[Chrysler300] 'aussie johns', and 300C manual steer box sought

[christopher beilby <thelastbestgenius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In Austrlaia, if one talks about 'there being lots of johns', many would take that to mean the place has plenty of toilets - don't know the origins of this 'aussie johns' though.  But I also can tell you South Australia is having a rather unusual autumn, weather generally.  February when George and Nancy Terry visited the old house where I keep about 10 of my cars, still summer, and yet then you nearly needed jumpers.
Autumn begins in Australia in March, and first Adelaide just broke the longest number of continuous days of heat wave in a row in recorded (white man) history, then 2 days ago, also the longest capital City heatwave in nation ever, then last night the hottest March night ever recorded.  And still another four days of 110 degree temps before cool change will drop it into the 90s. And the ants are going crazy, invading everywhere into near everyone's houses. F1 Grand Prix is on in Melbourne this week - 110 degrees yesterday, near same tipped for the race tomorrow - so all of south part of nation copping it's crazy autumn share.
 
Plus gas prices tipped to top/hit around $7 a gal for Easter, that for 92 octane, with 98 another 50-80c a gal.  How about as a Club Project, someone invents a machine that we can travel back in time, to say the mid- late 60s - not only was gas a gift, radar speed cameras , and max speed limits not invented then in most places, but also, boy I bet there were plenty of low miles 300s you could buy that were still pretty mint!!? - and if we could also go back in our ages, there might be a pretty gal or two we could put in the passenger seat and take to the drive-in or beach on nice nights??!!
 
Bugger, I think I just came back to reality!!  Hopefully tomorrow some of you wherever you are can get a 300 or two out of the garage and go for a nice drive if your weather is not as hot as is here, or as cold as some parts of US shown on our weather over here.
 
Christopher in Oz
ps 1. where would I get a manual steering box for a 300C, as part of a motor freshen up, new rings, I am thinking of putting pair of spare McCullochs plus idler tension arms etc on my original 300C, starting by copying for one the single bracket etc on my supercharged C - however you cannot run power steering.
eg did '57 New Yorkers came fairly common without power steering, and if so anyone got a box they want to sell?ps 2. does anyone know if the air ducts under the headlights of 300C-E were ever actually fitted with any further ducting/tube/whatever to the rear of their fiberglasses, to feed cool air more direct onto front brakes? - and/or, has anyone modified 300C backing plates to add raised ducts/scoops, or drilled air holes into backing plates to allow more air in and out?!  Checked the font brakes on my original 300C other day, and the linings look like they have had a bad time, they metallic sintered, but massive crack running lenghtwise through centre of shoes - they really pull you up as well as modern 235 15 radial will bite, but obviously linings get pretty warm?
(and no I am not interested in going discs - the drums bury you into the bitumen as well as any disc would for the number of high speed stops road use, laws today, allows - maybe for racing discs, but not for me/originality) 


To: hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxx; rdrnr6970@xxxxxxxxx: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: lnirenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:52:01 -0400Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] thanks to everyones responses so far!?s about working on y b




With ex-govenor Spitzer's recent foibles fresh in our minds, saying thereare a lot of Johns in the club is hmmmm questionable._____ From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] OnBehalf Of Ray JonesSent: Friday, March 14, 2008 5:47 PMTo: rdrnr6970@xxxxxxxxx: Chrysler 300 BroadcastSubject: Re: [Chrysler300] thanks to everyones responses so far!?s aboutworking on y bHi again John;Keep asking questions, that's the only way to learn, OK, you can learn by mistakes sometimes, but that's called experience.good to have you in the club, these people will give you all the help you can stand.Why don't you identify yourself, there's lots of Johns, and tell us where you live.Ray JonesMena, AR 71953[Non-text portions of this message have been removed][Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 






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