Copper keepsake from Chrysler-Plymouth at the 1933 World’s Fair

In 1929, the Great Depression hit. Walter Chrysler decided that it was time to invest heavily in his Plymouth division

And Plymouth at that time was basically the old Maxwell. So they created a brand new Plymouth for 1932

Sales went up from 100,000 a year to 250,000 a year, so they had plenty of money to show off at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

Keep in mind that their 1932 Plymouth had very high performance in handling and in safety compared to its competitors

GM and Ford didn't have all steel bodies, but Plymouth did. Now the World's Fair was supposed to be just one year, but it kept going into 1934 to amortize the costs

And this was a souvenir ashtray that was probably stamped on the spot as a sort of souvenir

And you can see that it's got a picture of Chrysler's World's Fair building on it

They had a massive display, the largest exhibit, seven acres of land, including a racing track, sunken gardens

and a million candle power floodlights focused on that main building. They had a drop forge. They made safety glass there. They had the Belgian Rolls. They had a wind tunnel

Six times a day, Barney Oldfield, the famous racer, and his Helldrivers, a group of stuntmen, set up a performance

And at the end of each show, one of them rolled over on one of the cars just to show off the strength of the body

Pete Rockenova lent me this very nice ashtray. I went online looking for more information, and I found it on eBay. I might not have wanted to see that, but there it is

But it's quite a nice ashtray, and it was very nice of him to lend it to me for filming

And because of that, I'm going to talk about his club, the Restored Rusty Relics, for a moment

The Rusty Relics are in place. The club has been around since 1969, so it's over half of a century old

So I invite you to come to a meeting. You can find them at restoredrustyrelics.com

and you can find their big car show at northjerseyautoshow.com. This is Motel's Dave, signing off