Re: [Chrysler300] A Question About Parts Cars

["Michael Reed" <mrreed@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't believe it is appropriate, in this instance, to discuss survival rates in terms of percentages.

To make my case, take the numbers to a bit more extreme than the reality. Assume for the sake of debate there had been three 300's and 100,000 New Yorkers manufactured in a given year. One 300 and 1,000 New Yorkers have survived the junk yard crusher. The survival rate for the 300's is 33% and 1% for the New Yorkers. The 300 has a survival rate 33 times that of the New Yorkers. 

If a second 300 is found, based on the 1% survival rate of the New Yorker, there would not seem to justification for the use of a single New Yorker to permit the restoration of the 300.

Mike Reed in Lake Odessa, Michigan

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MITCHELLEINSAUK@xxxxxxx 
  To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:46
  Subject: [Chrysler300] A Question About Parts Cars


  Hi all,

  I enjoy reading members input on the 300 list server, and have received some 
  welcome help and advice myself, over the years, so excuse this indulgence, 
  but I couldn't help but play devils advocate for a moment:

  John Hartford's message about both an Imperial and 1957 New Yorker 2-door 
  that he knows of for sale, has finally motivated me to ask this question of 
  fellow list server users. I've often seen reference made to the availability of 
  a decent parts car like a 2-door Saratoga, or New Yorker, as the basis for a 
  thorough restoration of a sister 300 letter series with terminal body rust or 
  accident damage. As both a 300 letter series owner (albeit "only" a 300L), 
  and an owner of a '57 New Yorker, I often ponder the wisdom of dismantling a 
  perfectly sound New Yorker, as an example, to save a sister 300 letter series 
  car. 

  Now this may sound like heresy given both my audience, and the special 
  appeal that letter series cars have rightly attracted from the first day the 
  rolled off the showroom floor. And granted, the numbers of letter series cars 
  built have always been very low. However, while there were undoubtedly far more 
  New Yorkers built (as an example) it is my perception that very few have 
  survived or been restored. In fact, I would guess that the survival rate of the 
  letter series cars is, as a percentage of those originally built, among the 
  highest of all American collector cars, while I would imagine New Yorkers (and 
  particularly the late fifties Exner cars) are among the rarest. Of course, 
  value wise, even if all late fifties Exner styled cars are gaining in value, 
  obviously, they can't hold a candle to the more specialised letter series cars, 
  but just maybe our hobby is about more than just monetary value.

  Of course, in the end, members may argue, with good cause, that the lack of 
  restored New Yorkers (as an example) is just a reflection of a lack of 
  interest, and this is the way of the world. On the other hand it might be because 
  most rusted out very early on, and the Hemi V-8 was pulled by hot rodders and 
  drag racers in the sixties.

  Just an observation from the "other side of the pond." 

  Geoff Mitchell

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