1967 Plymouth Fury

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jeremyb

A while back a friend of mine, John Kozak, was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He's been fighting it for 2 years now. When diagnosed, he was working on this car, planning to restore it. The car was in VERY VERY nice shape, running and driving. He already stripped the body, and had every suspension piece rebuilt, painted, and powdercoated. Interior is the original interior and is mint. He's owned this car for years and has sold and it bought it back a few times. Once diagnosed with cancer he never really had any ambitions to finish it. A group of us, friends and local resto guys, got together and came up with a plan. A good bit of money was raised to buy whatever new parts still needed to be bought. I donated the paint job, labor and materials, along with a few other local body guys. I shut the shop down a full week to get it done. A local mopar restorer donated a lot of new parts also. The car was then taken to Mr Ken Smith's shop for the build. Ken is a collector and restorer, and very good friend of John's. He was really the one responsible for getting everyone together and doing this. Everything from the paint, the motor, to the detail things were either donated completely or bought at cost. The car has spi universal over top of sikkens base. It was the first job I got to use SPI, and was the job that sold me on SPI.

John, along with the fury, got center stage the the Carlisle All Chrysler nationals this year. He will be featured in an upcoming issue of Mopar's Collector Guide (looks like the December issue). I've read the proof and is a really good read and goes in depth more on his situation and what it took to get the car to where it is today. John really appreciates all the work that went into it and there isn't a day that goes by that he doesn't look at the car and have a smile from ear to ear.


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Wow, for a hurry-up job that thing sure is straight !! It's great that a group of guys and companies came together to help someone in need (of motivation) and finished the car for him. I see a lot of projects like this not done 'right' this one looks like it holds it's own easily at the shows too, kudos !
 
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