Although this model has been called the "Silver Edition" or "Silver Special", the Chrysler ads call it the "Silver 300". We have a copy of the Silver K ad. From an email in 2013 from Merle Wolfer: "There were 255 300K Silver Specials built and 2152 of the non-letter Silver Specials built. The Silver Special was a spring special car and it had the code 22-9 attached. 22 was for the paint and 9 for the black vinyl top.
You could order the car in a different color than silver and a few of those were sold. In that case the first two digits were for paint color and the last number 9 for the top (##-9)".
Click here for an article by Merle, a note on the Roman Red Silver K, the K option list, and a K invoice.

This car was originally sold to California -- note the oil cap breather line to the air cleaner.
The dual master cylinder is a recent upgrade.

John Hertog did the restoration work on this car. Completed in Long Island, John elected to drive the car back here. He stopped at the James Ryerson Chrysler dealership in nearby Moravia, NY and took this picture. You can see from the style of the signs, this had been a Chrysler dealership back into the 1920s. John, being the outgoing guy he was, went in and met Jim Ryerson who was in the process of closing the dealership (Note the for sale sign). A deal was struck for a truck load of spare parts stored up the dusty attic (Note the red truck to the left). This was in April of 1999. I would see Jim now and then until he passed away at the age of 92 in July of 2020.

Click here for a slide show of the restoration.

The sill plates need to be buffed. I use a hand held drill to spin the buffing wheel.	This is not a job to be done in the car. Buffing residue gets everywhere.
Driver side sill plate buffed.	Chrome polish to the bumper. I got only part way before the fingers quit.

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