[Chrysler300] Undercoating-'55 Chrysler 300's/UFO's/Ebay C300

["Richard Barber" <c300@xxxxxxx>]

My C300 has underbody and underhood undercoating.  VIN 3N55 1198.  Not very
pretty, but the underhood undercoating is still in good shape.  It is thinly
applied over the sheet metal and braces and clear to the back of the hood.
Must have been pretty good stuff.   The underbody undercoating is peeling,
but did its job protecting the frame and floor.  When judged, the car lost
beaucoupe points down under for ugly and dirty.

 

The topside of the trunk floor also appears to have been coated with similar
undercoating.  Is this consistent with others?

 

I had some guidance that all or most '55 300's were undercoated unless
shipped to a dry climate such as CA or AZ.  So, I'm wondering if this was
standard practice, a dealer checkoff or undercoat delete as a number of '55
300's seem to have dirty gray-black paint on the underside of the hood and
'56's hood undersides seem to be more likely to be body color.

 

Our car was originally shipped to the Chrysler dealership in Roswell, New
Mexico where a UFO had supposedly crashed in 1947.  I guess this makes our
car an Undercoated Fast Object.  In a couple of weeks, our car will be 55
years old and eligible for early retirement.  No gifts, please--cards only.
But like many senior citizens, our car can still get up and go and cleans up
pretty good.  It was built 3/12/55 (interestingly, enough on a Saturday) and
shipped on St. Paddy's day 3/17/55.

 

A pretty nice NC 1955 C-300 is being auctioned at e-Bay:
http://tinyurl.com/ykux4d9          13 bids to $25K, buy it now $39.5K, VIN
3N551190-probably built the same week as ours.  Interesting read at the
auction site, including a link to our website.  A quick look showed no
C-300's belonging to members of either club in NC.

 

Rich Barber

Brentwood, CA

1955 Chrysler C-300 3N551198

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of lettercars@xxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:35 AM
To: Jslayton@xxxxxxxxxx; chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] underside of 55-56 hoods

 

Johnnie and All:

Finally was able to get over to look at my C300 (VIN 3N55 1322) and very  

carefully examine the underside of its hood.  As I thought I remembered, it


is covered with a evenly applied coat of asphaltic "undercoat" type  

material.  It is not as thick as the car's regular undercoat beneath its
floor.  

This car has never been "restored" or even fixed up.  I  honestly don't
think 

anyone but the factory would have applied this  material.  I am wondering 

if the underhood spray-on "silencer"  material was only applied when the car


came with full undercoating.   Such  was the case with the 300K with its 

mechanically retained hood  silencer.  

Well, thought I would throw this out for what it is worth.

300ly, Gil Cunningham

Still c-c-cool, Tallahassee, FL

 

 

In a message dated 12/23/2009 3:59:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  

Jslayton@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

 

This is  my personal experience-------my 55 Windsor which I bought in 

original  condition---the title was still in original owners name----was
body  

color----what was left of the paint-----my 55 Coupe----a one family owned
car  

when I got it-----body color-----6 55 parts cars, 5 body color----1 55  

Imp.coupe  primered------my 55 300 which was owned by the same guy for 44  

years, had a completely original engine comp. when I got it----body  

color----however I have seen several over the years that were
primered-----Mike Burke 

has a C300 with a primered underside of hood----as for  56,s-----my 56 New 

Yorker sedan---body color---my 56 St. Regis----body  color----my 56 St.
Regis 

parts car----body color-----my 56 Windsor-----body  color---56 

wagon-----body color----however, I have also seen 56's over the  years with
primered 

hoods----so I think most all 55-56 Chryslers had painted  hoods but on some 

cars the underside never got painted----I have never seen  any 55-56 orginal


with a black underside that looked like it was done at the  

factory-------Johnnie Slayton.l;p'/

 

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