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mstrug

Posted 2017-04-13 6:28 PM (#538060)
Subject: 1961 Chrysler 300 G project - $10000 (White Oak)

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Posted 2017-04-13 7:08 PM (#538068 - in reply to #538060)
Subject: RE: 1961 Chrysler 300 G project - $10000 (White Oak)

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"Body is very good , trunk floor is gone" ??? Which is it?

As far as I know, the trunk is part of the body, yet it has gone (somewhere).

I wonder where?

Must be car heaven because it was "good" (as opposed to very rusty and bad = car hell).

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Posted 2017-04-14 12:23 AM (#538090 - in reply to #538068)
Subject: RE: 1961 Chrysler 300 G project - $10000 (White Oak)

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56D500boy - 2017-04-13 6:08 PM

"Body is very good , trunk floor is gone" ??? Which is it?

As far as I know, the trunk is part of the body, yet it has gone (somewhere).

I wonder where?

Must be car heaven because it was "good" (as opposed to very rusty and bad = car hell).

:)

Before you get too excited, the metal area around the trunk weatherstrip on '61 Chryslers traps water - rusts out - leaks into trunk floor - rubber mat traps moisture - trunk floor rusts. I have owned at least twelve '61 Chryslers, only one had a halfway decent trunk floor. My driver grew up in San Diego. There's still bare metal on the front suspension but the trunk floor is junk. Design flaw.

GregCon

Posted 2017-04-14 6:05 PM (#538123 - in reply to #538060)
Subject: Re: 1961 Chrysler 300 G project - $10000 (White Oak)

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In that case, "The body is in very nice shape except for the rusted trunk floor typical of 1961 Chryslers."

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Posted 2017-04-14 6:15 PM (#538124 - in reply to #538123)
Subject: Re: 1961 Chrysler 300 G project - $10000 (White Oak)

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The 60 Chrysler trunk lip is identical to the 61, and most of them rusted badly as well. My 60 Saratoga is an original Los Angeles car, solid as a rock and it escaped the rusty trunk lip and trunk floor somehow. This is all original metal with just a repaint and new weatherstrip. The floor is mint original under the carpet.