Re: [Chrysler300] 300F Special. #8403110398

["Dave Schwandt" <finsruskw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My recollections exactly from my visit to you, John, years ago while Wayne 
was still in CA. I enjoy telling folks about that ride to this day!!
Plus I have the video you shot that day also!

Dave Schwandt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John" <john@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 300F Special. #8403110398


>
>  I visited Wayne Graefen for 8 days last month and while there we took his 
> 4 speed F "Special" out for a lengthy drive.  Wayne changed the rear end 
> gears from 293 to 331 for better street usage.
>
>  Almost at a full stop on I-10 with four people in the car he smoked the 
> tires through 1st gear and by the time he shifted out of 3rd we were doing 
> 115mph.  The car was still pulling strong in 4th (with all of the windows 
> down), but we ran out of road and I needed a change of underwear.
>
>  This was acomplished on "pump gas" with a 92 rating.
>
>  John Lazenby
>
>
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: John L. Chesnutt
>  To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:22 PM
>  Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] 300F Special. #8403110398
>
>
>
>  According to an article in the January 1974 Issue of the Chrysler 300 
> Club
>  Newsletter, Ray Doern talked to Greg Ziegler in about 1971, and Greg said
>  that the 4-speed F would go 60 in first, 90 in second, 120 in third and 
> 160
>  in fourth (speedometer reading). There are six full page pictures of the
>  300F Special. The Newsletter has a lot of information on the 1960 
> Chrysler
>  300F and a picture of Twin Paxton blowers on the Granatelli 300 Chrysler
>  engine. With the twin blowers, Granatelli pushed the car to a qualifying
>  speed of 165.91 in 1960 and averaged 172 mph for a new Experimental class
>  record.
>
>  John Chesnutt, 300C - Portland, OR
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>  Behalf Of Burton Bouwkamp
>  Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 12:11 PM
>  To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Subject: [Chrysler300] 8403110398
>
>  I was the engineer in charge of preparing and running the six 300F
>  "specials" at Daytona Beach in February of 1960.
>
>  The descriptive material that backs up the January 2010 Russo and Steele
>  auction of the Greg Ziegler driven 300F is amazingly accurate.
>
>  I only have the following "nit picking" with the accuracy of the 
> write-up:
>
>  1. Tim Flock (not Warren Koechling) drove the 300B that set the record in
>  1956. That car was owned and prepared by Carl Kiekhaefer. Tim was Carl's 
> ace
>  NASCAR oval track driver. I was at Daytona in 1956 but I did not have
>  anything to do with the preparation of this car.
>
>  2. Greg Ziegler did not input the design of the special Bluestreak tires.
>  That was solely a Goodyear responsibility and those tires absorbed only 
> 10
>  horsepower per tire at a 100 MPH. (15 HP would be normal.) We had 
> wonderful
>  cooperation from everyone in the building of these cars. Perfect Circle
>  volunteered special low tension piston rings. Chrysler Division
>  Manufacturing willingly built the engines with high tolerance bearing and
>  piston clearances and high limit compression ratios.
>
>  3. There were only six 300F "specials" in the speed trials at Daytona in
>  February, 1960. Five were purchased cars plus the engineering prototype.
>  300F's did take the first seven positions in the Flying Mile but the 
> seventh
>  place car driven by R. C. Wooten at 126.6 MPH was a standard production
>  automatic transmission equipped 300F. (The engineering prototype was 
> there
>  as a parts car and I did not intend to run it in competition but when Bud
>  Fauble arrived in Daytona with a sick 300F I relented and let him use the
>  car.)
>
>  Burt Bouwkamp
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: rob kern
>  To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; mwl1967@xxxxxxx
>  Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 12:59 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 8403110398
>
>  This is the Greg Zeigler Daytona record setting car. ROB KERN
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: mwl1967@xxxxxxx
>  To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:32 PM
>  Subject: [Chrysler300] 8403110398
>
>  Anyone have any comments on the 300F special coming up for sale this
>  January at Russo & Steele in Scottsdale, AZ ?
>
>  Will definitely be one to watch! Talk about a once in a lifetime
>  opportunity to own a car like this
>
>  Mike Laiserin
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