Re: [Chrysler300] Lefty listens...Learn From Him

[Keith Boonstra <kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re the Gauguin Red:

My local mechanic tells me working on my 300C always makes him want to 
go home and have Campbell's Tomato Soup for lunch - made with milk 
instead of water.

Keith Boonstra

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Richard Barber wrote:
>  
>
> Larry:
>
> I received the compendium of Hey Lefties and have just completed reading
> them. Thanks for reissuing these blasts from the past. It was great to
> read that there is nothing new under the sun as you issued guidance to the
> 300 masses on issues technical, economic, emotional and non-sensical. 
> I was
> pleased to learn that the Lefty moniker was geographically based, not
> political.
>
> I'd like to suggest to club management that they consider reprinting 
> old Hey
> Lefties in our current journals and/or online. Like most car journals, 
> they
> could use a little spicing up.
>
> I would share with others the source of the '57 300C color Gaugin Red:
> http://tinyurl.com/ygrs4wx <http://tinyurl.com/ygrs4wx> A splash of 
> color in the lower RH corner is
> certainly the source of the tint chosen in 1956 by the Chrysler Design 
> Group
> as you pointed out. I'm not sure whether it is the Moon's knickers or a
> lava flow--but there it is. Visitors to the site are encouraged to 
> click on
> the sound track which explains the picture and Gaugin's raison d'être for
> his Tahiti trip.
>
> Would it not be cool to have these sound bites under some of the 
> pictures at
> our website?
>
> Thanks again for making the 300 trip more fascinating, enlightening 
> and fun.
>
> C-300'ly,
> Rich Barber
> Brentwood, CA
> 1955 Chrysler C-300
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:Chrysler300%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> Behalf Of JettLarry@xxxxxxx <mailto:JettLarry%40aol.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:43 AM
> To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:chrysler300%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Chrysler300] The President requesta a "Simulus Package" and 
> Lefty
> listens...
>
> Available now, free for the asking, is a SIMULATED PACKAGE of all 20 of
> those wonderful "Hey Lefty" columns from the Chrysler 300 Club News, 
> dated
> Winter of 1997 through Winter of 2002. Thrill again to the wacky advice
> and
> the accurate reportage so now missing from newspapers. Reproduced by an
> actual Xerox office machine on superb Staples Economy Grade bond and
> attached
> with maximum strength Office Max staple, there are minutes of chuckles 
> and
> guffaws awaiting.
>
> New to the Club after 2002?
>
> This should be a mandatory read. Meet Tim Buck II and other Club
> luminaries spotlighted in the series. Not available in stores but hand
> delivered
> to you by a courier of the USPS. You have but to e-mail:
> _JettRanch@xxxxxxx <mailto:_JettRanch%40aol.com>_ 
> (mailto:JettRanch@xxxxxxx <mailto:JettRanch%40aol.com>) to request. 
> Include the
> mailing address you wish used as Lefty rushes your order to you. Do not
> send any request to the List Server but directly to the e-mail address
> mentioned.
>
> Fine Print: The 'President' mentioned in the salutation is the President
> of Redwood Lease Co, an automobile company which expired too early for 
> one
> of those Stimulus Package bailouts. Rats! As in engine ignition, timing
> is everything!!
>
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