Australian Muscle Car

Professor Victor Haight

I don’t know if you’ve heard but Chrysler has quit Australia. Does anyone even care? I don’t. As far as I’m concerned, Chrysler left us a year or so ago when they decided to stop selling the 300C here.

Not that I was ever a fan of the 300C. I never liked the slab-sided, fake-chopped retro look – although I accept that matters of taste are subjective. I’m sure there were plenty of people who thought the thing looked ‘real cool.

But whether you loved it or hated it, the thing about the 300C was that it was a full-sized, rear-wheel drive, four-door sedan with old fashioned V8 grunt, at a reasonable

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