[Chrysler300] 8403110398

["Burton Bouwkamp" <northburt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was the engineer in charge of preparing and running the six 300F "specials" at Daytona Beach in February of 1960.

The descriptive material that backs up the January 2010 Russo and Steele auction of the Greg Ziegler driven 300F is amazingly accurate.

I only have the following "nit picking" with the accuracy of the write-up:

1. Tim Flock (not Warren Koechling) drove the 300B that set the record in 1956. That car was owned and prepared by Carl Kiekhaefer. Tim was Carl's ace NASCAR oval track driver. I was at Daytona in 1956 but I did not have anything to do with the preparation of this car.

2. Greg Ziegler did not input the design of the special Bluestreak tires. That was solely a Goodyear responsibility and those tires absorbed only 10 horsepower per tire at a 100 MPH. (15 HP would be normal.)  We had wonderful cooperation from everyone in the building of these cars. Perfect Circle volunteered special low tension piston rings. Chrysler Division Manufacturing willingly built the engines with high tolerance bearing and piston clearances and high limit compression ratios.  

3. There were only six 300F "specials" in the speed trials at Daytona in February, 1960. Five were purchased cars plus the engineering prototype. 300F's did take the first seven positions in the Flying Mile but the seventh place car driven by R. C. Wooten at 126.6 MPH was a standard production automatic transmission equipped 300F. (The engineering prototype was there as a parts car and I did not intend to run it in competition but when Bud Fauble arrived in Daytona with a sick 300F I relented and let him use the car.) 

Burt Bouwkamp  

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  From: rob kern 
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  Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 12:59 PM
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  This is the Greg Zeigler Daytona record setting car. ROB KERN
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mwl1967@xxxxxxx 
  To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:32 PM
  Subject: [Chrysler300] 8403110398

  Anyone have any comments on the 300F special coming up for sale this 
  January at Russo & Steele in Scottsdale, AZ ?

  Will definitely be one to watch! Talk about a once in a lifetime 
  opportunity to own a car like this

  Mike Laiserin

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