We're all pulling for you Steve. Keep fighting

This was well worth watching again. Get well soon Steve.

I am a GM guy, but those Chrysler Letter Cars make my heart beat like crazy! Specially the ones from the late Fifties. There are two things I experienced: In 1987 I met a kind of weird New Yorker Italian in LA who was somehow homeless but drove around in a 1965 Chrysler 300L. He had bought it at an auction for a few hundred bucks! It had been an abandonned vehicle. A friend and race car mechanic who was not into American cars could buy a 1961 Chrysler 300 G Convertible for a very good price. He had not known a lot about those letter cars but was very lucky to have it offered. He told me he had sold it to a museum at the end.

Miss you Steve! Get well soon! 🙏🏼 I loved the Great Texas Mopar Auction series! Good stuff!

I always liked the 300's even as a kid back then.

everyone just put all his videos in que and let it play all night and day, this man deserves it.

One of the Guys that work for Jay Leno’s Garage is restoring one of those Chryslers in the shop.

Get well soon Steve! Thanks for sharing your knowledge of all things automotive!

Steve, noticed the leg gaiters. Those pesky Texas Rattlesnakes doing the junkyard crawl too.

Could you imagine driving that car 150 mph!

Saw a restoration video of a 59 Chrysler 300 years ago. Absolutely a beautiful car.

What strikes me more than the perusal of some extreme former gems of automotive machinery is : 1) Someone allowed these former gems to DECAY and I mean ROT. 2) I know for a Fact that the wrecking yards of the 70's wiped out cars at a ferocious pace, and for scrap prices a Chrysler 300 was often treated like just another hulk of steel. It was CRUSHED like so much iron, maybe 80 or 100 bucks. The current values for the classics was Created by the collector class of good old boys who knew that when there are only a few left,the price goes........UP.

There's only one Steve Mag. Don't know how you do it, but we'll be here wanting for more.

Getting a little too old to take on another project car but that '58 could've gotten me out of retirement 😌

The 1962 300-H was a hideously expensive car when new. Getting this really rare car on the road would be a huge score for the person willing to take it on. In fact, all Chrysler 300 letter cars in decent rust-free shape are worth restoring---bankers' hot rods.

Hang in there steve,,,,, stay strong mate , we need these incredible shows. steve in Australia

A friend of mine got a 65 "L" as his first car back in high school in the 90's but it was pretty rusted out. He took everything off the car that he could, bagged and tagged everything, and then junked what was left. 30 years later he found a donor Newport and put all the "L" parts on it to reconstruct that old "L" as best he could. They are cool cars for sure.

The letter cars always get my blood pumping. Most, if not all of these, could be saved. Imagine driving each one home from the dealer - what a day that was for someone! Thank you sir, truly enjoy your work.

Incredible. To think any of these survived. The odds were stacked. They were expensive, they were fast and big with 50's brake technology. The 60's and 70's were not kind to cars like these. To think with 50's technology they could put air conditioning on a big block with dual quads, high performance cam, power steering, and automatic transmission.....and still satisfy a somewhat finicky upper class car buyer! I love every year of these cars, they will never happen again with such style. And YES...Brute is a perfect description!

Coming from the rust belt hell of Massachusetts I can really appreciate these rust free beauties. The Texas sun will do a number on the plastic, rubber and fabric parts but as far as the shining chrome and steel parts go it's the best environment to come from.

Had a friend that had a collection of 300 letter cars, did not realize how rare they were at the time in the mid 70's. Bet he would love this video! Get well soon Steve, we are praying and pulling for Ya!

The hand to magnet work is excellent 😂

Dude your a national treasure. Get well soon !!

My dad was a chevy man. My one brother was a Chevy man (we went on numerous junk yard adventures).I'm a Chevy man.

I live in the rust belt, but we spent time in Tucson, Arizona and I used to go to the junk yards just to see the cars. They were in better shape than the cars on the road in Pa. I was amazed and purchased quite a few parts in the 5 or so yrs.

These are great vids! I didn't know the '58 D were so rare in the number built, and the value today.

The interior on the 65' looks like a custom option. It's a beauty!

Love you're vids, Steve! Mainly because of your likable personality and the vids aren't 60 minutes long! I'm not necessarily a Mopar fan, but not a hater either! Keep up the great work!

Excellent as usual, I love watching your stuff! My uncle was an actor in LA for 3 decades, he was Doggo in OCTAGON, 1st pilot killed in Midway, all 3 Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby films, A piece of the action, Lets do it again, Uptown saturday night, He was the bush pilot in wilderness he was family 1 and 2, Ravagers, and the Tijuana smalls man in 1970, Winston Nascar ads, every Steven J Cannell production series, many commercials. My Grandpa had 30 egg ranches around the inland empire, onwe had a coop about 1/8th mile long my uncle filled with 75 old Chryslers, 3 were Town and Country convertibles we restored to better than new, an air flow, we drove a 1929 Roadster from Mass to LA in 1976 it was unrestored and undriven since 1955, it took us a month, wooden rims, we retsoed the cat on the way home, several shops left us alone all night in their shops they were very nice and wanted to be part of the adventure. He had a 46 mercury woody Marmon Herrington 4wd conversion that is now being shown by a la school teacher who bought it it was custom made for ornithologist named Bleith a fotomat tycoon too..

I've been waiting for ANY new content on Motortrend. Until then, I am happy on KZfaq watching Steve.

A neighbor down the street from us when I was a kid had one nearly identical to that '65. One of the cars that turned me into a car guy at a very young age.

