Re: [Chrysler300] 57 C with 58 motor at RM auction

["Fern Rivard" <crc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Ok Josh, but if it were my car, I certainly would not loose any 
sleep over it as the 58 engine is pretty well exactly the same engine as 
the 57 engine except for possibly some slight improvement. Again, the 
previous owner would not have replaced the engine unless it was blown. 
Now, I did not follow the build date on that car but if it was a late 
production 57 car, with all of the goofy things that chrysler did back 
in those days, they (chrysler) may have installed an early 58 300D 
engine.   That's just my 2 cents worth.    Fern
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Mishler" <mister300d@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Fern Rivard" <crc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 57 C with 58 motor at RM auction


> That is true Fern, but if it were a replacement block
> from Chrysler it would not have any numbers on it.
> However it could have come out of a 58-300 that was
> wrecked or somehow destroyed.
>
> Josh Mishler
>
> --- Fern Rivard <crc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gil and group:
>>
>>     Is it not possible that the original engine was
>> blown in that car
>> and the supplied replacement would have been a 58
>> engine?   Fern
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <lettercars@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>> <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 6:14 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 57 C with 58 motor at RM
>> auction
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Hi John:
>> > That IS a a typical 300D engine number.  As in
>> previous years, it  is
>> > the "3"
>> > that designates it a 300 engine.  For some reason
>> in 1958 the  engine
>> > numbers
>> > are stamped on the block in the 58 N3 XXXX
>> manner, even  though they
>> > are
>> > written on the build cards (microfilm record) as
>> 58 3N XXXX or  more
>> > commonly,
>> > 3N58 XXXX in the style of 1957.  Finally, toward
>> the end of  the M.Y.
>> > run, they
>> > just quit writing the engine number down.  Guess
>> the guy who did the
>> > writing
>> > must have been layed off.  Anyway, the last  four
>> numbers are the
>> > important
>> > ones (aside from the "3"), and as most of you
>> know, do not match the
>> > VIN last
>> > four, except just by pure chance.  Hope  this is a
>> little bit clearer
>> > than mud.
>> > 300ly, Gil Cunningham
>> >
>> > In a message dated 2/28/2006 3:30:21 PM Eastern
>> Standard Time,
>> > John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>> >
>> > Hi  club,
>> >
>> > I am trying to finish my research on this car.
>> This is what  I was
>> > told the
>> > stamping on the motor is:
>> >
>> > 58 N3 1337
>> >
>> > Is that  consistent with the '58 model year for
>> letter series
>> > automobiles?
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