Chrysler 300 Club International
PO Box 40
Benson, MD., 21018
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Issue number eight of the
300 "e" news
arrives with spring in the air! And springs in this issue, too.
We have new articles on rear springs, see
here.
Don't forget, we have a special discount price with Eaton Detroit Spring.
Click here for details.
This newsletter is for you. Let us know what you'd like to see.
Your opinions are always welcome and you can
click
here for the feedback form.
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We will be
Off to the Races
at our spring 2013 meet,
May 19 - 23, in Collinsville, Il. Our host Ed Lanfer
has arranged a tour of a private car collection and
a visit to the
Fairmount Park horse track.
Click here for the activities list.
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The host hotel is the Doubletree by Hilton, 1000 Eastport Plaza Drive, Collinsville, IL 62234.
Room rates are $94 for 1 queen or 2 queen beds, $99 for 1 king bed.
The cutoff date for our special room rates is April 22, 2013.
Click here for reservations.
Contact Ed Lanfer at
ed.lanfer@federalmogul.com for more details.
Future Meets:
Fall 2013 in Blacksburg, VA hosted by Thomas DeBusk, August 21-24, 2013.
Spring 2014 in Massachusetts hosted by Don Cole for the 50th anniversary of the "K". Date TBA.
Fall 2014 in the White Sands area of New Mexico. Hosted by Bill Allen. Date TBA.
Spring 2015 OPEN. Fall 2015 in Macungie, PA, hosted by Larry Jett, Tony Rinaldi and Mark Souders. August 5-9, 2015 for a Joint Meet celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Chrysler 300 Marque.
For more information, contact our meet coordinator Ray
Jones at 1970hurst@gmail.com
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Thanks to John Holst for preparing a handy summary table of the lamp, fuses, and circuit
breaker listing for the 1955-1965 Chrysler line.
Click here for his table.
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Buick was the first U.S. automaker to offer factory-installed flashing turn signals.
Introduced in 1939 as a safety feature, the new-fangled feature was advertised as the "Flash-Way
Directional Signal" operated from a switch on the new "Handi-shift" column-mounted shifter.
The flashing signals only operated on the rear lights. In 1940 Buick enhanced the directional indicators by
extending the signals to front lights and adding a self-canceling mechanism. That
year directional signals became standard on Buick, Cadillac, LaSalle, and the Hudson Country Club
vehicles and optional on Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac (for a cost of $7.95), Hudson (for $10), and
Packard. In 1941, Dodge offered turn signals as an option on all its models.
After WWII turn signals and turn signal levers mounted on the left side of the steering column became
more commonplace. For those cars without them, however, the Illinois-based
Lester Company offered a Simplex Direction Signal Kit for '42 to '49 models,
advertising that the signals available for $8.95 would work "like factory-installed models on expensive cars".
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We are looking for new technical articles.
Please send whatever you think is helpful to
bob@simplexco.com
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Continuing with our review of meets, here are two videos
by Don Verity from our Chicago meet of 1996
Part 1, (15 minutes)
A visit to the Volo Auto Museum, a cookout at John Doko's, cars at the hotel, Mike Burke
chases a mouse.
//I will need to change from private to public//
Part 2, (5 minutes).
Don talks with Andy Jugle about the "Crime Story" 300C, and shows us cars at Catigny Park.
//I will need to change from private to public//
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I need pictures and videos from our meets from 1998 through present. In particular, if you have something from Bill Spear's Myrtle Beach meet in 1998, Bob Cornett's Lexington meet in 1999, or Larry Jett's Newark meet of 1999, please contact Bob at bob@simplexco.com These will be used for the Club's second 25 year history CD.
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Write us with whatever might
be on your mind.
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If you like picture puzzles,
here are new ones. These were taken outside the Walter P Chrysler Museum at our meet in 2005.
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Coming in issue 9, news from St. Louis meet, preparations for the Virginia meet.
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"TOMORROW":
One of the greatest labor saving devices of "today".
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