One of a precious few pre-1950 vehicles that always seems to grab my attention by the short bits every time I see one, the Chrysler Town and Country woody convertible is a genuinely stunning vehicle, regardless of whether or not it is dead-nuts stock with it’s straight-eight cylinder mill plugging away or not. It’s not a car you can modify easily, because how do you top post-war beauty and real wood? It’s difficult, for sure. Bathtub-style Chryslers aren’t common, and ones that are half-wood are beyond collectible. These are the kinds of rides that have been “dream cars” far longer than I’ve been alive. Hell, maybe as far back as when my father was born, these cars had a strong following and feverish fan base.
Trevor Ryan from Speedhunters recently got to get up close and personal with the Chrysler that Goodguys founder Gary Meadors commissioned. It’s packing a Viper V-10 under that expansive hood, the one nod to brutal grunt in this otherwise classy sled. Fat whitewalls, wire spoke wheels and the real-deal white ash and Honduras mahogany woodwork evoke images of Hollywood in the 1940s, shining under the lights, looking like a million bucks. It’s got something, an “X” factor, that just grabs you, doesn’t it? The perfect look of the era, with more than enough power on tap…cry foul over the loss of the 323ci straight-eight, but for the reliability factor and the power, we’d take it all day long.
Read more here: 1948 Chrysler Town and Country Convertible by SpeedHunters
That there is one cool $500,000.00 Mopar
The coolest Mopar ever made!
This should be put into mass production so the price could be lowered!
Back in the mid ’70’s I had a ’61 Stude Silver Hawk. I always wanted a ’48 T&C, and some guy up in PA had one, he’d trade me straight up for my Stude. My dad told me not to do the deal, the metals and alloys just after the war were crap, so I didn’t. Always regretted it, but probably wouldn’t have appreciated it as much as i would now, or if it were this car!
well that was a big waste of a woodie t&c. value of the car now is k-car money. what a shame people have no standards nowadays.