RE: {Chrysler 300} Fw: AACA Original Class Judging Plus 300H Trunk Mat Question
From: "henry" <hamlll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 13:38:24 -0700
Go with a real carpet mat…..as long as you carry a case of beer in the trunk. I harken back to John Grady’s story of the exhaust being too close to the trunk, the carpet caught fire and he had to put out the fire with the case of beer in the trunk.
Henry
300C
From: chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ROBERT HAAG Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2025 7:42 AM To: Hank Hallowell <Hank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bob Merritt <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: {Chrysler 300} Fw: AACA Original Class Judging Plus 300H Trunk Mat Question
Those rubber trunk
Mats were the worst idea.
If their is any moisture there the mats make shure
I can remember lifting the mat (whatever it was made
From) in the trunk of my sport series 62 300 in about 1972 at the ripe old age of 16 (after buying the car) only to have the top of the gas tank look back at me! It was as if there never had been a trunk floor.
This past weekend the AACA held its Western National Meet in Tucson so I entered our unrestored 300H coupe for evaluation in the Original Class. It did well, earning an Original badge. It lost a few points for my switch to radial tires as I drive it regularly, plus the addition of an electric auxiliary fuel pump for priming purposes. I also learned the current fabric trunk mat had replaced the original rubber mat at some point. Does anyone have an original mat they could snap a photo of so I could see what sort of pattern it had?
