[Chrysler300] Palo Alto Concours...the AUTO-biography

[JettLarry@xxxxxxx]

I have been waiting for the critics to file their reports re:  Chrysler, the 
Marque, and, since they were favorable,  can close the book on the event.  The 
unwashed masses of old car people in  the Bay Area were able to finally 
understand what the Lettered Cars were all  about thanks mostly to folks from this 
great club.  As the Brutes were  assigned spots based upon early to late 
manufacture and because the advertising  agency provided me with 8.5 inch roundels 
with the year and letter plus the  red,white,blue badge, for each car, it was 
easily seen how the scheme worked  from 1955 to 1965.
Responding to my call, the following folks brought cars.
C300.............Richard Barber
300B.............Roger Schaaf
300C.............Gary Gettleman
300D.............AWOL
300E............Joe Hensler (not a member (Sacramento) but hired a driver  to 
show his car as 
                     he had to be in Scotland!)  I shall send him an 
application as he is our  kind of
                     guy.  Bright red convertible.
300F............Louis Barrie, boss of Big Yellow
300F............Joe Falore, also not a member but interested.  He owns  the 
Off-Polar Blue 
                   tastefully  redone by Jim Manly and winner of many awards.
300G...........Bob Jasinski's rag for the past 18 years.  Bob couldn't  be 
there but allowed 
                    Lefty to pick it up  two weeks early and to return it 
soon.  Bob  mentioned 
                    that he never let anybody else even drive his car let 
alone take it home  for
                    three weeks.  I'm reporting that Bob's is the nicest 
driving F or G I have  ever
                   had the pleasure to operate.  Bob!!! As long as you have 
my Ram Dodge  in
                   your garage as hostage, can you make the Carters as sweet 
as yours?
300H..........Doug Warrener
300J...........Bill Kuettel (not now a member, but has been)  Sharp  eyed 
holders of the  
                    official program of the concours can look on page 61 and 
see Kuettel's Best of 
                    Show picture in 1995.  1928 Lincoln. There is a gent in 
the back seat  along for the ride over
                    the ramp to the prize.  He has a certain trade-mark cap 
on his head often  seen
                    at our shows and will be again in Oklahoma.
300 Pace..........Doug Jones finally gets the respect his car  demands!
300K...........Richard Palmer shows a very recent restoration of hard to  
find Letter
300L...........Bruce Toelle (President of the brother Club)   Reminder:  The 
300 Inc will be 
                   hosting a meet in September in Newnan Georgia but I 
haven't the dates.  TWO 
                   meets of the faithful.....how sweet is that?
 
I was asked to edit the feature article on Letters for the program.   This is 
a rarity and should be s.o.p. when unknown material is written  about.  The 
author thanked me very nicely at the end of the article as  follows: "My thanks 
to Larry Jett for his knowledge and comments, the photos of  his collection, 
and for keeping my story accurate"  Why the wry smile  here?  The caption on 
the picture of the 392 Hemi says:   "Ram-induction 413 cubic inch"
 
The winners of the class:  First....Barrie.  Second.....Falore  with the 
other F.  Third.....Schaaf.  Really, the spectators were the  winners as well as 
the various charities the Lion's Clubs endows with the net of  the day.  Thanks 
to one and all!!
 
 


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