1979 Special Edition 300

[Northeast300]

I have a '79 300 with 84,000 miles that I picked up pretty cheap and quickly learned that I have something fairly rare. Then I learned that finding parts is hard to do! It doesn't need much and to be honest I am not sure if I want to restore it or preserve it. From what I can tell it's a survivor and has spent it's entire life here in Massachusetts. New England winters can be very rough on cars but this one was taken care of for sure! I have done a lot of research and even sent a letter to the Chrysler History Department. All they could tell me is that 5,500 were slated to be built to order and that only 3,811 were build and sold in the U.S. I would be interested in starting a registry for 79-300 owners but I am happy to have found this forum with other owners! I only have a few pictures loaded right now but will upload more soon.

 

[76mopar]

Sounds like a killer find. Great Job. Yea its hard to choose what to do preserve it or restore it.

 

[deedohaw]

Sounds like you won't go wrong by preserving it.
David

 

[LS-300]

There is a site that was started a long time ago on that. http://www.rattlerig.com/1979Chrysler300.html
It really need someone to update as it is very out of date.

 

[Northeast300]

There is a site that was started a long time ago on that. http://www.rattlerig.com/1979Chrysler300.html
It really need someone to update as it is very out of date.

Yeah, I found that site last summer and totally agree that it needs to be updated. I asked a few questions that never got answered. At least here it's a very active forum!

 

[souza1181]

good find man. I recently bought a 77 charger daytona 400 motor...just like you said i quickly learned that i have something fairly rare. check it out this guys have this 79 for sale it is just a few miles from where I live in Seattle-Wa. Cheers
http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/cto/4957372499.html

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/cto/4983270240.html