As a young man I had a 1957 300c. 392 hemi. miss it all the time now that I'm older

love these clips from the auction

Cool cars! I am glad they didn't turn into scrap.

Great video Steve! I have learned a lot about so many Chrysler cars with your introductions about the history of them cars!👌😎👍

28 five for that car sounds pretty reasonable, IIRC it just needed paint and assembly. Maybe some messing with the engine. That last 300 I could have bought at that sale price. I kind of like those sort of boxy 63-64s, I never used to but they've grown on me. Did you see what happened to the GTO that was all shot up? A guy is driving that.

I've seen ALL this hoard and these are some of the most beautiful cars here, i want 2 !! . Dont see those in oz , luv ya work Mr Magnante. Cheers

Man!!... that 62 300h would be a dream to own.

Great video, big cars.

I almost bought a 61 Plymouth from Steve. Think it was at the Long Beach swap meet. Already had 2 60 Plymouths and a 61 4 door. Great guy.

Good stuff Steve. I always enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the good work.

Seems to me many of these cars sold for very very good prices. The cross ram 300 is unbelievable...

My Dad had a 1956 Ford truck stepside with a 413 Chrysler motor with the 727 trans and the short shifter in the floor under the bench seat, that truck could bake the tires at will but what a wild ride going fast or braking, crossing rr tracks etc, never knew where it was going! We rebuilt the front end to no avail finally put a Cordoba front clip on it. I goty my 1st ticket in it at age 14 lol on J street cruise in Sacramento 1975, I had to tell my Dad I sneaked out his truck and lied to the cop about having a license.

Thanks again Steve for reposting these with the sale prices. It was as interesting to see the second time as it was originally. Good stuff Steve!

Thanks for the video Steve.

Thanks Steve

Watching it again too 👏🏽

Thanks for this series Steve, I missed a lot on the first go

thanks for taking me along and thank you for your time.

I sure enjoy your video's. Thank you

You'd think Steve would be able to afford two t-shirts.

Thanks Steve 🖖

Thanks for the info Steve!

I once had a 1963 Chrysler 300 Pacesetter convertible. It was an interesting car to say the least. Now Chevy stole the square steering wheel from it for the 2020 Corvette.

Glad to see this video. Hope you get better soon

All beautiful cars I would love to have any one of them

Awesome episode

Sweet '58 300!😁👍🔧

Cool stuff!

I see you're prepared for those Texas rattlesnakes

Thanks!

great mopars

The 1963 Chrysler 300 sport came with the 413 four-barrel or the 426 four-barrel or the 383 2 Barrel. A special order for the long cross ram 2-4-barrel engine was available.

Enjoyed!!!!!!! 👍👍👍

I always enjoy a good spin.

Cool boat show!

Pray for Steve! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Very nice

Get well Steve!

These. We’re. Real street. Rods. From. The show. Room. Thanks

Thinking of ya Mags. Cheers 🇨🇦

Hey Steve how long did it take for you to stop smiling when you seen this? I'm a chevy guy and it made me smile from ear to ear. Cool early American cars are just so damn cool!!! I like them all!

Sweet!

Surprised no 426 in the 65. I had to look up the 63 since it was the first year for the 426, but it was a 413 too.

GOD BLESS YOU YOUR CONTACT IS GREAT ....CANT BELEIVE YOUR RESEARCH ITS GRAND LOVE ROADKILL TO.. THEY REALLY WAITED FOREVER TO LIVE. THEY R DOING WHAT THERE BORN TO DO SO R SOME OF US

Smart to wear snake bite guards bro!

Steve M is the best !

A pro could ID the engine based on the exhaust manifold design & flanges… The small block has one, the big block has two (bolt holes between the middle cylinders on both banks). I'm not sure about runner design, but I'm not a Chrysler mechanic.

Nice

Studemaker Hawk awesome car

Ok. So my city, Lismore has just been through 2 major floods in a month with many cars going under. That 300L has definitely gone completely under. That silt covered engine bay is more than dust

They have always been a expensive and hard to procure! Letter cars of course before 1965! Exner knew that he designed a collector automobile along with Bob Rodgers 😇. 1962 is the one that I like.😏

Ok, the 300 J has the "short ram" version of the long ram manifolds. They are the same length, but the runners are open to each other. Notice there is not crease in the long areas.

MY Dad had a 65 Newport in 65. I always thought the 300 in 65 was pretty plane looking. In 71 he bought a Chrysler 300 but he traded it back and got the 4 door Newport. Yes I was pissed because the 2 door 300 was so cool.

A 1960 2 door Dodge in the background of the last car featured!!

Another great and informative video. Just curious, any rattlesnake encounters while going thru all those cars?

How hard is it to find parts for these?

What is the black car behind the '63 Sport?

Steve, where can we find your books?

Redicioulas, every Chrysler ever built is the greatest according to Steve 😂😂😂

How many cars did you bid on Steve ???

Had ,a 54 ny delux...331 hemi dual points

How's the62dart?

Car number 1 exhaust manifolds tell the story. Or at least what they were attached to when the last engine was in it. Fix-It!

If I had thought of it sooner (40+ years ago), I may have collected dashboards / Instrument Clusters (like that 300-H) and restore them (fully operational)? ;-)

Keep on crawling!

My friend I noticed your breathing I hope you don't smoke but super beats will improve that especially if you don't smoke blessings

What caught my ear was '' industrial hemi's '' What machinery would they be found in ?

Hey its the wobble man how's that rust bucket coming !

I couldn't imagine the cost to restore that Chrysler 300h in the beginning