1969 Plymouth Fury Sport Suburban

383 V8.

http://www.trucks2cars.com/car-deta...uburban-1969-Plymouth-Sport_251275906922.html

 

For 2500$ seems like an excellent deal.......

 

Neat car. Something strange about the
front seats though, because it does not have
head restraints on the front seats and starting
in 1969, it was a federal standard for all
cars sold in the USA to have front seat
head restraints. I wonder if this car
was originally sold in another country?
I cant imagine them putting different
seats them though.

Also, being a top level model, it
appears to be rather plain (I don't
see any woodgrain accents on the
instrument panel and very little on
the door panel up front and none
on the back door. The 1969
Kingswood Estate and
1969 Country Squire
wagons had a much more
luxurious interior than this
top level Plymouth wagon,
but that seemed to be a trend
in the late 60s through early 70s
with Mopars, the top level models
always seemed to be a step below the
GM/Ford cars. Below is out of the 69
Plymouth brochure,
notice front seat head restraints.

 

headrests and...

Headrests were mandated from Jan 1 1969 on, this car must be an early build date (sept=dec 68) And Plymouth was the more ecomomy/value car line of Mopar so not so fancy trim wise, this car does indeed have a few nice options (383, yeah man!) John

 

if you look at the top of the front seat backs you can see the two round holes where the head restraints should be, they were removed for some reason

 

I noticed that also, but it almost looks like there are no holes, but re-covered over the holes? there is 'something there':confused:

 

Yeah, I think its just where GM and I think Ford as well made them standard a little sooner and put them on all 1969 model cars (even the ones made in late 1968). "Mopar" seemed to be a little behind on a lot of things back then. Being the top level Plymouth, I would have expected at least a piece or two of of wood-grain accents on the dash, but I don't see it on this one unless its on the driver side of the dash and the lighting makes it appear black? Even Ford and Chevy had wood-grain all over the dash panels of their '69 wagons, even the Impala and Galaxy Country sedan wagon. At least by '71 I think they added a lot of wood-grain accents on the interiors of these wagons. I think that even by '71, the Fury III had a lot of wood-grain on the interior. I think its maybe just something with this pic. In a way, it almost looks like the dash on this car has been painted.

Yeah, I see that now. I wonder if at some point, the seats were recovered and those holes were covered over, OR if those seats were designed to originally have the restraints for the upcoming mandate on 1-1-69 and this car just didn't have the head restraints?

 

Here is the interior of that "PINK" 1972 Sport Suburban in the other thread. Its the same basic design inside and out. Notice that this car not only has wood-grain trim on the driver-side if the dash, but also on the passenger side. Either they started adding this later (around 70-71) or the wagon here (the 69) has simply had the wood-grain painted over.