to the spirit of the era, and for me that’s all that matters. To each, his own!
Yea, I have so many projects backed up now and being over seas for 3 years is not helping the situation. Before I left I actually sold a couple finished cars and I had every thing except my Comet in running driving condition. Then I acquired Jade a few months after I moved then the Savoy (that was one fun weekend) witch I originally thought would use as a parts car but Jade turned out super solid and the Savoy is too nice to part out So its going to get a resto-mod treatment and be used as a daily driver, The Charger was going to be my next project I was going to use this over seas time to buy parts to build it in to a monster of a muscle car but I have prioritized the two Plymouths, mainly because finding parts for them is a needle in a haystack but I can open a catalog and order every single thing I need for the Charger.
The Sport Fury’s came standard with the Sport Deck and it could be special ordered on any model Plymouth exp Suburban’s. I cringe every time I hear them referred to as a “toilet seat” or “trash Can lid”. Many of them did get pulled off and discarded. Try finding one for sale!! I lucked out finding one in near min condition but I had to pay for it!!!
She received a interesting makeover some time before going off the road. She got a that cheep chalky mint repaint fortunately all they pulled off was the Plymouth and V script off the trunk along with the sport deck (I can see the drilled out mounting holes on the underside where they bondo’d over them) and they pulled the Plymouth script off the hood. Other than that the outside is all complete and has never been taken off. On the interior they used rattle can black to paint EVERY THING! the dash, the chrome trim, the seats, EVERY THING!!! They also removed the radio and clock and covered it with a delete dress up plate, but the stock antenna is still present on the fender and they had a stereo mounted in the glove box. The person I got it from for what ever reason decided to tear the card board headliner out piece by piece 
I have found one to replace it but its rough and will need some work but I think I can save it.
I agree with ya Dan, to each there own but keeping it in line with the spirit and times of the car in my opinion are best! A little two tone or contrasting paint really accentuates the lines and makes the body features or the paint really pop and stand out!
If all goes to plan Jade will be completely stock appearing with all the bells and whistles of the era and a few modern conveniences hidden from sight (radio up grades, GV overdrive unit, modern 727 trans, disc brakes ect) Under the hood is still TBD. I have a 400 and a 440 at home that would work but I keep feeling the need to put in a 57-58 vintage 392 HEMI… I have my eye on one posted on San Diego Craigslist 
Sweeeeeeet! More power to you!
Hahaha! Thanks Dan, I just hope they are salvageable and the right ones for my Plymouth, I was told they came out of a 59 2drHT but I cant confirm. My dad said they need a good cleaning but are in good shape other than dirty. The motors turn by hand and are not locked up or rusted up, So hopefully that’s a good sign 
Will, as long as the rotor and stator windings aren’t shorted, there shouldn’t be anything to prevent you from getting these in working order. Here’s a post about my adventure with a recalcitrant rear window motor, it had a happy ending!
Dan, that is a great post. I have read it over and over several times in my quest for power window knowledge. I know I have my work cut out for me. I am sure I will need to seek your guidance and expertise on these when the time comes. This will be the first car I have ever owned (besides my little Oki car) to have power windows!
My quest for parts continues and today was a good find, I saw a 1975 Plymouth Fury posted on San Diego Craigslist a few days ago and after talking to my buddy who is renting my house while I am gone he agreed to go pick it up for me and pull the parts I wanted out and he is gonna keep / scrap the rest. for a couple hundred bucks I got a 49k mile 400 with 727 and a 9 1/4 rear end. Car is in beautiful shape and my buddy sent me a bunch of videos of it running and driving it on the freeway. Perfect oil pressure, compression, shifts great and no over heating issues even the A/C blows cold.
Next spring I am going to schedule some leave to get home for two weeks and pull the tired old poly and P-flite out of the Savoy and swap in this drive train and maybe get the brakes swapped over for disks if I have time. Then after that its going to another buddy’s shop to get re wired any other little stuff I didn’t get to. And maybe if she is ready and If I get the timing of my move back to the States right we can make the trek out to Carlisle for the 60th BUT just bare in mind she is gonna be ratty and far from “Show worthy”… so we might have to park in the back hahah.
Will! Trailer it! You don’t need no stinkin’ engine 
We’ll push it to the front row and slap one of these on it!! (Srsly, I’m looking into getting these reproduced - will publish details when I know more.)
OMG Dan that banner is awesome!!! if you do get them reproduced let me know and ill take two !
49k original miles… I almost feel bad about this 
but her heart will live on in my 59 <3 and it’s only appropriate that it’s comming from a Plymouth Gran Fury.
Super clean for a 75!
400 smog motor with a 2barrel but cam, heads and intake will wake this B block up
Sweeeeeet! What happens to the carcass, Will?