IML: Chrysler History
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IML: Chrysler History



Hi all -

The historical message below made me think to highly recommend (not news though) the biography of Walter P. Chrysler, "Chrysler - The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius" by Vincent Curcio. I just finished a copy bought at a library sale for $3. There's some Imperial lore in the book, including the tale of how he gifted his mistress in 1930 with two Isotta-Fraschinis, possibly thinking his own Imperials "were not good enough" for her, but apparently were good enough for wife Della and his four children. A true working man, a great leader, but not exactly a saint.

Bob

At 08:54 PM 6/25/2007, you wrote:
Actually, there are five Grosse Pointe communities, the City, Park, Woods, Farms and Shores. City and Shores are the most premium, the Shores is newer. Edsel Ford built his final, huge estate in&nbsp; GP Shores, after two homes in Detroit's Indian village; the Edsel Ford estate remains today as a major historic site. Indian Village was also the home of some of the Dodge brothers offspring, and is about two miles west of the Jefferson plant, on the same named street. Henry I never left Fairlane, in Dearborn, about 20 miles inland, Henry II lived in the Pointe's as do many of the rest of the clan.<br>Not only was the Imperial plant only a few miles away, so was the Clairpointe pilot production plant (across the street from "Jefferson"), where all of the early test cars, often including the photo and press cars, were hand built; the GP locations were convenient for press photos in nice



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