[Chrysler300] '50s Hardtops

["Don Warnaar" <300country@xxxxxxx>]

This topic certainly has become interesting.

It is well known that Chrysler experimented with a 2 door hardtop in 1946 with the Town & Country.  But six examples doesn't exactly make it a true production model.  They missed the boat with that one, and of course we all know that GM made the big splash with the Riviera, Holiday, and Coupe de Ville a few years later.

The hardtop names became a bit confusing in the mid '50s when the names were extended to full model series in many instances.  And then the 4 door hardtops arrived, adding to the confusion.

Terry McTaggart wrote to me about excluding the Imperial.  Good point.  The Imperial began as a separate marque in 1955 and used the Newport name also at first.  Before that, of course, it had been a Chrysler Imperial Newport.

The 1955 Chrysler 300 (how's that for sneaking in the 300 related material into this email), as far as I know did not have any other name to indicate it was a hardtop.  I never thought of it as a 300 Newport.  It was just the Chrysler 300.  Rich Barber, resident C300 expert, can you add to this?

Don Warnaar

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