An absolute stunner. Thanks to the owner for doing just the right thing and preserving it in its original state. This car is a landmark of its era and will be appreciated as long as there are people who love great car design and engineering.
The clock worked for a few months but sadly has now stopped. I forgot to mention that the original "Bluestreak" tire is still in the trunk (holding air from 1957) along with the jack etc. It also came with the complete set of original keys for the ignition, trunk, locks, Hi-Way Hi-Fi, glove box, and record case.
Randy, & all: thanks, good Keep……. Also, interesting, overview of MOPAR, ETC…. INTERESTINGLY, We had 1959 CORONET Nine Pass / Station Wagon , loaded ( exc Air/C ) that I had to use some @age 15-16 years: never cared for the Push button SHIFT, ETC.THE1959:Wagon was ,massive too…thiugh seemed solid, in the Day (1959-62)…"
Car clocks are nothing but a pain in the ass... What usually kills them when new or rebuilt is the first time the battery goes bad, it fries the rewind contacts and coil...
Beautiful car. No question about it! I've owned a 300C hardtop for over 25 years and consider myself to know these cars inside out. My only question is why this car only has a 120 MPH speedometer? A New Yorker, Windsor or Saratoga would have a 120 MPH speedometer. A 300 should have a 150 MPH speedometer. Everything else with your car absolutely adds up... She's just beautiful. Over the years though I've learned that nothing is absolutely certain with Chryslers! Thanks for sharing your "Beautiful Brute" with us....
The 120 MPH speedo is a mystery to me also. There is absolutely no doubt that it is factory installed. I can only imagine that on that production day they ran out of speedos and the foreman said "put in a New Yorker one and move on". Or whatever speedo they had on the parts bin.
thank goodness he drives it. awesome ride, it deserves to be free of a storage life. let it shine it's waited long enough. Enjoy it and respect to you sir.
I live far away from America, but i feel some kind of deep connection with old cars like this, believe me or not) I can only dream of a life size car, but at least i have a 1/18 scale model of it) One of my favorite cars of the 50s, the design is simply gorgeous...
Hey there and welcome to our channel. I have to tell you that this car was even better in person. It's an awesome car and was fun to ride in it as well. Keep up your hopes f a full sized one but in the meanwhile, enjoy your 1/18 scale! Thanks for sharing your story and thanks for watching
What an amazing find for him! I am so glad that he is someone who will never touch or try to restore this original masterpiece! I mentioned on one of your other videos of my grandfather had every other year letter cars starting in 56. I believe these were 385 hp and they had a manual transmission version that you could get with 400, I'm a little rusty these days so correct me if I'm wrong 🙂 Love your channel and I am subscribing now!!
Randy usually reads the comments on his videos so hopefully he’ll respond this time too. He’s a great guy with a real love for these Winged masterpieces! That is for your comments and welcome to our channel!
Yes, there was a "NASCAR" version available. It had a hotter cam and only came with a 3 speed column shifted manual trans. In all of my 68 years, I have seen exactly ONE of these. It was a green convertible, all original, but not in as good a condition as this one. I had seen it at the "Lead East" show in the NJ Meadowlands back in the late 80s. It had the column shifter, that's how I recognized what it was. I saw another 57 300 convertible at August Fest in Macungie PA in the 90s. It was a bit rough, and was in the car corral. A young family was looking at it the same time I was. Their young son was commenting that it was a real piece of crap. I quickly explained to him that when it was built, it was one of the fastest, most powerful cars in the world, save for something like a Ferrari, which was hardly regular production. I also told him that if that car was still running at all, it would STILL be fast enough to scare the daylights out of him. No more 'piece of crap' comments from him! LOL!
That right there is one of my dream cars. Those cars were even used in Nascar back in 1957 and was in Daytona on the beach and the 1957 300C won the race that year plus that Hemi is the biggest displacement of the first gen Hemi engines.
Born in 1960 Boston there's a photo of my mom carrying me after she came home from the hospital, same colors, same car model, I came out pretty good for a day old baby, but the car was awesome in the photo.
