These cars, and their stable-mates - the DeSoto Adventurer, the original Plymouth Fury, and Dodges with the D500 package are the first true muscle-cars, before the term "Muscle-Car" even existed. They came stock with up-rated engines, stiffer springs and shocks, and bigger brakes. Everything needed for high-performance driving.
@salninethousand2496
Жыл бұрын
These Mopars had performance goods but were full-size vehicles with comfort at the fore, i.e., too big and expensive to be muscle cars. These Mopars were in the vein of the '64+ Riviera, '66+ Toronado, etc.; full-size executive hotrods (i.e., big and expensive). IMO the closest the '50s had to a muscle car would be something like the '56 Chevy 150 2-door with the 265 4 bbl, but it was not quite there as it was just a base sedan with a big engine (i.e., no performance options and not marketed as its own performance trim). The first muscle cars were indeed in 1964 (GTO, 442, Chevelle SS).
@mescko
Жыл бұрын
@@salninethousand2496 Some would argue that the 1960 Galaxie with the 352/360 qualifies as the first muscle car.
@djplonghead5403
Жыл бұрын
Impala was what many consider the first muscle car
@loumontcalm3500
3 ай бұрын
Some claim the '49 Olds 88, or the '57 Rambler Rebel were the first
@pjwood67
Жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful car! My dad actually owns this beauty now and is enjoying it very much. ♥️
@edwardhalpin7503
Жыл бұрын
Such a beauty. When I was younger, manuals were all I ever wanted to drive. Keep her going!
@waggitnshaggit6592
8 ай бұрын
That’s all my son and I buy
@fredwalt2282
Жыл бұрын
Great looking car. Super great condition. I wanted to see it on the road !
@robjaimes8830
Жыл бұрын
Somewhere in heaven, Tom McCahill is smiling ear to ear. ❤
@carlinshowalter1806
Жыл бұрын
I used to sit in my Grandfathers garage and read McCahills tests in Popular Mechanix😊😁
@tombrown1898
Жыл бұрын
"Solid as Grant's tomb and three hundred times as fast!" Uncle Tom sure 'nuff loved a 300.
@markd1810
Жыл бұрын
The Chrysler letter cars are some of the best cars we put out. This is a late 50's car and for its time it was one of the fastest, best looking cars out there. The early 60's cars are rare too. Great car!
@chrisjeffries2322
Жыл бұрын
Wow, she is in wonderful shape, thanks to the caretaker. Thank you for the share.
@frederickmorabito6829
2 жыл бұрын
I came across this video on my IPAD this afternoon, and was very impressed with this Chrysler 300B . This is the first time I seen one with a manual transmission. I enjoyed the ride. I was very impressed , too with the horn, people will know that car is coming. It even is well kept, too.
@peteradely885
Жыл бұрын
I had to add a comment. My Dad bought a NEW 1955 300 2dr HdTp from LF Jacod in Englewood NJ December 1954. It sat on showroom floor and my Dad had to have it. So many bells rang as I saw this video. Dads was a Powerflyte 2 speed with stick coming out of dash on right side of steering wheel. I never saw a column shift or a any stick shift ever. Even 1966 300 versions. I was 14 then and all I did was dream of Cars. Jacod dealer owner was personal friend of Dads. The immense under hood air cleaner is missing. Underside of car to me says RetroRod and someones very nice work. Too many things to make this a believable 100% stock car! OH YES, its a memory thing for me as we rode and lived in it for 5 years. Drove across USA before interstates. In Kansas on 2 way roads I saw 100+ MPH on many passing events. YES, just 2 lanes. Crazy fast traveling. Recall seeing speed posted was "Reasonable and Proper" 100MPH was legal and safe? My Dads 300 was very capable of excessive speeds. Its down side was climbing Pikes Peak mountain 14,110 feet in Colorado and every turn going down hill the bumper scraped the earth road and flattened the exhaust pipes. Now I'm 81+ and have vivid memories of my Fathers love for Chryslers. Thats why I drive a Lexus.
@waggitnshaggit6592
8 ай бұрын
Great story except “that’s why I drive a Lexus” part, that’s got no soul.
@TheTreasureGuard
Жыл бұрын
What a treasure that's worth guarding. I wish they would have built those rocker drain holes in my 1964 Chrysler.
