The Car Of Dreams

The only major changes of the 1940 convertible was the discontinuance of the rumble seat in favor of a trunk and the front header bar was now made of metal rather than wood.
1941 saw a dramatic production increase in convertibles, with a 51 percent increase in sales recorded. The war shortened 1942 production year saw the smallest number of Plymouth convertibles built since 1938; only 2,731 were built for the U.S. market and another 73 were exported overseas.
The P15 convertibles of 1946 through 1948 were the last American convertibles to have a Victoria style top with no windows except in the doors. In the car-hungry post-war years these cars sold like hot-cakes and they are still highly prized today.
Convertible production soared with the 1949-1952 models but production declined severely with the 1953 and 1954 models. By this time the vacuum powered top had been replaced by electric tops but other body styles were becoming more popular. The lowly station wagon soon became the everyday family car and the open car began its slide into oblivion. Convertible production reached its U.S. industry peak in 1965 but air conditioning and body styles with vinyl roofs that looked like convertibles helped contribute to the eventual discontinuance of the open car. They had never been sold in great quantity and they cost more to produce--a cost which manufacturers decided was too hard to amortize. Like the horse and buggy, the convertible gave way to modernization--and those remaining examples will continue to grow in value.

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Plymouth-A Pioneer In The Path!

Don't long for Plymouth,actually crave for it! Only a true nut would appreciate a car that is cold, drafty, noisy, leaks water--or is so darn much fun to drive. If you have ever owned one you know the thrill of motoring down the highway with the top down, the wind whistling around yours ears, with the sun shining brightly down on the top of your head. There is nothing like the feel of open air motoring.
Convertibles are a special breed all to themselves. They are like no other automobile. If you have never owned one you will not know the thrill of the musty moisture smell the car acquires from sitting in the sun with the top down, a smell you only notice when the car has been sitting with the top up. If you have never owned a convertible you will not know the thrill of the noises that come into the car as you drive down the road. The studio soundproof quietness of an enclosed car is just not there: the sound of a diesel trunk sitting at your back bumper keeps you nervously glancing in the rear view mirror to make certain he is not really in your back seat. Nor will you know the joy of going to the movies and leaving the car with the top down--only to come out two hours later to discover it has been pouring rain for an hour and a half! Or the sudden increase of words to your vocabulary when a sudden rain storm comes up - and the top won't! And there is absolutely no thrill in the world to match that of lumping onto a hot leather seat while wearing your golf shorts. Ah yes--there is nothing like the thrills of owning a convertible. It is probably for these reasons that the convertible is no longer with us--but personally I would not be without one ragtop.
Chrysler Corporation's last convertible (until the 1980s) was in 1971. The big Plymouth convertible had died in 1970 but the Barracuda convertible continued until 1971.
Plymouth's first open cars began with production in June of 1928. The first Plymouth roadster sold for $670 but after about a month's production the car was equipped with a rumble seat and the price was increased to $675. The rumble seat would be included on at least one of every open model until 1939. In addition to the roadster a 5 passenger phaeton was offered at a price of $695. It was the only Plymouth to feature a two piece windshield.

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Chrysler-The most cherished cars in the auto field.

Chrysler is 80pc controlled by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity company. Daimler this week agreed to give up a 19.9pc stake and the exact ownership structure following the restructuring remains unclear.
# The car maker has been operating under a $4bn emergency loan from the US government since the start of 2009 under its bail-out.
# The company has been bailed out twice by the state - the first was in the late 1970s when the oil crisis saw it receive $1.5bn of loan guarantees to save it from collapse.
# Walter P. Chrysler established Chrysler Corp in 1925. He was the man who laid the cornerstone for the Chrysler Building in 1928, briefly the world’s tallest building and an unmistakable silhouette on the New York skyline.
# Chrysler is said to have invented the minivan - a market it has dominated with the Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country. It holds 39pc of a shrinking market - only 592,000 were sold by all companies in the US last year, down from a peak of 1.37m in 2000.
# The company created the world's first streamlined car, the 1934 Chrysler Airflow.
# In 2008 it posted an $8bn loss, when US sales fell 30pc to 1.45m vehicles as its reliance on high-powered, gas-guzzling cars, trucks and SUVs left it unprepared for rising gas prices and growing green concerns.
# Key brands: Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep.
# Key vehicles: Dodge Ram pickup truck, Dodge Charger, Jeep Wrangler, Dodge Caravan minivan, Chrysler Town & Country minivan.
# Staff: it had about 54,000 employees in December 2008, including more than 40,000 hourly and 13,000 salaried workers. The hourly workforce includes 26,801 in the United States, 8,652 in Canada and 3,862 in Mexico.
# North American plants: Chrysler has 30 facilities in North America, including 12 assembly plants and 18 other facilities for engines.

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Chrysler History -The Path Was Not Flower Strewn Only Determination And Faith In One Self Helped

Roy Chaplin appointed Hugh Chalmers at Thomas –Detroit Motor Company. The name of the company was changed to Chalmers-Detroit and new cars were soon introduced. Two examples managed a 1st and 2nd place finish at the Jericho Sweepstakes race on Long Island in 1908. The following year, four wins, three seconds and three thirds in seven races were won by the three-team cars called the 'Chalmers Bluebirds.'
Chapin and Coffin later left the Chalmers Company; by this point, the 'Detroit' part of the name had been dropped. They had formed Hudson in 1909 with financial support from a Detroit merchant. The Chalmers continued with their line of four-cylinder cars; by 1912, a six-cylinder version had been created.
In 1909, a Chalmers car earned a trophy on the 1909 Glidden Tour and won the event outright in 1910. To promote the cars even further, Chalmers presented cars to the baseball players in each major league with the highest batting average. The most valuable player as chosen by sportswriters was also given a car.
There were five models on four wheelbases offered for sale in 1912 by Chalmers. To add even more variety to the mix, there were four different engines with the smallest being the 30-horsepower four-cylinder unit. This engine came with either the Model 11 Tourer or the Model 9 Coupe or Roadster. The Model 9 had a short 104-inch wheelbase and the Model 11 a 115-inch wheelbase. The Model 10 had a 40-horsepower four-cylinder engine and a 122-inch wheelbase. The top-of-the-line model was the Model 12, fitted with a 54-horsepower six-cylinder engine and resting on a wheelbase that measured 130-inches.

By 1917, the Chalmers had sent new marks for 10 miles, 100 miles and a 24-hour average in speed-record activity. Even with these impressive accomplishments, the company struggled in the post-WWI recession. In 1922 the company merged with Maxwell and later, the combined company became part of Chrysler in 1924.

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Acura-The Car That Flaunts Your Class

Acura is little upmarket car rendering high luxuries impressively.It's features and performance are just marvelous!Usually Acura cars are not known for their glamor and glitzy as the premium Europeam makes. It is absolutely on you how you see it ,whether it is a luxury car or not? The company has been consistent in giving excellent results. Acura is infant in the car industry by birth.Parent company Honda introduced Acura in 1986 in US market.The Acura brand was successful in North America. Car lovers liked feature,performance and upscale look of the car.

Acura's product line grew in 1990.The company quickly caught the nerves of customers and swept the market off with Acura cars!Acura has been designed in house,and incorported many family friendly features.Acura is packed with latest technology ruling the road!

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