Chrysler Imperial Parade Phaeton
The Chrysler Imperial Parade Phaeton was a prototype produced in three copies by the US automobile manufacturer Chrysler.
It was an open four-door model with a long wheelbase, as the vehicle name suggests. Of particular note was the design as Doppelphaeton means (ger .: Dual Cowl Phaeton), it means that each have their own windshield was installed in front of the front and rear seats.
Three copies were built and remained in the Chrysler Corporation's New York, Los Angeles and Detroit locations, from where they were made available for public events. At the end of 1955, the vehicles were fitted with more powerful engines at the factory, and they were given new bodies in the style of the contemporary Imperial models . Two of the three cars still exist today and are in private hands.
The historical value of this model lies in the fact that it was the first work of the designer Virgil Exner , who joined Chrysler in 1949 , and that conceptually anticipated the lines of the Chrysler and Imperial models of the 1955 vintage.