RE: [Chrysler300] C Leaf Spring Free Height

["Wayne Graefen" <wgraefen@xxxx>]

I hope y'all appreciate how critically important it is to be in touch with
people who were there when our cars were built. Joe, you may recall, was
involved with fuel system testing but naturally was privy to all the other
talk around the plant. His memories are priceless to us today and I want to
thank him here publicly for being a life-long motorhead still caring for our
cars and contributing to our interest in them.

If any of you have any contact with any plant employee from management down
to floor sweeps, sit down with them and do a serious interview. None of us
hangs around forever and as any of you know who have lost a parent, you
can't ask the questions "later".

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
From: JLSAVARD@xxxx [mailto:JLSAVARD@xxxx]
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 10:09 PM
To: wgraefen@xxxx; Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] C Leaf Spring Free Height

Wayne and All,

According to the scuttlebutt at Chrysler Engineering at the time, whoever
designed the rear springs for the 1957 Chrysler products used the unladen
weight instead of the laden weight to calculate the specs for the springs.
There were a lot of people changing rear springs because of it.

I laid out in a snowbank to swap springs from a '57 and a '58, because the
difference was so noticeable. (I was lots younger at the time!)

Joe Savard
Lake Orion, MI