[Chrysler300] 1960 (300?) Chrysler Master Cylinder Brake woeas/problem

[christopher beilby <thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone out there in '300ly Land' have any idea of what is wrong with bleeding the brakes on a rebuilt 1960 Imperial Convert - I am guessing same Master Cylinder etc as on say '60 300Fs etc.
 
Have bled all the air/bubbles out of the fluid, bleed all air out of top and bottom front wheel cylinders, bleed the pipe where it screws onto Master, and yet still on foirst pump. pedal goes to floor, and it takes few fast stabs to get a good pedal. All Master and cylinders are new, cups on checking in Master are perfect, all in correct asembled order.  All I can think of is it maybe a faulty one way rubber/brass end valve in Master??!!  Or what else have I missed.???
 
Otherwise I had a great sort of 'feel good for somebody else' day yesterday. This guy I now know better, 22 years ago when visiting US with his then fairly new wife bought a factory red '60 Imperial Convert, drove it round for a day, took about 20 photos where the car looks like it only a year or so old.  Short of money, not enough to ship the car back here to aussieland, he agrees to leave the car with friends who have moved to the US and he is visiting. Few years pass, friends say maybe rear brakes might need be done before he ships it over, and you guess it, next they have talked him into frame off rebuild, Ten years later, their resto business goes bust, his car in thousands of pieces, as all his local car friends beg him, "get the thing home here" before he ends up with nothing for his now near $100,000.  Car finally arrives, he gets body painted, and he asks me as I know '57 Chryslers/300, can I help.  Yesterday, sitting on plastic milk crates, he sat like a kid in a candy store as did a few laps out front of the shed, hitting 60 mph as he held top w/screen mould on. First time in 22 years the car has been driven, he - his wife, and now grown kids there to watch, the kids not even born when he last drove the car.  And my 50s-60s Cadillac/Eldorado lover, maybe won over finned Mopars, it near impossible to get him off the block of wood he used to sit on on the empty interior as he did lap after lap, this after months of him ridiculing Chryslers versus Cadillac.  And boy did that part finished red '60 Imperial convert look good as it flashed by again and again, the chrome front, shape of the screen, those round red chrome ring surrounded '60 tailights, the big twin round dial dash, etc - you yanks did some things way better than anyone else in the world back then. The recent untold '60 Chrysler agros' I have wihstood, were worth it see the faces of Stan, his wife - he told me many times he had thought he might never get to drive it again.
 
And then as another favour to my 77 year old former farmer next door neighbour who is visiting me for the weekend 30 years after I moved away, I took him over the road to a small Aviation Musuem.
He as a young primary school boy in a 'poor dirtfarmer' family of 7, I remembered how he had a couple of times earlier told me, one day on the way to school, the horse pulling the cart they used to get to school was spooked by a shot up Catalina Flying Boat trying to make the lake that was the US Repair Base for shot up Pacific/Australia War Operations - it only cleared them by he said about 40 feet.  The horse threw them out of cart as it bolted, turned and ran for home, their worried ex WWI Veteran father coming to find what had gone wrong.
He said their farm was right under route the planes took, he often looking up to see US Catalinas with holes blown in them, wood patches visible, sick sounding engines, smoke etc. The US put the facilty right down on Murray River area of south east Australia - it about 2000 miles from Japs, top of Australia, Coral Sea etc, I guess in case Japs over-ran top of Australia after Pearl Harbour late 1941 onwards. Over 100 US Troops worked there while war on, it near all gone today, but the Lake still popular for waterskiing, and the town back to population of only less than 100 mainly retired farmers etc.
 
So I said to him, I am going to show you a plane!! - they have a P38 Lockheed Lightning, and any of you 300 lovers that like P51 Mustangs etc, if you have never walked up to to P38 from the front, and stood under the front of one and looked up at the cannon fronted centre fueselage, twin props, engines, wings etc, then that is something I say you must do before you die - what a plane!!  Until I did, I never realised how big one was comparted to a Mustang or Spitfire, what a angry shark like killing machine they were compared to a Mustang.  Like a 300F/G interior - if anyone did such a thing better, I say, SHOW ME - if the P38 is not the meanest/baddest/sexiest propellor plane, I say show was was/is. So anyone I know is a WWII plane knower, I say go look at one.
 
Better go - AND THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO WROTE AND TOLD ME THEIR GOOD EXPERIENCES WITH "303 Areospace" Vinyl protectant as used on dashes/vinyl rooves etc - sounds like it good stuff - sorry I so busy lately that the thanks a bit slow coming.
 
Christopher in Australia - great nice sunny Sunday morning here - tell me what is wrong with those brakes before my Caddy loving friend prangs Stan's car while I am not out there. 		 	   		  

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