So this is a 1965 Chrysler 300 nonletter series

with a 383 big block four barrel car.

The only thing that I've changed on this, like

I said, that from when it was original.

And from what I understand, everything

else is original on this.

Maybe the plugs, and obviously the plug

wires have been changed throughout the years,

whatever and oil and stuff.

But original motor, original carb, original radiator,

all that stuff, all the AC and

all that stuff is original.

So this is the non letter series.

Now, the non letter series was

kind of the luxury volume.

So it was luxury with a little bit of sport.

And basically they had a letter series

which was only a two door.

The non letter series came in a

four door or a two door.

This is called a hard top.

And it's not because of the hard top, okay?

It's because between here and here, there's no pillar.

This is what makes it a hard top, okay?

Other cars have a pillar here

that go from here to here.

So if we were to open up another car, you'd

see a pillar when you open the doors that goes

from here all the way up and connects.

This is what makes this a hard top, okay?

I did check all the little doodads work. Radio works.

It's an Am radio original.

The map light works, everything works.

Brakes seem like they were working. again,

I towed it here.

So this is the trunk.

We call this the body trunk.

As you can see, I have stuff in here.

This is my little mobile kit that I bring

with me if I'm just doing something quick.

But the only other thing I did was I cleaned up.

There was a little bit of surface rust in here.

I cleaned it up and I spray painted it black.

But I got jumper cables here, so I have

an electric fuel pump if I need it.

All the parts are in here.

Pull these out there's.

The original hub caps, the

original skirts, original spare. Okay?

I cleaned the mat off because it was sitting in here.

Dusty, dirty. I cleaned it off.

I'm going to put it back in once we get it situated.

There's the shroud for the fan.

Here's the water pump, the exhaust manifold.

Now if you see here, this is where

the manifold goes on to the engine.

They did cut it here.

So I'm either going to have to get a new set,

get some headers for it, or try to make these work.

But we'll see when we get there.

I did get new gaskets for it just so that as

we're going through and we're doing anything and putting all the

stuff back on, we have new gaskets on it.

So let's move this.

Pull this down.

It's a big trunk.

You can see some rechroming is needed.

But I think, look, solid car, a little bit of spots of rust.

It's all surface rust is not through.

I can promise you that.

Underneath, the car is beautiful.

There's no rust on it.

I can show you the frame inside the engine bay, but

I can't get under there right now with the camera.

If I show you right here

Like this thing looks beautiful.

Yeah.

I'll show you the engine.

So as they take it apart, they

put all the stuff in the trunk.

And these older cars, some of them open.

Weird, it's already popped.

I have done a teeny bit to this

and I will tell you what I did.

So anyway, the wires were off.

The coil is just sitting here right now.

The carb was not on.

And I did spark plugs.

I put new wires, spark plugs, and I put an

oil filter because there was no oil filter on it.

So anyway, the young man who has the car, they

decide they're going to take it off, they're going to

take it all apart, rebuild the motor, they pull the

water pump off, they take everything off, radiators out.

This is a factory AC car.

The AC is in the back here's, the power steering.

So I'm like, all right.

So he says, Listen, I know I'm going

to take a loss on the car.

He says, I've had a couple of people look at

it, but they want to offer me crazy low prices.

We come up with a deal, I pay them.

I bring the car over here and something says to me,

the car has been sitting for ten years in a garage.

So I'm like, okay, well, let me

just give it a once over.

I went and grabbed my little borescope,

which I think is a great little thing.

I will put a link in the description.

I have two different ones, but I will put the link

in the description for the one that connects to your phone.

Basically, it plugs into your phone and

turns your phone into a borescope.

Like, this thing is awesome.

But anyway, so I checked the cylinders and I look

and I'm like, man, it looks really nice in there.

I don't see any rust in there.

I don't see none of that.

So I said, all right, well, let

me hook the battery to it.

Cables are right here.

Let me hook the battery to it and see what's going on.

See if I see anything

smoking, anything that shouldn't be.

So I do that.

I don't see nothing smoking, I don't smell nothing.

And then I turn it forward.

Now, I know that it's not going to start, but I

turn it to see if it's going to crank or anything.

And I hear click.

I said, man, that sounds awful lot like a starter.

Now, I will be honest with you.

When it comes to turning the crank bolt, okay?

When a car hasn't been started in a

long time, I get weary of that because

I don't know what's going on in there.

It's just me.

I know I've watched plenty of people do it.

But if that bolt breaks, man,

that's a headache I don't want.

So I said, well, let me see if the

starter will at least move it over a little.

So I take the spark plugs

out so there's no compression.

And I take the starter out.

I take it down to the local store, part store.

I have them test it

It gets tested for free.

