Many of our customers enjoy vintage cars. Like fine audio equipment, older cars have pleasing   engineering & visual designs. Cars from the 1950s & 60s inspired many tube amplifier front panels. Like vintage electronics, vintage cars have a large part in American history & culture.  

   The first car is a 1965 Plymouth Valiant Signet convertible. In the movie "PARADISE HAWAII STYLE", Elvis Presley drives this model & color car. In "CROCODILE DUNDEE", the hero, Paul Hogan, drives a 1965 Valiant utility pickup, made only in Australia, to the Outback. Twin Fin wine has this car on the label.
  
    Less than 2,000 1965 Plymouth Valiant convertibles were made. With its high performance V8 & four speed manual transmission, this car is even more rare. Only a few hundred were made. In 1965 Ford made over 100,000 Mustang convertibles. Early Valiants are a favorite of both road & drag racers, since these are the lightest V-8 cars Chrysler ever made. In the first Daytona compact car race, Valiants swept the first seven places. 

    This car has a 360" V-8, Edelbrock RPM Air Gap intake manifold, four barrel card, dual exhausts, limited slip differential, frront & rear sway bars & later four speed overdrive manual transmission. Its 8.75" rear axle was also used in many larger 440 V-8 cars, plus pickups, vans & Checker cabs. Future Valiant upgrades include
adding disc brakes.  

     On the far left is a 1948 Chrysler Windsor with a 251 cu. inch flathead six. Chrysler 
flathead sixes powered 1940-68 Dodge military four wheel drive trucks. Five flathead sixes in a single 30 cylinder engine powered most Sherman tanks. In the movie Exodus, a 1948 Chrysler is the get away car. The woody convertible version of 1947-50 Chryslers, the "Town & Country", was a favorite of Hollywood celebrities, including Bob Hope. 

     The next car is a 1972 Plymouth Duster. A similar Duster is on the cover of the CARS LP, "HeartBreak City". The Duster was a two door coupe version of the Valiant compact. Powered by the 340 cubic inch V8, the Duster could "dust-off" many big block cars.

     The next car is a 1960 Chrysler Windsor. Virgil Exner, one of Detroit's most influential stylists, designed this & the car to the far right. A biography of Virgil Exner features this model car on the cover. Andy Granatelli set records at Bonneville, running almost 200 miles per hour with a modified 1960 Chrysler 300F.

     On the far right is a 1957 Chrysler 300C with a 392 cubic inch hemi V8, dual four barrel carbs & 375 horsepower, the highest of any 1957 car. The 300 nameplate started in 1955 for the first U.S. 300 horsepower car. The hemi V8 powered many dragster cars & boats, with over 3,000 horsepower. 

    The 1957 Chryslers featured their first torsion bar suspensions & Torqueflite automatic transmissions, operated by pushbuttons. An RCA under-dash record player was optional, preceding cassettes & 8-tracks by 12 years. The 1957 300C inspired the current Chrysler 300C. A 2007 U.S. postage stamp featured a 1957 300C in the same color.

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      Updated 07/23/10

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