Lot 130

Hilton Head 2015

1948 Chrysler Town & Country

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$100,000 - $125,000 USD | Not Sold

United States | Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

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Identification No.
7406169
  • Spitfire 323.5-cid, 135-hp inline eight-cylinder engine
  • Fluid Drive automatic transmission
  • Limited production with far fewer survivors
  • Popular and desirable "woodie" body
  • Spotlight
  • Power-operated canvas soft-top

For 1946, the fashionable Town & Country Convertible was presented. Urged on by an enticing advertisement campaign and a two-page spread in the widely read Saturday Evening Post, anxious public interest in the new Chryslers prevented the firm from making any clay models or prototypes. As a result, the car was reportedly built directly from sketches to meet impending time limitations. Cosmetically little changed in the first three years. The new Town & Country Convertible was based on the upscale New Yorker series and offered a wide variety of luxurious appointments.

Priced new from $3,400, Chrysler’s elegant Town & Country Convertible was the most expensive model available in the entire Chrysler model range, exceeding any other model in the New Yorker series and eclipsing the more moderately priced Royal, Windsor and Saratoga. All told, approximately 8,400 convertibles were built for 1948, with many less said to remain in existence.

The car offered here is finished in green with a green and tan interior and a tan canvas power-operated soft-top. This Town & Country convertible is powered by the New Yorkers big Spitfire 323.5-cid L-head inline eight-cylinder engine with 135-hp, and is also equipped with Fluid Drive transmission for cruising ease, as well as a spotlight, pushbutton radio, dual sideview mirrors, turn signals, wide whitewalls, spare tire and clock. The interior has many Art Deco inspired trim elements, combined with a truly distinctive body design that allowed the owner to be at ease if the going was on country roads, up through the mountains, or on a jaunt down the boulevard to the club. This beautifully styled machine has all of the elements needed for motoring enjoyment in both town…and country.