This Amazing 1968 Chrysler 300 Convertible Made Me Fall In Love With C-Bodies 

"Hi, I am Jamie, the guy that pretends he doesn't like convertibles while constantly driving convertibles"

Cant beat a C body for cruising in comfort and style .

Beautiful cruiser! You don’t need 700 horsepower to go have fun 👍

That is a beautiful example of a '68 Chrysler 300.

Now that's a car. The way there meant to be. Nothing but style 😎

Short or long your videos are always welcome Jamie!

That 300 is so stylish, clean but aggressive . The tail panel is killer blacked out with those awesome tail lights transitioning into those beautiful back up lights. Front end with the red stripe running through it makes it look sporty . They nailed it on that car. Giving it a 440 is icing on the luxury cake. I like that year the best even though the earlier ones are beautiful cars too. Thanks for showing us this ride.

I absolutely DREAMED of owning a sister to this car,, back in high school. Triple White, 440 TNT, Console shifted 727. It sat at Larry Plessinger's salvage yard, and was NOT allowed to be touched. It's owner was reportedly in jail,,, and after 24 more years,,, Larry finally pulled the driveline and crushed the car.... he had seen me hover over it all those years, so he told me to come get the TNT during the final years of his ownership of the yard. Still have it today. It powers my '66 300 2 door hardtop. But the '68 triple white car haunts my memories. It was SAVAGELY straight and rust free. I begged him not to destroy it. He told me it was never to be had by anyone else. I never got any more of the story than that. He showed me what it was to keep a promise. This car is similar,, but seeing one in triple white.... I wonder, at 58,,,, if there's another one out there.... and what would it cost.... there's a fully restored one in daffodil yellow in arkansas for 20k.... the white one just had so much presence....

My 68 300 story is worth telling here: in November '86 I bought a 68 300 (base, beige) 440 single exh. I bought it for $175 to drive as a winter beater while my R/T would be stored for the Wisconsin winter. After winter, in May 87, we cut the roof off to make it a convertible and we painted it black and put on cragers. I was 20. The best summer ever!! In October I sold it for $200 to a guy that put the 440 in a dart. I still have a place my heart for 68 300s. Thanks for the great video. Hello from Wisconsin (still)

That B-52s reference was the chef's kiss. Well done.

A sweet old cruiser

long live mopar .. sit down , grab a cider ,and play a blues riff in A...it is a tuning video after all

I got me a Chrysler, it's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail!" Nice car.

Love the big 60’s Chryslers. When they’re right it’s like rolling on a dream!

What a wonderful car. I've always contended that c-bodies had *the* best ride of any car ever made - and 60+ years on this side of the dirt later, I'm more convinced of that than ever. - Ed on the Ridge

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5......suck it Buick". Needed some laughs today, unforeseen circumstances had me cancelling plans for next weeks Chrysler Nationals.

Love the 68 300...Like that road too....but look out for Bears...

what a beautiful and elegant example love those late 60's early 70's C bodies

I love my 68 300 hard top. A friend of mine had a white convertible like that one.

I had one of these for 47 years. It had the 440TNT, dual exhaust, AC, PS, PB, electric windows, electric top and bucket seats and everything worked! When I sold it last year, it has 81,000 original miles, never wrecked and garaged kept. I could kick myself in the ass for selling it!

The 68 300 was a beautiful car. Even in 1968 they really stood out. There was one in my small home town . A convertible. Some how it was always in the local parades.

Had a 67 300 for a short time. Amazing car. Sounds so good!

Nice ride! Thanks for the vid Jamie.

Absolutely fantabulous Chrysler. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. 😊

I've been in love with C-bodies since I was eight years old (1970) the first time I saw my uncle's '67 Sport Fury fast top. It became my car in the early 80's. Drove it for 13 years. Today I drove my '68 Fury VIP to a Cars and Coffee also a fast top. Rather than a boat, I think of these cars more as starships with the space age dashboards/interiors. Of all the cars I've ever driven, a slabside C-body would always be my first choice.

Dad had a 68 and 72 Newport, then a 76 Doba. He drove from Agawam Mass to Greenville SC every Christmas with 4 kids and Mom in those Newports. They were definetly BOATS. Great memories.

The Chrysler Airtemp sticker on the window is my 1975 memory of my 67 2dr hard top Coronet had factory air white interior and my first car in highschool, im such a nerd i loved that little "Badge" on the window.

Another great car! What a boat! Nice!

Man, I like that car!!! Thanks for sharing...

Jamie, Your taste just keeps going up! My Dad and I restored a 1968 Dodge Polara convertible in the 80s with a 375 hp 440. Awesome car and similar body style. Mine was a sky blue with a white top. Also.. My '68 Polara had the same side marker. Chrysler tended to re-use many parts. FYI.

Sweet about time we see a late 60s C body Now we just need the afternatket to start reproducing obsolete parts !!!!

Love the C-body. Thanks Jamie for sharing that beauty with us.

