Plymouth Fury III 1967 images

This 1967 Plymouth Fury III carries the first-year LA-series 318 cubic-inch V8, which quietly replaced the outgoing polyspherical-head 318 after the 1966 model year — an engineering handoff most buyers never noticed at the time. Add in 1967’s sharper “fast top” restyle and you’ve got a full-size Mopar sitting right at a genuine turning point in Plymouth history.

1967 Plymouth Fury III 318 CID V8 3-Speed Automatic

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1967 was actually the first year you could order a Plymouth Fury III with Chrysler’s all-new LA-series 318 cubic-inch V8, a quiet running change most buyers browsing the showroom that year never even clocked under the hood of what was, on the surface, just a comfortable full-size hardtop. The old polyspherical-head 318 that had powered Furys since the mid-1950s was already retired after the 1966 model year, replaced by Chrysler’s lighter, thin-wall-cast LA-series small block — and this Fury III represents one of the very first examples to carry the new design rather than one of the last to carry the old one.

The Engine That Had Just Arrived

Under the hood, this 1967 Fury III’s 318 cubic-inch V8 produced 230 horsepower (SAE gross), typically paired with Chrysler’s smooth-shifting TorqueFlite automatic, though a 3-speed manual was technically available. The 1967 model year marked the debut of this particular 318 design — Chrysler’s new thin-wall-casting LA small block, a lighter, wedge-chamber engine that replaced the outgoing polyspherical-head 318 after the 1966 model year and made more power for less weight from a smaller, more efficient package. Buyers of this Fury never knew they’d bought one of the first examples of an engine family that would go on to power Mopars for the next three decades.

A Full-Size Hardtop With a New Face

1967 also brought a sharper, more angular restyle to the Fury lineup, including a new formal two-door hardtop with a distinctive back-slanted “C” pillar treatment — what Chrysler internally called the “fast top” — offered alongside the more traditional thin-pillar hardtop across the VIP and Sport Fury series. It is a car that does not scream muscle at first glance, but between the styling transition and the brand-new 318 under the hood, this Fury III sits right at an inflection point in Plymouth’s full-size lineup that is easy to overlook today.

Why Transitional-Year Mopars Like This Get Overlooked

A numbers-matching 1967 Fury III doesn’t carry the name recognition of a GTX or a Road Runner, and that’s exactly why cars like this one tend to fly under the radar of collectors chasing the more famous badges. But for anyone interested in Mopar engineering history rather than just quarter-mile bragging rights, a first-year LA-block Fury is a genuinely significant survivor — it’s running the same basic 318 architecture that would go on to power everything from Dusters to pickup trucks well into the 1990s, making this unassuming full-size hardtop an early chapter in one of Chrysler’s longest-running V8 stories.

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