Pioneering Achievements
If you’re going to name a car after yourself, it had better be something pretty special. And Walter P. Chrysler, whose career as a journeyman railroad machinist and mechanic had taken him throughout the West and Midwest, put that knowledge to use building cars.
The original 1924 Chrysler B-70 bristled with innovation: aluminum pistons, a counterweighted crankshaft with seven main bearings, full-pressure engine lubrication, air
