MartenC’s 1977 Plymouth Gran Fury

My ride is a 1977 plymouth Gran Fury Brougham, which was originally sold i Luxembourg, and imported to Sweden in 2002. I purchased this in April 2006 with only around 62000 kilometers on the meter. This car is one of two 77 Gran Furys known in Sweden. The Gran Fury models undervent few alternations during the years 1974-77. The Brougham was a plushier model added to the line in 1975 and got different single headlight configuration apart from the standard and Custom model. this front end became standardized for the 76-77 Gran Fury line. For 1977 the Custom model was dropped, Brougham only came as coupe or four door sedan. 3242 Brougham coupes were built, and a total of 15021 Brougham sedans. My car came out of the line october 1976, and went on export for Luxemburg. Equipped with the 400" engine, although air cleaning systems, EGR and cathalytic converter we removed fron the car, since unleaded fuel at that time were unobtainable in Europe. Even the light bulbs in the fascia for EGR checking has been removed. Paint scheme is Silver Cloud metallic with black vinyl top, interior is all black cloth and vinyl 50/50 seat and upholstery, and for some reason a "sport" steering wheel namned "type II wheel" in the production sheet, identical to the ones used as standard in the Chrysler Cordoba.

June 2006, Power meet in Nossebro with some thousands of other big cars Maritime center at wednesdays in Gothenburg gathers lot of cars and bikes, to the left aside Thords immaculate Valiant, and on the right outdwarfing some Citro?n 2CV:s Thursdays, mini-meeting at the local club. Magnificent old windmill outside Stora Mellby Mopar-meeting in July at the ?by-field outside Gothenburg My friend Tim from Germany came visiting, he is always exciting when getting here over our cars and to drive them too.

Another fine thursday evening at the local clubhouse. Jeez, these are big rigs! This norwegian registered Peterbilt turned up in Landvetter A friends nice 1972 Dodge Polara, swedish sold car ,very fine low mileage car with 318" An august afternoon outside the supermarket Outside the gates of the castle in ?rebro

Outside the famous roadstop "Rattugglan" in mariestad going racing! running the 1/8-mile distance, at this event coincidentally a '77 Chevrolet caprice turned up, so teamed up for a couple of rounds against each other. As descriped on a previous page the Caprce '77 sedan is a little smaller and conciderably lighter by almost 600 kilo than the Gran Fury. This caprice had the bigger 350" with some special tricks too, so it wasn't that fair, but at least we had a great deal of fun . Gloomish green evening light by late september here. Weather chances rapidly, first snow by November 1st, created an ice-armour over the car that it took me half an hour to get into it.

So, what are these cusrious people checking out under the hood? Well, a really strange feature on this car under the hood is a propane tank on the left side of the engine. What I've found out so far, this is an unusual feature that were tried out on the very early 77:s The idea in general as far as I've understood is that propane is used to set the idling, one hose with a valve is connected to the lambda sond (which is removed of this car) another leads into the carburettor. Appearantly the gas is used to set the idling on a certain rpm, and when disconnected the engine should automatically run on its standard idling rpm, with correct mixture. To me this sounds like a lot of extra work, and it appears that the system was swiftly abandoned. According to the standard catalogue the ignition switch, and its wiring harness was improved for 1977, what the improvemnts were are hard to tell, also a hefty 100 amp alternator was standard. The igntion module on these were located on the air cleaner, mostly for the reason that it appears to contain some kind of airflow meter . The trouble with thhis however is that the igntion model, labeled "Spark control computer" must be disconnected when removing the air cleaner to access the carburetor for adjustments. On my car the optical sensor had given up, so previous owner has bypassed the module, and installed a set of traditional breaker points instead, will chack that out how to build it back when I learn more about how this system really shall work. The enigmatic propane tank, and the sticker on how to perform the idle adjustment.