Nice C-body...and they get bigger every year after that...great content and thanks....🔧🔧🐐👍

A co-worker recently bought a '66 Chrysler Newport, 4-door, 383. He and his family love it! They named it "Elmer". It's that goldish-brownish color that was popular then. It was a Colorado, rust free car, still runs great. And Elwood Engel brought that undulating body side treatment over from the '63-'64 full size Mercurys, just sayin'.

Our first family car after mom remarried was a black '66 300 2 door. Of course it was, my cool new dad was a mechanic at the local Chrysler Plymouth dealer. He got a good deal when it came in on trade. The next, and the one I learned to drive in, was a light yellow '68 New Yorker 2 door. Same 350 hp 440 as the one in your video. Loved that car, broke lots of driver's side motor mounts stalling it up at the light, dragging from block to block. We took a family trip in it in '73. Five of us kids, plus mom and dad. Mostly 75 mph to Kansas and back from west of Seattle, just over 20 mpg average. Dad wrote down odo miles and gallons every fill up in his Steno notebook. 😊

Gotta love big ol' convertable!

Absolutely beautiful cruiser. Thank you for sharing.

It’s lovely. I could see loading up the family in that classic cruiser and driving across country in style. Maybe visit the Wellborn Musclecar Museum in Alabama? But you could do that in your 68 Charger….. Road trip! Again!

My buddy had a 64 300 with the push button trans. Both me and my father had 66 Newports. My cousin had a 67 Newport. They all drove like boats! I tried to make a deal on a 65 300 a few years back but there was too much wrong with it for the money. That is one sweet C body. Throw some 134a in it and get the A/C working.

Man, 1968 was 1 hell of a year, though as I was 4 it was mostly lost on me. What a great car....

I do love 300s from 55 to 79. There was an unbelievable deal on a 67 Monaco 500 L code. Few months back on eeebaay very similar but the 300 hideaway front end RULES.

Nice big ride

My dad had a 68 300. First car I ever seen with a wonder bar for the radio

Finally saw the light! C body Love ❤️

Nice to see some c body love! I've got that same car as well as '66 New yorker and an L code '68 polara 500 convertible I'm restoring. Thanks for the video brother man, really enjoy what you do!

the 68 Chrysler full line brochure mentions the new AM/FM multiplex stereo radio with 5 speakers (4 if rear defog is ordered). There should be a speaker there in the front center grill for the center channel Chrysler phased in. Not sure how a convertible for 68 did their rear speakers. In mid-year 1967, Imperial introduced multiplex stereo for FM stereo broadcast. The multiplexer was housed in it's own box under one of the seats I think it was. Shortly after, the multiplexer was integrated into the radio unit in the dash.

White Chryslers look crisp 😍

How unusual that the round (68 only) side markers, the front ones are in the bumper!

Nice. It really looks cool with the top down. The beak kinda makes the car for me. Without it, it just looks like all the other Chryslers of that era.

Wow, what a beautiful car, an outstanding 68... 300 😎 and you should definitely do a video on that old rusty relic.

Great job on the video! 1960 to 1975 C bodies are awesome

I had a 68 New Yorker two door with a 440 tnt motor,fun car

Beautiful car. I have a 67 Newport custom 2dr Hardtop, 1 owner California car here in New Zealand. I love the fastback styling. The dash is the same as this.

When I used to drag race all I wanted were A-bodies and B-bodies. Now that all I want to do is Cruise I would love nothing more than a convertible C-body.

Big blocks are awesome. I have the baby big block and it still moves quite nicely

Glad I’m not the only one who likes white mopars. Every one I see people restoring is a high impact color. All the survivors I see are white. Maybe not as eye-catching but seems like more mature drivers got them in white (and took better care of them) than the crazy colors that ended up wrapped around telephone poles or upside down in ditches

Beautiful car, love the wheels.

1,2,3,4,5 suck it Buick 😂 I laughed so hard! 👍

I've always loved those 😊

That's a wonderful car. Glad you made the video about it.

Beautiful car!

my friend has an identical '68 survivor in the gold color, handed down from his Dad. Amazing cars! I think '68 was a good year for Mopars!!

I used to get the Chrysler 300 club newsletter. One one edition, there is a picture of the Pope riding in a 68 300 with the top down and standing up waving. I think it was John Paul II. I wish I had not lost that.

That is a beautiful car.

I like them all!

Back when l 15-16, l completely bodyworked my 66 Tempest, my neighbor then asked if l could fix some rust on his 70 Dodge Polara 2 dr, l said sure, l fixed another one after that too. PA roads just rusted those rear quarters out so quick. So l do like these big body Mopars alot. Guess that was why l got my 71 Satellite a couple years later. Love to have another but getn too old to crawl on the floor & lifting heads & trannys.