Tested good. I said okay. Tests good. I bring it back.

I put it in, and I hear the click, and I'm like, man.

So what I do is I go over and I smack

the starter a couple of times and turn the key.

As I'm turning the key, I had my

son smack the starter, and it turned over.

The motor turned over, didn't start, but it turned over.

And I'm like, wow, okay, cool.

So it's not seized. I go back in.

I look again just to make sure I didn't miss something.

Everything's good.

So that's where we're at. I did that.

I got a new starter because I knew that I had

to smack on the starter to get it to turn.

So I get a new starter, and I figured, let me

throw a little gas in there just in the carburetor, and

see if I can get it to just kick over.

And I did that, and I did get it to kick over.

I couldn't keep it running, obviously, because we

have a lot of open ports here.

But I got it to kick over.

But the starter went bad in one day, the new starter.

So I took it back to the

store, had them order me another one.

They ordered me another one.

These motors have two different starters.

The one I have, all right,

so this is the original starter.

This thing is big.

Okay, it works, but you need to smack

the starter to get it to rotate.

Once it does, it works a few times,

and you might have to do it again.

So when I ordered the new one,

the new one looked like this.

And I kept the original, and I gave

him another starter back as a core

So when that one went bad, it has a warranty on it.

So I went and I ordered another starter.

When I ordered the other starter, I'm going

to show you what it looked like.

It looked like this.

You can probably see how they look different. Now.

It says that this is an updated starter for this.

So now the first one that I got like this, the

news, if I remember correctly, was a little longer than this.

I said, all right, well, it's an updated starter.

So I put it in, and the starter

turned over, but it wouldn't engage the flywheel.

So I was like, wow, okay.

So I took it back out. I took it back.

I said, Listen, this doesn't work.

So I went online and I use the number.

Part number is 32 50.

But it showed a picture of this one was the starter.

So I ordered it, and this is what came in. Now.

I've checked the nose.

I've lined them up.

They look like they're the same amount.

So I'm going to check this one to see if it works.

If it doesn't work, I will send it back.

I will get a starter rebuild kit, and I

will order specifically this one from the parts store

again, so we'll see what happens there.

We're going to install the starter and see

if we can get it to turn over.

So we're going to try to put the new starter

in and see what happens, see if it engages.

If it doesn't, then we'll flow

back out and we'll move forward.

I might just get a rebuild kit for this

and try to rebuild this or go to the

part store and actually order the original one that

I got for this and take it from there.

That's where we're at right now.

We're getting ready to put the starter

on and see where we're at.

And then it's not so hard to get to

if you look

see if I can get you a shot in there.

All right, so that's where the starter goes.

Okay.

So it's easier to go underneath the car and do it.

So that's what I'm going to try to do and

see if we can get it to kick over.

I have a little gas that I'm going to spray in there.

This is just straight gas.

So after that, we'll try to get it to kick

over with a little gas in the carb and see

if we could just get it to turn over.

All right, hit it.

That's what I love, guys.

1965 Chrysler 300.

When you hit, it hurts your hand

before it hurts, the car doesn't bend.

Solid car.

So what we have here today is

a 1965 Chrysler 300 non letter series.

Okay, anybody that's familiar with Mo Pars knows that

there's a letter series and a non letter series.

The letter series, if I'm not mistaken, was

the Super Sport or the sporty Edition.

The nonletter series is a more luxury sporty edition.

So silver Mist, that's what it is.

Mopar, back in the 60s,

they were a little strange,

shall we say, the way they do their data plates.

And I'll show you.

I'll cut to a data plate or put it

around here somewhere so you can see it.

The way to see what the car came

with and what it didn't come with, it's

a little different than everybody else did.

So I'm still doing research on figuring it out.

It's not as easy to find the information on these.

Now, I have a friend of mine who told me if

I needed to get the information, he has somebody that I

can talk to, so I will be doing that.

But to give you a little background on

the car, I purchased a car from someone.

We became fast friends.

He's probably watching, so you can correct

me in the comments if I'm wrong.

Basically, the person who originally owned this bought the

car, drove the car until he couldn't drive no

more, and then he placed it in the garage

where it sat for ten years.

That gentleman then, unfortunately passed away and left the car

to his niece's husband, whom him and his best friend

are the guys that I bought it from.

So when they got it, they intended to get

it running and leave it the way it was

and just run it, because this is all original.

Well, we'll get to that in a minute.

But it was all original.

But they thought, from my understanding

that the motor was seized.

They couldn't get it to start.

Then he ended up getting another car.

This got put on the back burner, decided to sell it.

I bought it.

I had it towed here.

So what I've done so far was I went, I

purchased a borescope or basically a camera that I can

connect to my phone and look into places.

