1963 300 Pace car CV

[tbm3fan]

While on an outing with my Cougar club our last stop was this place called Specialty Sales Classics. There were 38 cars with ridiculous prices. Have the cheap xerox copy of the list handed out to the public. There was a 69 GTX 4spd CV at 70K, a grade 3+ car, a 69 Roadrunner 440-6V 4 spd, grade 3+, at 70K, a lime green Cuda not on the list and then this 63 300 CV with a pace car emblem on the fender at 50K.

Pictures below and you can see from the close ups that the entire car had visible sanding scratches visible under the paint. Cheap paint job with final sanding probably done with 180 only. Hood and rear deck had numerous solvent pops. In fact many of the cars had this type of stuff. Different owners but I guess they used the same cheap shop.

What I learned from the guy who set the stop up is that many of those cars have been there for yeeears. They are all on consignment and the cost to do so is $90 a month. All cars are grade 3 with grade 1 pricing. Bingo, we think we figured it out. Owners use this place as storage. The $90 a month in a nice warehouse, with an in house service center, is way cheaper than anything else. The sky high prices keep the cars from being sold.

We were driving the back roads of the delta region in a line of 34 Cougars we came to a 4 lane road from the 2 lane we were on. The Cougars were all in one lane and the rest of traffic in the next. Watching this it really hit me. The cars to the left were white, silver, grey, charcoal grey and black for a true B&W world. The Cougar line was all colors from reds to blues to greens to yellows to golds to burgundies... Technicolor. Sadly cars today are really lacking in colors when you look at car brochures and their small color options.

 

[cm23uoc]

Was this pace car replica blue from the factory or were other colors as well offered ?
This paint job should definitely be not original.

 

[1978 NYB]

I don't feel so bad with my bodywork and paint work. Too bad about that 300 and the other cars, they look like they could be very nice cars.

 

[Mr C]

Was this pace car replica blue from the factory or were other colors as well offered ?
This paint job should definitely be not original.

The 63 Pace cars only came in blue.

 

[1978 NYB]

The 63 Pace cars only came in blue.

I assume with a 413 for the pace car. Automatic or 4 speed?

 

[Mr C]

Everything you wanted to know about the pacesetters...apparently one was made in black.

http://www.chrysler300country.com/1963_pacesetter_2.htm

It was largely and appearance package for regular 300s, so most were 383s, I imagine you could option it as you wanted.

 

[detmatt]

I like those but which blue is it? It almost looks like turquoise in that picture.
did you get any pictures of all those Cougars lined up? I would like to see them.

 

[Mr C]

"Holiday Turquoise" according to the website.

 

[commando1]

They are all on consignment and the cost to do so is $90 a month. All cars are grade 3 with grade 1 pricing. Bingo, we think we figured it out. Owners use this place as storage. The $90 a month in a nice warehouse, with an in house service center, is way cheaper than anything else. The sky high prices keep the cars from being sold.

Hello!!!!!

 

[polara71]

Watching this it really hit me. The cars to the left were white, silver, grey, charcoal grey and black for a true B&W world. The Cougar line was all colors from reds to blues to greens to yellows to golds to burgundies... Technicolor. Sadly cars today are really lacking in colors when you look at car brochures and their small color options.

Every parking lot tells that same story.....

 

[cm23uoc]

Everything you wanted to know about the pacesetters...apparently one was made in black.

http://www.chrysler300country.com/1963_pacesetter_2.htm

It was largely and appearance package for regular 300s, so most were 383s, I imagine you could option it as you wanted.

Like this line best: "VIN tag has to start with 80. Beware of fakes, as usual, and Christine-inspired morons who insist on calling any 1963 300 a pace car".

Somehow I never realized they also had 300 hardtops made as pace car replicas.

 

[polara71]

I wonder what the story is with the black car

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

they do pop up quiet often as CVs.
A couple of months ago two were on ebay.

 

[tbm3fan]

Another thing to consider. Ever wonder why NADA is so out of line on their prices for older cars? NADA bases their values by what the sellers are asking for but never on what they sold for. NADA sees these prices, which they do as these places are easy to poll, and things can escalate quickly.

I can look over the list I got and one really stands out. There is a 1994 F-150 listed for 14K when the same truck on the outside is going for 3K at most. NADA puts retail at 5,300.

The salesman was about 25-30 so he was younger than every vehicle there. I have no idea how he earns his income because it isn't on sales. When he noticed a couple of us where going from car to car, and there was one Mopar guy in the group of three, he would hang behind us. We would pick out all the flaws which weren't hard to find from bad work to wrong parts to no work. Cars with no window fuzzies. Under carriages never even cleaned much less detailed. A 56 Olds 88 painted red, of course badly, the guy opens the hood and yikes. The engine compartment hasn't had a thing done to it since 1956.