Re: [Chrysler300] K on ebay

[Ray Jones <hurst300@xxxx>]

Hi All and Happy New Year!
I think the "delete" name was more of a flag than anything else. Gil would
maybe be the last word on this, as he worked there then. But, if you didn't
want something it was a "delete", even if it wasen't standard equiptment,
because they had to do something unusuall as it was built. Every car coming
down the line got a heater, so it would have been a problem for the heater
instsaller guy if there wasen't one to be put in. Also they had special
parts just for that choice. So the part books would have things listed as
Delete to seperate them from all the normal parts.

Don Rook has a 66 300 3 speed column shift Conv which is a total delete car,
with the only thing extra above the base price (which was never sold) is the
turn siginal light package with the fender top lights, or a clock.
Whichever, only 1 option, and it didn't make much sense. It may have a
heater, I don't remember. But I'm sure the "radio delete" dash panel cost
more than the radio that was left out. It was diecast and polished, and
completes the dash ribs right across wher the radio would have been. If they
gave the buyer the radio, they'ed have been ahead.
-- 
Ray Jones, Jones Ridge, in the Ouachita Mtns near Mena, Western Arkansas

> From: Russ Vaughan <Pacesetter300@xxxx>
> Reply-To: pacesetter300@xxxx
> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 05:32:25 -0800 (PST)
> To: John Hertog <crossram@xxxx>, Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] K on ebay
> 
> I was amazed to see that too! Gotta be one of a handfull of letter cars ever
> made without a heater. I think the two buttons are for "OFF" and "VENT",
> even with no heat, there was a way to get fresh air in. Helped get the
> burning rubber smoke and smell out faster! :-) I have never heard of the extra
> cooling tank in the trunk. Looking close, I see what looks like hardware store
> fittings on the engine. Probably some owner added accessory. My expereince
> with the heater delete cars with the Ramcharger and Super Stock Max Wedges in
> '62 and '63 and I never saw a setup like that.
> 
> BTW personally, I think the term "heater delete' is inappropriate, same with
> "radio delete". To delete an accessory implies it was standard equipment,
> which in most cases they were not. If you had bought a $2964 Newport in
> '62, It wouldn't be called a "heater delete" "radio delete" "power steering
> delete" "power brake delete" "automatic transmission delete" " O/S rear view
> mirror delete" etc., etc., car. Even though common options which most were
> equipped, ALL those options had to be added on the order sheet. On the
> other hand, a New Yorker with a 3-speed manual would be an "automatic delete"
> car because the automatic was standard on a New Yorker. MCG uses the term
> very loosley and it has caught on. Just hard for me to figure how to delete
> something that wasn't there to begin with.
> 
> Russ Vaughan
> 
> John Hertog <crossram@xxxx> wrote:
> Good eyes, Don - yes, it is most definitely a "heater delete" car !
> Amazing - I had never seen one. Note the heater box delete, as well as the
> cover where the heater blower motor would be ! as far as the fan / heater
> controls - also deleted ! I wonder what the two remaining buttons are for
> ??? I guess the heater hoses go to that extra "tank" in the trunk !
> 
> John Hertog
> Sag Harbor NY
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Verity" <d.verity@xxxx>
> To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 10:31 PM
> Subject: [Chrysler300] K on ebay
> 
> 
> Check out this K on ebay. It appears to be a heater delete car! Item #
> 2451601581
> 300ly,
> Don
> 
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