New article and perspective on ‘70 300/H-Hurst

[Fury Pursuit]

Vintage Review: 1970 Chrysler 300H – Road Test Magazine Reviews A Very Rare Chrysler

 

[Fury Pursuit]

And another article from last week. The cool part is people that have never heard of these cars are being educated about them. It also doesn’t hurt too bad to look at Linda...

Curbside Classic: 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst – A Spicy Cocktail Created By George And Walter, With Help From Linda

 

[Trace 300 Hurst]

I guess this is why I acquired this car. I didn't want another typical muscle car, as my Vette has serious modern muscle and hustle. The giant Chrysler is a bit of a pain to own (particularly parking and storing it), but the response I get from everybody is "What IS it?".

Prior to my buying this one, I had only seen one of these, as a teen, in my hometown in southern Maryland when I had a rusty 63 Valiant. In about 1972....

 

[commando1]

I find it very disorienting to now see writers and their readers who weren't around when these cars came out. They write in a manner that focuses on matters that I, as an old man with a hat, see as irrelevant or even not worth mentioning, while at the same time, completely lacking what we, as young men, felt about the car.
It's the equivalent of a Millennial writing about the Viet Nam war. The can't and don't capture what we really were experiencing.
I find it frustrating and want to go, No. NO. It was actually....
But I'd be talking to the wall.

 

[Mike66Chryslers]

They write in a manner that focuses on matters that I, as an old man with a hat, see as irrelevant or even not worth mentioning, while at the same time, completely lacking what we, as young men, felt about the car....
I find it frustrating and want to go, No. NO. It was actually....
But I'd be talking to the wall.

If you want to have that rant, you're in the right place. I would be interested to hear about it.

 

[Trace 300 Hurst]

I find it very disorienting to now see writers and their readers who weren't around when these cars came out.

I agree with your point about the generational disconnect of then vs. now (which is sometimes funny in a sad way), but I'm a little confused about the source of your angst with this article.

I'm sure you're aware that it's a circa 1970 Road Test article, not a modern review by a Millennial. Was it the Comments section that was so focused on the damn Hurst shifter issue? It seems that EVERY article ever written about this car has to dwell on the irony of no Hurst product controlling the tranny [the thing behind the engine, NOT the thing in a skirt. ]

Anyway, I really enjoyed the prose from the 1970's Road Test writer. And what was REALLY interesting what his prediction of another DECADE of big lux-perf cars. Wow...was HE wrong...never saw the Malaise Era coming! No, wait...he was RIGHT. It just took 48 years to get to the big, fast cars we have now.

 

[polara71]

I wanted one badly at age 15. Even at age 32 when I saw a very fine example at the Kruse auction , corral , swap meet in Indiana for a flat sale price of around 8,800 my heart yearned. That desire died about 15 years ago and I'm not sure why. Might be the smugness of most owners.
I've never understood how people don't know what they are.

 

[Trace 300 Hurst]

Well, yeah. I am kinda smug....

But I SHOULD be, cuz I own a 300 Hurst!

 

[mmissile]

I had one in 77. I bought it from my boss at Chrysler. He said he bought it outta the "lease-car pool". He was told it was the original show-car. I tend to believe that. How many do you think Chrysler Corp. would have used? It had a electrical fire, and I blew-up the 440.[I was 20 years old] Some guy from SW Michigan bought it from me, and was gonna make a vert out of it.

 

[Fury Pursuit]

I had one in 77. I bought it from my boss at Chrysler. He said he bought it outta the "lease-car pool". He was told it was the original show-car. I tend to believe that. How many do you think Chrysler Corp. would have used? It had a electrical fire, and I blew-up the 440.[I was 20 years old] Some guy from SW Michigan bought it from me, and was gonna make a vert out of it.

Help me understand please. The guy you sold your Hurst to was going to chop the top off and make a convertible of it?

Why do you think it was a "show" car, aside from the "story" a dealer told you?

Do you have any photos of your Hurst from the 70's -80's?

 

[CBODY67]

Seems like there was a space on the Build Sheet for cars built "for shows"? Plus one for "Show Car Finish" and/or "Hand Rubbed Finish"?

Don't think they'd put a "show car" into the "Chrysler Lease program", rather send it to the dealer auction network as a "brass hat"-type car. OR they could have put it into the Factory Rep fleet, then sent it to auction.

Not to discount "the story", but it doesn't really jive with the reality I've observed of the way factory cars are handled.

Just some thoughts,
CBODY67

 

[Dan Scully]

Hope to be at spring fling with mine. I,ll let the experts educate me.