Hemmings Classic Car

Just the Right Attitude

“…GM and Ford were more mainstream, yet Chrysler cars seemed to be the choice of the savvy buyer.”

hen I was a young kid, in the early ’70s, our family cars came from the Chrysler Corporation and the same was true for most members of my extended family as well. I was already fascinated with cars, and I seemed to figure out pretty quickly that Dodges and Plymouths were produced by the same company that made the cars bearing the Chrysler nameplate. Our household relied

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