The 392 and those air cleaners , man what an awesome ride. The " historic " factor aside I would consider losing the cast iron torqueflite in favor of a 727A ( small block ) , ( Hot Heads and Wilcap sell the adaptors ) .
you can't do it only the old cast iron torqueflite can be used for the push button gear switching. so you would have to keep the trans in order to keep the pushbutton part of it and I think the bellhousing is different then the newer aluminum trans
@@79tazman A and A Transmissions makes a conversion that looks like it would get real close. But yes I did forget about the push buttons on my original reply .
The 392 Hemi was the envy of street guys during the 1960's. My dad had one out of a 58 300 D with 6 Stromberg 97's and a Halibrand quick change rear diff in his '29 Ford roadster pick up when he was in high school. Unfortunately, the donor cars were worthless to the kids back in those days.
OH!!! WHAT??? This is my dream car... I would have to hit Power Ball to get to afford one ...off to the liquor store to buy some tickets AND a bottle O' Jack Daniels 🤙🥃😎
Great car Randy! One question though, should it not have a 150mph speedometer? If it has been replaced, the odometer might not be reflecting the actual miles?
Thanks for noticing Kevin. I am VERY certain that the speedo is original to the car. The Chrysler International Club has looked it over and agrees. Although 150 MPH speedos were standard, we all believe that when the assembly line ran out of 150 speedos they would substitute 120 MPH speedos from New Yorkers in order to keep the assembly line moving.
1957 was the year that Chryslers became most everything that would become Chrysler in that it was the year that they had both TorsionBar front suspension and their bulletproof TorqueFlight transmission both of which saw them through the rest of their traditional car era models.
When I was growing up, we had a neighbor that didn't care about age or mileage, he traded cars when the ash tray got full! He always traded for another Plymouth!
Only 57-8 Dodge and Chrysler had that silly 'push neutral to start' feature. Plymouth and Desoto did not. It would not be possible to start the car unless it was in neutral, thanks to the neutral safety switch on the transmission. So this feature was unnecessary.
From 1955 thru at least 1961 the 300 letter cars had a 150 mph. It was the only model they put them in. I've seen them in every picture of them I've seen. Also my father had a 1956 300B that had on in.
@@TwoGuysandaRide I use "Corvette Clocks by Roger" to do clocks. My buddy used them on all the Vettes he restored. They recently did the clock on my 64 Caddy. I have a 57 TBird clock that will go to him next. Good guy. I like to keep them original rather than doing a quartz conversion.
It's beautiful, thanks for getting it running but not restoring it. The cars my parents owned in my earliest memory were a 50-something completely unremarkable blue Studebaker, and a '57 black Firedome sedan. They wished for a convertible like yours instead, but alas, I was already child #3... Someday I'll get around to my own unrestored 40,xxx miler, or find it the right home. Until then I keep it unrestored but preserved, licensed with regular plates, and drive it occasionally when there's no salt on the roads. I need to go get it out - we finally just got a rain that will finish off the aforementioned salt. th-cam.com/video/5fE1xjJ_S_U/w-d-xo.html
I would rather drive something like this car over a B.M.W, Toyota, Kia, or any other modern cars of today.Sir, congratulations you have an absolute classic.
An absolute stunner. Thanks to the owner for doing just the right thing and preserving it in its original state. This car is a landmark of its era and will be appreciated as long as there are people who love great car design and engineering.
We couldn’t agree more! Thanks for watching!
Thanks to Randy for being so patient with the questions... -from another Randy
The clock worked for a few months but sadly has now stopped. I forgot to mention that the original "Bluestreak" tire is still in the trunk (holding air from 1957) along with the jack etc. It also came with the complete set of original keys for the ignition, trunk, locks, Hi-Way Hi-Fi, glove box, and record case.
Wow, that’s so cool. Hard to find original keys anywhere!
