13 January 2008. This is the story with the Fury so far. Recently I have just been taking it to as many shows as possible and just enjoying it. I have a lot that I want to do to the car but it will have to wait till I finish off some other projects.

This is my 69 Fury III that I found on Ebay and had shipped to Australia. It has a 318 motor with the usual gear such as electric seats etc. My plan is to use it as a second daily driver.

The people I bought it from specialise in recreating old Police cars, or as in my case a fire chiefs car.
When it rolled of the docks it had 'fire chief' lights on the roof. I have had them removed. As you can see the panel guys did a great job as you can't even see that they were there. I wanted to leave them on the car but legally I couldn't take it on the road. However I plan to leave the siren in it.

This is a before shot courtesy of and copy-righted to Inpursuit. Please do not copy this photo.

Tomorrow I am taking it to my mechanic so that I can get it registered for legal street use. Once it has been registered I am going to load it up with a nice set of Magnum Wheels. When that has been done it will be a nice set of extractors and a bit of work on the suspension and brakes to bring it up to modern standards. Then I will have myself one sweet ride.
I love my MOPARs. Besides this I own a 70 Dodge Charger that is undergoing a restoration. My daily driver is a 1980 CM Valiant Station wagon. The CMs were the last of the Valiants produced in Australia by Chrysler before they sold their operations here.

10th Feb 2007.
Good news. My mechanic tells me that the car is the genuine article. It was sold to me as having an original 43000 Miles. As a result I should be able to get it registered for legal street use without any major problems.
The state that I live in (Victoria) allows private users to register and use left hand drive vehicles up to the year 1975. If you bring out a modern car from the States, Asia or Europe you usually wind up with various compliance problems that need to be dealt with. Thankfully I love old tin.

21st Feb 2007.
I am slowly getting the car ready for an engineering inspection which will enable me to get it registered.
At this stage we have:
Installed a passenger side mirror. Unfortunately it is not an exact match with the drivers side but you don't notice unless someone points it out.

Treated the inside of the trunk for surface rust. I just wire wheeled it and treated it with a rust inhibitor. As it is out of sight and not a show car I am happy to save myself the cost of having it sprayed professionally.

Sent it to the electricians to get the indicators set up as per Australian design regulations.

Installed Australian headlights. Being a left hand drive car the headlights would point the wrong way at night and unfortunately you can't just swap them over to the other side of the car.

Replaced the battery tray as it was full of rust. Luckily the old one just unbolted.

Installed a new windscreen washer motor.

If I can give anyone some advice in regard to a project like this make sure you can do the work yourself or know a good mechanic that can do it for you. Being pushed for time my mechanic has done the majority of the work for me. Thanks John. Hmmmmm haven't seen the bill yet which should be interesting.

My next challenge is the engineering inspection. This is where I find out how I need to update the seat belts. From what I can gather they need to be mounted on the pillars which will be interesting as the originals are ceiling mounted and I do not want to drill holes into my pillars.

12th March 2007.
Good news. I had the engineer look at the car last week. I do not have to drill holes through the pillars for the seat belts. The engineer is switched on and gave me the option of welding plates with bolts on the pillars inside the car for the seat belts. These will just be covered with trim. Hopefully with some luck I will get it registered this week. It does look good siting in my drive but I really prefer to be out on the road with it.

20th March 2007.
My car has now been registered for legal street use. The engineer was happy with the job in regard to the seat belts and signed off on the car immediately. The biggest delay was getting the car to the local Road Authority as you have to book weeks ahead. There were no problems and the car passed with flying colors.

14th April 2007.
Today I had my exhaust pipe repaired. At some stage during all the work that the car has had it managed to get crushed. The good news is that it was not expensive and has made a marked improvement in performance. Let's just say that I now have to be careful not to wear out my tyres.