Vintage Snapshots: Chrysler Products Of 1957-1958 – Suddenly It’s 1960!

Let’s revisit the “Suddenly It’s 1960!” generation of Chrysler products through these vintage images. Many words have been devoted on this site and elsewhere to these products, in many ways the apex of the postwar Jet-Age fascination. As many have said, the arrival of these Chrysler products in 1957 was a defining moment.

It’s also commonly known that their quality woes in their rush to production soured many buyers, leaving a starcrossed legacy. But before all that happened, the cars were an eye-grabbing presence on the roads, as these images will show.

At least one product of each of Chrysler’s divisions is featured in this gallery, either posing on their own or alongside some admirer. As known, the whole fin-age would quickly die after ’57-’58. But the impression they caused has remained with us ever since.

 

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