Known Ken for years but only 300 I knew about was the great 56.
Its long gone by now also.
Haven't seen him in a couple of years since we missed Iola the last two.
Always stay in the same motel in Stevens Point.
-----Original Message-----
From: Marko Lonngren <marlon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 4:11 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] '57's: History of dual vs. quadrilight headlights?
>At 11.00 28.1.2000 -0800, Wayne wrote:
>
>>Regards Chrysler Division, the Nov. 7, 1956, Letter of
>>Announcement for the 300C (this model being a late introduction)
>>includes dual headlamps as standard equipment but only three '57
>>300Cs were built prior to that. There were 51 300Cs built
>>during the month of December. A further letter dated Dec. 12,
>>1956, states that all 300Cs will be built with four headlamps,
>>however a few serial number cars higher than approx. #0030 have
>>been found with 2 headlamps from the factory.
>
>'Collectible Automobile' May 1985 issue has a Chrysler 300 Letter Series
>story. In page 43 is a picture of a black '57 300 C and it has 2
headlights.
>Owned by Ken Block, NS-1 man..
>
>I have not ever seen a pix of '57 DeSoto Adventurer with 2 headlights.
>
>All the '57 Mopars which imported new in Finland were with 2 headlights,
>but Adventurer wasn't an export model (still 0 would have been, if it was).
>
> MTL
>
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