IML: Chrysler History

[Bob Schmitt <bsbrbank@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all -

The historical message below made me think to highly recommend (not 
news though) the biography of Walter P. Chrysler, "Chrysler - The 
Life and Times of an Automotive Genius" by Vincent Curcio.  I just 
finished a copy bought at a library sale for $3.  There's some 
Imperial lore in the book, including the tale of how he gifted his 
mistress in 1930 with two Isotta-Fraschinis, possibly thinking his 
own Imperials "were not good enough" for her, but apparently were 
good enough for wife Della and his four children.  A true working 
man, a great leader, but not exactly a saint.

Bob

At 08:54 PM 6/25/2007, you wrote:
> Actually, there are five Grosse Pointe communities, the City, Park, 
> Woods, Farms and Shores. City and Shores are the most premium, the 
> Shores is newer. Edsel Ford built his final, huge estate in  GP 
> Shores, after two homes in Detroit's Indian village; the Edsel Ford 
> estate remains today as a major historic site. Indian Village was 
> also the home of some of the Dodge brothers offspring, and is about 
> two miles west of the Jefferson plant, on the same named street. 
> Henry I never left Fairlane, in Dearborn, about 20 miles inland, 
> Henry II lived in the Pointe's as do many of the rest of the 
> clan.<br>Not only was the Imperial plant only a few miles away, so 
> was the Clairpointe pilot production plant (across the street from 
> "Jefferson"), where all of the early test cars, often including the 
> photo and press cars, were hand built; the GP locations were 
> convenient for press photos in nice



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