Re: {Chrysler 300} Original Muscle Car

["'Noel Hastalis' via Chrysler 300 Club International" <chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith,

 

Some numbers for you, from a chart I have - Letter Car highest numerical rear end gear ratios - some years multiple options offered and other years none optional -

• C-300   4.11
  • std   3.54
• 300-B   6.17
  • std   3.54
• 300-C   6.17
  • std   3.36   
• 300-D   3.73
  • std   3.31
• 300-E   2.93
  • std   3.31
• 300-F   3.73
  • std   3.31
• 300-G   3.73
  • std   3.23
• 300-H   3.23
  • std   2.93
• 300-J   3.23 T/F; 3.91 manual
  • no options
• 300-K   3.23
  • no options
• 300-L   3.23
  • no options
• Hurst   3.23
  • no options

Noel

 

On 04/10/2026 1:52 PM CDT Keith Boonstra <kboonstra.zeegroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Was John DeLorean ever known to have drag raced his GTO‘s against any 300 letter car on Woodward Ave back in the day?

If he won, it would only have been because the Chrysler was geared for high-end on the highway, whereas DeLorean’s GTO‘s were geared for getting off the line to the next red traffic light. 

He would’ve had to hold that GTO at 3500rpm at least to stay with traffic on the highway back then.

Chrysler kind of let that youth movement to drag racing pass right on by them until they finally came out with the GTX Plymouth in 1966. After that, the game was all theirs with the second gen hemi and all.  I don’t remember what the highest rear end ratio offered by Chrysler was back then.

 

My 300 C often got embarrassed by my buddy’s dad’s four-door Chevy with a 283 power pack and a two speed power glide for the first few hundred feet. After that, I would get by him and be gone in the dust by the quarter mile.

 

Keith Boonstra

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On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 9:47 AM 'John R. Cote' via Chrysler 300 Club International <chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Giving credit where credit is due.  Today's Hemming's headline.  Scorn on the GTO.

 

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