Photo Feature: 1940 Plymouth DeLuxe Convertible

摘要

When he launched the Plymouth brand in the middle of 1928, Walter P. Chrysler hoped that it would one day overtake Ford, and 1940 was the year that the marque came closest to achieving that goal. Plymouth's production total of more than 423,000 was within 120,000 units of Ford-and Plymouth might have beaten Ford had not an eight-week strike interrupted production early in the model year. As it was, Plymouth was in third place behiind Chevrolet and Ford.