Was my first car as a kid bought from my neighbor. My car was beat up from when he lived in Chicago. The top had been knifed there but had a real solid piece of tape over the slice. The motor was perfect and I drove it to school and work during high school. When it rained the top leaked at the two seams in the back and settled in the back saddle material the top folded down into. Then the big joke was to have two unsuspecting friends get a ride to school after a big rain. The 440 would get speed up and then a hard power stop would send around five gallons of foul rain water into the backs of their heads and that is how they showed up for class. I called it the love shack. It was a great first car as a kid. The 300 in the back is correct as is that Chrysler script on the trunk lid for anyone’s edification. Mine was red on red with a white top. The front and rear were a grey/silver like, not black like that one. Mine had the factory star burst steering wheel center and a foot scan AM/FM radio that was an envy to other kids. My mom hated it and illegally sold it in 1979 when I was in the military forging my name on the title. I did find it 19 years later in 1998, bought it, got it running, fixed it up and sold it when a guy wanted it real bad and the pile of hundreds got high enough. My friend had it who I never knew as a kid but was my friend at work. He had bought it from my mom for parts but thought he might fix it up someday instead but never did. He told me his first car was a 59 Bonneville convertible, I said mine was a 68 Chrysler 300 convertible. He said, I got one do you want to buy it? I said are you sure it is a 300 because they only made three thousand and some. He said yes, it is a 300. So I go look at it and it is my car, still all beat to hell but there it is. He said he wanted three grand, we couldn’t come up with a deal or trade. When he had a retirement auction I bought it at auction for $1,300 mostly because they thought the motor was stuck. It wasn’t. If memory serves me correctly it had 10.5 to 1 factory compression. When the auctioneers couldn’t turn it by the fan they said it was stuck. It had 79,000 original miles when my mom sold it, it still had the same, I was certain it was still great and it was. Still had its factory Holly on it that needed seals and a few parts replaced. I put a quarter on it from a four door and replaced all four broken up pot metal corners. Even kept much of the factory paint, touching up and blending rather than a total repaint which I still prefer to this day on restorations.

Round side-markers make everything better, and all Chrysler products in 1968 had ‘em.

It happens to be 3:18 while I write this. Lol. What a beautiful car. I do love shiny white

Wow. As a fan of the "pre-muscle" cars of the early '60s (Impala, Bonneville, Galaxie) as well as muscle cars, I _really_ like the looks of that 300.

Fun ride! Thx. I took my driving test in a 68 Newport. (They flunked me). We bought it new and kept it for years. Its practically the same car. You are right. C body. Big! Fast too.

Chrysler 300 the freaking best love it THANSK 🎉

Great video and that’s freaking funny. I like how the subtle someone puked in it. I laughed my ass off lol

Cool car!👍

Nice Car 👍

Awesome car

Nice car - thanks for sharing! The wobble is because she doesn’t like the RWL tiles and wants white walls. Sorry, I may be projecting an attitude I developed around, say, 1970…

Thank you for saying some nice things about C-Body Cars! I have a 68 Dodge Polara Coupe! Yanked the 318 dropped in a 440! Schumacher made that a breeze! C-body cars are like Chubby Girls you don't know what your missing till you hug one! and now you have a car that can comfortably accommodate one!

OK so maybe it doesn't seat about 20, but still it's a great car for headin on down to the love shack

I love it!

I think the 68 300 fan you referred to is me. Just before I did a search for new Dead Dodge Garage content. I had just came in from wiping the dust off my black fast top project car that has not run since I've owned it. But when I saw your video, I wanted to reach through the screen of the chromebook and cut down those shrubs growing by the passenger side of the red fast top, even if I had to do it with a pair of tin snips. Your fast top: Red exterior, white bucket seat interior....mmm It is one model I can never resist. Even if I already have one or two.

Thanks!

Had a '71 Coupe I got years back from Jim Harris up in Lake Forest Park. It was ordered by the owner of Richmond Chrysler/Plymouth (British Columbia) and he had his crew go through the drivetrain. It was a hilarious highway bruiser

I love it.

Ah, that engine bay at 2:15 must be what they call Green Engine Technology ?

Thats class , wouldnt fit on the roads around my place in the UK . Still want it though

Imagine how long cars would last if they started making them like this again.

What a fantastic cruiser, but my heart belongs to the 69 Fury, since that was my first car, just wish it was a 440 instead of a 318.

Get a 71 300 and try it for size. Just make sure your playing the B52 s. Rock lobster while driving it. Every time we go out in ours everyone looks it’s great fun even if petrol is £1.50 a litre in England.keep up the good work. Regards Roy

I like it!

I love 300s

One of the interesting things about the cars is that many of them have argent paint around the tail lights , but many have semi gloss black like the one in your video. The consensus was that the argent ones got some grumbling about "glare" and were replaced the fist of the year with the black ones. I wonder what the dates of both of your 300's are and if the red fast top has an argent (silver) paint back there.

wow this is perfect. gorgeous. love the 65-68 C bodies...style for miles, whatwith the concave sides against the blocky bodies and all the detailing. i dunno Jamie, you're a little scruffy for that upscale 300...

That's a beautiful car

"Suck it Buick!" 😂😅😊

mmm first year of the new (for Chrysler) vacuum operated cruise control and dash-top stereo speakers. Imperial would continue to use the older mechanical cruise unit by Perfect Circle through the 1968 model year..

Dual exhaust ALWAYS belongs!

If that rusted out 300 does indeed have the center console as it seemed to, if it’s saveable, it’d be great to swap it into drop-top.

C Body gang! 💪💪💪

Very nice car