(Pics) 1947 Chrysler Windsor

Excellent pictorial - as always Mike!!

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Great presentation, and the perfect color for that Chrysler!

I enhanced mine a bit with some clear red paint on the tail lamps and center stop lamp and some bare metal foil on the chrome moldings.     I hope for some Plymouths or Dodges of this era.

@mikedetorrice I never cease to be amazed at how you can make your models come to life. Well done once again.

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I always seem to be partial to your photos that have a little something extra in the air!  😎

Thanks, all ! An inexpensive yet nicely done replica of a solid-looking vintage 1947 Chrysler.

And yep, Karl, that's a Republic XF-12 Rainbow aircraft flying overhead. It was a prototype plane designed for U.S.A.F. photo-recon with four Pratt and Whitney R-4360 28 cylinder 4-row radial engines of 3500 hp each and nearly 450 mph. Neither it nor the Hughes Aircraft XF-11 were actually picked by the Air Force and they instead used RB-29's for a time.

Chrysler went on to soon develop the hemi V-8 for automobiles ...... and the rest is history !

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Thanks for info on the airplane in photo.

You are welcome, Ed ! The car, the diecast model and the aircraft are all pretty cool in my view.  

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Thanks, all ! An inexpensive yet nicely done replica of a solid-looking vintage 1947 Chrysler.

four Pratt and Whitney R-4360 28 cylinder 4-row radial engines of 3500 hp each and nearly 450 mph. N

And can you believe they used eight of those R-4360 engines on Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose!   224 cylinders with a total of 448 spark plugs.  Full employment for aircraft mechanics.

Pretty cool ! I saw the HK-1 Hughes "Spruce Goose" at Long Beach, CA many years ago. And for an actual giant production plane, the Convair B-36 had six R-4360's radials and four J-35 jets ..... all quite impressive.

I believe during WWII, Ford produced a 30 cylinder engine for armored tanks (5 coupled 6-cylinder motors) and Chrysler a huge V-16 for a special version of the XP-47H Thunderbolt. America's adversaries had no idea of the production capabilities of U.S. industry and the automobile sector mass production output

Excellent pictures and writeup Mike. I have had this model in my collection for many years and it's still a favorite.