Can't tell if some of these pics are old - very old, like 10 - 30 years old - or just have some weird tint to them. But at $4,000 this car looks pretty good. Might be worth checking out for any Southern Ontario Chrysler fans. http://www.autotrader.ca/a/Chrysler/300/WELLAND/Ontario/19_7431414_/?showcpo=ShowCPO&orup=55_15_507
Can anyone enlarge and see the year on the sticker on the rear license plate? That may give an idea of how old the pictures are. The car certainly does look beautiful, though.
If the lower left corner is the year, it appears to say "72" or "73," which is more likely, considering the Ford dump truck is likely an LN9000, which debuted in the early '70s.
Those are indeed 1973 plates, the last year that Ontario issued new plates every year. After '73 Ontario started using stickers that you put on your old plates each year. I still have a set of '73 plates that I'm waiting to put on my '64 CS when (or if) I find it. Mike, I can't enlarge the picture enough to see the sticker. But I also see the ad has been removed from Autotrader.
I wondered why someone would use pictures that are 40 years old to sell a car, you might as well post the pics from the dealer brochure.
There are still cars on the road with 1973 plates on them. Ma still has BEE 256,the first renewable plates we got in 73. Prior to that, plates were replaced each year, with the colours alternating, white on blue or blue on white. The renewal sticker is to be on the upper right corner of the plate, but some people just can't follow instructions so they end up elsewhere and can be ticketed as invalid. The renewal tags are colour coded for year and month, and renew on the owner's birthday.
Some more Ontario licence plate trivia: The '73 plates began with a 3 letter and 3 digit format; e.g. AAA 111. In 1982, Ontario changed the slogan at the bottom of the '73 plates from "Keep it Beautiful" to "Yours to Discover", beginning with the "TMB" sequence. Interesting. I have a set of "Keep it Beautiful" plates on my Miata that I resurrected from a car I bought in '82. When the AAA 111 combinations were exhausted Ontario switched to a 3 digit and 3 letter format; e.g. 111 AAA in 1986. Then, when those combinations were exhausted, the 4 letter and 3 digit format was introduced (in 1997, according to this article); e.g. ABCD 111. By 2006 the combinations beginning with "A" were exhausted and combinations with "B" began. Here's the web site of a guy who re-sells old Ontario plates that were surrendered to the MTO: http://yomplates.ca/faq/ Fascinating stuff, eh?
From the pictures, it is clearly NOT a 300. It is either a New Yorker or a Newport. Sure, it has the emblem on the trunk lid and all the sheet metal and trim in the front are 300 pieces. But, it doesn't have the 300's tail lights. The 66 300's tail lights wrap around the ends of the quarter panels. That means major surgery would have had to be done to fill in the openings to allow for the smaller tail lights that this car has. I wouldn't touch it myself without knowing if its a 300 that has had major surgery in the rear, or if its a New Yorker or Newport that has been poorly cloned into a 300.
