300K found a new home!

["Thomas L. DeBusk 2" <cfdebusk@xxxx>]

With a public thanks to John Cote, 300K, serial #8443-198967, has found 
a new home: mine! The owner, Richard Blacksten, was only 5 hours from 
me, and I picked her up this past Saturday. Trailered her home with no 
incident.

John was right about this being an ambitious restoration-the floors are 
shot, the right front fender is very bruised, some other panels have 
total rust-through, and a good portion of the chrome is deeply pitted. 
On the plus side, the car shows only 62,000 miles, and it looks original 
to my eyes. As in, there's very little wear on certain places like the 
driver's armrest, and other interior tactile surfaces.

And the car is very complete, including all the medallions and 
wheelcovers. Alas, it is a single carbed car. Sigh! Would I be forgiven 
if I put a ram setup in? Anybody got a complete and proper setup they 
want forward to a worthy cause? I have a '55 C300 I'll give in a partial 
trade... It is for sale, by the way.

The 300K is black with a red pinstripe and a deep red vinyl 
interior.Very sharp. The interior is all very dry and brittle, but 
outside of some torn seams looks pretty good. The aluminum inserts on 
the doors are also shot, or they would look very good, too.

Thomas DeBusk