For Sale 1969 Chrusler 300 BIG BLOCK - $4999 (Pawtucket)

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Looks like a pretty low optioned car but still cool to see a 300 4Dr. Not mine.

1969 Chrusler 300 BIG BLOCK

1969 chrysler 300

condition: good
cylinders: 8 cylinders
drive: rwd
fuel: gas
odometer: 14599
paint color: brown
size: full-size
title status: clean
transmission: automatic
type: sedan

1969 Chrysler 300 4 door 440 CI Big Block with 4 barrel carburator . Automatic transmission Air Conditioning. Runs and drives great.
4999
John
401-742-2410

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So I have a question. When these cars were knew - what would cause someone to order and spend money on a 300 4Dr? Because wasn’t the 300 marketed as more of a “sporty” alternative to the NY’er and Newport? The 4 Doors and low options kind of allievates that’s.

Wouldn’t someone just instead buy maybe a Newport Custom and spend the saved money on extra options?
 
The fact that it is a 440 does not impress me.
99% of the driving with these cars are equally enjoyable with a 383.
 
Back in the eighties I had a ‘70 300 4dr that was my tow vehicle. I never understood why 4 doors on a 300 either, although it was convenient as a tow vehicle. Mine was loaded though. But fewer options = less weight = faster.
 
"'69 300 Big Block." How redundant! All '69 300s, and Chryslers for that matter, were big blocks.
 
So I have a question. When these cars were knew - what would cause someone to order and spend money on a 300 4Dr? Because wasn’t the 300 marketed as more of a “sporty” alternative to the NY’er and Newport? The 4 Doors and low options kind of allievates that’s.
There were 4-door 300s for the same reason there were 2-door New Yorkers: they sold.
 
440s were standard in all fuselage Chrysler 300 models.
The incorrect spelling goes without saying here I would assume.
I like that car, a/c, buckets, one of the best colors that year and appears to really be low miles.
Maybe I should buy it as a parts car for one of my 2 door 1969 Chrysler 300s with the same color/interior and which lacks a drivetrain? Easy resto that way. :rolleyes:
 
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Maybe some1 liked 4d with hide away headlights..... Who knows, those 4d 300 amazes me always.
2d ht New Yorker i understand, max luxury and no kids... so who needs 2 more doors.
But still, any1 seen -69 Newport with 440 engine?
 
The 300, from about '62, became a mid-level Chrysler model with a performance heritage. All engines were 4bbls, rather than 2bbl "economy" motors. Fancier bucket seat interiors, usually. There were still the 300 Letter Cars, until 'the end of the '65 model year, but by that time, it was a more upscale normal 300 in mechanicals.

Almost all of the GM "sporty coupes" of the later '50s ended up being 4drs sooner or later. Impalas in '59, for example. The ONE thing which always seemed to amaze me were the Buick station wagons with bucket seats! Like the '59-'60s Invicta "Texan" wagons.

As mentioned, the 4dr 300s were about filling a gap in the model lineup for Chrysler. Something between the economy Newport and the luxury New Yorker. Newport Custom didn't exist until 1967, although the '65-'66 Newport Town Sedan 6-window cars filled that space before the Newport Custom.

My '67 CE23 Newport is optioned like a 300. Has the optional bucket seats with center seat and the 383 4bbl/TF/3.23 powertrain. Door trim and dash trim are Newport, though.

"Newport" was actually the nomenclature attached to Chrysler hardtop models from the time they built their first production hardtop body. Same with "Riviera" for Buick. Other brands had similar things for their hardtop models, up until about the middle or later '50s.

Many early-'60s New Yorkers were used as parts cars for the restoration of more expensive/valuable Letter Cars. Drive trains and body parts, typically.

The car business, back then, was about "moving the iron" for a particular brand. If a similar Pontiac (which was trying to cultivate a "performance image" in pre-GTO times) had bucket seats and a floor shift, then a similar Chrysler would too. Or a Dodge, with Chrysler scabbing the same parts for one of their "sporty" cars. IF Pontiac had it, other GM divisions did too!

Remember aboutr "the youth market" of the earlier 1960s? The "Pepsi Generation"? 4bbl carburetors, dual exhausts, bigger engines, underhood CHROME (from the factory!), and "sporty" interiors. Those were some FUN times to be a car enthusiast! LOTS to keep up with each year!

And such . . .
CBODY67
 
The 300, from about '62, became a mid-level Chrysler model with a performance heritage. All engines were 4bbls, rather than 2bbl "economy" motors. Fancier bucket seat interiors, usually. There were still the 300 Letter Cars, until 'the end of the '65 model year, but by that time, it was a more upscale normal 300 in mechanicals.

Almost all of the GM "sporty coupes" of the later '50s ended up being 4drs sooner or later. Impalas in '59, for example. The ONE thing which always seemed to amaze me were the Buick station wagons with bucket seats! Like the '59-'60s Invicta "Texan" wagons.

As mentioned, the 4dr 300s were about filling a gap in the model lineup for Chrysler. Something between the economy Newport and the luxury New Yorker. Newport Custom didn't exist until 1967, although the '65-'66 Newport Town Sedan 6-window cars filled that space before the Newport Custom.

My '67 CE23 Newport is optioned like a 300. Has the optional bucket seats with center seat and the 383 4bbl/TF/3.23 powertrain. Door trim and dash trim are Newport, though.

"Newport" was actually the nomenclature attached to Chrysler hardtop models from the time they built their first production hardtop body. Same with "Riviera" for Buick. Other brands had similar things for their hardtop models, up until about the middle or later '50s.

Many early-'60s New Yorkers were used as parts cars for the restoration of more expensive/valuable Letter Cars. Drive trains and body parts, typically.

The car business, back then, was about "moving the iron" for a particular brand. If a similar Pontiac (which was trying to cultivate a "performance image" in pre-GTO times) had bucket seats and a floor shift, then a similar Chrysler would too. Or a Dodge, with Chrysler scabbing the same parts for one of their "sporty" cars. IF Pontiac had it, other GM divisions did too!

Remember aboutr "the youth market" of the earlier 1960s? The "Pepsi Generation"? 4bbl carburetors, dual exhausts, bigger engines, underhood CHROME (from the factory!), and "sporty" interiors. Those were some FUN times to be a car enthusiast! LOTS to keep up with each year!

And such . . .
CBODY67

Actually for 1962 and some later years too, I believe, a 383-2 bbl engine was standard in a non-letter Chrysler 300, not a four barrel.
 
Actually for 1962 and some later years too, I believe, a 383-2 bbl engine was standard in a non-letter Chrysler 300, not a four barrel.

Perhaps so, but I believe the base Newport in those times used the 361 2bbl, so the 383 was a "performance upgrade".
 
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