Vehicle Description
West Coast Classics are proud to present an exceptional and rust
free and great daily driving survivor of this very rare and
desirable 1960 Chrysler 300F Letter Series 2 door Hardtop Coupe
with its original and highly desirable and legendary High
Performance 413 CID 2x 4BBL 375 HP V8 'Long Ram' Wedge-Type engine
with rebuilt dual Carter 4 bbl carburetors and legendary A-727 HD
Torqueflite automatic push-button transmission; a car which was
extremely powerful for its day and which had become the basis for a
successful racing engine in Chrysler's future and cemented
Chrysler's reputation for engineering great engines that would
serve Chrysler well in various forms for the next 20 years.This
particular car was reportedly recently restored and is a rare and
virtually completely stock surviving example of an obviously always
garaged car with no signs of any accident damage and a straight and
honest body with absolutely no rust. One of only 964 300F Letter
Series coupes built in 1960 and marketed by Chrysler as quite
simply 'America's most powerful car' and 'The High Performance
Luxury Chrysler'. A very striking looking car with its original
wrap around front and rear picture window windshields and finished
in this striking color combination with rare original leather
factory spec power bucket seats in 'Tan Leather' (Trim code 353)
color seats with original perforations to allow breathing and with
its original and matching plain natural leather headliner with
beautiful original chrome headliner bows and the car is fully
loaded with factory options including; leather power swivel bucket
front seats, full pile floor carpeting, original Push-button A727
'Torqueflite' transmission, Padded dash, Power Steering, Power
brakes, Dual exhaust, original 'Golden Touch Tone' AM radio with
Power Antenna, Heater amp; defroster, Power Front Seat Adjustments,
Power Windows, Prismatic rear view mirror, Undercoating, Tinted
glass, Electric clock, Exclusive exterior bright trim, full gauges
and original Deluxe 300F hubcaps mounted on brand new whitewall
tires.Again, importantly this is a seemingly all original and stock
surviving car which has its original 413/375HP Long Ram V8 engine
with its correct special dual 4 BBL carburetors with cast iron
intake manifolds and original legendary Heavy Duty cast iron case
Torqueflite transmission. The 3 speed Torqueflite was Chrysler's
mainstay transmission from its 1956 introduction on the Imperial
and was also sold to other luxury automakers including such
European marques such as Facel-Vega and Jensen. The first
Torqueflite automatic transmission was the revolutionary A-488
which was lauded at the time as being the best automatic
transmission in the world until the A-727 aluminum case which
replaced the A-488 in 1962.This particular car is a true survivor
which was obviously always garaged and is a perfect candidate to
drive and enjoy for any Mopar or classic car enthusiast. The car
has recently come out of long term storage from where it was only
driven sparingly since being restored as required with the paint
having been color sanded and clear coated and the car has new
tires, new gas tank, 4 wheel cylinders, new front brake hoses,
cylinders and brake lines, new brake master cylinder, recored
radiator, front alignment, dome instruments serviced, etc and
consequently the car is running beautifully (see our video on our
You Tube page).The original 'Alaskan White' (Code W) factory color
paint is in quite exceptional condition and the car has a beautiful
all original Tan leather specs (Trim code 353) interior, which is
remarkably complete and very presentable with the Chrysler
exclusive three dimensional instrument cluster coined 'Electro
Luminescent Astra Dome' instrumentation. This new ball-type cluster
housed all gauges on three planes and all were backlit to give one
of the most unusual instrument layouts pf any period. It is
surprisingly easy to read, even at night.The flagship model for the
Chrysler lineup in the late fifties and early sixties was the
Letter Series convertibles and coupes and were called the
'Beautiful Brutes' by the renown writer Karl Ludvigsen and produced
two of the most memorable performance cars ever made. Unabashadely
created for NASCAR which they dominated until 1957 when US
manufacturers shied away from competition support. Originally
powered by the most potent V8 Hemis yet, the 1955 C-300 (1,725
built) and the 1956 300-B (1,102 built) had a New Yorker Newport
fine body styling with an Imperial eggcrate grille. Off the track
the 300 proved to be about more than just performance with a
luxurious leather interior and all modern factory options. In 1957
the 300-C and in 1958 the 300-D were even more potent extensions of
Chrysler's hotrod and were the last of the Hemi powered Letter
Series cars and sold in both coupe (618 built) and the new
convertible form (191 built). The '57 Hemi produced around 375HP
and the '58 optional 'Hi-Po' engine was a fuel injected 392
conservatively rated at 390HP. In 1959 the fifth edition of the
Letter Series 300, the 300E was released and was a very low and
limited production run with only 550 coupes (of which 16 were
reportedly exported) and 140 convertibles built (of which 9 were
reportedly exported). From the Chysler300country website statistics
from 6/2009 only some 130 cars have survived with 104 of them
coupes and 26 convertibles and 11 parts cars. Basically the same
car as the 300-D but with a new horizontal bar grille instead of
the previous eggcrate and a new 413 cid Wedgehead V8 instead of the
fabled Hemi. Neverthless the new 413 was a true High Performance
engine with 380 HP and a good second quicker than the D up to 60mph
and 3 seconds faster to 90 mph. By 1962 the 300H's engine was the
most powerful standard engine in any American car, yet a difficult
sales year for the industry as a whole led to very low production
figures of only 435 coupes and 123 convertibles.The 1960 300F was
the letter car of the new decade and performance again drove the
newly designed fully unitized body with a new ram induction system
which boasted 375HP, 495 lb ft of torque @ 2800, a 12 volt battery
system, 2x4 barrel downdraft 'Carter AFB' carburetors mounted on a
wild looking cross ram manifold with one air cleaner on each side
of the engine with an automatic choke, special heavy duty torsion
bars, sway bar, rear leaf springs and shock absorbers for the same
type of front suspension as most Indianapolis race cars, large dual
exhausts with special mufflers to reduce back pressure, the
legendary 727 Torqueflite 3 speed automatic push button
transmission, power steering, power brakes, genuine hand rubbed
leather bucket seats with separate seat adjustments and with a full
length sports console with built in tachometer, breathtaking
acceleration, power windows, 34c.i. size trunk, Astradome style
'Stewart Warner amp; King Seeley' instrument panel clusters with
most dials and gauges in one location, padded steering wheel and
dash, tilt-type inside rearview mirror, electric clock, factory
applied undercoating and hood insulation pad, bumper guards, chrome
stainless steel wheel covers, dual headlamps and optional
pushbutton 'Golden Touch Tuner' AM radio, rear shelf speaker, power
antenna, pushbutton heater, rear window defroster and tinted
glass.The 413 with ram induction (the standard long rams 375 hp
engine) had more torque, at lower rpm (495 lb ft @ 2800) than the
later 426 Hemi (480 @ 3200). At low speeds the "long rams" 375HP
engine was superb but over 4000 rpm performance would suffer and to
solve this issue Chrysler engineers removed a section of the inner
walls of the manifolds to create the optional "short rams" 400HP
engine. This option was obviously quite redund...for more
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