Re: [Chrysler300] 1957-1958 300C & D Front Arm Rest Supports

[Keith Boonstra <kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry,you just pulled my chain.  I've been working on this along with 
Mike Burke and Jim Bartuska ever since about last August.  The Eastern 
Club is planning to make these available as a project.  I've never heard 
of anyone who has a really nice pair either on or off a '57-'59 car.  A 
combination of bad plastic materials used and stress on the two screws 
holding them to the door did every last one of them in.  The problem in 
reproducing them has been that a lot of tricky functions and shapes all 
have to happen at once on these things, and we have been trying to 
accomplish this without springing for something like 20-25K for an 
injection mold.

What we are working on involves a multi-part vacuum mold process  that 
will cost about half as much.  We have a company that is interested and 
has put a fair amount of work into it already.  I made up a perfect 
model in mahogany for them way back last fall, and we've picking away at 
the project ever since.  The delay has been getting them to fast-track 
it because they've been pretty busy.  Frankly, so far it's been hard to 
get them to focus on any kind of a schedule.  My contact there will be 
back from vacation (again) tomorrow morning, and I have it on my to-do 
list to become a bit of a badger with him on the subject.

I need a pair myself as badly as anyone; and I know I've said this 
before, but I hope within the next few weeks to have some true progress 
to report.

Keith Boonstra

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On 2/26/2011 9:43 PM, Larry Jabin wrote:
>
>
> 1957-1958 300C & D Front Arm Rest Supports
>
> I know this has been discussed in the past & someone was working on these
> Anyone heard anything lately
>
> Also if anyone has a decent pair they want to sell please let me know. 
> I know they won't be cheap
>
> Thanks
>
> Larry Jabin
> San Francisco..
>
> 300D
>
> Larry@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Larry%40pwbsfo.com>
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