The Hurst Registry

Also: The list of cars from 2004 indicates that 231 cars have been "found" (meaning they've been listed with the 300 Club) with 9 confirmed as being junked out. This document goes on to say that 222 still survive (231-9). I don't quite follow that hopeful logic because they haven't "found" the other 254 and never will. I'm guessing the junker number is about 300+. Anyone care to discuss?

Twenty-four of the cars indicate "console", about 10% of the list. Interestingly, most of those cars are concentrated in the 19XXXX VINs. Is that because they were ordered by true buyers or was it because Chrysler wanted high-optioned sales bank cars in the showrooms? There is another batch that appears in the 225000 to 228000 cars, but none of this reflects true statistics because the list is missing 260 cars. Purely speculation on my part.

Anyway, just reporting what a 300 Club staffer had to say in a newsletter twenty years ago.
 
This update is merely a correction of a few VINs that I placed out of correct numerical order and a really stupid partial duplicate of David Hill's #228755. I've removed the yellow and lavender highlights, otherwise nothing new.


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I don't know why I didn't remember this story earlier, I've mentioned it in other threads over the years.

~20 years ago I was at a local Mopar show with my TNT 300.
A guy came up to talk to me, I was talking to someone else and didn't pay attention to him at first.
I thought I was going to hear the typical story about 'grandma's Newport that she yoosta have'.
As I listened further, he mentioned a TNT, and then was talking about a Hurst, and not one that he owned, but one that he still did own.
And he lived about 10 min from me, where I had lived almost 15 years. Yet I had heard *zero* about a phantom Hurst nearby.

So we drove to his house, took some pics, and chatted for a bit.
He wanted to sell the car, IIRC it had about 70k on it and he was asking $15k for it.

Sorry - I have no further details on the car, but unless a tragedy occurred it likely still exists. (I have a few more pics but nothing detailed)
It could've fallen into disrepair, but presumably if it made it the 1st 21 years it made it 21 more?
It obviously has no cornering lights and seems to have the standard steering wheel.
Those tailpipe tips are probably long gone.
I've circled some little things that might be clues to match the 'fingerprint' that somebody on here can check to their car.
Or if you have argent flaking at the taillight lenses - does it match that pattern?
Is the striping supposed to wrap around like that?

Obviously if your car doesn't have these little clues now it means nothing. (it could still be your car)
But if it does - it does!
And if you've done some work to your car - check the old photos from when you first bought it.
Perhaps with some detective work (and a big stroke of luck) we can ID this car.

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OOOOooooooo.....we have a MYSTERY! Great story, thanks.

The red in the grille is a huge clue. It should be School Bus Yellow which was applied by hand by a Hurst guy over top of the red 300 paint. That yellow paint began to flake off a decade or two later, and I suspect that owners might have removed all of it with a thinner rag to make it look "better". That was done to my Hurst at some point in the past, and it was a ***** to mask and repaint all those grille parts. 22 hours to mask everything perfectly, 30 minutes for two coats of Bus Yellow. It was worth it. And there is a chance that this laborious work has NOT been done to this mystery car.

Since I'm talking about the grille color, for "posterity" I'll display my work to get this grille correct.

My car Before, showing both faded, flaking yellow and red:
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All old paint removed and ready for the dreaded masking effort:
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A quick two coats with DupiColor School Bus Yellow:
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Results:
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Completed resurrection. The tiny red arrows show the SB Yellow in the stripe and how it matches the repainted grille.
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Another clue: The pinstripe appears to be incorrect with two stripes of red separated by some neutral color, which could just be a camera issue

Do you recall it being excessively red instead of brown, black and yellow like this pic of my former car?

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