Randy, & all: thanks, good Keep……. Also, interesting, overview of MOPAR, ETC…. INTERESTINGLY, We had 1959 CORONET Nine Pass / Station Wagon , loaded ( exc Air/C ) that I had to use some @age 15-16 years: never cared for the Push button SHIFT, ETC.THE1959:Wagon was ,massive too…thiugh seemed solid, in the Day (1959-62)…"
"sadly"
Car clocks are nothing but a pain in the ass... What usually kills them when new or rebuilt is the first time the battery goes bad, it fries the rewind contacts and coil...
I have seen some of your collection on Lou Constable's channel.
You have some very beautiful vehicles.
The dashboard with everything in pods all over the place is pretty cool in itself.
That’s one of our favorite parts as well. Thanks for watching
This car is spectacular! Chrysler pulled out all the stops for style and beauty, and this one was done right.
Agreed!
Absolutely gorgeous. This is one of my dream cars. If I ever win the lottery, this is on my list
Awesome dream man! Good luck
This guy Randy has some outstanding cars //////////////////////////
That he does! Thanks for watching!
Almost like going back to 1957. Awesome
Indeed! Thanks for watching
What a masterpiece. Stunning. Thanks for sharing it with us. John.
Couldn’t agree more! Thanks for watching!
Thanks, Randy for the share of your new car, great find of a rare Chrysler.
It’s a beautiful ride. Thanks for watching
Beautiful car. No question about it! I've owned a 300C hardtop for over 25 years and consider myself to know these cars inside out. My only question is why this car only has a 120 MPH speedometer? A New Yorker, Windsor or Saratoga would have a 120 MPH speedometer. A 300 should have a 150 MPH speedometer. Everything else with your car absolutely adds up... She's just beautiful.
Over the years though I've learned that nothing is absolutely certain with Chryslers! Thanks for sharing your "Beautiful Brute" with us....
Thanks for the comment and question. Please see Randy’s explanation of the Speedo in the comments. Thanks for watching!
The 120 MPH speedo is a mystery to me also. There is absolutely no doubt that it is factory installed. I can only imagine that on that production day they ran out of speedos and the foreman said "put in a New Yorker one and move on". Or whatever speedo they had on the parts bin.
Wow. What a survivor, beautiful car.
It certainly is, thanks for watching!
thank goodness he drives it. awesome ride, it deserves to be free of a storage life. let it shine it's waited long enough. Enjoy it and respect to you sir.
Thanks for watching!
I live far away from America, but i feel some kind of deep connection with old cars like this, believe me or not) I can only dream of a life size car, but at least i have a 1/18 scale model of it) One of my favorite cars of the 50s, the design is simply gorgeous...
Hey there and welcome to our channel. I have to tell you that this car was even better in person. It's an awesome car and was fun to ride in it as well. Keep up your hopes f a full sized one but in the meanwhile, enjoy your 1/18 scale! Thanks for sharing your story and thanks for watching
Always mention where you live, we Americans love that info...
The 16 RPM record speed was used mostly for talking books. That is why the speed was included on most record changers.
Thanks
@@TwoGuysandaRide This is a beautiful example of a landmark car.
We used to get advertising in the mail on little 16 2/3 RPM records...
What an amazing find for him! I am so glad that he is someone who will never touch or try to restore this original masterpiece! I mentioned on one of your other videos of my grandfather had every other year letter cars starting in 56. I believe these were 385 hp and they had a manual transmission version that you could get with 400, I'm a little rusty these days so correct me if I'm wrong 🙂 Love your channel and I am subscribing now!!
Randy usually reads the comments on his videos so hopefully he’ll respond this time too. He’s a great guy with a real love for these Winged masterpieces! That is for your comments and welcome to our channel!
Thanks, yes.. be nice to see one more & document….etc.
@@opera93 check out our video with the car and owner of the awesome car - th-cam.com/video/0wGFpjTJIMk/w-d-xo.html
Yes, there was a "NASCAR" version available. It had a hotter cam and only came with a 3 speed column shifted manual trans. In all of my 68 years, I have seen exactly ONE of these. It was a green convertible, all original, but not in as good a condition as this one. I had seen it at the "Lead East" show in the NJ Meadowlands back in the late 80s. It had the column shifter, that's how I recognized what it was.
