re: Chrysler et Les Vingt Quatre Heure du Mans

[dsedon@domain.elided]

hi john,

ok, i stand corrected - the chrysler 300 of the 1950's may be in my lifetime, much the same way as the cars of the 20's were in yours...  ;~)  viva chrysler!!!  :>)

and, yer comment to "contrarians" about a fwd car coming in sixth certainly makes sense to me - yust a few steps off the pace...  much like today!  :>)

regards,

doug s.
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   "...Within my lifetime (barely, by about five months) Chrysler took
   respectable third and fourth places at Le Mans in 1928, behind the 
   winning Bentley and second-place Stutz, both of which had larger engines 
   than the Chryslers. Also of possible interest to contrarians is that a  
   front-wheel-drive car (an Alvis) took sixth, and that all four of the 
   fwd cars entered finished..."

   "...I'm not too familiar with the later records, but Martin Swig, the 
   noted California Alfa dealer and collector (and impresssario of the 
   California Mille, I believe) showed up at the St.Louis Alfa convention a 
   few years ago in a fifties-vintage Chrysler 300 which he greatly enjoyed 
   as a road car, so at least one respectable Alfa person saw some merit in 
   some Chryslers beyond the halcyon twenties. Personally, I've never paid 
   much attention to them, but on their record the company did build some 
   fair cars..."


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