Re: {Chrysler 300} Re: 1970 300 Hurst

Very interesting!

I guess it's possible that they made a Tilt wheel column just for console cars.

Mine had Rim blow horn, but was not a Tilt. The shift hub had a crude patch over where they sawed off the shift lever pivot.

On the bottom end, the shift levers were just laid on the column and wired in place.

On the Hurst Conv. it looks like they installed a hurst shifter kit.

Our Hurst is out there somewhere as I sold it years ago in a private sale and it ended up on eBay. It is distinctive as it had 2 struts under the rear wing, which were Dealer installed. I think a kit was available from parts to keep the wing from damage as most owners grabbed it and pulled down to close the lid. The repair was to install only one strut, ours had 2 and I never saw any other Hurst with 2.

I bought mine from a NJ dealer who searched for 2 years after their release before he found it. He used it for his daily commute, rather than the fleet of new Chryslers and Imperials at his disposal.

Ray

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM John Nowosacki <jsnowosacki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My Hurst is a console shift model, and also has tilt-telescopic column with rim-blow horn steering wheel. There is no evidence that it was ever a column shift car at any time. The only things that can be seen on the column are the turn signal stalk, the ignition switch, tilt lever and the lever on the bottom that releases the telescoping action.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM Ray Jones <1970hurst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cleaning up old emails and found this. I intended to reply at the time, and...
The original concept of the Hurst was that it was to have a Hurst floor shift installed at terh conversion Plant in Warminster, PA, along with a deep oil pan and some other things. Chrysler dithered and the approval came late in the build year, so only 500 were built and some intended items left off in the conversion.
My Hurst was one of approx 50 Console cars. As such it was built with column shifter AND had the Imperial Console installed with Imperial floor shifter. After the build they tied the shift levers to the column. and sawed off the nub of the column shifter. This was often looked at at the many Meets we drove this Hurst to. The seats and door panels were also Imperial parts they had to bring from another plant for this project.

Ray

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM 'Noel Hastalis' via Chrysler 300 Club International <chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hmmm.

Hemmings' ad lists vin as CM27U0C000000. Attached first photo when we saw this Hurst displayed at MCACN 2016 shows the vin plate below the windshield reading CM27U0C231583. And attached second photo shows the Hurst shifter along with "2 pedals", so it's clearly an automatic.

Noel

On 10/27/2025 7:55 PM CDT Kurt Brueske <kurt.brueske@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I called and spoke to the owner today, Trev, very nice man, spent about 40 minutes sharing many details of the car, unique history, and line of ownership going back to George Hurst, etc. I almost missed the shift lever on the transmission tunnel…thought it was a 4-spd but according to the owner, a “manual automatic” that uses an adaptation of the column mounted linkage that originally came with the car. Over the course of time, the car has been repainted several times including early 70s when in use by Hurst.

Cool car!

On Monday, October 27, 2025 at 1:24:40 PM UTC-5 rpjasin wrote:

This very rare 300 Hurst 4 speed convert is listed on Hemmings:

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/listing/1970-chrysler-300-letter-series-kirkland-wa-2905660?uemlid=112d4c28d185fbd410b11b3109a69b4453f0b49559769a0b00d5ec652ae7f45f&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eDailyFriday-October24,2025&utm_term=eDailyNewsletter-AllWeeklyDigest

Bob Jl

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