Some not to great news coming from Michigan this week as it has been announced that the Walter P Chrysler Museum will be turned into “much needed” FCA office space and will no longer house any cars after the middle of December. Yes, you have less then a month to stick your face into the building to see the 67 cars that remain there before they are dispersed to different company locations across the USA.
The museum has a weird history. Opened in 1999 and then closed in 2012, it was initially profitable and then became a cash drain on a company that could not afford to lose any cash. From 2012 though the spring of 2016 the only people who were in the building were non-Chrysler employees that could visit on special occasions. Then earlier this year a group of Chrysler employees agreed to volunteer their time and run the museum basically for free. Hemmings reports that the volunteer effort was capable of covering its costs for the days that the museum was open but it was not a money earner.
Hemmings has a full and detailed story below. The last thing we’ll tell you is that the remaining dates to check to the Walter P Chrysler Museum ever are:
November 5 and 6
November 19 and 20
December 17 and 18.
The museum will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m
Hemmings story on the closing of the Walter P Chrysler Museum
Yet on the other edge of town you have the Henry Ford museum, which looks like it’s not going anywhere? Poor ol Chrysler? Truly a bean counter decision for them.
Fiat doesn’t care about old Mopar history, and really it shouldn’t..
Problem was no one cared, as no one went.. There was a reason it has been open only week ends for a long time, and shuttered in 2012.. then re-opened with limited hours..
Mopar guys are to busy with auctions to support a museum..
They seem to have more money than sense, maybe they can house them.
No racing, Ram trucks now the end of the history of Chrysler. What’s next Sergio…a Fiat Hellcat?
Fiat was going to put some of their cars in the museum but no one could recognize one pile of rust from another
They should move It to Ellis, Kansas to Walter P. Chrysler’s boyhood home.