NOT MINE '71 300 2-door parts car $850

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1971 Chrysler 300

Up for sale mopar 1971 Chrysler 300 w 440 Car is pretty much complete but it’s more of a parts car First one that pays owns it No title Does not run Selling For parts or for a major restoration project

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1971 Chrysler 300​

$850
Listed 6 days ago in Anderson, SC
About this vehicle

Driven 77,777 miles

Automatic transmission

Exterior colour: White · Interior colour:

Fuel type: Petrol

Seller's description​

Up for sale mopar 1971 Chrysler 300 w 440Car is pretty much complete but it’s more of a parts car First one that pays owns itNo titleDoes not run Selling For parts or for a major restoration project

Seller information​

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Brandon Berg

 

[Hap]

I will be down there next week on vacation if anyone would like me to go look at it .

 

[Mr C]

Poor thing...

 

[Hunny Bunny]

That's a goodly looking pile of parts for that munny!

If the bottom of its not a massive road window, it might even be restorable!

 

[ceebuddy]

I see a fender skirt. I don't think you could even order that for a 1971 Chrysler 300, so I'd say that's an add-on.

 

[fury fan]

Prolly too far gone to be worth restoring, but looks like it would help other cars live on.
If nothing else, snatch it up and make sure the 440 goes into another C-body, rather than a B/E body and the rest getting crushed.

 

[ayilar]

Poor CS23T1C178332 -- looks like GY4 or BL1 to me.

I see a fender skirt. I don't think you could even order that for a 1971 Chrysler 300, so I'd say that's an add-on.

I was surprised as well, so upon reading your statement I had to go and look it up. Turns out that fender skirts (option code M45) were available on all Chrysler models in 1971, as per the Dealership/Fleet Buyer's Data Book uploaded on the Hamtramck Registry Library:

 

[ceebuddy]

Oh wow, I would not have thought that. But there it is right there! So a customer (or the dealer) must have checked that box and added $37.40 to the tab.

 

[ayilar]

@GOLDMYN recently sold CE23L1F167996 -- a 1971 Newport that was built with the M45 optional skirts. If memory serves, he removed them.

Before (as seen when he bought the car): NOT MINE - 1971 Chrysler newport $11,000

After (with different wheels, too): SOLD - 1971 Chrysler Newport 2 dhtp, 383-2

 

[ceebuddy]

Ah yes, now that you mention it, I remember it.

I am not sure if I really appreciate the looks with the fender skirts on a Newport. In my mind it does look more sporty without the skirts.

 

[carguy300]

I have to agree that one looks better without the skirts.

 

[Turbo301]

Ah yes, now that you mention it, I remember it.

I am not sure if I really appreciate the looks with the fender skirts on a Newport. In my mind it does look more sporty without the skirts.

They're not really sporty cars, though...

The skirts on these do look odd, though, because the fender line is already so heavily skirted: if the skirts went right to the rocker line, so you got a constant fuselage silhouette, I could see it, but when they bump-up and add very little effect, I'm not sure who would have ordered them and gone through the trouble of having to remove them for brake work, changing tires, etc.

That having been said, with the difference in height between the rocker and back of the quarter panel, I guess they really couldn't make a skirt that gave a continuous line across the wheel, not without some sort of mid-skirt step or something.

 

[carguy300]

I don’t know…I think all 2 dr Chryslers are sporty.

 

[ceebuddy]

They're not really sporty cars, though...

The skirts on these do look odd, though, because the fender line is already so heavily skirted: if the skirts went right to the rocker line, so you got a constant fuselage silhouette, I could see it, but when they bump-up and add very little effect, I'm not sure who would have ordered them and gone through the trouble of having to remove them for brake work, changing tires, etc.

That having been said, with the difference in height between the rocker and back of the quarter panel, I guess they really couldn't make a skirt that gave a continuous line across the wheel, not without some sort of mid-skirt step or something.

It's true, the lower edge of a fender skirt that reached down to the rocket panel towards the front of the car and ending on the lower end of the quarter panel on the rear side could not be all horizontal. It would be some line oddly curved up. I do wonder, though, what the visual appearance of a car so equipped would be. Perhaps looking a little like a Formal?