Back in the early1980s I had the opportunity to use my 300E in a documentary being filmed by the local outlet of a major network in Chicago. Cars used were 1950 to 1960 models. The premise was to show how this particular stretch of expressway, which was opened in 1960 had become grossly overcrowded by the late 1970s. Upon command, officers from the Chicago Police Department, Illinois State Police and Illinois Dept of Transportation would swoop down on that 3 mile section of road and close off all 8 lanes of north and south bound traffic and shut all entrance ramps. In a couple of minutes, this once crazy piece of road was devoid of cars. This caused major traffic problems just west of the downtown area. Upon another command, our old cars drove down a cleared entrance ramp on to the highway in a widely scattered pattern to show what the road looked like when it opened. Our drive was filmed by a crew stationed on an overpass. We got off the road on an exit ramp, looped over the highway, down an entrance ramp and headed down the road in the opposite direction to again be filmed by the crew on the overpass. We exited the road and returned to our original staging area. Once we were back in place, all traffic control was released and the normal mayhem resumed. This was repeated for 3 cycles over the course of about 5 hours. A lot of planning must have gone into this. About a month later I saw my 300E on the TV as part of the traffic flow from the staged 1960 event. As luck would have it, my car and the 1960 Pontiac driving next to me were in a newspaper piece advertising the upcoming TV special about the expressways. All was in black and white. For my time I was paid $75 and fed lunch. All drivers were in complete control of their cars but had to pay strict attention to their spacing on the road and were asked not to wave at the camera crew as you went below the overpass. All in all it was a fun experience. Guy Morice [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To send a message to this group, send an email to: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/