@JoeBob461
Жыл бұрын
For a 66 year old vehicle, your 300B is in beautiful condition. She might be a dinosaur, but a bada$$ beautiful dinosaur! Thanks for the video!
@michaelbenardo5695
Жыл бұрын
She is not a dinosaur, she is a beauty. Horse-drawn wagons are dinosaurs.
@henrikrolfsen584
2 жыл бұрын
My first car, was a 1956 Nash, 3 speed on the column. I learned to drive with that car. I hated automatic transmissions then, and I hate automatic transmissions now. Later, I saved up my nickels, and dimes, and I bough a 1956 Cadillac, and the transmission immediately failed. The GM 1938 through 1955 Hydromatic was unbreakable, but then geniuses at GM decided it was too noisy, and in their attempt to build a "smoother" transmission, they left millions of owners of the 1956 through 1962 models, stranded on the sides of many a road.
@michaelbenardo5695
Жыл бұрын
That's messed up, but 56 was the first year for the new Dual Coupling Hydramatic, and some were problem-children. Oldsmobile wisely offered the previous single-coupling version in addition to the new Dual Coupling version.
@michaelbenardo5695
Жыл бұрын
You would probably love to have one of the 250 1966 Cadillac Eldorados that were built with a manual transmission - floor-mounted at that.
@davidszakacs6888
Жыл бұрын
The long-gone three on a tree! Love it!
@michaelbenardo5695
Жыл бұрын
So much better than the old floor shifter. Much safer.
@jeremiahchamberlin4499
Жыл бұрын
Awesome ride; loved watching you shift that ‘three in the tree’ and listen to that engine. It didn’t purr, it growled! Love it.
@Musclecar1972
Жыл бұрын
I love the old Mopars, my dad bought a brand new Custom Deluxe Dodge Sierra Wagon, had a Hemi, not sure what cu. In. but it had 2x4’s, that same year he bought a Thunderbird, with the 312, also with 2x4’s , that big boat of a wagon was quicker than the T-bird, and that’s no lie, the wagon was an automatic, the bird was a 3 on the floor. He only kept the T-bird a short time, but the wagon until 1962, I remember riding in the rear seat facing the traffic behind us. He loved that wagon. In 1962 he bought a Mercury, S-55 Marauder, with the 406, 405 HP option, that was a fast car for the times as well.
@mikebristow2084
Жыл бұрын
A guy that worked for my dad in the late 50’s and early 60’s had one similar. Red exterior and interior, automatic as I recall. Legendary car. On the other hand my dad was a New Yorker man, every few years (a ‘56, ‘59, ‘61 and a 1965) in spite of my pleadings to get a 300. The engine was too loud on the 300s and the two door hard top was noisy and he wanted a four door. My dad never sat in the back seat of an automobile his entire adult life.
@automatedelectronics6062
2 жыл бұрын
It's sad that the original air cleaners aren't there anymore. If any car would be screaming for an overdrive, it would be this one.
@larrywood125
Жыл бұрын
The bat wing air cleaners are in the trunk
@automatedelectronics6062
Жыл бұрын
@@larrywood125 KOOL! These just don't look right without the original air cleaners. Those are fairly non-restrictive as the only noise the original buyers wanted was the free-flowing tone of the exhaust system. I know it's great to hear the carbs sucking in air sometimes, but it can be annoying. Thank you!
@geodavid51
Жыл бұрын
What a find! Perfect for a guy like me who will not own an automatic and loves luxury cars.
@seektruth8662
Жыл бұрын
Got to love those cars with horns that make you look around to see if a train is coming!
@hairylarry6167
Жыл бұрын
I always thought these cars were really cool looking.
@user-zi8ux6fy2n
4 ай бұрын
Makes me wanna 😢 CRY
@larrywood125
Жыл бұрын
Nice Classic
@passinggear
Жыл бұрын
Excellent vehicle. Thanks for the video of it. It would love to live in Nevada....
@billyfoster3223
Жыл бұрын
It's all good! Great car and a beauty it is!😁👍🛠️⚒️
@DiamondLightning
2 жыл бұрын
What a beauty!!!
