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Poll results: '61, '62 or '63 Chrysler?
Voter(s): 23
Poll is closed Dec 21, 2024
'61 Chrysler  -  votes: 10 / 43.5%
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43.5%
'62 Chrysler  -  votes: 9 / 39.1%
9
39.1%
'63 Chrysler  -  votes: 4 / 17.4%
4
17.4%
Tie  -  votes: 0 / 0%
0
0%
Sorry, no interest in this selection.  -  votes: 0 / 0%
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Poll: Which Chrysler? (12/7/2024)

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(@sizedoesmatter)
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'61, '62 or '63 Chrysler?

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If selection is greater than 2 rank them.

 

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1961 Chrysler 300G 3
1962 Chrysler 300H 8a
1963 Chrysler 300J 7

John Bono
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Ed Glorius
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I've always liked the square jawed 1963. It wins, followed by the exuberant 1961. It was close though.


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Frank Reed
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 I prefer the 62 to the others.  ✌️🤔☕️


Frank Reed
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(@moe-parr)
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If no pictures were presented, I'd have voted for the '62 for best styling. But the '61 as pictured is drop-dead GORGEOUS so I voted for it today!

You make this interesting and fun every day, John, thanks as always!


Barry Levittan
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(@perrone1)
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Each one, as issued in that year, are gorgeous. But in competition with each other; for me, it's go big or go home - the Over-The-Top 1961 please.

(Brilliant job John!)



   
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Brush
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My favorite 300 the '62.   '62 followed by the '61 and the '63 I just don't care for.



   
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George Schire
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I eliminated the '62 immediately!  It looks like the '61 with its Fins plucked off!  Too drastic a change for my tastes after the gorgeous '60 and '61s with those iconic Fins.  I will give credit to Chrysler for recovering very nicely in '63, as the body styling and its lower stance made the '63 one very attractive car. 

So today, if I were able to vote a "Tie" between the '61 and '63, I would have. 

As an added note, I personally owned a '63 New Yorker and to this very day aside from only my '62 Oldsmobile Starfire, that '63 Chrysler was the smoothest driving and most comfortable riding car I've ever owned.  


George Schire
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Here's the '62, big and beautiful and red, in 1/18 scale from BoS models:

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Barry Levittan
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Charles Rockett
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In the '63 we see the beginnings of Elwood Engel's 'clean surface' era at Chrysler - my favourite U.S. auto' designer - and it gets my vote.



   
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(@moe-parr)
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@charles-rockett Yes! Chrysler advertised it as the "crisp, new, custom look" and I too like  it very much!

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Barry Levittan
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Since the day it first appeared in showrooms I have loved the look of the '62.  I like the '61 very much but love the trimmer '62.  The '63/64 styling didn't do much for me I'm afraid.



   
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(@sizedoesmatter)
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@moe-parr Barry, love your 1/18 scale from BoS models.


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David Green
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Because, in black, 1961 was my wedding car.



   
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(@bob-jackman)
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@brush I agree Bruce.



   
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(@bob-jackman)
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@sizedoesmatter Me too and Have the model.



   
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