If I'm not mistaken, it was like $20, maybe $30.

It wasn't real expensive.

It might even be cheaper than that.

I'll look it up, and I'll put

a link in the description from Amazon.

So I use that to look into the cylinder

Bores because they said that it was seized.

I wanted to see what the

inside of the motor looked like.

So that's what I did.

I didn't see anything.

It looked rather nice in there, so

I said, okay, well, let's start there.

I went and just playing around, looking, seeing what's there,

seeing how the wiring was, making sure that looking at

the frame, trying to see where I was at.

I mean, I did all this before,

but I didn't get in depth.

I did it. Come to find out. I said, Let me take the

starter because it was already off.

Let me take it and see if it's still good.

Took it down to AutoZone.

They tested it for free.

Starter, tested good.

I said okay.

I went to turn the car over.

I just put a battery to it.

Didn't connect anything, didn't put anything in it.

The radiator is out, everything's out here.

So we'll get to the carb

and everything, but there's no radiator.

There's no water pump.

The AC compressors Not here.

They took all that off.

The heater hoses are not connected.

Okay, so I just wanted to see if

the car would do anything, move, turnover, whatever.

There was no spark plugs in it or anything. No wires.

No spark plug, wires or nothing on there.

I turned it, and it didn't do nothing clicked.

Well, I've been playing with cars for quite

some time, so I knew, check the starter.

Now, since I had already tested the starter

and it tested good, I smacked it with

a little piece of pipe I had.

And as I was turning it, it started to turn the motor.

I almost did a back flip, but I might

have hurt myself if I'd have tried that. Anyway.

So I tested it.

It started turning the motor over.

I said, okay, good to go.

Now, moving from there, I figured, okay, well,

let me get the spark plugs in.

Let me get the spark plug wires on.

And I did that.

I wanted to see if there was spark, see how

the carburetor was, because I knew it was sitting.

And as I was looking at the carburetor and

I did a little more research,

Uncle Tony's Garage,

who has a YouTube channel, and I will put

his channel in my description below.

This guy is amazing when it comes to Mo parts.

He knows his stuff, and I refer back to him

and Dylan McCool, and I'll put his channel below.

I don't know these guys, but I've gotten a

lot of great information about Mopars from them.

And if you really need to know

something about Mopars, go check them out.

They're really awesome guys.

So anyway, I went and got a carburetor because

I figured, yeah, I could clean the old one,

but it's been sitting for ten years.

I'm not doing that.

So I got a carburetor now because

I own a 1982 Dodge D 150.

I'm a little familiar with Mopar's ignition system,

their ignition control module, which is right here.

They're known to go bad.

They go bad left and right.

So I got another one of those, and I got another coil.

Ignition coil, matter of fact. That's pretty hot.

Let me take this off.

All right.

So what I noticed is I had it to charge the battery,

and the coil is pretty hot, like, hot enough to burn you.

So I'll have to look into

the wiring, make sure everything's good.

I had that same problem with my 82 Dodge D150

which you'll see probably one of the next videos.

I'll give you a little walk around of it.

I haven't decided what we're doing with that yet.

Anyway, ignition coil, control module and carburetor, the only things I've done

so what I've done now is I have a lot of

stuff in the trunk that goes with this car.

Everything is here from the skirts, so there's a

little rust on them, but it's all surface stuff.

But yeah.

So I have the skirts, I have the hub caps.

I have four.

I have a matching set. Now, they're dirty.

We'll clean them up.

Look at these things, guys.

That's beautiful right there.

A little dirty.

Sorry, Gunner.

Gunner is my well, let me rephrase that.

Gunner is my wife's dog.

This is a factory AC car.

There's some stuff in here.

I apologize, but I'm going to open this up.

We need WD 40 for that.

All right, guys.

So what we just did is actually it'll speed through.

We cleaned out the car a little bit so you

can see the car and what it looks like.

So for the most part, needs

some material for the front seat.

But this is all original, guys.

These are some of the parts for under the hood.

You're going to see more.

These are your ignition control modules.

This is the one that was on the car.

So somebody's already changed it and had a problem.

This is a replacement.

It has the number on there.

Okay, this one smoked.

This is one that I had bought

for the Dodge that I have.

And I'll get into that one when I show you the Dodge.

The whole story behind that.

But both of these were no good,

so I'm just holding on to them.

I don't know why.

This is the original radiator.

I want to send this out to

get repaired because it's the original radiator.

Newer radiators have plastic.

I'm not a fan.

Plus, this is a classic car.

We're going to try to hold

onto this as long as possible.

We still have to clean the interior and stuff.

That's why I had the vacuum out and stuff like that.

This is all original.

