Hi Mick,
I don't recall seeing the drain tubes on any Gs, like I've seen in some of the Fs. As you've seen on my F, a prior owner when the car was still in California punched a couple notches outboard on my trunk lip, located approximately where Chrysler installed the drain tubes, to enable the water to drain. When rained on, or when I've washed the F, the rain still mostly sits on that ledge, and doesn't drain. And the toilet seat hubcap drain tube just adds to the water dump there - an issue not found on Gs since they don't have the Flight Sweep deck lid. I've never heard a clear response whether the F drain tubes were a late production attempt to fix this problem. I'm guessing corrosion was not an issue during the 1960 production run, but would have arisen later.
You may recall a couple emails I circulated several years ago about the notches in my car. When I was having my trunk area around the weatherstripping 'cleaned-up,' I argued with my then body shop guy, who insisted these notches had to be factory, because they were so precisely done. So I gave in to him, and the notches are still on my car. Gil did later confirm that no Fs, or other 1960 Chryslers, left the factory with notches like mine.
Noel
On May 1, 2018 at 8:00 PM "Mick Kreszock kreszockcm@xxxxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300]" <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So the sheet metal to fix the problems with the F trunk opening lip are on the way. Since this will require plasm cutting, spot welding, body filler, paint, etc. Would it be wise to fabricate drain holes so this problem doesn't reoccur? I understand that was the factory fix for the problem. Did drain holes in the G remedy the rusting issues?Anybody got photos of the G drain hole locations?
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