[Chrysler300] RE: An (un) lost car ????
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[Chrysler300] RE: An (un) lost car ????
- From: "josh@xxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300]" <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 01 Mar 2015 19:12:20 -0800
Again, maybe I am wrong.... but here are my clues:
This was posted by Gil on the 300 website:
"""
Why
was it made in October of 1957, several months before “regular” F.I.
production began in February of 1958, but well after the three press
review F.I. D’s in mid-September? Its “dealer” code and region are the
same as those of LC4 1250, the Tahitian Coral Motor Trend test car. Was
mine also the subject of a road test? I have never seen or heard of one.
It was picked up by the customer at Jefferson on October 24, 1957
according to Chrysler records."""
Norm
picked-up a brand new '58 300D-FI at Jefferson the very same time. He
test drove the car from Detroit to Van Nuys on a publicity cross-country
test drive, stopping at a couple prearranged stops, and was featured in
an article roughly a week after. There is only 1 FI car built
anywhere near this time.
The article filed upon Norm's arrival is here:
http://www.hyfire.com/1958FI.jpg
Second, the car's build sheet shows a "dealer code" to a internal
marketing/PR department. All Norm's cars (including Norm's 300D
racecar) are charged to the marketing/PR department. Ed Quinn ran all
Norms cars through this department.
Unlike Norm's cars, this car wasn't "owned" by Norm. It was
made in-between the time Norm ran a pit crew at Daytona beach for
Chrysler (Feb '57) and Chrysler built Norm the Bonneville Racecar (Feb
'58). The car was only kept by Norm for a while and then returned to
Chrysler in Detroit. When I spoke to Sherwood K about Norm, he
remembered Norm running an experimental 300-FI car in Van Nuys, 1957 at
the local drag strip. Norm had huge problems with the car running
poorly when he left Detroit, but by the time he had it in CA, it was
running very well... according to the shop manager of Norm's shop.
What do you guys think? Am I crazy???
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