Thanks for these, and if you ever get that door opened......
I'm going to update the Registry in a few days with your info and the others that have been provided over the past two months.
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I'm going to update the Registry in a few days with your info and the others that have been provided over the past two months.
We have eight new additions to the Registry, thanks to @70 Sport Suburban, @mrd5_psu, @Hurst Pete, @tallzag, @ayilar, and @Kaim.
Yellow highlight indicates changes from the prior posting of October 11, 2024.
A couple of these new entries have interesting tibbits:
The sighting of 207586 is just the engine and trans, with the rest of the car missing somewhere in Missouri as rumor has it. As I understand it, an F-bod member owns this engine/trans.
We now have some info on 217851 in NZ. We've previously seen a vid of the car at a show, with 70 300 on the plate and now we have a little more info. Maybe we can get a Door Date sometime soon.
230920, now in Switzerland and owned by forum member Hurst Pete, was owned by 300 Club longtime member Al Moon in the Baltimore area. Before that, the original owner lived in Upper Marlboro, MD. I lived in Oxon Hill, MD back then, about 14 miles away. And we had a Hurst in Oxon Hill, owned by the father of a high school classmate of mine, Steve. Small world for Big Cars. At a class reunion in 2023 I talked to Steve about that car. He got to drive it occasionally, was well aware of the big back seat but didn't know anything else and that his father had long passed, so we have zero info other than these two Hursts were neighbors to each other. Now for the REALLY interesting thing. Look at these floormats that Al Moon told Hurst Pete "they're more rare and valuable than the car!"
Does anyone know anything about these as an accessory, or is Mr. Moon fooling us with mats that he had made?
Here's the original owner, who owned a large beer distribution company in Maryland that is still in existence today. Looks like he owned the car for at least 16 years. He passed away in 1986 at 74 years.
Hurst Pete and I will do a little writeup with more pics of 230920 in the future and post it here.
Only 413 cars remain to be Registered, so get busy out there!
Also: I'm going to experiment with posting methods for the spreadsheet to hopefully make it clearer. What you see now is Excel copied and pasted to Paint for a PNG file, with the PNG then posted here just like a regular photo. I know there are other methods like pasting to Adobe Photoshop, pasting to PPoint, etc. so I'll do some experimenting. FYI, the website won't directly accept or display a spreadsheet. Virus issues, ya know.
Yellow highlight indicates changes from the prior posting of October 11, 2024.
A couple of these new entries have interesting tibbits:
The sighting of 207586 is just the engine and trans, with the rest of the car missing somewhere in Missouri as rumor has it. As I understand it, an F-bod member owns this engine/trans.
We now have some info on 217851 in NZ. We've previously seen a vid of the car at a show, with 70 300 on the plate and now we have a little more info. Maybe we can get a Door Date sometime soon.
230920, now in Switzerland and owned by forum member Hurst Pete, was owned by 300 Club longtime member Al Moon in the Baltimore area. Before that, the original owner lived in Upper Marlboro, MD. I lived in Oxon Hill, MD back then, about 14 miles away. And we had a Hurst in Oxon Hill, owned by the father of a high school classmate of mine, Steve. Small world for Big Cars. At a class reunion in 2023 I talked to Steve about that car. He got to drive it occasionally, was well aware of the big back seat but didn't know anything else and that his father had long passed, so we have zero info other than these two Hursts were neighbors to each other. Now for the REALLY interesting thing. Look at these floormats that Al Moon told Hurst Pete "they're more rare and valuable than the car!"
Does anyone know anything about these as an accessory, or is Mr. Moon fooling us with mats that he had made?Here's the original owner, who owned a large beer distribution company in Maryland that is still in existence today. Looks like he owned the car for at least 16 years. He passed away in 1986 at 74 years.
Hurst Pete and I will do a little writeup with more pics of 230920 in the future and post it here.
Only 413 cars remain to be Registered, so get busy out there!
Also: I'm going to experiment with posting methods for the spreadsheet to hopefully make it clearer. What you see now is Excel copied and pasted to Paint for a PNG file, with the PNG then posted here just like a regular photo. I know there are other methods like pasting to Adobe Photoshop, pasting to PPoint, etc. so I'll do some experimenting. FYI, the website won't directly accept or display a spreadsheet. Virus issues, ya know.
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polara71
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Incredible!
The problem with the photo quality is the down-sampling of photos when they are uploaded in a FCBO thread. I think that I understand why @Joeychgo does it (photos take a huge amont of storage space), but the downside is lower-quality pics.
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I agree. Time to get back to emailing the files so that we can complete the 1970 Polara 'vert registry
Yes, that seems to be the case. All of the PNG files of the Registry that I have saved are crystal clear on my screen, and only become hazy when I post them to the thread. My "fix" is to expand the image size quite a bit (since that first posting back in July 2024) so the fuzziness is a little easier to read.
A 4 M photo uploads very clear, but a tiny 260 KB PNG file is fuzzy. If both files are "down-sampled" by the same percentage (say 50%
), the tiny file gets even tinier and has less info to make the image. But I'm merely a retired mechanical engineer...and FAR from being IT knowledgeable, so what do I know. Regardless, I'll experiment and maybe ask advice from @Joeychgo. But of great importance is to keep it simple for ME...no convoluted "hosting" and links, etc, etc, etc, etc. 
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This is from the vin ending in 207586.
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Thanks for posting, Matt. I didn't want to "reveal" you without permission.
The prototype was CM23U0C129521 right? Do you have more info that you could post about it?
I have a few bits and pieces.
