Monday, March 28, 2011

graves/williams

Brandon Graves
Justin Williams
Plymouth entered the market with a car that can best be described as "confusing.” It was almost totally new, yet it was looked like the same car sold in years past. Plymouth made many cars. While other company tried to make cars but Walter Chrysler was putting $2.5 million dollars in cars. The 30U was a car back then. The hood louvers were now stamped into a flat side panel rather than in a raised panel. Early 30U engines were still cooled by thermo-syphon cooling while fuel was supplied by a vacuum tank, but by July 1930s the engines had been fitted with fuel.
Chrysler was trying to chance the body of the original body to a steel body. Ford and Dodge had steel body cars before Chrysler and it changed the whole industry. All the change in all the bodies in the car were welded together as a single huge panel for more support. The front and rear bumpers were twin bar variety. Walter Chrysler's strategy helped the new Plymouth in the market, and also helped keep some of his other dealers alive, by giving them a low priced car to offer but good car that got people from point A to point B.
(http://www.allpar.com/history/plymouth/1930.html)

3 comments:

  1. Help me learn about the cars of that time

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  2. i really like this one the best bc it gives a lot of good information and i think it even changed my life a little bit (;

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