[Chrysler300] Full Jewelled; Get it ! Read it!

[Doug Mayer <mobydoug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Chuck Schoendorf writes a true fact in his letter in the latest "e-news" about Full Jewelled  Stock Car Racing 1951-56 by Russ Truelove and Russ Hamilton. I read the book at Christmastime and had trouble putting it down--even when I was instructed to.  For the dozen years I was engaged with my white 300B, bought in Montana and shipped to the right coast (NY & ME) I learned quite a lot about those sweet beasts.
> 
> I recall a mechanic told me that the 354 hemi was the best of the first 3 hemis.  He didn't tell me why, but the book reports the same thing, and explains something about the balance--volumetric, I guess--that made it a more efficient engine than the other two. 
> 
> I also recall a trip on I 85 in North Carolina, with Mr. Lazenby (B expert) driving, and Mr. Jett (meet host expert) in the back seat.  I was merely riding along with these two raconteurs, Lazenby trying to get to the Richard Petty shop in Level Cross--I think he was trying to get there before God, he was going so fast.  At one point I leaned left and saw the little pointy thing in the speedometer pointing at 130. And, at about that point, Mr. Lazenby lifted off the throttle and slowed to something less.  He mentioned that the spindles--those things that hold the front wheels to the vehicle were 40 some years old, and probably not quite as good as new.
> 
> Wasn't I interested to note that Mr. Kiekhafer caused the original spindles on his B's to be swapped out and Lincoln spindles put in their place because the Lincoln spindles were tougher.  I wonder if Mr. Lazenby knew that as he left the entire gaggle of other 300's at the Rev. Krep's meet strung out along the interstate?  I never knew that until this year, long after my B had gone to Florida--to some warehouse.  I certainly strained its spindles driving the country roads of the northeast and New England.
> 
> And I remember Tim Flock getting into my B, sticking his head out and waving so I could get a photo.
> 
>  Mr. Hamilton's book is a good one, and for weak readers like me there are lots of pictures!  He is a great story teller, and writes as well about the people associated with these machines as the machines themselves.
> 
> Doug
> 300L
Doug Mayer
Northport, Maine
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