Hi, Well, rereading my post I can see a small typo was made. It should have read 1953-54 Plymouth Cranbrook.
I suppose some sort of licensing or advertising fees were arranged, just as they are now with various "signature" model cars and trucks. Still, the name Cranbrook may have older roots than just the academy, and maybe Chrysler took advantage of that possibility. A friend's father had a 1954 Plymouth Cranbrook that his son, Gary, and I, entered into a rally in NYC back in the mid-sixties. It was wild and lots of fun. The rally started in Greenwich Village, and the official starter was Jean Shephard (http://www.flicklives.com/Misc/who_is.htm) , who stood atop a parked car and gave us the go ahead. We followed a route through NYC, uptown, crosstown, all around the town, and ended up at the starting point. The neat thing about this event was that it was all in fun, there were no classes of entries - everyone was on the same footing and in the same "class" -and there were people like Gary and me (teenagers then) driving clunkers and such, all the way to up the scale to full-fledged rally cars and an entry from Luigi Chinetti's NART team driven by one of the shop mechanics. One guy entered with a chauffeur-driven Cad limo <LOL> and sat in the back with his wife or girl friend eating caviar, crackers, and sipping champagne while the chauffeur did the driving. Shel "The smallest feline is a masterpiece" - Leonardo da Vinci > [Original Message] > From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Date: 9/5/2006 2:58:18 AM > Subject: Re: RE PESO: Cranbrook > > Thanks Shel. I'm not sure, but based on geography, I would guess that > Cranbrook Academy was the inspiration for the car name. Although I'm > surprised the foundation would let Chrysler use the name. Although the > fifties were a different era, weren't they? > On Sep 5, 2006, at 2:48 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > Nicely done. Is that where the name of the 1954-54 > > Plymouth Cranbrook model came from? When I first > > saw the subject line I expected to see a pic of a classic car <LOL> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
