I especially would like to thank a very good friend of ours for pointing us towards this car, as he sent the craigslist ad post to my stepdad. My stepdad sold his red 2005 HEMI Magnum R/T station wagon to actually buy this car. Here is the history of it......

Introducing "The Great Pumpkin", an original 318 powered FK3 Burnt Orange on FK3 Burnt Orange 22,000 mile survivor 1970 Fury III 4-door hardtop originally bought from Blackstone Valley Chrysler/Plymouth in Lincoln R.I. by Mr. Lavecchia. It is in my opinion a survivor in just about every meaning and sense of the word. The car was found by the 2nd owner stored away for 20 years in North Providence R.I. who bought it from the family of Mr. Lavecchia. The car is a late build car being built June 6th 1970, it is a “Built To Spec For” car and is also a “Lease Bid Sale” car. We found not one but 2 build sheets under the rear seat in the car, but unfortunately the car did not come with a window sticker. We do plan to have one made up for it though.

The previous 2nd owner who coincidentally has the same first name as my stepdad, said he purchased the car 3 years ago in about 2019 and only drove it on weekends. He said he was selling it, and will soon be selling a VW Beetle because he wants to buy a convertible.

The black powder coated rims are something the previous owner did, but they are the original rims. He said he coated the rims and was going to put the original hubcaps (which came with the car) back on over them, but after they came back from the coating shop he said they looked too nice to scratch up.

When he put the car for sale and my stepdad inquired about the car, he told my stepdad that he had a buyer on the line for it but the thing is that buyer told the owner his plans for the car which was to stick a 440 in it and technically make it a race car. That said my stepdad said I'll offer you more money than the potential buyer and I won't ruin the car I will keep it original, and that sealed the deal. My stepdad ended up buying the car on June 5th of this year.

Since my stepdad got the car he has since replaced the rear shocks to bring the rear end up a bit as it was sitting a bit low for him, and is currently putting on new whitewall tires with 15x6 rallye road wheels. Future plans include rebuilding or replacing the carburetor (but not sure yet because he hasn't said), repaint the engine to make it look nicer, replace the original single exhaust with dual exhaust, and maybe add electronic ignition also.

The goal is to hopefully have it on display in the survivor tent next year in Carlisle.

I will post more pictures of the car soon but here are a few from the original posting to keep you in suspense......

very cool land yacht!

Neat!

I look at that and see the makings of a "4 dr Sport Fury GT". What a nice car. What engine?

Nice ride!

Love it and would love to see engine compartment.

318 2bbl

Thank you! More pictures coming soon......

That’s a crazy interior. Wow.

Love that car! Awesome color combo... especially on a C body! Linus would be proud!

congratulations! very cool car sir.

Everything about it is beautiful!

Thanks for the compliments guys, I appreciate it . A little update on the car includes.....

1) A new timing chain being added, the old one was the original yellow plastic one with the original Pentastar on it!! The original was in good shape but we ain't gonna take any chances being 50 years old

2) It now has new heater hoses, and yes it still had the originals on it too!! We took em off because they were no good because the previous owner had a crappy mechanic, who replaced other hoses and put the clamps for the original hoses on too tight and it cut into the hoses

3) A new 2bbl carburetor was bought for the car

4) The original radiator was taken out and recored, it was converted to a 3 row as well

5) The heat canister that was in the car was a crappy aftermarket, needless to say it was replaced with an NOS one

6) This is the part I hate to admit because I think it ruins the car, sigh. Yes the engine is getting repainted, BUT in it's original blue.



The plan is to HOPEFULLY have the car in the survivor tent, and have the yellow S/23 in the C-body line at Carlisle next year in 2022

Very nice car indeed,needs a 440 though lol,you should of had the original carb rebuilt hope you kept it,springs hold a car up not the shocks.

Hi All,

It's been awhile since i posted about the car. Well it's been awhile since I posted in general. I just wanted to let everyone know that the car got a new custom upgraded dual exhaust system, new hoses under the hood, brake hoses, new shocks, and other things. The main thing I wanted to tell everyone about the car though is that it has been excepted into the Carlisle Mopar Survivor Tent Invitational this year in 2022 and will be going. If you go in the tent check it out, and if you see my stepdad and/or I sitting behind the car at all, if you would like to stop by and say hello. See everyone in a few days!

Parallel park that in front of some Millennials, and you will become their God.