Re: [Chrysler300] '59 E HOOD PADS

[lettercars@xxxxxxx]

Hi Steve and All:
First of all, thanks for the eyewitness accounting of the New Jersey  
Turnpike Trooper cars.  I too have heard so many stories of Chrysler 300s  being 
used, but NEVER could confirm it. Obviously that is because they didn't  use 
them!!!  After a while, I think those recollecting what they saw just  assumed 
anything Chrysler and finned was a 300.
 
Now---the 300E hood pad.  There is NO doubt Chrysler intended the 300E  to 
have a hood pad.  Undercoating AND hood insulation pad are mentioned as  
standard equipment on the 300E in the sales brouchure and the Chrysler model  
specification sheets put out for sales people to deliniate differences the  various 
model's optional and standard equipment.  The NewYorker also had  the 
undercoating and hood pad standard.  Finally, I have a Chrysler  photograph of Bob 
Rodger with the 300E engine compartment from 1958 which  clearly shows a light 
colored hood insulation pad.  That picture also  appears on page 85 of Bob 
Ackerson's book. I have reviewed that code 611,  and it appears to indicate domestic 
market for the car's destination.   There would not be a "delete" for such a 
minor item as a hood pad, nor could I  imagine why one would want to.  Now, 
all this doesn't prove an occasional  300E got out without a pad.  However, I 
think a more reasonable explanation  might be the original fell off or 
disintegrated and and a caring owner cleaned  up the remnants. You might want to ask 
Club member Robert Young about it,  as he is a former owner.   Hope this helps 
out a little.
300ly, Gil Cunningham
Tally, Fl (kind of chilly here this am!)
 
In a message dated 1/14/2006 9:26:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
xramkroozer@xxxxxx writes:

HELLO  ALL, TO DATE, 2 CARS HAD UNDERCOATING UNDER HOOD, 5 HAD A HOOD PAD, &  
MINE HAS NOTHING. ON THE CODE SUMMARY THERE IS A CODE 611, TO WHICH GIL  
WROTE, 
DON'T HAVE CODE. COULD THIS BE HOOD PAD DELETE? THANX, STEVE ESTOK,  P.G., FL







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