[Chrysler300] 300H final (briefer) comment

[christopher beilby <thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

After my long post re it a pity Chrysler did not do a later weight reduction from the approx 4000 lb weights of the '62 300H's slightly weight reduction over the earlier 300F and Gs, can I add the brief comment now that this was not a criticism of Chrysler, nor the 300H, or earlier 300 models.
 
Others will know the sales figures of the 1962 300 (sport) and 300H - they were likely the most successful 300s that still retained most of what true (performance) 300s were about.   But the fact that so few (true 1962 300s - 300s with cross ram extra performance - like every 300F and G came with) were ordered with cross ram engines/performance, shows the market for outright performance 300s was not too large ?! (if not downright small if it hard to know if more than a handful/any ever sold ?!) And for a 300 without fins, I personally think the 300H was a great looking 300.
 
When 300 (H) buyers thumbed their collective noses at a one second performance gain/win for so little extra (relatively $$), it must have told Chrysler that ultimate horsepower was not a then 300 buyer 'top of wish list'.
And likewise Pontiac soon later found out in 1969/70, that this was also true for their 'non GT' GT (earlier 300s feature copying) - 1969 Grand Prixs with 4 speed trans sold under a total of only few hundreds out of a production in 1969 of over 100,000, and in 1970, their 455 HO SJ sold in very low numbers relative to the more bread and butter 400 and 455 engined Grand Prixs that raced out the showromm doors. It is only today the full house performance 69 and 70 SJ GPs are more sought, and $$$$wise, and likely this true re any 405hp ram 1962 300Hs. For some of us, that extra 'push in the back fun', just has to be there if it available.
 
 
Christopher,
and final ps - thank you for the interesting side issue/thought from 300H owner re did Chrysler use 1962 era 300 floor stampings in their later Charger/Coronet models?! - maybe a Charger size/weight late 60s 300 may not have been so big a task - but the poor sales of the ram 300H may have been why they never bothered?     
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