1960 Plymouth Fury Daily Driver Special! Part 1: Splice-a-thon Gets Going!

Hey! My 1960 Plymouth Fury has been the most requested rebuild in the history of this channel, so here we go!

In Part One here, we'll get started by taking the 4-door body apart on the Dodge Dart donor car, and get it ready to tidy up in preparation for its new role as the floor of a Fury.

I suspect that there will be a few people who think that this is some kind of tragedy to take the Dart apart and use the floor to save the much rarer and infinitely more desirable Fury Hardtop, but I wanted to point out a couple of things here so that I do not have to repeat myself in the comments section:

- The Dart was not a complete car. The glass, bumpers, and a bunch of the trim and lights were missing. It was not a viable restoration project. Lots of poor bodywork under the red primer; no loss to use it as a donor. Every single usable part of the Dart will be saved and sold to help other people restore their cars.

- Good Dart 4 door sedans are out there; it was not rare or special.

- The Dart was for sale locally for a long time. No one bought it.

- I bought the Dart at a well-advertised public auction; anyone so determined to try to save the car could have just showed up and held up their hand and bought it.

- The Fury chassis was so rusty that this was the only realistic way to save such a rare and special machine. The rockers, floors, frame rails, trunk floor and wheelhouses were all completely useless. The engine was seized, the brakes and exhaust were long gone, the windshield was broken, and there was very little that could be salvaged other than the trim and Fury-specific parts.

- No one other than me who showed up to look at the Fury was willing to do anything other than strip parts and scrap the car. As soon as I saw how awesome it was, I knew I had to save it with this ambitious rebuild idea.

- Finally: Nothing about this is illegal. I legally own both cars. I can cut them both up, or do whatever I want with them. This is essentially just a comprehensive rust repair job. I am not building this car to re-sell, or to make money from it in any way. The serial and body numbers will be 1960 Plymouth Fury, and the Dodge parts will be sold to help other people restore theirs. If I were to represent this as an all-original car, that would be a different story. Of course, filming the process and sharing it with everyone kind of makes that an impossibility. The car will be fully inspected and roadworthy when it is finished. It will be a 1960 Fury, 2 door hardtop. The chassis are identical, and the only difference between the two models when they were new was the external sheet metal and trim.

Anyway, just wanted to get that out of the way so we can have some real fun and save this wonderful and outrageous space-ship of a car! Please join us as we first do the major splice, followed by all of the rest of the work to put this Fury back on the road where it belongs!

All the very best from me and Miss Frankers and the rest of the fellas who help out on this stuff just for the laughs!

Scott

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