“They go well together—Orchids and the Chrysler Town & Country—perfect background for those to whom distinction comes naturally. There’s an air about this glorious convertible—a whisper of country clubs and moonlight rides…There’s poise in every dashing line—a car that’s at ease in any company.” As quoted from a 1946 Chrysler advertising promotion that was the image behind this car; an image that shifted the focus of a soldier and his time served to that of a citizen with time to sit back, relax and enjoy.

The beautiful Chrysler being offered is one of only approximately 400 convertible New Yorkers made in the lowest production year for the Town & Country model. Annual production totals were not recorded, but for the 1946 through 1948 model years, 8,368 New Yorker Town & Country convertibles were built.

For 1946, the glamorous Town & Country Convertible debuted, with public anticipation heightened by an enticing national advertisement campaign and a two-page spread in the Saturday Evening Post. Reportedly, anxious public interest dictated that the new model was built directly from sketches to meet the looming time constraints.

The elegant wood- and metal-bodied luxury car is powered by an eight-cylinder 323.5-cid, 135-hp engine with a Fluid-Drive semi-automatic transmission and four-wheel drum brakes. This Town & Country convertible was restored in the 1980s and continues to maintain a handsome look. This exciting and popular model has a strikingly rounded rear deck, in this case enhanced by a Continental kit, and is accented by body elements finished in maroon with a similar color of interior and contrasting wood. Among the features for the Town & Country convertible are power top operation, clock, radio, twin spotlights, dual mirrors, Mopar amber foglights, center front bumper guard, wide whitewall tires and chrome factory hubcaps with trim rings.

Chrysler’s Town & Country remains perhaps the single most beloved and collectible automobile of both the immediate pre- and post-war eras.