Re: [Chrysler300] 1957 Chrysler 300C - Oregonian Newspaper Love Story

["Terry & Andree Hoeman" <tehoema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wonderful story--the three of you really make a hit!!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John L. Chesnutt" <chesnutt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:45 PM
Subject: [Chrysler300] 1957 Chrysler 300C - Oregonian Newspaper Love Story


> We have been getting e-mails and telephone calls today regarding our 1957
> Chrysler 300 that is in a front page article of the Oregonian Newspaper
> along with pictures. We thought we should share the article with Club
> members.
>
> Last week we drove our 1957 Chrysler 300C Coupe to Tacoma, Washington to 
> the
> Chrysler 300 Club National Car meet. When we stopped in downtown Portland 
> on
> the way to Tacoma, two ladies stopped to admire our car and commented on 
> it.
> Later we found they worked for the Oregonian newspaper. When we arrived 
> home
> on Sunday, we received a call from an Oregonian reporter asking us for an
> interview on Tuesday. We said it was ok. We were surprised that it was 
> such
> a long article and it appeared on the front page of the paper with a 5 x 7
> picture of my wife, Arlys with our 300C, taken September 1958.
>
> You can read the article which is in today's paper (Friday, Sept 4) :
> www.oregonlive.com  , click on Portland news or 
> http://tiny.cc/50years401
>
> The title is:
>
> A Portland love story:    The car -- and the couple -- still going strong
> after 50 years
> by Tom Hallman Jr., The Oregonian
>
> In addition to the pictures, comments; there is a two minute video. We 
> have
> owned the 1957 Chrysler 300C for 51 years and drove it on our honeymoon in
> July 1959.
>
> John & Arlys Chesnutt, Portland, OR
>
>
>
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