RE: [Chrysler300] ] 1957 Chrysler 300C arm rests

["David Schwandt" <finsruskw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sonnds good!! I have a pair also and they are a great item.

BUT?? we REALLY need some patch panels for the 60-61-62- lower front ¼?s
just below and behind the doors. I think that piece would fit all those
years plus the lower part just under the door and extending TO the wheel
opening might even fit 63-61 at 1st glance.

 

Dave Schwandt

 

From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gary Nelson
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 2:23 PM
To: Chrysler300
Subject: [Chrysler300] ] 1957 Chrysler 300C arm rests

 






Hi All

 

I recently bought a pair of the 300C arm rests. They look superb. I beleive
it is thanks to Keith who kicked the project along. Now we need the 57
aluminum panels just above the arm rests. The tooling can be made overseas
and stamp them in the US. Then we could make new grills for 57/58. Oh well
keep dreaming. 

 

Gary

 

 

 

--Original Message-----
From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Keith Boonstra
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 2:37 PM
To: Michael Moore
Cc: John L. Chesnutt; George McKovich; chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 1957 Chrysler 300C convertible

  

I enjoy watching Wayne Carini going about his business too, and I think I
saw that Ferrari episode recently. 

 

To me, the way to see and understand the "barn find" attraction is to view
it as an entirely different type of pleasure. It's more like finding a
pirate's treasure chest buried in your back yard - it's exciting because you
found a valuable thing that was just part of the dirt until some magic
moment of discovery. And the more potential the found object has, the more
exciting the discovery. So you leave the dirt on it for a while to tell the
cool story.

 

But in the long run -say it's a Deusenberg J that was dragged out of the
barn - a valuable collector car will be brought back to beautiful in one way
or another, and then the story will turn to being about the car instead of
the barn.

 

You can turn that car into anything you want if you own the title; and some
day when you go to sell it, the market will simply tell you whether that's
what they would have done to the car. In the broad spectrum of collectors
what bothers one person a lot might be admired by another.

 

Very little seems to get a free ride in universal agreement, but I think
most will be disappointed to find a car's very features don't match the
factory stamped trim tag. It makes me wonder: would that Ferrari have a trim
tag on it that would indicate its original color? Or would color have been
considered to be a highly original prerogative of the original buyer of the
car - and thus immaterial to subsequent owners as well? I really don't know.

 

I still love the black on it, yet I think he should have left it white if
the plan is to cash out the highest at auction.

 

Keith Boonstra

 

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Michael Moore <mmoore8425@xxxxxxx> wrote:

John, 

I think I agree with you-but I have become a fan of Wayne Carini  (Chasing
Classic Cars) for the last year or so. He seems to know his business and be
well respected. I have learned a lot from watching that show. Standards of
top cars seem to be changing. 

 

I was working at Pebble Beach as a United Way  volunteer (handing out
programs etc,) the first year the Preservation Class was introduced. I could
not see why it made any sense to ship an old Mercedes from Germany with half
an inch of barn dirt on it! Why not at least wash it?  I am seeing that
change where now some people are saying if the car is clean and original
it's better than restoration or bard dirt.  In fact, I heard the comment
made that many wonderful old cars were ruined in the last two decades by
restoration to a level far beyond what the factory could do.

 

 

Now, Wayne deals with a lot of multi-million dollar cars, and I have seen
him consciously paint a Ferrari 275GTB4 (I think) a color other than the
factory color (he painted it a gunmetal gray) and install a different color
upholstery (cinnamon).Maybe it doesn't matter when you get to stratospheric
prices, like the $27.5M 275GTB/4NART  car. For that kind of money, I suppose
the cost of restoring correct paint and upholstery colors is a fly speck!

  Probably like you, I think a non-factory standard color for a letter car
is very noticeable and to my eyes, looks dead wrong.

Mike Moore

300H factory colors all around :-)) 

       

On Mar 29, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Keith Boonstra <kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

  

 

It does need some tweaking to be correct, but the main thing that strikes me
is that no "investment grade" any car will be painted in a color it did not
exit the factory in. The car looks gorgeous in black, but it will only be
investment grade when it is returned to white. 

 

Keith Boonstra

 

 

 

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:14 AM, John L. Chesnutt <chesnutt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

  

 

Hi George,

It is  missing the spare tire metal cover  also does not have the stainless
rock shields in front of the rear tires. It appears to have the surround
around the trunk 300 emblem.

 

Hope you are having better weather then we have in Portland ? record rain
fall for March.

 

John C , 57 300C, 

 

From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George McKovich
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 11:42 PM
To: Rich Barber
Cc: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 1957 Chrysler 300C convertible

 

Something is wrong with the trunk lid emblem also... It is missing the
surround that goes around it. I wonder what happened to that??

 

George

 


On Mar 28, 2014, at 3:39 PM, "Rich Barber" <c300@xxxxxxx> wrote:

  

Interested fans may wish to view an ?investment grade? 1957 Chrysler 300C
convertible on e-Bay at: http://tinyurl.com/l5e68mg.  No VIN given.  Scroll
down for a god set of pictures.  Bidding already to 90K, looking for 180K.
A rising tide lifts all boats (and land barges).

 

Rich Barber

300K (model, not price)





 

 

 

 

 










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