Re: [Chrysler300] 300F for sale on BaT

I gots one of these. Bought it through our club after contacting Bob Merritt and Gloria Moon, from charter member Terry Mctaggart and proud to make it the best it can be and drive it every chance I get. It’s not a show no go trailer queen, it’s on the road baby.

To have an early driving memory of this car when it was new, or your dad had bought one you could ‘borrow’ on Saturday night, you're 70+ now (and your dad would be 80+). I also gots mid-50’s cars too. Now you gotta be 75++.

I get stopped everywhere, all the time. A show and shine last Friday and you’d think Lady Gaga had driven up for a burger. Swarmed the car. Excited you brought it, none others like it, can’t believe they built them this way, way back then. But they’d rather stumble back onto their Mach1’s or Chevelles and grunt their way out of the parking lot as one of a thousand tuplets, than to consider owning our cars. I’m used to it now. Have heard every story about; my dad had, my neighbour had, I used to work at, I pumped gas for, I drove across the country in, I got lucky in… one just like this.

I see the prices ebbing as the demographics move. The sixties cars are starting to suffer, then post smog, the seventies cars are next. Look at our own bi-annual get togthers. I live on the west side of the island. We had maybe 30 cars in 2018 in Rohnert Park. The boys and girls on the east coast do better for sure but it’s not like the pictures I’ve seen of the nineties and early two thousands. Sixty, seventy or more cars, driven by guys that still had wrenches in their hands.

To speak to Ray’s comments and to my point, take a look at the ’56 Imperial I put on Bring a Trailer and see all the glowing comments and memory makers BUT then how far it got when the money started talking https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1956-chrysler-imperial-4-door-sedan-2/. The 354 Hemi and drive train are worth more than it bid, fgs

Undaunted and maybe foolish, I’m going to buy another of the ones I love.

Finally, I’m so grateful to be included in this club and want to thank all the volunteers and contributors that give so much of their time and experience to it and make it vital for we who needs the guidance. There are some old shoes in the places where I keep my cars and they are a great help too. But nothing like the club members who really know. Like I heard one say, ‘It’s easy if you know how’.

Thanks M

71 this week and everything works

On Aug 16, 2020, at 7:28 PM, Ray Melton rfmelton@xxxxxxx [Chrysler300] <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There's a nice looking white 300F HT for sale on Bring a Trailer https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1960-chrysler-300f-2/ - does anyone recognize the serial number? 8403125676 The Club Roster indicates it might be Al Vannice, and the seller's address also matches his in Boalsberg, PA. It's always interesting to read the comments from the tire-kickers and ultra nit-picky critics (usually NOT actual bidders!) that permeate this BaT auction site regardless of what is offered, including those who think this car should have "Kelsey-Hayes chrome wire wheels", or "the steering wheel is on upside-down" (NOT!), or grouse about all the things it needs to be "100% concours", although there are indeed several well-informed, considerate and savvy comments and factoids currently posted about the car. There is still a lot of nostalgia out there for these cars, with many stories of previous encounters and lost opportunities to be regretted decades later, but they don't appear to be actual bidders. As an owner of a '57 300C convertible (my late father's car dating from 1969, now finally meticulously re-restored), I am painfully aware of the costs of restoration (I'm probably upside down!), and am somewhat concerned at the apparent slide in prices for these special letter cars over the last year or more, although I recognize that owning these cars is more about the history and emotion than the money. It's currently bid to only ~ $32K, and I bet he spent that much (probably WAY more!) on its previous restoration and rebuild ~ 18 years ago, so I hope it goes for more than double that in the next three days - I'm sure the seller would agree!
Ray Melton Las Cruces, New Mexico