RE: [Chrysler300] Second cousins to the real deal

["Rich Barber" <c300@xxxxxxx>]

I Web-Googled "chrysler imperial wagon" and got a number of hits, including
a rather ratty black one with standard taillights, a dark blue one and a
nice red one with Imperial taillights and wire-spoke wheels-both with
'55-'56 Chrysler 300 grilles and the Imperial eagle between them.  The black
and blue wagons have the Imperial front bumpers.  I can't identify the
bumper on the red one-perhaps from a later Chrysler.  See:
http://tinyurl.com/k52pctf

 

Just more "Phantoms", of course-but imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery.  Exner's remarkable styling was unusual in that it worked well
across the entire De Soto-Chrysler-Imperial line of '55-'56 wagons, 2 and
4-door hardtops, convertibles and sedans.  

 

Similarly, Googling "chrysler 300 wagon" pulled up a few shots of a finned
black 300 wagon and a red '63 "300J" wagon.  Also, a shot of the
award-winning 300B custom wagon.  The latter-day Dodge Magnum wagon was sold
as a Chrysler 300 wagon in Europe and Australia.  See:
http://tinyurl.com/khncppz        

 

 

Hopefully, no Chrysler 300's were injured in the creation of the wagons.
However, it is likely that some body parts of 300's and Imperials were
transplanted and who knows about the engines.  Our registry indicates only
20.3% of the original 16,856 Chrysler 300 letter cars are known to have
survived, so over 13,000 may have been scrapped.

 

C300K'ly,

Rich Barber

Brentwood, CA (no rain in sight-67F @ 11 AM)

 

 

From: Jack Boyle [mailto:jackcboyle@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 6:29 AM
To: 'Rich Barber'; 'Chrysler 300 Club Int. Server'
Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] Second cousins to the real deal

 

I attended two WPC/300 meets at Reno & Lake Tahoe a long time ago and I did
not hear any stories about a 300 wagon at the time.

 

In the early 80's I saw a 55-56 imperial wagon at the Harrah's show. It even
had the gun sight tail lights. I waited a long time by the unattended car
parked on a side street near the show but I was not able to talk to the
owner. It was dark red with a black interior.

 

 

Jack Boyle

(913) 544 4650

 

Enjoying the same C-300 since 1967

 

 

From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rich Barber
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:09 AM
To: Chrysler 300 Club Int. Server
Subject: [Chrysler300] Second cousins to the real deal

 

  

Chrysler 300 and other MoPar historians may want to visit and follow this
e-Bay auction for a 1956 Chrysler Ghia Concept Car Plainsman Station Wagon
by Virgil Exner -with touches of 300's to come.  http://tinyurl.com/l94skz8
The text presents an interesting history.  

 

More discussing and cussing of the Plainsman at:
http://jalopnik.com/5695482/1956-chrysler-plainsman-concept-car   

 

Can anyone speak to the old rumor of a 1955 Chrysler 300 station wagon
special ordered by a Nevada casino?  Maybe just a 300 engine in a New Yorker
or Windsor wagon body???

 

I have seen pictures of the recent high-dollar orange 2-door wagon show car
roughly based on a 1956 300B-viewable at:  

http://www.sportscardigest.com/2010-barrett-jackson-scottsdale-auction-previ
ew/

 

C300K'ly,

Rich Barber

Brentwood, CA

 

               

 





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