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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The Arthur G. Coons Administration Building has been dubbed " the Chrysler Showroom " by campus wags — a reference to its boxy glass lobby.

In 1955 Chrysler produced the C-300 with its 300 HP 331 cu in ( 5. 4 L ) OHV engine, which easily won in 1955 and 1956.

At the very least, Chrysler was able to use some of its other resources.

Borrowing the recently introduced Chrysler Horizon from their European division, Dodge was able to get its new Omni subcompact on the market fairly quickly.

In a move that never lived up to the expectations of its driving forces, Chrysler Corporation merged with Daimler-Benz AG in 1998 to form DaimlerChrysler.

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.

Through most of its history, Chrysler has been the third largest of the " Big 3 " U. S. automakers, but in January 2007, DaimlerChrysler, excluding its luxury Mercedes and Maybach lines, also outsold traditionally second place Ford, though behind General Motors and Toyota.

DaimlerChrysler changed its name to Daimler AG and retained the remaining 19. 9 % stake in the separated Chrysler.

The terms saw Daimler pay Cerberus US $ 650 million to take Chrysler and associated liabilities off its hands.

When the 88 was retired in 1999 ( with a Fiftieth Anniversary Edition ), its length of service was the longest model name used on American cars after the Chrysler New Yorker.

GM styling as a whole lost its frontrunner status in 1957 when Chrysler introduced Virgil Exner's " Forward Look " designs.

Chrysler, together with the Bendix Corporation, introduced a computerized, three-channel, four-sensor all-wheel ABS called " Sure Brake " for its 1971 Imperial.

As then DaimlerChrysler modernized its Sterling Heights Assembly plant in 2006, the old Chrysler Sebring / Dodge Stratus assembly line and tooling was sold to GAZ and was shipped to Nizhny Novgorod in Russia.

Oakland County has shared in the recent economic hardships brought on by troubles at General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, although it has fared better than Detroit and Flint, as its economy is more diverse and less reliant on manufacturing jobs.

In its flat state, the pentaflexagon looks much like the Chrysler logo: a regular pentagon divided from the center into five isosceles triangles, with angles 72-54-54.

It was closed at the end of the 1971 model year, as Chrysler decided to triple-stack its transport trains for the 1972 model year ; its Los Angeles facility couldn't accommodate this change.

Chrysler, the last major private sector employer in the city, moved its corporate headquarters from Highland Park to Auburn Hills between 1991 and 1993, paying the city a total of $ 44 million in compensation.

* Chrysler Corporation provides an in-car turntable 16⅔ rpm record player with 7-inch ultramicrogroove records in its luxury make, the Imperial.

Daimler had recently come through a painful separation from their former American subsidiary Chrysler and needed a quick injection of cash in order to refocus on automotive production.

Soon the whole Chrysler / Simca range was sold under the revived Talbot badge until production of Talbot-branded passenger cars was shelved in 1987 and on commercial vehicles in 1992.

The 1950 Crosley Hot Shot is often given credit for the first U. S. production disc brakes but the Chrysler Crown Imperial actually had them first as standard equipment at the beginning of the 1949 model year.

Electroluminescent automotive instrument panel backlighting, with each gauge pointer also an individual light source, entered production on 1960 Chrysler and Imperial passenger cars, and was continued successfully on several Chrysler vehicles through 1967.

Sylvania Lighting Division in Salem and Danvers, MA, produced and marketed an EL night lamp ( right ), under the trade name Panelescent at roughly the same time that the Chrysler instrument panels entered production.

Mexican production began in 1955 because of agreements with companies such as Chrysler in Mexico and the Studebaker-Packard Corporation which assembled cars imported in CKD form.

Chrysler, who had resigned from many railroading jobs over the years, made his final resignation from railroading to become works manager ( in charge of production ) at Buick in Flint, Michigan.

In 2009 Magna International announced plans to start an automotive seat production operation in the former Chrysler headquarters.

The Vega production cars ( Facel FV, later and more famously the HK500 ) appeared in 1954 using Chrysler V8 engines, at first a DeSoto Hemi engine ; the overall engineering was straightforward, with a tubular chassis, double wishbone suspension at the front and a solid driven axle at the back, as in standard American practice.

Chrysler discontinued production and retired the Eagle brand after 1998.

It was the Jeep brand that Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca really wanted – in particular the ZJ Grand Cherokee, then under development by Jeep engineers, which ultimately proved highly profitable for Chrysler ( the nameplate remains in production today ).

Plymouth almost received their own rendition of the LH platform, which was to be called the Accolade, but Chrysler decided to nix this idea not long before LH production started.

These models were in many ways far advanced from what would be produced by any automaker at the time, save Chrysler, which would soon feel public wrath for its own poor quality issues after rushing its all − new 1957 lines into production.

Thanks to this deal, Chrysler began selling the Galant in the United States as the Dodge Colt ( which was the first rebadged Mitsubishi product sold by Chrysler ,) pushing MMC's annual production beyond 250, 000 vehicles.

Annual production had by now grown from 500, 000 vehicles in 1973 to 965, 000 in 1978, when Chrysler began selling the Galant as the Dodge Challenger and the Plymouth Sapporo.

Mitsubishi finally achieved annual production of one million cars in 1980, but by this time its ally was not so healthy ; As part of its battle to avoid bankruptcy, Chrysler was forced to sell its Australian manufacturing division to MMC that year.

Diamond-Star Motors ( DSM )— from the parent companies ' logos: three diamonds ( Mitsubishi ) and a pentastar ( Chrysler )— was incorporated in October 1985, and in April 1986 ground was broken on a 1. 9 million square-foot ( 177, 000 m² ) production facility.

Chrysler was awarded the prime production contract and began missile and support equipment production in 1952 at the newly-renamed Michigan Ordnance Missile Plant in Warren, Michigan.

Following the cancellation of a planned Navy jet engine program, the facility was made available to the Chrysler Corporation for missile production.

Redstone production by the Chrysler Corporation was halted in 1961.