Re: Walter Chrysler
Back in the late 80's I became fascinated with the late 50's/early 60's chryslers. I read everything. Maybe some here know firsthand but in the fall of '56 when the Chryslers for '57 came out, the entire world went gaga over their lowslung and futuristic design and the other big 3 manufacturers stood there big and bloated with their pants down.... They scrambled all the next year to revamp their entire lines to catch up... IMO, there has been no automotive exterior design revolution as big as that year, since. That modernity exists even today.
Chrysler's interior stylists had to figure a way to lower the seats and raise the headroom in these low bodies 'cause Chrysler did not want any gentleman to have to take off his hat when he got in the car- throughout the 60's.
(wouldn't be prudent to leave out the minor detail that they were totally prone to be rust buckets..and other quality issues)
but cool indeed.
maxwell there may have even been a mcnamara connection to chrysler, though I know he was at Ford. If you had been posting in the height of the vietnam war, you would have been all over that....
Last edited by V-12; Nov 4, 2007 at 11:17 AM.