The 1955 Chrysler C-300 - The Beautiful Brute

If ever a nickname was attached, the only writer Karl Ludvigsen had arrived with a perfect, as the 1955 Chrysler C-300 of '"Beautiful Brute" called. This car was really looking like a brute power and the car was really the start of the race horses, when they came out with the first 300-horsepower engine in a production car. The C-300 could be the first to be muscle cars, but do not correspond to the popular description of that time a great machine. A superThe car had the larger motor to the smaller body. The engine was by far the largest, but the body was also one of the greatest was, so there is a great machine, even if he ran as a.

In 1951, Chrysler came out with a hemispherical combustion chamber engine with 180HP, which had caused quite a stir and gave an indication of the horses that race heats up over the next 20 years. If people were surprised in 1951, were stunned when the power was increasedup to 300 hp in just 4 years.

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Since 1955, C-300 like the style "Forward Look". Although designed by Virgil Exner, people were joking that there was so much Chrysler parts bin as it was conceived by him. The front clip with grill was taken from the 1955 Imperial with the central part of the model in New York and the Windsor wore the hindquarter. Exner was all this together with the base-model Chrysler bumper and ended up with a design thatto one of the classic body styles of all time. Although it is a model of bare, with no lights or mirror backs, who had been with beige leather interior, and options include power seats and windows, tinted windows, radio and heating and elegant Kelsey-Hayes wire wheels .

Chrysler has had good success (National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing) NASCAR race, with its Hemi engine in 1955. They were second place in NASCAR in 1953 and won theChampionship in 1954. Although most Chrysler held its own until 1955, when NASCAR decided to appear from virtually dominate the construction of the C-300 specifically for NASCAR racing. With firepower off the Hemi engine from 331 cubic inch 300 horsepower, the car was hotter than the production in America. They have won 22 of 40 races in 1955 shows one of the dominant race of all time.

Although the C-300 Chrysler 1725 cars only in 1955 they sold the packageShowroom want people with the monster, the speed record set by the drag strip, was in Salt Flats in Bonneville, and each type of speed races to watch in the middle. Although it was more than 50 years ago, I remember in 1955 when the cars came to the showroom as if it were yesterday. My friends and I were like kids in a candy store as we went from showroom showroom. That was the debut of the new Chevrolet V-8, and they also redesigned the Corvette. Ford introduced its newThunderbird this year. Both have been redesigned Oldsmobile and Buick, and both got their increases performance supercars.

All these and some others have been exciting, but they had passed all the Chrysler C-300. It 'was the first American production car has an engine with 300 hp and more than 4,000 pounds, but weighed pretty amazing statistics. It would be 0-60 mph in less than 10 seconds and had a top end of 130 mph, depending on which of the three optional rearAxle ratios were used.

From an automotive icon and it is with low sales data from the 1955 Chrysler C-300 will bring some eye popping prices when they can be found. One sold for $ 181,500 this year. Not a bad increase in cost $ 4,000 new, which was quite expensive back in 1955. If you're a Mopar collector this would be the crown jewel in your collection.

The 1955 Chrysler C-300 - The Beautiful Brute