Re: [Chrysler300] 300F Special. #8403110398

["John" <john@xxxxxxxxx>]

  I visited Wayne Graefen for 8 days last month and while there we took his 4 speed F "Special" out for a lengthy drive.  Wayne changed the rear end gears from 293 to 331 for better street usage.  

  Almost at a full stop on I-10 with four people in the car he smoked the tires through 1st gear and by the time he shifted out of 3rd we were doing 115mph.  The car was still pulling strong in 4th (with all of the windows down), but we ran out of road and I needed a change of underwear.

  This was acomplished on "pump gas" with a 92 rating.

  John Lazenby



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John L. Chesnutt 
  To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:22 PM
  Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] 300F Special. #8403110398


    
  According to an article in the January 1974 Issue of the Chrysler 300 Club
  Newsletter, Ray Doern talked to Greg Ziegler in about 1971, and Greg said
  that the 4-speed F would go 60 in first, 90 in second, 120 in third and 160
  in fourth (speedometer reading). There are six full page pictures of the
  300F Special. The Newsletter has a lot of information on the 1960 Chrysler
  300F and a picture of Twin Paxton blowers on the Granatelli 300 Chrysler
  engine. With the twin blowers, Granatelli pushed the car to a qualifying
  speed of 165.91 in 1960 and averaged 172 mph for a new Experimental class
  record.

  John Chesnutt, 300C - Portland, OR 

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
  Behalf Of Burton Bouwkamp
  Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 12:11 PM
  To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [Chrysler300] 8403110398

  I was the engineer in charge of preparing and running the six 300F
  "specials" at Daytona Beach in February of 1960.

  The descriptive material that backs up the January 2010 Russo and Steele
  auction of the Greg Ziegler driven 300F is amazingly accurate.

  I only have the following "nit picking" with the accuracy of the write-up:

  1. Tim Flock (not Warren Koechling) drove the 300B that set the record in
  1956. That car was owned and prepared by Carl Kiekhaefer. Tim was Carl's ace
  NASCAR oval track driver. I was at Daytona in 1956 but I did not have
  anything to do with the preparation of this car.

  2. Greg Ziegler did not input the design of the special Bluestreak tires.
  That was solely a Goodyear responsibility and those tires absorbed only 10
  horsepower per tire at a 100 MPH. (15 HP would be normal.) We had wonderful
  cooperation from everyone in the building of these cars. Perfect Circle
  volunteered special low tension piston rings. Chrysler Division
  Manufacturing willingly built the engines with high tolerance bearing and
  piston clearances and high limit compression ratios. 

  3. There were only six 300F "specials" in the speed trials at Daytona in
  February, 1960. Five were purchased cars plus the engineering prototype.
  300F's did take the first seven positions in the Flying Mile but the seventh
  place car driven by R. C. Wooten at 126.6 MPH was a standard production
  automatic transmission equipped 300F. (The engineering prototype was there
  as a parts car and I did not intend to run it in competition but when Bud
  Fauble arrived in Daytona with a sick 300F I relented and let him use the
  car.) 

  Burt Bouwkamp 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: rob kern 
  To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; mwl1967@xxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 12:59 PM
  Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 8403110398

  This is the Greg Zeigler Daytona record setting car. ROB KERN
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mwl1967@xxxxxxx 
  To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:32 PM
  Subject: [Chrysler300] 8403110398

  Anyone have any comments on the 300F special coming up for sale this 
  January at Russo & Steele in Scottsdale, AZ ?

  Will definitely be one to watch! Talk about a once in a lifetime 
  opportunity to own a car like this

  Mike Laiserin

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