Postwar differences

[Bob Riding]

I'm currently listening to a great book- "The Accidental President- Harry Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World". It got me thinking about the differences that Chrysler Corp cars and trucks saw because of the great advances in technology and manufacturing due to the war.

 

I compare my 1940 Plymouth woodie wagon to the 1952 Plymouth Suburban that I'm currently building and the biggest change, of course, was by 1952 Chrysler had abandoned the use of wood. If you can build M3 and M4 Sherman tanks, then a long-roof wagon is no problem! I wondered what other advancements were attributable to WWll and Korea? 

[soth122003]

super/turbo chargers to increase HP in engines for aircraft, but it took a while to put on cars. I believe they had them before WWII, but they weren't mainstream. Mostly for air racing.

 

Fuel injection during Korea for jet aircraft. But aircraft are injected into a single chamber, but it would be a few years before they said Hey maybe we can do this for cars.

 

Joe Lee

[Sniper]

They were fuel injectioning multipiston aircraft engines in WWII

[Bob Riding]

The things I noticed are evolutionary, not revolutionary (like the Airflow) - changing from kingpins to ball joints in '55, wraparound curved glass, increased compression, full flow oil filters, and of course Chrysler's famous turbine car.