I saw another 57 300 convertible at August Fest in Macungie PA in the 90s. It was a bit rough, and was in the car corral. A young family was looking at it the same time I was. Their young son was commenting that it was a real piece of crap. I quickly explained to him that when it was built, it was one of the fastest, most powerful cars in the world, save for something like a Ferrari, which was hardly regular production. I also told him that if that car was still running at all, it would STILL be fast enough to scare the daylights out of him. No more 'piece of crap' comments from him! LOL!
That right there is one of my dream cars. Those cars were even used in Nascar back in 1957 and was in Daytona on the beach and the 1957 300C won the race that year plus that Hemi is the biggest displacement of the first gen Hemi engines.
Thanks for sharing and for watching!
This was also the first year for the torsion bar suspension.
I love Mopars big time
This is just one of his beauties. He has 13 more
My dad had a 300D and later a 300F. Great cars. I was a teenager at the time and my dad was really "cool". Miss the cars and my dad.
Thanks for sharing and for watching!
That's one heck of an automobile.
Yes it is, thanks for watching!
Beautiful car. I thought the dual headlights on cars first appeared in '58. .. Guess they were ahead of their time.
In several ways, thanks for watching!
1964 Was the last year for the Torqueflight Pushbutton Transmission.
Thanks for watching!
This beauty was designed by Virgil Exner.
True and she’s definitely a beauty! Thanks for watching
Bliss on wheels and a fabulous story. So 1957, and my 300 C was assembled in Austria RHD, SRT 8, 6.1, by Magna Styr in 2007. Its all Bliss on Wheels.
Thanks for sharing and for watching!
Can you imagine that car with turbos! Wow!
Oh Yeah
Born in 1960 Boston there's a photo of my mom carrying me after she came home from the hospital, same colors, same car model, I came out pretty good for a day old baby, but the car was awesome in the photo.
thanks for sharing
Only thing missing on the motor is the Ram induction.
Thanks for watching!
That came in later years... but would work great on the Hemis...
The 392 and those air cleaners , man what an awesome ride. The " historic " factor aside I would consider losing the cast iron torqueflite in favor of a 727A ( small block ) , ( Hot Heads and Wilcap sell the adaptors ) .
Randy is a big fan of originality so Im sure this one will stay as presented. Thanks for watching
Would go for an overdrive tranny...
you can't do it only the old cast iron torqueflite can be used for the push button gear switching. so you would have to keep the trans in order to keep the pushbutton part of it and I think the bellhousing is different then the newer aluminum trans
@@79tazman A and A Transmissions makes a conversion that looks like it would get real close. But yes I did forget about the push buttons on my original reply .
The 392 Hemi was the envy of street guys during the 1960's. My dad had one out of a 58 300 D with 6 Stromberg 97's and a Halibrand quick change rear diff in his '29 Ford roadster pick up when he was in high school. Unfortunately, the donor cars were worthless to the kids back in those days.
Thanks for watching and for sharing!
The leather seats need professional cleaning and feeding. She is a beautiful car, don't ever restore her. Maintain Maintain Maintain. LOVE IT!!!!
Thanks for watching!
OH!!! WHAT??? This is my dream car... I would have to hit Power Ball to get to afford one ...off to the liquor store to buy some tickets AND a bottle O' Jack Daniels 🤙🥃😎
LOL!! Thanks for watching!
Great car Randy! One question though, should it not have a 150mph speedometer? If it has been replaced, the odometer might not be reflecting the actual miles?
Randy watches these comments so hopefully he’ll respond soon
Thanks for noticing Kevin. I am VERY certain that the speedo is original to the car. The Chrysler International Club has looked it over and agrees. Although 150 MPH speedos were standard, we all believe that when the assembly line ran out of 150 speedos they would substitute 120 MPH speedos from New Yorkers in order to keep the assembly line moving.
I am certain that the speedo is factory installed, but yes, it should have a 150 MPH speedo.