@zanemcfarlane6087
2 жыл бұрын
Back when cars where cars awsome old classic a friend of mine in new Zealand sent me a photo of his grandads 3ooB I think by the looks of it might even be the same year
@opera93
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks,nice tour, GREAT CHRYSLER*, *& warm up, etc. Interestingly, my second car ( for through , Pharmacy School), was *1956 * Ford/ 4 Door/White , BLUE DELUXE( ?)interior: 4 BBL/TBIRD/ dual,EXHAU/ Skirts/Fender Deluxe/auto( boo), PS/ PB ETC, “not driven”( suppos) Florida Car ( NO RUST, couple window erosions). We bought in **1965, freak totalled in Summe4 1966……should have been a keeper : not quite this 300B league , but close enough
@davidpaul5465
Жыл бұрын
Yes Sir! That indeed is the premium exemplar of the first muscle car. Thank you for sharing this. That such a pristinely serviced vehicle can still be heard on start bespeaks the service of an American.
@bobdavis3357
5 ай бұрын
What a beautiful car. Lil Hemi was a beast
@billyjoejimbob56
Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful car. and rare combination. Keep driving her regularly!
@weskirkland5850
Жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful car!
@vtjmproductionsusa2390
Жыл бұрын
Nothing better than the rumble of an American V8. Great video 👍 wonderful Car.
@carlinshowalter1806
Жыл бұрын
I built a 56 Desoto Fireflite Sportsman that I saved from the crusher,same color. Desoto was kind of like Ford sharing parts with Mercury. The body was pretty much the same as Imperial and Chrysler but different grille,tail lights,trim etc. This car had almost every option you could get.Power seat,windows,A/C,power steering,brakes. Never failed to draw a crowd any where it went.
@shanew.williams
10 ай бұрын
NASCAR pioneer & 2 time champion Tim Flock was the impetus (via Karl Kiekhaefer) for the first manual transmission on the Chrysler 300. At the Daytona Beach race of 1955 Flock informed Kiekhaefer that the 300 letter car could not win on the wet sand beach with the gearing of Chrysler's automatic. Soon after, Kiekhaefer's NASCAR team received the very first manual transmission Chrysler letter cars (before they were ever available for sale to the public).
@stevelee5724
7 ай бұрын
I want one..... Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿 😊
@stephendavidbailey2743
7 ай бұрын
Not just a manual, but three on the tree! Far freeking out!
@bobdavis3357
5 ай бұрын
Sounds like a solid lifter cam.
@daryllect6659
Жыл бұрын
The later 4 speed Chryslers had a French transmission, manufactured by Pont-à-Mousson .
@Chrysler300Club
Жыл бұрын
1960 was the year for the French transmission 4 speed. In 1964 Chrysler began using their own 4 speed built in Syracuse NY by New Process Gear.
@androidtexts6948
Жыл бұрын
Probably one of the best looking Chrysler ever
@donaldpowers5557
2 жыл бұрын
Wow oh wow!
@user-zi8ux6fy2n
4 ай бұрын
I love The 300series but my favorite is '57 300C🤙😎... Awesome AWESOME enginuity...a work of art👍...move over Picasso 👋
@Chrysler300Club
4 ай бұрын
Yes, the 57 is stunning. I park the 56 next to the 57 to illustrate the difference.
@user-zi8ux6fy2n
4 ай бұрын
@@Chrysler300Club YOU🫵 are also a genius, BRO'🤙😎🥃
@garycamara9955
Жыл бұрын
I like this car.
@soyounoat
3 ай бұрын
2:06 That HORN!
@MrAndyLocksmith
7 ай бұрын
An American that calls an engine an engine and not a “motor”. 👍🏻
@Chrysler300Club
7 ай бұрын
Youbetcha.
@larrywood125
Жыл бұрын
This 300B3S you can drive anywhere.don't let the yard drive fool you.I drive it every week on the open highway!! Come take a ride with me.
@nicksgarage2
2 жыл бұрын
I knew they used the 1954 steering wheel (and I assume the column) but didn't know they used the 1955 dash panel.
@alanblanes2876
2 жыл бұрын
I thought that was a 1953 steering wheel - and I'm glad this video got posted. These must be ultra-rare.
@michaelbenardo5695
Жыл бұрын
The 56 dash had that pod for the push-button shift, so the 55 dash was a better choice.
