My first car was a red '67 Fury III 4-door hardtop with a 383, power steering and factory air.
So when I saw this one on eBay in August of 2006, my judgment took a little vacation and I found myself the owner of a 76,000-original-mile black-plate California car.
 
When it showed up on the truck a month later, I discovered it had been off the road for nine years and had been left sitting with gas in the tank. Still, a battery swap and a long piece of fuel hose plumbed to a gas can got it home. I ended up replacing the tank, since the cost of the new one wasn't much more than it would have cost to get the old one cleaned out. The fuel pump and sending unit were also replaced and the carb rebuilt. I finally registered it the Tuesday before Carlisle and it saw the road legally for the first time in eleven years.

It's incredibly straight a nd the only rust is on the lip of t he right front fender where something dripped water on it for many years. Another CarDomain member asked about an engine shot, so here's one I took the day it arrived from California.  Just a stock 383-2 that someone painted red.  I'd like to respray the valve covers and intake with the correct turquoise eventually.

The car's been repainted from green to red and the seats were re-covered, plus it's had some things added for trailer towing.
The air works, but needs a charge. Perhaps this Spring or Summer.

I finally insured and registered the '67 the week before Carlisle 2008 and have now put about 360 miles on it altogether.  At Carlisle, I scored a pair of "Commando V8" fender badges, which were the only pieces of trim missing from the car, as well as a set of deluxe wheel covers and a 4-bbl intake.

Lubricating the rear door latches and window regulators is on the to-do list. I've bypassed the vacuum attachment that was teed in between the carb and the vacuum advance, but haven't removed the gadget itself yet. Since the original hard fuel line is still in place and shedding all kinds of debris, I cleaned out the fuel filter recently (it's one of those clear, replaceable-element ones).

I took the car to the Bay Country Region VCCA's Fall Blow-Out at Downs Park in Pasdena in October 2008.  Thanks to a fellow Maryland Mopars member who volunteered to drive my '68, I was able to have both my Furies at the show.  I've just added a new photo I shot of the car at the show. I installed the new wheel covers there as well.  Except for the hesitation, it ran pretty well and the tire I'd been worried about held up.

I also recently got tired of looking at the white deposits all over the RF fender and decided to take drastic action--I wet-sanded it and got most of the calcium off.  This didn't do the paint any favors, but even dull red is better than the white stains.  The red needs to be repainted anyway. You'll notice I always shoot the left side of this car--it's because the paint looks much better on this side.

Two of my buddies from Maryland Mopars came over in early November and we got the car tuned up. I replaced the bad tire soon after and was able to take the car out for a nice highway blast after that. There are still some choke issues when it's cold (like, flooring the pedal doesn't close the butterfly all the way), but once it's been running for a few minutes it's quite nice.  The engine runs cool, the heater works fine and with four decent tires it rides and handles great!  I used my $250 BP gas card to fill the tank for the first time ever, so I could find out just how thirsty that 383 really is.  A four-barrel is on the long-term upgrade list as I know from experience that a 383-4 is better on gas than a 383-2 as long as you don't open up the primaries every time you step on the gas.  Transmission service is on the near-term list as the 2-3 upshift is sometimes sloppy.  Considering how long the car sat, what's surprising is that the upshifts aren't both sloppy all the time.