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ever a moniker was applicable, the one author Karl Ludvigsen came up with was perfect when he called the 1955 Chrysler C-300 the "Beautiful Brutes". This car was really a brute in looks as well as power and was the car that really hit off the horsepower race when it came out with the first 300 horsepower engine in a production car. The C-300 could be thought to be the first brawn car but it didn't eligible the fashionable description of what was then called a super car. To be a super car the engine had to be the biggest one in the smallest body. The engine was the biggest even now but the body was too one of the largest, so it wasn't a super car even though it ran like one.
In 1951 Chrysler came out with a Hemispherical Combustion Chamber engine with 180HP which caused quite a stir and gave an indication of the horsepower race that was working to heat up over the next 20 years. If people were startled in 1951, then they were flabbergasted while the horsepower was raised to 300HP in just 4 years.
The 1955 C-300 was cried the "Forward Look" styling. Even though it was designed along Virgil Exner, people joked that it was designed as much from the Chrysler parts binary for it was by him. The front mow along with the barbecue was taken from the 1955 Imperial with the midsection from the New Yorker model and the Windsor contributed the rear quarter. Exner was competent to put all these attach by with bottom model Chrysler bumpers and finished up with a design that cornered out to be one of the classical body styles of all period. While it was a stripped down model with not back up lights or out side mirrors it did come with tan leather upholstery and the options embodied power seats and windows, tinted glass [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], radio and heater and stylish Kelsey-Hayes wire wheels.
Chrysler had agreeable success in NASCAR (National Association Of Stock Car Automobile Racing) racing with their Hemi engines in the years leading up to 1955. They were 2nd in NASCAR in 1953 and won the competition in 1954. Even though the Chryslers more than held their own it wasn't until 1955 when it appears they decided to prevail NASCAR by basically establishing the C-300 particularly for NASCAR racing. With a Firepower Hemi engine putting out 300 horses from 331 cubic inches it was the hottest production car in America. They won 22 out of the 40 races in 1955 in one of the maximum dominant racing displays ever.
Although the Chrysler C-300 merely sold 1,725 cars in 1955 they packaged the showrooms with people ambitioning to look the devil that was setting speed records from the tow strip to the Bonneville Salt Flats and all types of speed events in between. Even though it was over 50 years ago I memorize when the 1955 cars kick the showrooms like it was yesterday. My buddies and I were like kids in a sugarplum cache as we went from showroom to showroom. That was the year Chevrolet debuted their new V-8 and they also had the newly designed Corvette. Ford brought out their new Thunderbird that year. Both Oldsmobile and Buick were redesigned and their super cars both got power increases.
All of these and several additional were exciting merely the an namely topped them always was the Chrysler C-300. It was the first American making car apt have one engine with 300 HP and even whereas it weighed over 4 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 pounds the statistics were beautiful extraordinary. It would do 0-60 MPH in fewer than 10 seconds and had a top end of over 130 MPH relying above which an of the 3 optional rear axle percentages were accustomed.
Due to it being an automotive icon and with cheap sales mathematics the 1955 Chrysler C-300's send some eye popping amounts when they tin be found. One sold earlier this year as $181 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],500. Not a wrong mushroom from the $4,000 they spend current, which was pretty costly behind in 1955. If you are a Mopar Collector this would be the cap gem in your collection.