Gran Fury Brougham by the numbers. Legnth: 575 cm Width: 203 cm Height: 139 cm (*) Wheelbase: 308 cm Weight: 2240 kilo Fuel tank capacity :100 liters Engine: V8 att 6,6 liters (400") Horsepower: 210bhp @ 3600rpm Torque: 428nm @ 3200rpm (') This car is delivered with 1" higher shocks for some reason. Base price as new was $4948, which in a comparison to General Motors line for 1977 put it between the Impala and the Caprice. Whlie Chevrolets line up came for 1977 with a all new fresh downsized design, which were also considerable lighter than its predecessor, Chrysler lingered on with its true fullsize this year through. Even though the Chevroletswere all new in appearance, the mechanics were pretty much as before with separate frame, coil springs all around and carrying the same V8 engine family since it had since 1955, with the standard six cylinder engien that actually had its roots back in 1929! The Chrysler cars however did came with unit body, torsion front suspension, and a newer develloped range of engines. The Gran Fury did come with 318" as standard (360" in the broughams) with 400" and the 440" as optional. This gives these cars first of all excellent handling, and also very good performance, most likely among the fastest cars of its time and type. So, why did I buy a Gran Fury? Actually when I first heard of this car, I had a pretty faint idea of what that model looked like. After having Chevrolet Caprice, Buick Electra and others before on top of that also driven a great number of different american cars over the years, I spent the previous winter in a 1965 Chrysler 300, which proved to be the absolutey best car in handling difficult road conditions I've tried so far AS a funny coincidence , both of the '77 Gran Furys known here were for sale at the same time, the other car however did require som work, and didn't really meet my standards of a car, with some ugly jeep wheels and other mods, this silver metallic car however I decided to go for before I had even checked it out. Price was very affordable, and the car also proved to be in a much better shape than the seller had described it which is somewhat unusual indeed. Car had been imported 2002, and the previous owner had done some fixups with brakes, starter, and some other parts, after that only driven it for a season and put it in storage late 2003. He was most interested in a quck deal since he was in need of the garage place for his project car, a '69 Dodge Coronet convertible. So, after speking abou the car on friday, I went to check it out on sunday, paid it and drove it out of there on monday.

Picking the car up, April 11th 2006 in Jonsered, after more than two years in hybernation, car worked just fine, but in need of a thorough washing and waxing up. Here with my friends nice '62 Cadillac home in H?rryda Every monday from may through september, we carnuts use to meet at an old textile manufactory site that has been preserved, in is located beuatifully at the waterfront of a lake, place called N??s And on tuesdays, we meet in Bor?s. May, cruising Kung?lv, my frind Per behind the wheel waiting for the caravan to move out and down to town. At Tjol?holm Classic car show, the parking lot usually contains as intersting vehicles as the show itself. And a little view from above

Picking the car up, April 11th 2006 in Jonsered, after more than two years in hybernation, car worked just fine, but in need of a thorough washing and waxing up. Here with my friends nice '62 Cadillac home in H?rryda Every monday from may through september, we carnuts use to meet at an old textile manufactory site that has been preserved, in is located beuatifully at the waterfront of a lake, place called N??s And on tuesdays, we meet in Bor?s. May, cruising Kung?lv, my frind Per behind the wheel waiting for the caravan to move out and down to town. At Tjol?holm Classic car show, the parking lot usually contains as intersting vehicles as the show itself. And a little view from above

So, what are these cusrious people checking out under the hood? Well, a really strange feature on this car under the hood is a propane tank on the left side of the engine. What I've found out so far, this is an unusual feature that were tried out on the very early 77:s The idea in general as far as I've understood is that propane is used to set the idling, one hose with a valve is connected to the lambda sond (which is removed of this car) another leads into the carburettor. Appearantly the gas is used to set the idling on a certain rpm, and when disconnected the engine should automatically run on its standard idling rpm, with correct mixture. To me this sounds like a lot of extra work, and it appears that the system was swiftly abandoned. According to the standard catalogue the ignition switch, and its wiring harness was improved for 1977, what the improvemnts were are hard to tell, also a hefty 100 amp alternator was standard. The igntion module on these were located on the air cleaner, mostly for the reason that it appears to contain some kind of airflow meter . The trouble with thhis however is that the igntion model, labeled "Spark control computer" must be disconnected when removing the air cleaner to access the carburetor for adjustments. On my car the optical sensor had given up, so previous owner has bypassed the module, and installed a set of traditional breaker points instead, will chack that out how to build it back when I learn more about how this system really shall work. The enigmatic propane tank, and the sticker on how to perform the idle adjustment.

Outside the famous roadstop "Rattugglan" in mariestad going racing! running the 1/8-mile distance, at this event coincidentally a '77 Chevrolet caprice turned up, so teamed up for a couple of rounds against each other. As descriped on a previous page the Caprce '77 sedan is a little smaller and conciderably lighter by almost 600 kilo than the Gran Fury. This caprice had the bigger 350" with some special tricks too, so it wasn't that fair, but at least we had a great deal of fun . Gloomish green evening light by late september here. Weather chances rapidly, first snow by November 1st, created an ice-armour over the car that it took me half an hour to get into it.

