On the estate he inherited, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. established North Wales Stud for the purpose of breeding Thoroughbred horses.

Ann Collins was commissioned to paint more than seventy-five of the leading racehorses of her time, including Citation, commissioned by Nat Herzfeld former President of Tropical Park Race Course, Chrysler II and By Jimminy for Walter P. Chrysler, Dom Bingo for Bing Crosby, Tom Fool for Jock Whitney, and Discovery and Bed o ' Roses for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr.

The assassins track down but fail to kill Pitt Jr. and Matson on Vashon Island in Washington ; Pitt Jr. is just able to jump his recently-purchased 1958 Chrysler 300-D convertible aboard the Vashon Island Ferry, while Kang ’ s assassins crash their black Cadillac CTS.

* 2nd row: Emily Post ; Margaret Mead ; John Held, Jr .; Radio ; Chrysler Building

Its president is Otis M. Waters, partner in the law firm of Timen & Waters, 540-K Chrysler Bldg., New York City.

Only three standard models -- Buick, Chrysler, and Mercury -- had slight year-to-year gains in March sales in the county.

I know a guy named Jack Hamrick, a very bright young engineer who was with Chrysler, and I took him with me to Allstates.

* 2009 – Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

* 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer ( d. 1940 )

During 1951, the wooden bodies were replaced with sheet steel and these vehicles were powered by Chrysler flathead six-cylinder engines and 3-speed manual transmissions.

Following these changes came the switchover to more reliable Chrysler Industrial 318 engines with the automatic Loadflite transmissions.

In 1959, he was hired to work as a model and to do commercial work for General Motors and Chrysler.

Case Study: The Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System.

EUR in 1999, the merger of Daimler-Benz with Chrysler to form DaimlerChrysler in 1998 valued at 36. 3 bil.

In 1964 Marx starred in " Time for Elizabeth ", episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, a truncated version of a play that Groucho Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948.

Apart from historical collections in general museums, modern works of art in glass can be seen in a variety of museums, including the Chrysler Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, which houses the world's largest collection of glass art and history, with more than 45, 000 objects in its collection.

Despite the arrival of serious competitors — namely, the Ford Falcon, Chrysler Valiant, and Japanese cars — in the 1960s, Holden's locally produced large six-and eight-cylinder cars remained Australia's top-selling vehicles.

The term " hoosier " began to take on its negative connotation in St. Louis during the mid-1950s when the Chrysler Corporation built a large automobile assembly plant in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton and closed a plant it had been operating in Indiana.

Five years previously, AMC had been bought by Chrysler.

Jeep is a brand of American automobiles that is a marque of Chrysler Group LLC, a multinational automobile manufacturer in a global strategic alliance with Fiat.

The former Chrysler Corporation acquired the Jeep brand, along with the remaining assets of its owner American Motors, in 1987.

At the same time, Chrysler Corporation wanted to capture the Jeep brand, as well as other assets of AMC.

Chrysler bought out AMC in 1987, shortly after the Jeep CJ-7 was replaced with the AMC-designed Jeep Wrangler or YJ.

Chrysler merged with Daimler-Benz in 1998 to form DaimlerChrysler.

DaimlerChrysler eventually sold most of their interest in Chrysler to a private equity company in 2007.

Chrysler and the Jeep division now operate under the name Chrysler Group LLC.

In 1929, the Chrysler Building was capped with Krupp steel.

On 4 January 1977, Montoneros guerrillas shot and killed Private Guillermo Félix Dimitri of the 10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade on a drive-by shooting while he was on roadblock duty outside the Chrysler factory in the San Justo suburb of Buenos Aires.

An example of this would be the takeover of Chrysler by Daimler-Benz in 1999 which was widely referred to as a merger at the time.

Full-time all-wheel drive was introduced to North American minivans in 1990 with the Ford Aerostar's E-4WD option, followed in 1991 by the Toyota Previa All-Trac, and in 1992 on models made by Chrysler.

Unlike their European counterparts, manual transmissions have disappeared due to lack of demand ; 1995 was the last year for a manual transmission in the Ford Aerostar and Chrysler minivans while GM had previously discontinued the manual transmission in the Chevrolet Astro and GMC Safari.

The DKW Schnellaster, manufactured from 1949 to 1962 was a small monospace ( or one-box ) design featuring its front wheels set forward of the passenger cabin, a short, sloping aerodynamic hood, front-wheel drive, transverse engine, flat load floor throughout with flexible seating and cargo accommodations – the key design ingredients that describe the modern minivan configuration popularized in such notable examples as the Renault Espace and Chrysler Voyager / Caravan minivans.

A European minivan design was conceived in the late 1970s by the Rootes Group in partnership with the French automaker Matra ( which was also affiliated with Simca, the former French subsidiary of the Chrysler Corporation, sold in 1977 to the PSA Group ).

In 1966 Chrysler sold enough of the 426 Hemis to make it available again, and they put it in their new Dodge Charger which had a low-drag rear window that was radically sloped.

A detailed study into SSTO vehicles was prepared by Chrysler Corporation's Space Division in 1970 – 1971 under NASA contract NAS8-26341.

In the original script, the Dude's car was a Chrysler LeBaron, as Dowd once owned, but that car was not big enough to fit John Goodman so the Coens changed it to a Ford Torino.

Chrysler was the only contractor from Michigan, but Medaris persuaded Brucker to leave the decision entirely in the hands of the ABMA.

The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928, passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998 – 2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC, which has an alliance with Fiat.

Eventually Dodge was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928.

Then, in 1964 the new Chrysler 426 Hemi engine so dominated the series in a Plymouth Belvedere " Sport Fury ", the homologation rules were changed so that 1, 000 of any engine and car had to be sold to the public to qualify as a stock part, instead of just 500.

In Spring 2007, DaimlerChrysler reached an agreement with Cerberus Capital Management to dump its Chrysler Group subsidiary, of which the Dodge division was a part.

On June 10, 2009, Italian automaker Fiat formed a partnership with Chrysler in which a " New Chrysler " was formed and was given the name Chrysler Group LLC, which Dodge remains a part of.

* Steppingstone Park, formerly part of the Walter P. Chrysler estate in Kings Point.

Simca was affiliated with Fiat, but later, when Simca bought Ford's French branch, became increasingly controlled by the Chrysler Group, in 1970 becoming a part of Chrysler Europe and a brand rather than independent company.

Like the older Brampton plant ( see " Former Factory Facilities ", below ), this factory was also part of American Motors Canada, Inc., and with the Chrysler buy-out in 1987, became part of Chrysler Canada Limited.