Finest Car America Have Yet Produced
1952 Advertisement for Chrysler Imperial
The Chrysler Imperial, and this is what the name finally expresses, was one of the best and most luxurious the company had to offer. With a top-steered Hemihead V8 engine and 5426 cc, it delivered around 180 bhp (132 kW) to the rear wheels. Imperial was also the length of the car with just under 5.41 m and guaranteed not to fit in every garage! The successor year of 1954 had then already exactly 6.00 meters. The weight was of course also very imperial-potent, which the engine had to drive, depending on the model between 2.0 and 2.6 tons.
I have been practicing vintage car photography for more than 35 years and here I mainly photograph normal everyday vehicles which were still on the road en masse over 30 years ago. But also cars with extraordinary, beautiful design. From time to time I take pictures of cars, .. Read more…