Another fine thursday evening at the local clubhouse. Jeez, these are big rigs! This norwegian registered Peterbilt turned up in Landvetter A friends nice 1972 Dodge Polara, swedish sold car ,very fine low mileage car with 318" An august afternoon outside the supermarket Outside the gates of the castle in ?rebro

June 2006, Power meet in Nossebro with some thousands of other big cars Maritime center at wednesdays in Gothenburg gathers lot of cars and bikes, to the left aside Thords immaculate Valiant, and on the right outdwarfing some Citro?n 2CV:s Thursdays, mini-meeting at the local club. Magnificent old windmill outside Stora Mellby Mopar-meeting in July at the ?by-field outside Gothenburg My friend Tim from Germany came visiting, he is always exciting when getting here over our cars and to drive them too.

My ride is a 1977 plymouth Gran Fury Brougham, which was originally sold i Luxembourg, and imported to Sweden in 2002. I purchased this in April 2006 with only around 62000 kilometers on the meter. This car is one of two 77 Gran Furys known in Sweden. The Gran Fury models undervent few alternations during the years 1974-77. The Brougham was a plushier model added to the line in 1975 and got different single headlight configuration apart from the standard and Custom model. this front end became standardized for the 76-77 Gran Fury line. For 1977 the Custom model was dropped, Brougham only came as coupe or four door sedan. 3242 Brougham coupes were built, and a total of 15021 Brougham sedans. My car came out of the line october 1976, and went on export for Luxemburg. Equipped with the 400" engine, although air cleaning systems, EGR and cathalytic converter we removed fron the car, since unleaded fuel at that time were unobtainable in Europe. Even the light bulbs in the fascia for EGR checking has been removed. Paint scheme is Silver Cloud metallic with black vinyl top, interior is all black cloth and vinyl 50/50 seat and upholstery, and for some reason a "sport" steering wheel namned "type II wheel" in the production sheet, identical to the ones used as standard in the Chrysler Cordoba.

Gran Fury Brougham by the numbers. Legnth: 575 cm Width: 203 cm Height: 139 cm (*) Wheelbase: 308 cm Weight: 2240 kilo Fuel tank capacity :100 liters Engine: V8 att 6,6 liters (400") Horsepower: 210bhp @ 3600rpm Torque: 428nm @ 3200rpm (') This car is delivered with 1" higher shocks for some reason. Base price as new was $4948, which in a comparison to General Motors line for 1977 put it between the Impala and the Caprice. Whlie Chevrolets line up came for 1977 with a all new fresh downsized design, which were also considerable lighter than its predecessor, Chrysler lingered on with its true fullsize this year through. Even though the Chevroletswere all new in appearance, the mechanics were pretty much as before with separate frame, coil springs all around and carrying the same V8 engine family since it had since 1955, with the standard six cylinder engien that actually had its roots back in 1929! The Chrysler cars however did came with unit body, torsion front suspension, and a newer develloped range of engines. The Gran Fury did come with 318" as standard (360" in the broughams) with 400" and the 440" as optional. This gives these cars first of all excellent handling, and also very good performance, most likely among the fastest cars of its time and type. So, why did I buy a Gran Fury? Actually when I first heard of this car, I had a pretty faint idea of what that model looked like. After having Chevrolet Caprice, Buick Electra and others before on top of that also driven a great number of different american cars over the years, I spent the previous winter in a 1965 Chrysler 300, which proved to be the absolutey best car in handling difficult road conditions I've tried so far AS a funny coincidence , both of the '77 Gran Furys known here were for sale at the same time, the other car however did require som work, and didn't really meet my standards of a car, with some ugly jeep wheels and other mods, this silver metallic car however I decided to go for before I had even checked it out. Price was very affordable, and the car also proved to be in a much better shape than the seller had described it which is somewhat unusual indeed. Car had been imported 2002, and the previous owner had done some fixups with brakes, starter, and some other parts, after that only driven it for a season and put it in storage late 2003. He was most interested in a quck deal since he was in need of the garage place for his project car, a '69 Dodge Coronet convertible. So, after speking abou the car on friday, I went to check it out on sunday, paid it and drove it out of there on monday.

Outside the famous roadstop "Rattugglan" in mariestad going racing! running the 1/8-mile distance, at this event coincidentally a '77 Chevrolet caprice turned up, so teamed up for a couple of rounds against each other. As descriped on a previous page the Caprce '77 sedan is a little smaller and conciderably lighter by almost 600 kilo than the Gran Fury. This caprice had the bigger 350" with some special tricks too, so it wasn't that fair, but at least we had a great deal of fun . Gloomish green evening light by late september here. Weather chances rapidly, first snow by November 1st, created an ice-armour over the car that it took me half an hour to get into it.

