[Chrysler300] Re: 1957 Ford Fairlane / 1970 Coronet / and my 300F

["William Huff czbill@xxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300]" <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is a gorgeous car.  Congratulations.

Bill Huff

At 07:34 PM 1/12/2015, MARK HOPKINS wrote:
>In 1970, I was selling shoes in a department 
>store for $2.00/hour, and curbing cars to pay 
>university tuition, which was a whopping 
>$444.50/year at the time. I picked up a'57 Ford 
>Fairlane convertible (soft top) with the 292, 
>automatic; navy blue with red interior and white 
>top, for $350 from a family that had owned it 
>since new. It had traveled about 45,000 miles in 
>13 years, and was still in excellent condition. 
>Sold it for $450, and thought I'd done well. Saw 
>one like it go for $40,000 a couple of years ago at a local auction............
>
>There's a Mopar connection here. That family 
>replaced the '57 Ford with a new Coronet 
>convertible, with the 440 and automatic. Their 
>son was a high school friend, who unbeknownst to 
>his dad, took it out on a quiet paved road 
>outside the city to show me what it could do. He 
>could smoke the glass belted tires for 200 
>yards. I don't know what diff it had, but it 
>flew. My dad's sedate '68 New Yorker sure didn't 
>move out like that Coronet. Made me a Mopar 
>follower from that day forward. Now that would be the car to own today!
>
>Mark (in snow covered COLD Calgary)
>
>PS - The local newspaper ran an article on my 
>300F last week. A few misquotes, but basically a nice writeup.
>
>http://driving.ca/chrysler/300/local-content/calgary/calgary-car-collector-finds-classic-1960-chrysler-300f 
>
>
>(don't look too closely at the a/c compressor in 
>the engine pic. I really will get around to 
>installing the correct replacement in the 
>spring. That's the broken '60 compressor with a 
>'68 pulley/clutch assembly in the pic.......only 
>the car's front view and the interior pics ran in the print version.)
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "William Huff czbill@xxxxxxxxxx 
>[Chrysler300]" <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 3:15:59 PM
>Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Fwd: Moonshiner's 
>1957 Ford Fairlane is one  of a kind | Fox News
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>We had a '57 Ford Ranch Wagon, 6 cylinder three
>on the tree, picked it up new in NY
>city. Started a road trip from NY to West by
>gosh Texas and then back. Mom, Dad and 3 of us rug rats.
>
>Half way down the Penn Turnpike the engine let
>go. Towed and the dealer diagnosed they had put
>the head gasket in reversed at the factory and
>blocked an oil gallery to the lifters. 3-4 days
>for replacement parts. Dad said no way, put it
>back together. Off we went, and then back
>again. We lived in Panama, and when the car got
>back to Panama we went to the dealer, who was a
>schoolmate of my father's. He said choose your
>motor from any car on the showroom. We'll get a
>replacement engine for that car.
>
>Dad picked a 292 and they bolted it in. With the
>six cylinder transmission and rear end ratio,
>that car had acceleration for the day. Regularly
>kicked butt on 283 power pack Chevies. They were
>faster, but not quicker in the
>quarter. Unfortunately, by 1959 when I was
>thinking I might inherit the car when I got my
>license, the engine and tranny were the only
>things not pretty much rusted to pieces. Dad
>worked on the piers...salt air don't ya know.
>
>Bill Huff
>
> >SNIP:
> >
> >By the way , I had a 57 Ford, about 1960. Total
> >pig of a car, Police Ã? Interceptor 312 a pig,
> >burned oil, leaked out of bad design valve
> >covers, then rockers went dry, kit added to add
> >a copper line to oil the rockers outside engine,
> >slow, got pounded by 265 55 chev 2 bbl. Ã? ;
> >early holley 4 bbl carb a total dog, needle
> >seats distorted, adjustment changed nothing. .
> >Vacuum wipers , they stop wiping at half
> >throttle. Had to slam door, it bounced back at
> >you violently half the time . Or popped open.
> >Was police special , brown plain 2 dr. Bought
> >from mass state police via dealer supplying new
> >police Fords. 125$ about 1960. 57 312 had no
> >advance springs, so no centrifugal advance; two
> >stage vacuum advance, had to put a Mallory to
> >get ANYWHERE. Still a pig. Studebakers beat me.
>
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