Steven M. Charette wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I agree that it'd be nice to include the newer pieces, but you do have to
> draw a line someplace. I think the Engel designed cars are probably the
> place to draw the line, but I still like to look at the back of the '64 and
> imagine that those are tiny fins growing.... It's still got more fin than my
> '61 Plymouth had!
But the '64 "is" an Exner-designed car, isn't it? I'm sure it is. One
of his last. Engel only arrived at Chrysler in '62.
Engel may have made minor changes to it, and certainly was responsible
for the '65, but the basic ideas for the '63 and '64 are Virgil's. If
you can get to photographs of the suddenly-cancelled '62s (usually found
as part of any article about the '61 DeSoto),a you'll see that the '63
and '64 are adaptations of what he'd originally planned for the '62
Imperial.
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