Please, enough promotion of 300 B pics. Must have been 50 e-mails by now. Thanks, Tom Denkler ----- Original Message ----- From: "christopher beilby" <thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <paulholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 8:01 AM Subject: [Chrysler300] Ron Kimball Photos of 300 B and Club 300 Calendar? > > That first shot of the 300B in front of that house would be perfect for > one page of a 12 page/month 300 Club Calendar!? Anyone over there got > other possible shots of the other year 300s - earlier a few months back > now there was a great one of the two 300Cs stopped on the road against a > distant mountain top. Obviously there are photographer/copyright issues > first maybe though. > > That would make two - come on other years - now is the time to get > organised, in Australia it is already August, not far to December. I can > maybe organise a good shot of an immaculate black F coupe, maybe with > sunset beach background shot - if we can really mix up the colours amongst > the different letters. > > > > And on two recent website topics - > > 1) towing any car trailer with a car on it - ALWAYS LOAD THE CAR ON > TRAILER SO IT PUTS LOAD ON THE TOWBAR/TOWBALL - ie the rear of the car > that the trailer is attached to. NEVER LOAD THE TRAILER SO IT HAS NO > WEIGHT ON TOW CAR, ESPECIALLY NEVER LOAD IT SO BACK OF TRAILER IS HEAVIER > THAN THE FRONT - you will jacknife, lose control, of both unless tow car > is way more heavier than what it towing. Anyone who has towed cars on > trailers knows this real early/well, so apols to those that know. > 2) Old shipping container definitely safe idea for storing old car - shed > under shade of trees not!!! Either lightning strike, or wind > blew/tore/struck a third of a large tree in my back yard about 2 weeks > ago - about two tons+ of it was headed right for where my driver 300C was > stored below, would have hit about rear screen, except for a puny little > branch that sort of caught it enough to skin it good as it moved it > 30degrees to rear and it instead fell onto steel fence at rear of > storage - the fence just breaking the worst of the fall as about another > 20 feet and untold limbs flattened my neighbours rose bush and Irish > pttery gnobe (it too survived unscathed). A container under a tree would > take a far bigger hit from most trees and the car come out undamaged. But > they can be stolen - a few over here with real valuable aussie musclecars > stolen in well publicised cases where they just picked the whole thing up > in broad daylight. > > > > Christopher Australia - still mongrel showery cold weather here, but I > started two of my 300Cs on Sunday to move them away from tree as I trimmed > it with chainsaw to reduce more scares. A car friend of mine on the Murray > River has about 70 old vintages, about 50 in the open under gum trees for > the last 40 years - each time I see him every few years, another car has > either been claimed or had a near miss. Natures way, we get old and die - > old cars, rust or trees claim?! > > > > > > > CC: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: paulholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:17:42 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Ron Kimball Photos of our 300 B and 59 Restomod > Corvette > > > > > > > On 8/2/2010 3:31 PM, RLS wrote: >> Ron Kimball, a renown Photographer who specializes in automobile >> photography had seen our 59 at a local concour and asked if he might take >> some pictures of it for an upcoming publication and/or calendar. > >> When he came to our home, he saw our 300 B Chrysler and asked if he might >> shoot it too. The home in the background is not mine, but of a friend >> which he built himself. It has a 5 car garage and is stocked with some >> nice cars itself. > >> http://www.kimballstock.com/results....0%20and%201956 > >> I was able to take some pictures myself with my own fairly decent SLR >> Canon. Needless to say, they did not come out like these, but it was a >> great experience. >> I believe he told me that his camera (Hassalbrad) cost some 30,000 >> dollars. My Canon cost 850.00. > >> Roger Schaaf >> 300 B Calyfornua > > Try > > http://www.kimballstock.com/results.asp?txtkeys1=20%27s+or+30%27s+or+40%27s+or+50%27s > > -- > Paul Holmgren > Mine: 2 57 300-C's in Indy > Hers: 05 PT GT R/T HO Stage 1 > Hoosier Corps L#6 > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To send a message to this group, send an email to: > Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > For list server instructions, go to > http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm > > For archives go to http://www.forwardlook.net/300-archive/Yahoo! 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