@harrymayhugh3401
2 ай бұрын
Beautiful car
@kipbrown1549
Жыл бұрын
Nice car //////////////// I would love to have a car like that /////////////////
@aaronwilliams6989
2 жыл бұрын
NEAT!
@daviddisandro821
Жыл бұрын
nice. nothing like an old mopar. thats what they were driving the year i was born
@bikdav
10 ай бұрын
When did Chrysler move the manual shifter assembly from above the steering column to below? All the later manual shift Chrysler products had the shifter assembly mounted below.
@Chrysler300Club
8 ай бұрын
I think it was 1960.
@chrisegnatz3668
Жыл бұрын
I had a 55 with the oil bath air cleaner never able get them to fit.
@billolsen4360
Жыл бұрын
'56, best looking Chrysler 300 ever built.
@caribman10
Жыл бұрын
Needs a 4-speed conversion and a Hurst shifter.
@billhyde2303
Жыл бұрын
That may have been a special order car I thought they came with Powerflites only.
@Chrysler300Club
Жыл бұрын
25 were built with the Torqueflite, 30 with the manual, and the rest were the Powerflite.
@seancrowley1065
Жыл бұрын
Talk about the details of the car.
@rickdonnelly479
Жыл бұрын
How about some narrative? Great car.
@ceelowcreed7538
Жыл бұрын
Did these have a Hemi in them?
@Chrysler300Club
Жыл бұрын
Yes, the 354 CID.
@KennethSloan
Жыл бұрын
Love man-trans. Real men to schtick.
@2098elk
Жыл бұрын
Three on the tree!
@johnfranklin5277
Жыл бұрын
Nice classic, but the message i get is its ok for running up and down the yard, but not fit for taking it out on the road..
@larrywood125
Жыл бұрын
Come take a ride on the open highway.
@larrywood125
Жыл бұрын
Driven weekly on open highway.
@shanew.williams
10 ай бұрын
@@larrywood125 Well why didn't he VIDEO it "driven weekly on open highway" ? I would LOVE to see that. These are really COOL cars.
@larrywood125
10 ай бұрын
Shane: This 1956 300 B has a rich history.In 1959 Eric Lieder owner at the time took the car to the Bonneville salt flats and ran 127 miles per.hour in the flying mile show room stock.340Hp.the optional Engine was 355Hp.
@johnfranklin5277
10 ай бұрын
@@larrywood125 Great, but that didn't answer his question...
@jerrycallender9927
Жыл бұрын
Pont-a-Mousson French 4-speeds were available as an option on all of the 1950's 300s
@Chrysler300Club
Жыл бұрын
Only in 1960.
@michaelbenardo5695
Жыл бұрын
@@Chrysler300Club That's what I thought.
@larrywood125
Жыл бұрын
4 speeds in 60s
@quagmiredavis4117
Жыл бұрын
That type of driving is going to sludge up that engine fast needs 200 mile trips don't be scared to drive it ..grandad calls this chicken shit driving
@nathanpratt3058
Жыл бұрын
I just can't believe someone brought a 300b with a manual gearbox, it's almost a laughable idea
@shanew.williams
10 ай бұрын
Not really "laughable" nathanpratt . For all out performance in a huge, heavy 50's car a manual was the only trans available with enough gear ratios to get that big heavy car up outta the hole. (But i get your point as to a manual in a luxery car.)
@waggitnshaggit6592
8 ай бұрын
That’s the one I would want
@MatthewWilson-vl7qc
3 ай бұрын
This guy cantget out. of. His Own driveway , not one to road test Anything .
@justinjoyit13
Жыл бұрын
Hell we know it has reverse, again and again! Clickbait title!
@fredflintstone9789
Жыл бұрын
Grind the shit💩💩 out of the gears🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@JrGoonior
Жыл бұрын
When did he do that? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@larrywood125
Жыл бұрын
Thats what you have a clutch pedal for!!!!! No grinding Gears.
@BuzzLOLOL
Жыл бұрын
At 02:05... grinds reverse and 1st... no synchromesh in 1st... should have used the synchro in 2nd to stop the clutch disc from spinning, then shifted into 1st... Surprised he was allowed to drive it on that gravel drive... This car should do 140 with proper rear gearing...
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