RE: [Chrysler300] 1956 300B 3N561639

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People such as these enjoy a sense of power when they have something you don't. For some, it's the only time they see themselves at the top of the pile...if they sell the object to someone, their sense of power is gone forever.The line that "I'm gonna' restore it one day" is simply an excuse.There's a local guy here who has cornered the market on 64-67 GTO stuff. He has about 20 complete cars stashed away in an old barn (out of the weather at least) and storage buildings full of GTO engines, transmissions, instrument panels, trim pieces, seats, running gear and sheet metal.I counted enough parts laying around to build 3 complete 65 GTOs from scratch. He won't part with a single piece at any price...all the GTO guys around here just roll their eyes when his name is mentioned.The funny thing is that he has not restored a single GTO!! I run into the occasional Mopar "collector" who has the same obsession. 
     My thoughts about folks like this? "Go ahead...let it sit in the field for 20 more years until the small bush growing through the floorboard becomes an oak..then your kids can have the junk man haul it away while they're settling your estate." Remember folks, it's all about power.

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>From: Ryan Hill <ryan_hillc300@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Nov 26, 2009 6:10 PM
>To: awrdoc@xxxxxxxxx, thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Cc: finsruskw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Chrysler 300 <chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, c300@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] 1956 300B 3N561639
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>It really makes you wonder what goes through ones mind. As a young teenager in the eighties, I had a neighbor who 'collected' mopars. They were mostly decent runners when he bought them. A '64 Polara convert, '67 300 convert, several '66 Polaras and Monacos, and a '67 Coronet R/T. (They were all cool to me at the time) All ended up sitting outside year after year. He would never sell them and acted as though they were priceless, just the way they were. I stopped talking to him when he purchased and restored a run of the mill late 70's Mercedes sedan.
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>Drove past the house a couple weeks ago......the cars are still there. What's left of them anyway. It's one thing to hang on to them and dream of the day they're restored....even if that day never comes, but how can you not at least try to protect these machines we hold so dear?
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>Ryan Hill 
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>CC: finsruskw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; c300@xxxxxxx
>From: awrdoc@xxxxxxxxx
>Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:39:14 -0800
>Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] 1956 300B 3N561639
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>Must consider the religious aspects. Have you never heard the saying:
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>He who has the most cars (especially rusty ones in your field) goes to heaven when they die!
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>Tony Rinaldi with only one collector car. 
>Pray for me!
>Amen brothers and sisters
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>christopher beilby wrote: 
>> Years ago, back when an old car was a 30s model, as a kid, one day when looking locally for some urgently needed that day old car part, with two friends, we stopped outside a farm front gate, could see an old vintage off to the side of an old Mallee/wheat property farmhouse.
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>> The gate was open/fallen off, so we walked up the 50 yds red dirt driveway towards the ramshackle house as someone came out from the house. Stopping a bit short of the house, the car's remains were off to the right about 50 feet, and I could make out it was a mid 20s Dodge Tourer with a well established stunted tree starting to grow up through where the floorboards would have once been. The red sandy Mallee dirt was swallowing/eating the wheels and running boards.
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>> "An old Dodge Tourer I guess" I said to the farm man. "Yes", he replied, "going to be worth big money one day".
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>> Looking across towards it, I replied after a brief silence "If you can get it under cover, you might be right". And I turned to me two car friends to see what reaction, only to see them turn and start running for the gate. As I turned back to farm man, I saw he had a shovel handle and was coming at me.
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>> Lesson - some people just can't help themselves??! - how often as car people, do we come across cars people won't sell because they are worth a fortune, yet they won't put them undercover. When it is a 300, that is sad/stupid.
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>> Christopher Australia
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>> To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; c300@xxxxxxx
>> From: finsruskw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:34:25 -0600
>> Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 1956 300B 3N561639
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>> I have more pictures if any one is interested. Les and I tracked this car 
>> down 1997 on our way home from the fall meet in Mena AR. Looks like it's 
>> still sitting in the same place along Rte 5 south of town.
>> I figured it would turn up again someday.
>> The old guy must have died. He was some kind of big shot (judge, lawyer or 
>> mabe Co. Superintendant) that worked at or for the court house in Camdenton.
>> Quote " Man that car is worth a lot of money"
>> Don't that just frost Ya, these folks think theye are sitting on a pot of 
>> gold, yet they won't lift one finger to "protect" their "investment" but 
>> leave it abandoned to the elements. We all have probably been there running 
>> across these "deals" too many times and got the T-shirts to boot. Well I 
>> didn't get the shirt but I did get pictures and they are worse (imagine 
>> that!) than those on E-bay
>> We were driving the C at the time, and he wasn't interested in looking at it 
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>> He clamed at the time that the extra trim and gold insert were factory 
>> original..
>> It's a real mess to say the least. What a cryin' shame for sure. The Air 
>> cleaner was upside down in the back seat and the back window was busted out.
>> Dave Schwandt
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>> From: "Richard Barber" <c300@xxxxxxx>
>> To: "'Listserver'" <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 12:17 PM
>> Subject: [Chrysler300] 1956 300B 3N561639
>>> Barn find without the barn. In Missouri, with "factory" a/c. Be prepared
>>> to bawl when you see it, especially the Delta Wing air cleaner. VIN
>>> 3N561639 might be recorded for posterity.
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>>> http://tinyurl.com/ylqq4qk
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>>> C-300'ly
>>> Rich Barber, Thankful for what I've got, today
>>> Brentwood, CA
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