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1948 Chrysler Town and County Convertible | March 21, 2008
At the conclusion of WWII, the automobile manufacturers of the world ceased production of military items and resumed the production of cars. In America, production was resumed at a furious pace as each company tried to emerge as the vehicle of choice to secure their position in the marketplace. To this end, Chrysler's Town & Country automobile was rather ingenious. With steel still in short supply, Chrysler built T&Cs with readily available materials such as white ash and mahogany wood panels. The result - the exciting and visually pleasing Town and Country - was well received by the public. The “Town and Country” name, by the way, was derived from the combination of the car’s steel (representing 'Town') and wood (representing 'Country.')

Chrysler hired skilled wood-working artisians to handbuild the bodies of each these cars. Therefore, in the own way, each Town and Country is different. Most examples used different treatments of wood types and steel.

This car’s body was framed with white ash, fitted with interlocking miters, and varnished to perfection. In 1948, it sold for $3,395.

Town and Countrys were built on C-39 chassis and featured a 323.5 cubic-inch Spitfire Straight Eight engine developing 135 horsepower coupled to a fluid drive transmission.
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