History of Chrysler Corp, Dodge, and AMC/Jeep

History of Chrysler Corp, Dodge, and AMC/Jeep

Some key sections

• Chronology of Chrysler from the 1800s to 1992
• Chrysler and its cars and trucks, by year
• Car and truck histories
• Chrysler corporate facts and history: factories, labs, culture, branding and sales, suppliers, recovery plans, acquisitions (e.g buying Dodge Brothers), and other "corporate" information.
• Ads and marketing
• Biographies and Interviews

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Full-brand histories

• Ancestors: Alden-Sampson to Stoddard-Dayton
  • Chalmers (and E.R. Thomas)
  • Jeffery Cars and 4x4s
  • Maxwell: the company that became Chrysler
• American Motors Corporation (AMC)
  • Hudson: reliable and upscale
  • Nash: small and sophisticated
  • Eagle, the shortest-lived brand
  • Jeep from Austin to Willys
  • Willys-Overland
• https://www.allpar.com/cars/adopted/chalmers.htmlhttps://www.allpar.com/cars/chrysler/index.php
  Chrysler Industrial:
  • Airtemp
  • Amplex and Oilite®
  • Boats and Chrysler Marine
• Chrysler Brand
• Chrysler outside the US
• DeSoto
• Dodge cars
• Dodge trucks (including Karrier and Commer)
• Fargo Truck
• Imperial
• Plymouth
• Rootes Group: Hillman, Humber, Singer, Sunbeam
• Simca, makers of the best-selling car in France
• Associated companies and suppliers:
  • Cummins
  • Fiat
  • Mitsubishi / Diamond-Star Motors
  • Perkins
  • VM Motori

Technologies

• Alternative fuels and efficiency: aero to turbines
• Technological innovations from the olden times onwards
• Alternators
• Electric cars
• Railroad cars and railroad car trucks
• Lean Burn
• Chrysler's CTC technology lab (1998)
• Electrojector: world's first electronic-fuel-injection car
• Linen and velum drawings: from 1925 through 1985
• Torsion bar / leaf spring suspensions
• Fins and aerodynamic stability: 1957 report by Virgil Exner
• Prelubricated bearings
• Fuel injection and turbochargers
• Chrysler goes Front Wheel Drive
• Chrysler-Google autonomous minivans

Vehicle types

• Fleet and squad cars: police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and postal vehicles
• Boats and marine engines
• Campers and motor homes
• School buses
• Military vehicles including tanks and aircraft engines

• Minivans including development information.
• Plymouth convertibles 1928-1971
• Plymouth delivery vehicles: sedan deliveries and panel trucks
• Plymouth wagons 1934-1954: woodies to Suburbans
• Railroad cars
• Rockets (including the Moon rockets)
• Taxis and jitneys: Tough cars for tough duty
• 1928-1957 Model / Serial Number Guide

Historically significant vehicles and projects

• Military and space flight work (including the Moon rockets)
• Racing: Some excellent articles on Chrysler's racing history, covering the Pettys, NASCAR, and much more
• The first Chrysler (1924)
• Aerodynamics: from the beginning to the Superbird.
• Scat Pack and Rapid Transit System: muscle car collections
• MasterTech: the filmstrip-and-record training system
• The best and worst of the Daimler Decade, 2000-2009

The Walter P. Chrysler Museum

• Virtual Guided Museum Tour
• Interview with the leaders of the museum
• Review of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum
• Allpar meet at the museum, 2006
• Final days of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, 2012
• Final day of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, 2016, in photos

Fame

• Mopars in movies
  • Christine, the reason why non-Mopar folk know the 1958 Plymouth Fury
  • Bluesmobile (Dodge Monaco)
• Celebrities' Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge, and Jeep vehicles
  • Johnny Cash's Plymouth, and the Johnny Cash Plymouth contest
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt's Plymouths
  • Statesmen and government leaders
• Mopars on television
• Mopars in music
• Biographies of Chrysler folk, racers, etc. • Interviews with Mopar people • Stories
  
• Pioneers of the American Auto Industry

Engineering and design

• Styling and coloring cars in 1955
• Platform teams: as described by Francois Castaing and Glenn Gardner
• Design and manufacturing of the LH series: innovations in the process
• Cab forward: definition, how it was developed, and why it was important
• Auto development notes
• Using technology to engineer cars and trucks: see our technology page for more links
• Chrysler Institute of Engineering
• Chrysler and the environment, 1993
• Why Chrysler switched side marker lights each year for three years

Engineering and design notes for specific cars

• Neon: innovations in engineering, assembly setup, and employee involvement
• LH series: innovations in engineering and employee involvement (see "the platform team system")
• Durango: Teamwork | Supplier partnerships | Simultaneous design and engineering

Memories and stories

• Memories and stories (full page/list)
• Biographies and interviews

Bits and pieces

• Chrysler corporate facts and history: advertising, plans, eras, etc.
• Car shows from CEMA to the Washington DC Auto Show
• Allpar meets
• Chrysler momentos and Such
• Chrysler's old linen drawings
• Models and promos: model kits and promotional car replicas including reviews and assembly tips.
• Inside The National Automotive History Collection
• The first and oldest Plymouth
• Repeating a historic cross-country trip in a 1909 Maxwell
• Chrysler auction scene, 2007
• 200 miles per gallon: The California Carburetor
• Toyota history (link) in case you were curious about how much they "borrowed" from Dodge, Chevrolet, and Willys ... or about how the US Army gave them their basic quality system
• Production numbers
• Pre-production Lebarons (Richard Benner)

If you are interested in the history of
a particular car, please see the vehicles page. Also see our section on Chrysler corporate facts and history, which includes notes on culture, branding and sales, suppliers, recovery plans, acquisitions (e.g buying Dodge Brothers), and other "corporate" information.

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