1970 300 Hurst - on Ebay

[tallhair]

:evil6: Love this car....

What car? ....

 

[polara71]

I used to drool over hurst 300s....not so much now though, prefer the regular 300 model these days.


I agree ...............




Would love to know why someone would order one of these things brand new and not spring for the factory a/c.

I wouldnt want the A/C.... you wouldnt either Gary, your windows are always down.

 

[cm23uoc]

Got one of the low optioned Hursts as well, mine has Airtemp but only one manual mirror and the Golden Tone radio. I even think a good portion of the batch was not that highly optioned except for the typical stuff like the Imperial interior, only a few dozen console shift cars for example. There were reportedly two manual window cars which had clearance problems with the seats when rolling down the front windows.

Great car, I doubt many went through that much work and detailing. One question for the sheer sake of originality is raised for me while studying the resto pics. Are the hand painted pinstripes outlining the gold accents supposed to be black in everyone's opinion as marked on the body under resto ? My impression on my mostly original paint example seems to be a very dark brown, almost but not really black, about the way the outer color of the two toned tape stripes.

 

[Mr C]

I don't think the pin-striping was done by hand.. even though these were one-offish low production cars, they were still mass produced and hand painted pinstripe is not conducive to mass production..I believe it's stick on vinyl pinstripe and that it was black...how it fades over time can be confusing.

Another very rare option on the Hursts was the cornering lights.

 

[cm23uoc]

The two toned ones are definitely stickers, the other black/dark brown ones as far as my car is concerned done in paint, also the yellow lines along the grille/headlight doors, the original red lines even show through.

Have to see if I can find the Hurst/Olds website I found years ago; they had quite some research done and according to their findings as far as early Hurst Olds from 68-69 were involved the stripes were all done by hand and by one single person at Hurst, they even came up with the name of the guy.

 

[wmhodge99]

The two toned ones are definitely stickers, the other black/dark brown ones as far as my car is concerned done in paint, also the yellow lines along the grille/headlight doors, the original red lines even show through.

Have to see if I can find the Hurst/Olds website I found years ago; they had quite some research done and according to their findings as far as early Hurst Olds from 68-69 were involved the stripes were all done by hand and by one single person at Hurst, they even came up with the name of the guy.

There are 3 striping components:
1. A 5/8" tri-tone decal - length of the car (Dk Brown, Yellow-Orange, Dk Brown)
2. A 3/8" tri-tone decal - follows the upper body contours and hood buldge (Dk Brown, Yellow-Orange, Dk Brown)
3. A 1/4" hand painted DK Brown accent stripe on:
a. Rear spoiler & Trunk contour
b. upper side of the "C" stripe and hood contours

Hope this helps
Bill

 

[cm23uoc]

This fits the description as observed on my car. It had the trunk lid and endcaps once redone with black tape, the rest seemed to be untouched.

 

[Mr C]

Very interesting. Especially the hand painting that was done to the grille and stripes...no wonder they only made 500ish cars.

 

[Caper]

Someone added 5k to the bidding. $25400 now with 4 days to go

 

[polara71]

I dont believe it

 

[commando1]

I dont believe it

Nor should you.