Mopars and More: 2025 Detroit Autorama’s custom cars and clever vendors
Some key sights of the inventive show’s brief Detroit run
The Quite Exhaustive Valiant Creation Story
Creating the Valiant, Fore-Runner of the Plymouth Duster and Dodge Dart
Deep specs for the Mopar 1974 Slant Six car engines
Some normally unreported specifications for Mopar 225 and 198 slant sixes
Chrysler 200 Convertibles
The final Sebring Convertible, renamed to 200S and 200C
from 6/14/24
Birth of the Chrysler Newport: 1960-62
How the Chrysler Newport was born; the first generation of the Chrysler-styled DeSoto
from 9/19/22
Maxwell, US Motor, Standard: pre-Chrysler, 1904 to 1925
How Maxwell Motors morphed into U.S. Motor Company and Standard Motor, then finally became Chrysler Corporation in 1925 after making Chryslers for a year
from 9/24/23
Behind the Fratzog
Memorable 1960s-70s Icon Returning for 2025
from 7/28/22
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