RE: [Chrysler300] California Show Report

["Jennifer Allyn" <gearhead.girl@xxxx>]

Jay Leno...nice, nice man. I was at a show and standing near a "G" that
he was admiring. Some busybody wanted to impress him and started
telling him that it was an original 440 motor. I interrupted and said
that it was a 413, if original. When the guy started to argue, Jay said
"I believe the Lil' Lady is correct" in the politest voice while
pointing to the sign in front of the car showing the engine specs. I
was under the distinct impression he knew the motor size as well as I
did, but too polite to refute the guy, but liked that I did. He said
really loves the letter cars.
Jennifer 
gearhead.girl@xxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Nelson [mailto:Gary@xxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 7:46 PM
To: RAKFAR@xxxx; Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] California Show Report

Jay Leno. That rings a bell when you say he was looking over a GTX. I
was 
at the Mopar Spring Fling at Woodly Park in So. cal a few years ago. My

brother entered his fresh ground up resto on a 65 Dodge black 2 dr.
post. 
Leno came up at a brisk walk and left just as quick with his brief case.
I 
jokingly said to my brother that it was probably full of cash? Maybe a 
check book.
It was obvious that he was on a hunt for the best that interested him
and 
ready to pay. Isn't it ironic how most of us sweet, grunt, strain, maybe
a 
little swearing to get our cars looking nice. To get a concourse car for

Leno the only sweet he sees is when he flips the latches on his brief 
case. Oh well, I would not have it any other way.
Oh! To keep this within the list serve rules, my C sure is moving along 
slowly. If I only had Leno's brief case.

Gary, The Parts Doc

At 03:38 PM 6/20/2002 -0400, RAKFAR@xxxx wrote:

> Father's Day (Sunday, June 16th) proved to be a good day for
>Chrysler 300's at the Milestone Classic Car Society annual show in
Thousand
>Oaks, California. Three Chrysler 300's were present among the hundreds
of
>entries, and all three came home prize winners.Club member Dan Reitz
brought
>his beautiful and original Alaskan White 300F coupe, with its rare
"888"
>code charcoal grey interior. Though I'd heard of such things, I'd never
>actually seen a "special order" interior before, and I was amazed to
think
>that once upon a time such special exceptions were possible, if you had
the
>money and knew the right people! Dan received a fine second place in a
>hard-fought class.
>
> Yours truly brought his Toreador Red (nee white) 300F
convertible,
>which took first place in its class, thus extending its undefeated
record in
>show competition. Also in the class was a highly unusual (well, I'd
never
>seen one before) stunning black 1960 Plymouth Fury convertible, with a
383
>"Sonoramic Commando" option (what we 300 folks call a "crossram"). It
took
>second place in the convertible class.
>
> I understand another car, a 1955 Chrysler 300, also placed
in its
>class in the show, but I apologize as I didn't get the owner's name. If
the
>owner is on this List, congratulations! Also present was Club member
Ted
>Larangeira (hope I got that last name right, Ted), who didn't bring his
300F
>coupe, which was still recovering from its multiple cross-country
adventures.
>TV personality Jay Leno was also in attendance (he brought a Packard, I
>think), and was seen paying close attention to a very nice 1969
Plymouth GTX
>Hemi hardtop. All in all it was a lovely show, and a fine day for the
>Beautiful Brutes!
>
>300F'ly,
>
>Roger Karlson
>
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