That is a gorgeous car. Congratulations. Bill Huff At 07:34 PM 1/12/2015, MARK HOPKINS wrote: >In 1970, I was selling shoes in a department >store for $2.00/hour, and curbing cars to pay >university tuition, which was a whopping >$444.50/year at the time. I picked up a'57 Ford >Fairlane convertible (soft top) with the 292, >automatic; navy blue with red interior and white >top, for $350 from a family that had owned it >since new. It had traveled about 45,000 miles in >13 years, and was still in excellent condition. >Sold it for $450, and thought I'd done well. Saw >one like it go for $40,000 a couple of years ago at a local auction............ > >There's a Mopar connection here. That family >replaced the '57 Ford with a new Coronet >convertible, with the 440 and automatic. Their >son was a high school friend, who unbeknownst to >his dad, took it out on a quiet paved road >outside the city to show me what it could do. He >could smoke the glass belted tires for 200 >yards. I don't know what diff it had, but it >flew. My dad's sedate '68 New Yorker sure didn't >move out like that Coronet. Made me a Mopar >follower from that day forward. Now that would be the car to own today! > >Mark (in snow covered COLD Calgary) > >PS - The local newspaper ran an article on my >300F last week. A few misquotes, but basically a nice writeup. > >http://driving.ca/chrysler/300/local-content/calgary/calgary-car-collector-finds-classic-1960-chrysler-300f > > >(don't look too closely at the a/c compressor in >the engine pic. I really will get around to >installing the correct replacement in the >spring. That's the broken '60 compressor with a >'68 pulley/clutch assembly in the pic.......only >the car's front view and the interior pics ran in the print version.) > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "William Huff czbill@xxxxxxxxxx >[Chrysler300]" <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 3:15:59 PM >Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Fwd: Moonshiner's >1957 Ford Fairlane is one of a kind | Fox News > > > > > > >We had a '57 Ford Ranch Wagon, 6 cylinder three >on the tree, picked it up new in NY >city. Started a road trip from NY to West by >gosh Texas and then back. Mom, Dad and 3 of us rug rats. > >Half way down the Penn Turnpike the engine let >go. Towed and the dealer diagnosed they had put >the head gasket in reversed at the factory and >blocked an oil gallery to the lifters. 3-4 days >for replacement parts. Dad said no way, put it >back together. Off we went, and then back >again. We lived in Panama, and when the car got >back to Panama we went to the dealer, who was a >schoolmate of my father's. He said choose your >motor from any car on the showroom. We'll get a >replacement engine for that car. > >Dad picked a 292 and they bolted it in. With the >six cylinder transmission and rear end ratio, >that car had acceleration for the day. Regularly >kicked butt on 283 power pack Chevies. They were >faster, but not quicker in the >quarter. Unfortunately, by 1959 when I was >thinking I might inherit the car when I got my >license, the engine and tranny were the only >things not pretty much rusted to pieces. Dad >worked on the piers...salt air don't ya know. > >Bill Huff > > >SNIP: > > > >By the way , I had a 57 Ford, about 1960. Total > >pig of a car, Police Ã? Interceptor 312 a pig, > >burned oil, leaked out of bad design valve > >covers, then rockers went dry, kit added to add > >a copper line to oil the rockers outside engine, > >slow, got pounded by 265 55 chev 2 bbl. Ã? ; > >early holley 4 bbl carb a total dog, needle > >seats distorted, adjustment changed nothing. . > >Vacuum wipers , they stop wiping at half > >throttle. Had to slam door, it bounced back at > >you violently half the time . Or popped open. > >Was police special , brown plain 2 dr. Bought > >from mass state police via dealer supplying new > >police Fords. 125$ about 1960. 57 312 had no > >advance springs, so no centrifugal advance; two > >stage vacuum advance, had to put a Mallory to > >get ANYWHERE. Still a pig. Studebakers beat me. > > > ------------------------------------ Posted by: William Huff <czbill@xxxxxxxxxx> ------------------------------------ To send a message to this group, send an email to: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or go to https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/all/manage/edit For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm For archives go to http://www.forwardlook.net/300-archive/search.htm#querylang ------------------------------------ Yahoo Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/join (Yahoo! 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