Re: [Chrysler300] 300D hood release

[Keith Boonstra <kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  It's interesting, then, that in the light of going through that 
embarrassment (let alone any corporate concern for the customer's 
safety) the only change/improvement to the latch post-incident was to 
make it a double catch.  Seems that was a cheaper, but certainly less 
secure, arrangement.  A second lever latch would have been nice.

For all of us, though, it's a heads up to make sure our main latch pins 
are adjusted so as to click twice when we close the hood.  I recall 
reading here of someone who had his only catching on the first detent.

Anybody here ever have their hood fly up at speed in a 300?

Keith Boonstra

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On 9/16/2010 10:43 AM, JLSAVARD@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Trivia from the ancient past:
> On the day of the press introduction of the 1957 Chryslers, the 
> Carburetor Laboratory, where I was working, had the only C300 C 
> available for the press to drive.  Persons were assigned to drive the 
> car from Central Engineering to the Chelsea proving grounds for this 
> REALLY BIG occasion.  Remember, these were brand-new bodies, then, and 
> the C300's had a hood and front end design totally different from 
> anything else.  They were RARE!
> On the way out to the P.G., the hood latch totally failed, and the 
> hood blew up and back over the windshield of the test car.  No other 
> cars or hoods were available, so Chrysler was forced to use that car 
> for demonstrations, kinks and all!
> I'm pretty sure that any changes in latch design were influenced by 
> that event!
> Joe Savard, Lake Orion, Michigan
> In a message dated 9/16/2010 10:01:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>     Tom, it looks like you may have everything you need already. There is
>     no second safety latch or spring - just a two-step main latch. On the
>     other hand, if yours actually has a cable release on it, someone has
>     changed yours from original. In that case your junk yard crawl
>     won't do
>     you any good unless there's a 300 there. The other Chrysler models
>     used
>     an entirely different latch set that is upside down from the 300 one.
>
>     If you don't have a cable release, you probably have the right
>     thing the
>     way it is.
>
>     Keith Boonstra
>
>     -
>
>     On 9/15/2010 6:43 PM, Tom Chvapil wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi everyone,
>     >
>     > My 58 D is missing the safety hood release and the spring that
>     'pops' the
>     > hood up when you release the cable.
>     > If someone could take a picture of the assembly and send it to
>     me, I would
>     > really appreciate it. It would help me a lot in locating the right
>     > piece(s)
>     > when I do my monthly junk yard crawl...
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Tom and Jean in Tucson
>     >
>     >
>
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>
>     
>


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