Re: {Chrysler 300} 300 F trim

["'Noel Hastalis' via Chrysler 300 Club International" <chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jay,

 

I'm not sure if you saw my response to your question posted in Facebook a couple weeks ago, but sharing it again. I had removed all my bodyside and trunk trim from my F, but it's been a few years. Perhaps another member will comment on removing your windshield and rear window surround trim - re special tool they used.

 

As for your other body trim - 

1. Remove all the interior cardboard inserts in the interior of your trunk.
2. Remove your back seats and rear side interior panels inside your F. Be very careful how you detach the brushed aluminum inserts that are part of these rear side panels, as well as of your front door panels. The aluminum dents fairly easily from pressure applied to your door panel clips. You may choose to omi these few clips.
3. All these exterior stainless trim strips, trunk hubcap, rear license plate frame and side "300 F" emblems are removed from the inside of your trunk and interior. Do not try to pry off any of these from the car's exterior.
4. Your 2 driprail stainless strips can easily be removed by gently pressing outward on their undersides - no clips fasten these.
5. You'll also need to remove your 2 rear bumperettes, near the license plate frame. These easily unbolt from the inside of your rear bumper.
6. The hubcap and circular trim strip easily unscrew through the access holes provided.
7. Start in the rear along the inside bottom of your trunk, and you'll see the cap nuts to unscrew to remove those trim sections.
8. And then work around to each side, toward the front of the car. All are easily visible until you get to the wheel wells. There you'll find a few of the clips press into the fender, rather that fastened by the cap nuts. Virtually all the clips are fastened by cap nuts.
9. Your boomerang taillight bezels and lenses also unscrew from the trunk's interior.

As Nick Taylor had commented to you, if your paint shop doesn't know how to remove al this trim, which is pretty straight forward, then perhaps you'll want to search out a different shop with experience with these cars.

 

If you need a recommendation for a shop to straighten and polish all your stainless trim, John Begian (our Club president) and I have a recommendation for you in Ohio, not terribly far from you in Indiana. It's a shop we've both used for our Letter Car stainless trim.

 

Noel

 

On 02/06/2025 6:37 AM CST 'Jay Williamson' via Chrysler 300 Club International <chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Hello group,

 

I recently purchased a 1960 F and have been working hard to get the car ready for car show season. I am getting ready to send the car out for paint in the next two weeks and I would like to remove the trim before it leaves for paint. I have scanned both the Chrysler shop manual and 300 F supplement and have not found any info that covers this.

I know that I will need to remove the rear inside panels to get to the trim nuts, but can anyone tell me if there are also clips and what type of clips they are and where they are located? I don’t want to pry the wrong way and bend the trim. If you have removed trim and have pictures, that would be great.

I’m sure I will have plenty of other questions for the group, but for now, thank you for your help.

Jay Williamson

317-223-1379

 

Sent from my iPad

 

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