Will do Keith. The
projects are in my head, that won't last long. Gary
-----Original Message----- From:
Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Keith Boonstra Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 4:42
PM To: Mark Schueller Cc: Chrysler300; Gary
Nelson Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] ] 1957 Chrysler 300C arm
rests
I appreciate all the high fives guys. It took 3.5 years from
beginning to end, but we made it, and I'm glad it all worked out.
Gary, be sure to let me know when you have the aluminum arm rest panels
and the grills ready to ship.
Subject: [Chrysler300] ] 1957
Chrysler 300C arm rests
Hi All
I recently bought a pair of the 300C arm
rests. They look superb. I beleive it is thanks to Keith who kicked the
project along. Now we need the 57 aluminum panels just above the arm
rests. The tooling can be made overseas and stamp them in the US. Then we
could make new grills for 57/58. Oh well keep
dreaming.
I enjoy watching Wayne Carini going about his business too,
and I think I saw that Ferrari episode recently.
To me, the way to see and understand the "barn find" attraction is
to view it as an entirely different type of pleasure. It's more like
finding a pirate's treasure chest buried in your back yard - it's
exciting because you found a valuable thing that was just part of the
dirt until some magic moment of discovery. And the more potential the
found object has, the more exciting the discovery. So you leave the dirt
on it for a while to tell the cool story.
But in the long run -say it's a Deusenberg J that was dragged out
of the barn - a valuable collector car will be brought back to beautiful
in one way or another, and then the story will turn to being about the
car instead of the barn.
You can turn that car into anything you want if you own the title;
and some day when you go to sell it, the market will simply tell you
whether that's what they would have done to the car. In the broad
spectrum of collectors what bothers one person a lot might be admired by
another.
Very little seems to get a free ride in universal agreement, but I
think most will be disappointed to find a car's very features don't
match the factory stamped trim tag. It makes me wonder: would that
Ferrari have a trim tag on it that would indicate its original color? Or
would color have been considered to be a highly original prerogative of
the original buyer of the car - and thus immaterial to subsequent owners
as well? I really don't know.
I still love the black on it, yet I think he should have left it
white if the plan is to cash out the highest at auction.
Keith Boonstra
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Michael Moore
<mmoore8425@xxxxxxx> wrote:
John,
I think I agree with you-but I have become a fan of Wayne Carini
(Chasing Classic Cars) for the last year or so. He seems to know
his business and be well respected. I have learned a lot from watching
that show. Standards of top cars seem to be changing.
I was working at Pebble Beach as a United Way volunteer
(handing out programs etc,) the first year the Preservation Class was
introduced. I could not see why it made any sense to ship an old
Mercedes from Germany with half an inch of barn dirt on it! Why not at
least wash it? I am seeing that change where now some people are
saying if the car is clean and original it's better than restoration
or bard dirt. In fact, I heard the comment made that many
wonderful old cars were ruined in the last two decades by restoration
to a level far beyond what the factory could do.
Now, Wayne deals with a lot of multi-million dollar cars, and I
have seen him consciously paint a Ferrari 275GTB4 (I think) a color
other than the factory color (he painted it a gunmetal gray) and
install a different color upholstery (cinnamon).Maybe it doesn't
matter when you get to stratospheric prices, like the $27.5M
275GTB/4NART car. For that kind of money, I suppose the cost of
restoring correct paint and upholstery colors is a fly speck!
Probably like you, I think a non-factory standard
color for a letter car is very noticeable and to my eyes, looks dead
wrong.
It does need some tweaking to be correct, but the main
thing that strikes me is that no "investment grade" any car will be
painted in a color it did not exit the factory in. The car looks
gorgeous in black, but it will only be investment grade when it is
returned to white.
It
ismissing the spare tire metal cover
also does not have the stainless rock shields in
front of the rear tires. It appears to have the surround around the
trunk 300 emblem.
Hope you are having better
weather then we have in Portland ? record rain fall for
March.
Something is wrong with the trunk lid
emblem also... It is missing the surround that goes around it. I
wonder what happened to that??
George
On Mar 28, 2014, at 3:39 PM, "Rich
Barber" <c300@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Interested fans may wish to view an
?investment grade? 1957 Chrysler 300C convertible on e-Bay at:
http://tinyurl.com/l5e68mg.
No VIN given. Scroll down for a god set of
pictures. Bidding already to 90K, looking for 180K. A
rising tide lifts all boats (and land
barges).
Rich Barber
300K (model, not
price)
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