RE: [Chrysler300] 300D hood release

["Bob Jasinski" <rpjasin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I remember the Chrysler 300 Club Inc. meet in 1990 in Sacramento, when the owner of a beautiful coral 300C convert pulled in to the hotel with a towel around his head.  I believe his name was Eric Baltzar.  His hood latch failed and it came up and back and hit the windshield header and bonked him on the head.  He was not seriously injured, thankfully, but it was the talk of the meet as to how the early hood latches were unsafe compared to the later cars. 

 

Bob J

 

From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jlsavard@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:43 AM
To: kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx; tchvapil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 300D hood release

 

  

Trivia from the ancient past:
On the day of the press introduction of the 1957 Chryslers, the Carburetor 
Laboratory, where I was working, had the only C300 C available for the 
press to drive. Persons were assigned to drive the car from Central 
Engineering to the Chelsea proving grounds for this REALLY BIG occasion. Remember, 
these were brand-new bodies, then, and the C300's had a hood and front end 
design totally different from anything else. They were RARE!

On the way out to the P.G., the hood latch totally failed, and the hood 
blew up and back over the windshield of the test car. No other cars or hoods 
were available, so Chrysler was forced to use that car for demonstrations, 
kinks and all!

I'm pretty sure that any changes in latch design were influenced by that 
event!

Joe Savard, Lake Orion, Michigan


In a message dated 9/16/2010 10:01:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kboonstra%40zeegroup.com>  writes:

Tom, it looks like you may have everything you need already. There is 
no second safety latch or spring - just a two-step main latch. On the 
other hand, if yours actually has a cable release on it, someone has 
changed yours from original. In that case your junk yard crawl won't do 
you any good unless there's a 300 there. The other Chrysler models used 
an entirely different latch set that is upside down from the 300 one.

If you don't have a cable release, you probably have the right thing the 
way it is.

Keith Boonstra

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On 9/15/2010 6:43 PM, Tom Chvapil wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> My 58 D is missing the safety hood release and the spring that 'pops' the
> hood up when you release the cable.
> If someone could take a picture of the assembly and send it to me, I 
would
> really appreciate it. It would help me a lot in locating the right 
> piece(s)
> when I do my monthly junk yard crawl...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom and Jean in Tucson
>
> 

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