As the story goes, George lost the Olds Cutlass work when the manufacturer decided to bring the 442 hot-rodded/upgraded option back in-house for 1970. So George went looking for a new project and proposed the Hurstification of a 300 to the Chrysler brass and this prototype was produced/built in the early autumn of 1969 (924 Fender Tag). Management and Marketing hemmed and hawed and pondered the final configuration, eventually excluding the Sport Fury GT exhaust tips, the Hurst Co. ratchet-style floor shifter, the sunroof and the Kelsey wheels due to cost and possible production delays caused by these outside vendors. The prototype had Imperial seats but Chrysler headrests with a metal "wraparound" circling the cushion. That too was changed to Imperial units for production Hursts. I'll put that pic in a post below, because I'm at the 10 pic limit here.
As it was, J99XXX productition for 1970 was late getting started, with the factory-to-dealer announcement about the car's existence coming out on February 17 and the press release to trade publications and magazines the following day. Of course, the finalized Hurst never made the 1970 brochure ("Detroit" traditionally printed these in late summer for the upcoming model year change in autumn). These poorly-marketed specialty cars were left sitting on dealer lots because the general public didn't know about them....and if you went inside to have a look you found that they were really expensive, too. As I understand it the plan was for about 2000 Hursts but the slow sales capped production of J99XXX cars in June at 485, this according to a letter Chrysler sent to a curious owner in 1973. That document is....."documented".
Note that the VON for the prototype started with Q, not the J of the Hurst package car production run. Point is, although it's an amazingly important 1 of 1 historical artifact it's not really a "Hurst". It's darn close, but ultimately a regular CM23 that was modified by Hurst to become the prototype. I hope it gets restored to its deserved glory someday.
Here's a poor quality vid of the car at MCACN:
And some pics I found somewhere on the web:
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As the story goes, George lost the Olds Cutlass work when the manufacturer decided to bring the 442 hot-rodded/upgraded option back in-house for 1970. So George went looking for a new project and proposed the Hurstification of a 300 to the Chrysler brass and this prototype was produced/built in the early autumn of 1969 (924 Fender Tag). Management and Marketing hemmed and hawed and pondered the final configuration, eventually excluding the Sport Fury GT exhaust tips, the Hurst Co. ratchet-style floor shifter, the sunroof and the Kelsey wheels due to cost and possible production delays caused by these outside vendors. The prototype had Imperial seats but Chrysler headrests with a metal "wraparound" circling the cushion. That too was changed to Imperial units for production Hursts. I'll put that pic in a post below, because I'm at the 10 pic limit here.
As it was, J99XXX productition for 1970 was late getting started, with the factory-to-dealer announcement about the car's existence coming out on February 17 and the press release to trade publications and magazines the following day. Of course, the finalized Hurst never made the 1970 brochure ("Detroit" traditionally printed these in late summer for the upcoming model year change in autumn). These poorly-marketed specialty cars were left sitting on dealer lots because the general public didn't know about them....and if you went inside to have a look you found that they were really expensive, too. As I understand it the plan was for about 2000 Hursts but the slow sales capped production of J99XXX cars in June at 485, this according to a letter Chrysler sent to a curious owner in 1973. That document is....."documented".
Note that the VON for the prototype started with Q, not the J of the Hurst package car production run. Point is, although it's an amazingly important 1 of 1 historical artifact it's not really a "Hurst". It's darn close, but ultimately a regular CM23 that was modified by Hurst to become the prototype. I hope it gets restored to its deserved glory someday.
Here's a poor quality vid of the car at MCACN:
And some pics I found somewhere on the web:
Here's the Prototype's headrest:
And the Imperial headrest in the production cars:
And here's a few more Prototype pics:
And the Imperial headrest in the production cars:
And here's a few more Prototype pics:
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I have a few bits and pieces.
As the story goes, George lost the Olds Cutlass work when the manufacturer decided to bring the 442 hot-rodded/upgraded option back in-house for 1970. So George went looking for a new project and proposed the Hurstification of a 300 to the Chrysler brass and this prototype was produced/built in the early autumn of 1969 (924 Fender Tag). Management and Marketing hemmed and hawed and pondered the final configuration, eventually excluding the Sport Fury GT exhaust tips, the Hurst Co. ratchet-style floor shifter, the sunroof and the Kelsey wheels due to cost and possible production delays caused by these outside vendors. The prototype had Imperial seats but Chrysler headrests with a metal "wraparound" circling the cushion. That too was changed to Imperial units for production Hursts. I'll put that pic in a post below, because I'm at the 10 pic limit here.
As it was, J99XXX productition for 1970 was late getting started, with the factory-to-dealer announcement about the car's existence coming out on February 17 and the press release to trade publications and magazines the following day. Of course, the finalized Hurst never made the 1970 brochure ("Detroit" traditionally printed these in late summer for the upcoming model year change in autumn). These poorly-marketed specialty cars were left sitting on dealer lots because the general public didn't know about them....and if you went inside to have a look you found that they were really expensive, too. As I understand it the plan was for about 2000 Hursts but the slow sales capped production of J99XXX cars in June at 485, this according to a letter Chrysler sent to a curious owner in 1973. That document is....."documented".
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Note that the VON for the prototype started with Q, not the J of the Hurst package car production run. Point is, although it's an amazingly important 1 of 1 historical artifact it's not really a "Hurst". It's darn close, but ultimately a regular CM23 that was modified by Hurst to become the prototype. I hope it gets restored to its deserved glory someday.
Here's a poor quality vid of the car at MCACN:
And some pics I found somewhere on the web:
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You are doing some really nice work. Please keep it up.
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