This Amazing 1968 Chrysler 300 Convertible Made Me Fall In Love With C-Bodies
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- It had to happen sooner or later. Commenters ask for more C-bodies all the time, and tell me that I need to add one to my fleet. I've always found them excessively large, but now I'm starting to come around to that point of view. These things are great. They're smooth, comfortable, and some of them - like this beautiful 300 - are extremely well styled. When I first saw the pointy nose, I thought it was awkward, but it quickly grew on me. Of course, I think '68 was the high water mark for Chrysler Corporation across the line. But there's definitely something special about this late 300.
"Hi, I am Jamie, the guy that pretends he doesn't like convertibles while constantly driving convertibles"
long live mopar .. sit down , grab a cider ,and play a blues riff in A...it is a tuning video after all
Was my first car as a kid bought from my neighbor. My car was beat up from when he lived in Chicago. The top had been knifed there but had a real solid piece of tape over the slice. The motor was perfect and I drove it to school and work during high school. When it rained the top leaked at the two seams in the back and settled in the back saddle material the top folded down into. Then the big joke was to have two unsuspecting friends get a ride to school after a big rain. The 440 would get speed up and then a hard power stop would send around five gallons of foul rain water into the backs of their heads and that is how they showed up for class. I called it the love shack. It was a great first car as a kid. The 300 in the back is correct as is that Chrysler script on the trunk lid for anyone’s edification. Mine was red on red with a white top. The front and rear were a grey/silver like, not black like that one. Mine had the factory star burst steering wheel center and a foot scan AM/FM radio that was an envy to other kids. My mom hated it and illegally sold it in 1979 when I was in the military forging my name on the title. I did find it 19 years later in 1998, bought it, got it running, fixed it up and sold it when a guy wanted it real bad and the pile of hundreds got high enough. My friend had it who I never knew as a kid but was my friend at work. He had bought it from my mom for parts but thought he might fix it up someday instead but never did. He told me his first car was a 59 Bonneville convertible, I said mine was a 68 Chrysler 300 convertible. He said, I got one do you want to buy it? I said are you sure it is a 300 because they only made three thousand and some. He said yes, it is a 300. So I go look at it and it is my car, still all beat to hell but there it is. He said he wanted three grand, we couldn’t come up with a deal or trade. When he had a retirement auction I bought it at auction for $1,300 mostly because they thought the motor was stuck. It wasn’t. If memory serves me correctly it had 10.5 to 1 factory compression. When the auctioneers couldn’t turn it by the fan they said it was stuck. It had 79,000 original miles when my mom sold it, it still had the same, I was certain it was still great and it was. Still had its factory Holly on it that needed seals and a few parts replaced. I put a quarter on it from a four door and replaced all four broken up pot metal corners. Even kept much of the factory paint, touching up and blending rather than a total repaint which I still prefer to this day on restorations.
How unusual that the round (68 only) side markers, the front ones are in the bumper!
I got me a Chrysler, it's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail!" Nice car.
what a beautiful and elegant example love those late 60's early 70's C bodies
to add some context, at the time the US govt's size regulations place these cars as being "STANDARD SIZE" passenger vehicles. This has been a public service announcement.
Cant beat a C body for cruising in comfort and style .
Beautiful cruiser! You don’t need 700 horsepower to go have fun 👍
Jamie, Your taste just keeps going up! My Dad and I restored a 1968 Dodge Polara convertible in the 80s with a 375 hp 440. Awesome car and similar body style. Mine was a sky blue with a white top. Also.. My '68 Polara had the same side marker. Chrysler tended to re-use many parts. FYI.
That is a beautiful example of a '68 Chrysler 300.
Now that's a car. The way there meant to be. Nothing but style 😎
Short or long your videos are always welcome Jamie!
That 300 is so stylish, clean but aggressive . The tail panel is killer blacked out with those awesome tail lights transitioning into those beautiful back up lights. Front end with the red stripe running through it makes it look sporty . They nailed it on that car. Giving it a 440 is icing on the luxury cake. I like that year the best even though the earlier ones are beautiful cars too. Thanks for showing us this ride.
I absolutely DREAMED of owning a sister to this car,, back in high school. Triple White, 440 TNT, Console shifted 727. It sat at Larry Plessinger's salvage yard, and was NOT allowed to be touched. It's owner was reportedly in jail,,, and after 24 more years,,, Larry finally pulled the driveline and crushed the car.... he had seen me hover over it all those years, so he told me to come get the TNT during the final years of his ownership of the yard. Still have it today. It powers my '66 300 2 door hardtop. But the '68 triple white car haunts my memories. It was SAVAGELY straight and rust free. I begged him not to destroy it. He told me it was never to be had by anyone else. I never got any more of the story than that. He showed me what it was to keep a promise.
My 68 300 story is worth telling here: in November '86 I bought a 68 300 (base, beige) 440 single exh. I bought it for $175 to drive as a winter beater while my R/T would be stored for the Wisconsin winter. After winter, in May 87, we cut the roof off to make it a convertible and we painted it black and put on cragers. I was 20. The best summer ever!! In October I sold it for $200 to a guy that put the 440 in a dart. I still have a place my heart for 68 300s.
That B-52s reference was the chef's kiss. Well done.
A sweet old cruiser
Love the big 60’s Chryslers. When they’re right it’s like rolling on a dream!
What a wonderful car. I've always contended that c-bodies had