Re: [Chrysler300] August, 2006 Collectible Automobile featured 300B

["Roger Schaaf" <obiwan10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I first saw this car and met KC Eberhard in the mid 70's at a Chrysler 300 
meet, I believe in Anaheim or somewhere in Southern Calif.  Only 2 cars of 
this meet, did I remember well.  A black 55 C 300 and KC's white B.

I did not own a 300 but had begun to casually learn about them and knew that 
one day I would own a B(the only 300 of interest to me at that time).

Sometime in the later 70's or early 80's I saw somewhere a 300 B advertised 
for sale and with the ad there was a picture.  I had remembered the license 
plate of this car and called and spoke to KC who still was the owner.

He told me that the car was as nice as it had been when I had seen it some 8 
years earlier and that he wanted about 10,000 dollars(possibly a little 
less) for it.  This was a lot of money then, but based on his assertion of 
its condition, I flew down to have a look and possibly strike a deal and to 
drive it back to Northern Calif. if we a deal was made.  I had almost 10,000 
dollars in hundred dollar bills in my pocket.

He picked me up at the airport with this car.  We then went to his home and 
spent the whole afternoon discussing cars in general and this car in 
particular.  One thing that I quite remember well, was that there was a 
Presidential candidate debate on television while I was there and we 
casually watched it as we discussed cars.    So this makes me possibly 
believe that it was 1979 and it would have been Carter debating Reagan, or 
was it 1983 with Reagan debating Mondale.

Turns out that the car was too long to fit in his garage(he was in his 70's 
by then, in somewhat frail health and he had downsized to a smaller Condo 
like home) and he had stored it for quite sometime under a car cover in a a 
car port.  So over the years, a light rust had attacked some of the chrome 
on the bumpers and on the wire wheels.  It also did have a somewhat 
incorrect interior, close but certainly no Goers.  But overall the car was 
still quite nice, but was going to need some money spent.

I offered him 8,500 dollars which he turned down and I told him that I would 
go home and think about it further.  He also offered a room full of trophies 
that he would include with the car.

A couple of weeks later, I checked in with him by telephone.  He told me 
that he had traded it to a dealer in Idaho on a brand new Chrysler K car or 
some such.  As far as I could determine he got the very short end of it on 
the deal.

I ended up calling the dealer in Idaho who said he planned to keep it as a 
showroom car.  Nice fellow, sent me a bunch of pictures which I still 
have(in fact I have a couple of pictures that I took at Anaheim(showing the 
KC 3, California plate).

Some years later, I got a call from some fellow in I believe Montana who 
then owned the car.  Cannot remember why he called, but until now, that was 
the last I ever heard of the car.  Always was curious as to where it ended 
it up as back then it was as nice a B that I had ever seen.  I believe that 
KC had taken the body off the car and except for the upholstery job, it was 
a very well done car.

I subsequently in 1986 purchased my B in Canada where it had sent under a 
tarp outside for 10 years.  I ended up doing a frame off on it.  Looking 
back, I made a huge mistake not buying KC's car for the 10 grand as it was 
in a far superior starting condition then the one I ended up restoring.  A 
couple of years ago, I created a rather lengthy posting to the listsrv on 
finding, acquiring and restoring this car, which I still own today.

I will be looking forward to getting my issue of this magazine to see KC's 
car again, to find who now owns it, and what has been done to it over the 
years.

A business associate once told me(as we were discussing the many other 
people in our profession----IBM Mainframes and Computer Services----that we 
knew or had worked with in common),  "There are only 40 men in our field and 
they just change hats".  Seems the same could be said of old 300's and their 
owners.

Roger Schaaf

My wife just informed me that it was 1983 so it must have been Reagan and 
Mondale debate.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rob kern" <robkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 6:14 PM
Subject: [Chrysler300] August, 2006 Collectible Automobile featured 300B


> Hello 300'ly to all!
>    There is a fantatic white B featured in the latest issue of Collectible 
> Automobile magazine.  They have a tribute article regarding the American 
> cars of 1956. The first pictured Chrysler product is this white B.  The 
> front license plate is black & yellow California with KCE-3 on the plate 
> surrounded by a Chrysler 300 Club license plate frame.  No owner credit 
> was printed with the picture.  Who is the lucky owner of this B? It is 
> ethereal in appearance and fires my desire again for adding a B to my 
> personal collection!  ROB KERN
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