1980 Plymouth Gran Fury

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAP...9282&item=181286999282&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466

 

For the year, I find it od that the seats, especially the rear seat has fabric and not just plain jane hose it off vinyl. Car is in great shape though.

 

Perhaps there were swapped out at some time. Probably from taring or something. Maybe somebody burned a hole(s) in it. But then again I know pretty much nothing about this model.

 

You would have to be pretty good to sneak in a cigarette in the back seat of a police car, our police cars back then were the dodge diplomats and only the detective cars had a rear seat, the blue and whites had a fiber glass rear seat for the hose it out factor. Every old cop car back then when retired became a taxi cab in our city, all had slip and slide vinyl. But that was here and that P-car was there so....:confused:

 

I didn't realize it was an old P car. Brings in a new light to it. Many of the cabs I've seen here that aren't hybrids, Priuses, or these other weird new things with wheels, are retired cop cars.

 

This was the highway pursuit car, so was not normally used for transporting people in the back. That seat material is very strong, durable and stain resistant. If plain Jane, Police package cars are what you are after, this is quite the car to own.

 

Ex Oregon State Police (highway patrol) vehicle, now in Orange County, CA. Too bad it's not a wagon........

 

I owned a '79 Chrysler New Yorker in Garnet Red with red leather interior a few years back. 360 4-bbl, power and air, no sunroof or AutoTemp, but had everything else. Paid a grand for it. Had just 66K miles, too. Sold it a year and a half later, after I bought my wife her '78 NYBS hardtop, to a guy in Ohio for $1,600. He flew down to OKC and drove it home! I really liked that car, but it was no mileage king, to be certain. It got 14, no matter how I drove it. But, it was noce!

 

Yes, this would have been a nice design for a wagon variant. I've always especially like the instrument panel design Too bad Chrysler did not go for it, but it was in dire financial straits in 1980.

 

Now bid to $4100 reserve met with 18 hours to go. This is fairly rare MOPAR sedan in any condition, so it could still go a bit higher.

 

Wow- just sold for $5600.

 

Sold at $5600.