Gran Fury Brougham by the numbers. Legnth: 575 cm Width: 203 cm Height: 139 cm (*) Wheelbase: 308 cm Weight: 2240 kilo Fuel tank capacity :100 liters Engine: V8 att 6,6 liters (400") Horsepower: 210bhp @ 3600rpm Torque: 428nm @ 3200rpm (') This car is delivered with 1" higher shocks for some reason. Base price as new was $4948, which in a comparison to General Motors line for 1977 put it between the Impala and the Caprice. Whlie Chevrolets line up came for 1977 with a all new fresh downsized design, which were also considerable lighter than its predecessor, Chrysler lingered on with its true fullsize this year through. Even though the Chevroletswere all new in appearance, the mechanics were pretty much as before with separate frame, coil springs all around and carrying the same V8 engine family since it had since 1955, with the standard six cylinder engien that actually had its roots back in 1929! The Chrysler cars however did came with unit body, torsion front suspension, and a newer develloped range of engines. The Gran Fury did come with 318" as standard (360" in the broughams) with 400" and the 440" as optional. This gives these cars first of all excellent handling, and also very good performance, most likely among the fastest cars of its time and type. So, why did I buy a Gran Fury? Actually when I first heard of this car, I had a pretty faint idea of what that model looked like. After having Chevrolet Caprice, Buick Electra and others before on top of that also driven a great number of different american cars over the years, I spent the previous winter in a 1965 Chrysler 300, which proved to be the absolutey best car in handling difficult road conditions I've tried so far AS a funny coincidence , both of the '77 Gran Furys known here were for sale at the same time, the other car however did require som work, and didn't really meet my standards of a car, with some ugly jeep wheels and other mods, this silver metallic car however I decided to go for before I had even checked it out. Price was very affordable, and the car also proved to be in a much better shape than the seller had described it which is somewhat unusual indeed. Car had been imported 2002, and the previous owner had done some fixups with brakes, starter, and some other parts, after that only driven it for a season and put it in storage late 2003. He was most interested in a quck deal since he was in need of the garage place for his project car, a '69 Dodge Coronet convertible. So, after speking abou the car on friday, I went to check it out on sunday, paid it and drove it out of there on monday.

June 2006, Power meet in Nossebro with some thousands of other big cars Maritime center at wednesdays in Gothenburg gathers lot of cars and bikes, to the left aside Thords immaculate Valiant, and on the right outdwarfing some Citro?n 2CV:s Thursdays, mini-meeting at the local club. Magnificent old windmill outside Stora Mellby Mopar-meeting in July at the ?by-field outside Gothenburg My friend Tim from Germany came visiting, he is always exciting when getting here over our cars and to drive them too.

Picking the car up, April 11th 2006 in Jonsered, after more than two years in hybernation, car worked just fine, but in need of a thorough washing and waxing up. Here with my friends nice '62 Cadillac home in H?rryda Every monday from may through september, we carnuts use to meet at an old textile manufactory site that has been preserved, in is located beuatifully at the waterfront of a lake, place called N??s And on tuesdays, we meet in Bor?s. May, cruising Kung?lv, my frind Per behind the wheel waiting for the caravan to move out and down to town. At Tjol?holm Classic car show, the parking lot usually contains as intersting vehicles as the show itself. And a little view from above

My ride is a 1977 plymouth Gran Fury Brougham, which was originally sold i Luxembourg, and imported to Sweden in 2002. I purchased this in April 2006 with only around 62000 kilometers on the meter. This car is one of two 77 Gran Furys known in Sweden. The Gran Fury models undervent few alternations during the years 1974-77. The Brougham was a plushier model added to the line in 1975 and got different single headlight configuration apart from the standard and Custom model. this front end became standardized for the 76-77 Gran Fury line. For 1977 the Custom model was dropped, Brougham only came as coupe or four door sedan. 3242 Brougham coupes were built, and a total of 15021 Brougham sedans. My car came out of the line october 1976, and went on export for Luxemburg. Equipped with the 400" engine, although air cleaning systems, EGR and cathalytic converter we removed fron the car, since unleaded fuel at that time were unobtainable in Europe. Even the light bulbs in the fascia for EGR checking has been removed. Paint scheme is Silver Cloud metallic with black vinyl top, interior is all black cloth and vinyl 50/50 seat and upholstery, and for some reason a "sport" steering wheel namned "type II wheel" in the production sheet, identical to the ones used as standard in the Chrysler Cordoba.

Another fine thursday evening at the local clubhouse. Jeez, these are big rigs! This norwegian registered Peterbilt turned up in Landvetter A friends nice 1972 Dodge Polara, swedish sold car ,very fine low mileage car with 318" An august afternoon outside the supermarket Outside the gates of the castle in ?rebro