Maybe it's my morning caffeine talking, combined with this email thread, but a couple things come to mind-
Rubber trunk mats are almost always the death of the metal underneath. I bought a very clean Hurst out of dry Colorado and the trunk floor was still an orange tinged color of surface rust when I lifted the trunk mat. Cars from wetter climates are usually swiss cheese at best.
AACA events have a 25 year cutoff date for entry, so starting this year, theoretically a 2000 model year car can be entered.
That got me thinking, as I remember some club news issues that were devoted to the 'latest letter car' back in 1999 when the 4 door, front wheel drive, V-6, 253 hp 300m and 300m Special (lower case m on purpose) was introduced. Maybe it should have been called the Chrysler 253, or perhaps at best a non-letter 300? The club did give the car a fair amount of attention when it first arrived on the scene. It's now an antique and eligible for AACA events. Does the club recognize this car, even tangentially? I do not own one, and have no plans to own one, just asking. A neighbor had one and loved it, but it got totaled in an accident as a 10 year old car in 2009.
It may have done better in the Sebring platform. At least it could have been a 2 door and a convertible (still as a non-letter).
Before we know it, the 'retro' 300 from 2005 will be an antique. Sure wish they made an SRT-8, 2-door convertible version of it, too. At least it had a 300+ HP 'Hemi' engine in it.
My first 300 acquisition was a 62 non-letter, purchased in 1983 as a not-yet-antique 21 year old used car for $300. Used as a daily driver.
My first letter car was a G coupe purchased in 1986 as a just-eligible-for-antique-plates 25 year old 'collector car'. I now know how some of the guys who collected pre-war and Model A cars felt in 1990 when their cars turned 60+ years old.
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