Yesterday, we told you about anew episode premiere of Big Easy Motors on the History Channel, which featured a build destined for HOT ROD Power Tour, presented by Chevrolet. The Bomb Factory turned up the wick on this 1968 Plymouth Fury III, and we have exclusive photos of the build!

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Charles Handler and his crazy crew of cajuns started with a rusty estate sale buy of $1,000, with the bet made that Handler could turn $15,000 in profit on the project. They started with stripping the Fury down to the bare steel, and began building this family cruiseship into a big-body muscle car. The chassis was completely re-thought with the help of Magnum Force Suspension, who installed a trick prototype suspension under the C-Body, which upgraded the original torsion-bar suspension to tubular control arms with coil over shocks, along with a rack-and-pinion steering system to tie it all together. A tubular K-member and front frame section were also provided by Magnum Force Suspension, taking a few compact cars worth of weight out of the nose of the old Fury.

From there, the voidunder the hood was filled with a 6.1L Gen III Hemi, and a beefy Tremec T-56 from Silver Sport Transmission backed the modern Mopar motivator. Rick's Tanks in El Paso, Texas provided an EFI-ready tank for the Fury, and Hot Wired and Modern Muscle Performance helped to wire it all up. The Bomb Factory was able to source a factory three-pedal setup from a 1968 C-Body, and went to work making the floor pan accept its new guts. Of course, 4.10 gears were stuffed with a limited-slip differential, and all of that fury is controlled by a custom four-link that's integrated into Magnum Force Suspension's C-Body package,ensuring that this Fury III can turn it up to 11.

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Outside, the car was painted matte black with a mid-coast of blue prisms bring out dark blue highlights in the sun, and The Bomb Factory tied 1970s panel graphics with muscle-car era stripingin candy blue. The era-correct Hemi hood scoop brings the front end together, and a custom made ducktail spoiler rounds out the rear. 17 inch Cragar Street Pro wheels round out the muscle car transformation. The whole look is as eclectic as you'd expect from the Bourbon Street city, but we dig it.

And so did one buyer at HOT ROD Power Tour, who purchased the Fury III for $50,000 during out Baton Rouge stop in 2016. Did Handler lose his bet? You'll have to find out by watching the episode on History Channel's website, but they've provided the episode for free streaming. Click here to watch the episode!

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