1957 was the year that Chryslers became most everything that would become Chrysler in that it was the year that they had both TorsionBar front suspension and their bulletproof TorqueFlight transmission both of which saw them through the rest of their traditional car era models.
Agreed. Thanks for watching
Great, love it! BUT, I was waiting to see and hear that HEMI roar! 😢
We did take it for a ride and we t was awesome. Unfortunately that clip didn’t make it into the video. Sorry
When I was growing up, we had a neighbor that didn't care about age or mileage, he traded cars when the ash tray got full! He always traded for another Plymouth!
Cool. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful
Agreed
The 300 series Chryslers were originally built, in small numbers, to qualify them for NASCAR.
Thanks for sharing
The movie Quiz Show has an identical car
Cool, thanks for watching!
Only 57-8 Dodge and Chrysler had that silly 'push neutral to start' feature. Plymouth and Desoto did not. It would not be possible to start the car unless it was in neutral, thanks to the neutral safety switch on the transmission. So this feature was unnecessary.
Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
Ford tried to do an electric version of the push-button trans (Chrysler's was mechanical) and it was a disaster.
@@johntechwriter Yes, the old steering wheel hub mounted Teletouch push buttons.
4:24 shouldn't it have a 150 mile per hour speedometer?
Not sure about that, hopefully one of our viewers will be able to answer that. Thanks for watching!
From 1955 thru at least 1961 the 300 letter cars had a 150 mph. It was the only model they put them in. I've seen them in every picture of them I've seen. Also my father had a 1956 300B that had on in.
I found the answer from a member of 300 international club. He said they all did except early 1957 production.
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Talked forever about the radio and didn’t mention it had a synchronized foot control.
true
You're right, I forgot to. It works perfectly by the way!
' 57 with quad headlights ?
Yep! Thanks for watching!
Is the trunk mat the original rubber unit?
It’s all original
The 300 had a carpeted trunk. I have the original carpet but I took it out partially to preserve it and also because it stinks...bad.
Does the CLOCK work?????
Not sure. I’ll try to find out
@@TwoGuysandaRide I use "Corvette Clocks by Roger" to do clocks. My buddy used them on all the Vettes he restored. They recently did the clock on my 64 Caddy. I have a 57 TBird clock that will go to him next. Good guy. I like to keep them original rather than doing a quartz conversion.
Yes
I love Shabbat prep.
Thanks for watching!
64 was the last year.
Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
That looks a bit like Christine except it's not red
Sure does
It's beautiful, thanks for getting it running but not restoring it.
The cars my parents owned in my earliest memory were a 50-something completely unremarkable blue Studebaker, and a '57 black Firedome sedan. They wished for a convertible like yours instead, but alas, I was already child #3...
Someday I'll get around to my own unrestored 40,xxx miler, or find it the right home. Until then I keep it unrestored but preserved, licensed with regular plates, and drive it occasionally when there's no salt on the roads. I need to go get it out - we finally just got a rain that will finish off the aforementioned salt.
th-cam.com/video/5fE1xjJ_S_U/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing
That's back when we had good paint, not this crap we pay 600 dollars a gallon for now!
Truth!
Ia that a fuckin record player?
Yes it is. Chrysler called it Highway HiFi
@@TwoGuysandaRide I'm going to assume it didn't work very well? Haha
It actually works and although Im not a fan of the music, it was clear and loud. On the highway you are correct, it didnt work as well
DE SOTO красивее
Yes it is! Thanks for watching!
In 1st grade in 1966 we'd pledge allegiance to the USA then have drills for incoming Russian nuclear bombs, welcome to school youngsters.
I remember that too
Not buying that top as original
Ok
It absolutely is!
It absolutely is!
@@randyguyer i have a 1961 issue car mag that more or less introduces the vinyl coated top thats where i was working from it was btw on GM vehicles
Drive the car fools
we did
I would rather drive something like this car over a B.M.W, Toyota, Kia, or any other modern cars of today.Sir, congratulations you have an absolute classic.
We agree!
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Thanks for watching!