Re: [Chrysler300] Mercum Auction

["Jean-Yves Chouinard" <jymopar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody.
I had a 1960 Dodge Polara , a car that was sold new in Moncton New Brunswick. It had automatic swivel seats. If I recall correctly, I have read in Darrell Davis's book on D-500 Dodges that the option was cancelled early on in the run, ( my car was built early, within the first 2000 cars out of the Winsor Ontario factory) maybe cable broke often... On my car, the doors were hard to close, as there is a heavy flat spring that is attached to the lower door hinge to "help" the seat to swing out. As you close the door, the spring comes under tension and it is not a pleasent feeling to close those doorsas you have to push a lot harder. Plus when you open the door. as you stand outside it, it  swings open briskly, again a strange feeling, have to get use to that door. Maybe that is why the "auto" swivel option was cancelled... People getting thrown out of the car as it is moving because of the auto swivel option??? I have a hard time imagining that...no way...i just can't see how that would happened...
Jean-Yves
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian & Kathy Frank 
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  Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 8:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Mercum Auction


    
  To All

  My father has an all original 1960 DeSoto with 40,000 miles which he has owned since 1961. It has swivel seats that swing out when the door is opened. It was not available only on the Imperial.

  Brian Frank
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: smopar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; pennsy300@xxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Mercum Auction

  I believe automatic swivel seats (swing out automatically when the door is opened) were only available on Imperial models. I do have a 1960 Imperial 2 door that has this feature. My 300F does not.
  Steve Albu

  ---- pennsy300@xxxxxxx wrote: 
  > Did anybody else notice the 1959 Dodge Custom Royal Convert that was sold 
  > at the auction, with the much-commented on swivel seats? When the car door 
  > was opened, the swivel seat did not swivel out. I thought that they did 
  > that automatically when the door was opened. Also, the commentators stated 
  > that the dual quad 383 had 375 HP. I don't think so. McTaggart, in Ohio.
  > 
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