No you aren't, you're looking at Chrysler's new marketing tool. It's called the 300 sport. It has vinyl seats, a 383, and normal tires. The good news is that they're making a 300H, the bad news is you probably won't want to buy it. Only 558 people did, which was a new low for the marque. In the eyes of the purists, it was over. You just didn't take a line of cars like the 300, borrow the name, and stick it on a Windsor. If you did, you had to pay a price. 558 was the price.

From a 300 perspective, the 300H wasn't a bad car. It packed an in line dual quad 380 hp 413 which bore a strange resemblance to the 300E engine, backed by the venerable Torqueflite. The showroom catalog doesn't list any optional engines, but there was an optional 405 hp ram injected engine, probably available as a dealer installed package. The interior was pretty much the same as the 300G in theory, but had seats that looked strangely like the ones found in a 300F. The interior was a darker brownish color. The beautiful Astradome (not Astrodome, that's a baseball stadium) dash from 1960 was continued for the last time. 7.60 x 15 Goodyear Blue Streaks adorned the wheels. Hey, no optional 3 speed stick! Hooray. No more fins either, and no more sales. Today, the H is collectible because of its low production numbers. Odd, isn't it, that a car is desirable now because nobody wanted it 44 years ago. 

There was some obvious absorption going on here, as well. The 300H now shared the 122 inch wheelbase with the Newport and 300 sport, whereas previous editions had been built on the 126" New Yorker wheelbase. Keep this is mind when scrounging for parts, especially sheet metal. The H engine no longer had individual serial numbers, and just about everything from the 300H except the interior could be ordered on a sport 300. 

The guy who had this idea probably got a raise, because the regular 300 sold well. The only victim was the real 300, which nobody seemed to want anymore because, at quite a bit more money than the regular 300, it just didn't make any sense. The final stupid move was to offer the H engine in the sport for $486.00. Now there really wasn't any reason to buy the H. Unless people looked inside the car or  had Superman's vision and could see the tiny "H" on the trunk, who'd know? Maybe it is and maybe it isn't, it could be, but maybe it shouldn't be. The heck with it, let's get a '59 DeSoto Adventurer. At least everybody recognizes those.

The sales figures showed one thing..........the 300 letter car was being phased out. Possibly by Chrysler, and definitely by the public. Bob Rodger's idea was becoming a commercialized pump and dump scheme with a two barrel carburetor. The end was near.