The Electronic Newsletter of the Chrysler 300 Club International
This Newsletter is published for the members of the Chrysler 300 Club International. All rights reserved. Publication will be at irregular intervals. Not responsible for errors or omissions.



Issue 19 March 20, 2015
In This Issue
News
Club Events
Feature Stories
Tech Articles
Video Corner
Restoration Spotlight
Members Say
Puzzle
Pictures
Final Thought
Chrysler 300 Club International
PO Box 40
Benson, MD., 21018

* Quick Links *

1logosmallbright





























I am at the age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me.
News
Our spring meet in Bentonville is just a month away. The deadline for the hotel rooms is April 1. If you are thinking of attending, now is the time to make your plans.
This newsletter is for you. Let us know what you'd like to see. Your opinions are always welcome. Click here for the feedback form.
Spring 2014: Bentonville, Arkansas, April 22 to 25, 2015. Click here for details. Ray and Jo Ann Jones will be our hosts as we hold our 45th our annual spring meet in Bentonville, Arkansas. Our host hotel is The DoubleTree Suites by Hilton, 301 SE Walton Blvd, Bentonville, AR. The hotel phone: 479-845-7770, the rate: $99.00 plus applicable taxes. Mention the Chrysler 300 Club to get this rate. You can come up to 3 days early and stay up to 3 days late for this rate.
The deadline for hotel reservations is April 1, mention the Chrysler 300 Club to get our special room rate if booking by phone. Click here for details of events, activities, and the meet registration form.
Future Meets:
Fall 2015. Join our hosts Mark Souders, Tony Rinaldi, and Tony Bevacqua July 29-August 3, 2015 for a Joint Meet celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Chrysler 300 Marque. Click here for details.
The deadline for registration is June 6. Download reservation form here.
Our host hotel is the Holiday Inn Conference Ctr, 7736 Adrienne Drive, Breinigsville, PA 18031. For reservations call 610-391-1000 or 866-460-7456. The deadline for reservations is June 29.
Spring 2016: Hosted by Keith and Judy Boonstra in Holland, Michigan. Details to follow in future editions of the newsletters.
Fall 2016: To Be Announced

For more information, contact our meet coordinator Ray Jones at 1970hurst@gmail.com
Feature Stories
Tech Articles

Long Ram Gaskets
(Video 3:33)
Short Ram Gaskets
(Video 5:22)

We are looking for new technical articles. Please send whatever you think is helpful to bob@simplexco.com

Video Corner
Chrysler 300 Club Meets:

Arkansas 1997 ("Fins In The Fog")
and
Indiana 1998 by John Hertog
(16:58)
Turn Signal Switch Installation Update
(1964 Chrysler)

(7:34)
Restoration Spotlight
by Jamie Hyde

Inline Tube has produced the entire 1963 - 64 Ram brake lines. Click here for pictures. This was our Chrysler 300 Club part project RP-1402. For those of you who may not know, the front brake lines are different on the 63-64 Ram cars as they use the remote booster mounted under the driver's side fender. The front brake tee is located ahead of the upper control arm and that makes the rear line longer, plus the crossover to the passenger side is then shorter. Also the tubes that pass between the slave cylinder and the wheel house and line that runs down to the slave from the master are different than the non ram cars.
As a plus, Gary Goers sells the bushings for the remote brake tubes that pass through the wheel house. I suggest that you order them from Gary if you are doing the brake tube replacement as mine were very brittle.
On the brake line subject, all three of the flexible hydraulic brake hoses are available from Rock Auto. These are very inexpensive but they may not pass judging as they have SAE DOT markings all over them, however they fit perfectly.
Members Say
Al Vannice writes:
These old movies look very interesting and I think the Club might appreciate them. At first glance, I saw no films specifically on any 300s but they might be in there.
http://www.tvraaca.org/oldmovies.htm#movie

Write us with whatever might be on your mind.
Puzzle
If you like picture puzzles, here are three new ones from our Lake George meet.
Pictures

This is in our driveway from 1996. The older guy is Gloria's brother who just happened to be up from Virginia for Thanksgiving with his mother and his son (the younger guy in this picture). The F in the garage is my car just before it was hauled to Annapolis for painting. I didn't get it back for over a year and a half. Our son Lloyd was here for Thanksgiving too but he had to go back home so he could be at work Saturday, which is why he isn't in the picture.

Lloyd did all of the machine work on the engine and brought it up here to us in his truck. He doesn't paint things so I had to do it. I did it while it was hanging from this tripod and then bolted it to the silver engine stand that you see. The driveway is blue chip so we had to put down plywood in order to roll the motor stand back onto the concrete floor garage.

I didn't have a cherry picker so I used the tripod method. I'd done this kind of stuff several times before this way. Nothing like a little redneck engineering to get things done.

Allan Moon

A restoration that began 30 years ago is now completed.
This 300F will be on the road for our Macungie meet.