RE: [Chrysler300] A Question About Parts Cars

[christopher beilby <thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If one goes to the New Yorker currently mentioned by other members, personally I think it not real clever to think of using as seemingly nice a 57 New Yorker Coupe as a donor body/frame for a 300?!  (that asuming any rust issues raised/mentioned re this 57 NY in it's listing were not too great, and then fixed to factory original?)
 
Using a New Yorker say found lying outdoors part stripped, with sad/stuffed paint, interior, and missing much NY chromeware, etc, however may be more acceptable to more/most/commonsense?
 
And re the '57 NY currently for sale - isn't it great to see how good a NY in plain white with a blue top/roof looks!!?  Normally who would think such a color combo could/would look so smart ??!!
 
Just my personal views - disagree/agree if you wish.  But surely the/our world will be the poorer if cars such as this NY are lost?  Bad enough losing 300 windscreen chrome moulds, without whole good cars vanishing ?!
 
Christopher in Australia


To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; MITCHELLEINSAUK@xxxxxxxxxxx: mrreed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:27:17 -0400Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] A Question About Parts Cars




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 4:46Subject: [Chrysler300] A Question About Parts CarsHi 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 MitchellPenshurst House,163 Fleet Road,Farnborough, Hants, GU14 9SL, England,Tel: +44 (0)1252 519 294Fax: +44 (0)1252 519 894Mobile: +44 (0)7770 376813E-mail: mitchelleinsauk@xxxxxxx[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 


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