Earlier, guys, I was talking about the coil. Now.

I got my stuff from AutoZone.

The reason I did is because

AutoZone is right up the street.

So the ignition control module, the coil

and spark plugs and spark plug wires,

I have the original ones in here.

Well, they're older.

They're not original, but they're older.

Everything that I do to the vehicle, I will keep

the boxes or at least take off part so I

can put it in a scrapbook or something to show

what I did to get it running.

And then you already know what this is, guys.

This is the body trunk.

Everybody comes up and says, man, you can

fit a lot of bodies in there.

Yeah, you can.

This is the replacement starter that

I don't have to put in.

I'm using the one that was on there.

Here's the original AC compressor.

I wish that this hadn't come apart like it did.

I will see if I can

so, this is the original mat

I'm gonna see if I can find another one to replace it

But that's a shame.

But you know, it happens.

So here's the original carburetor, guys.

As you can see, it really just

needs to be cleaned really well.

And for me, it was just easier

for me to just get another one.

Basically it's old, it's corroded, it's nasty. Here it is.

It's a Carter AFB, guys.

Growing up, my stepfather and everybody that I

ever played with, cars that taught me about

cars, they were all Holly guys.

You get a Holly carburetor or Edelbrock.

And I've always used Holly.

So I don't know much about the Carters.

I know some of them were good.

I've heard that these weren't as good, so

I got another one

here's the exhaust manifold.

Now this is where I need to decide what I'm doing.

This is the original exhaust manifold.

Now, I don't know who did it,

but somebody cut it off here.

So I need to get another Y pipe.

So there's no Y pipe on here that goes

from each side of the manifold into the exhaust.

Here's the original coil

radiator hoses.

This is pretty cool.

So this is the original mat that was back here.

And I kind of folded it up because

I didn't want it to get destroyed.

That's pretty cool.

Once this is all taken care of and we got it

back together, we'll stick this back in, we'll clean it, we'll

stick it back in and see how it looks.

There's a company called Fibrenew.

They deal with restoring plastics and car upholstery

So I'm going to get in contact with them and

see if it's something that we can do with this.

I don't know to what level.

So I need to speak with someone.

And we'll get to that point when we're closer

to having it running the way we want it.

Even the original jack location stickers here.

So it's pretty cool.

Guys, look at this.

Talk about an old tire.

This is a 383 big block with the four barrel carb.

The reason they called Chrysler 300 300 is

because they came factory with over 300 HP.

I've been doing my research.

I'm a Ford guy.

Funny thing is, I think I have

more dodges than I do fords.

But I really like the car.

I like the body.

It's a beautiful car.

It's amazing.

Look at this.

It needs to be cleaned,

obviously, but this is beautiful.

I would drive it just the way it is.

Get it running, just drive it the way it is.

It's a beautiful car.

So, guys, what I'm going to do is I'm going to

clean up the mess and everything, and then we'll get situated

and let the battery charge a little bit and we'll go

about seeing if we can get it started. All right?

All right, guys, I'm back.

So I want to show you something real quick.

So what I've done is because I did not take

the car apart, I just started kind of just sticking

stuff in here to see where it goes.

I know this goes here because

this bolt right here is broke. Okay?

And the reason I know that this bolt goes

there is because I had to remove this part

from there before I put this on.

So that told me where the bolt went.

And that allowed me to get

an idea where everything goes.

Again, I did not take this car apart,

so I don't know where everything goes.

And this is my first Chrysler 300.

Not my first Dodge, but my first Chrysler 300.

So I didn't know where everything went.

So I've been just trying to figure out

and see what bolts go where and if

they fit and what has to happen anyway.

So we are going to attempt to start.

As you can see, I have a fuel line running from

here to the pump

to a gas can over here.

Now, people who know, these little pumps are

great, they're good for a lot of things.

So this is just to get fuel

up to the bowl of the carburetor. And that's what I did.

I just filled it up.

So I'm not going to be hooking to pump up.

I filled up the bowl.

It should give it enough to start real quick.

I'm not going to let it run for long

because, again, I don't have any radiator in.

I don't have the fan on. I don't have none of that.

So I don't want to destroy the engine.

This is just to get it to turn over

and see if we're moving in the right direction.

Well, I think you scared the kids.

I'm going to say that that was a success.

Loud, but that was a success.

It needs to run.

We're going to get everything put back together and we'll

let it run and burn off all the stuff.

I did a little bit of cleaning just to

see what the engine looked like and stuff.

And so I've cleaned this stuff here.

So again, it's going to smoke.

But success.

We're moving in the right direction.

So we'll move forward with getting everything put back on

here and then we'll see how the transmission does.

All right, guys, we'll be back.

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