This is a slightly long story insofar as I want to finally write about my recollections of that now watershed day, the day the Chrysler Australia Limited 340/four-speed Charger program died. But to do that justice I’d like to go back a little further to tell why this remains such a strong recollection so many years later.
On this day, I was a draftsman in the Product Engineering Department, in the Chassis group, one of a small number working for then Project Engineer Jim Munro. I’d been there from 1968 when I was taken onto staff as a draftsman during the massive expansion in the design group to meet the demands of the then 98 percent content rules for auto manufacturers. My field of drafting was in suspension/wheels/tyres/front frame/steering and I’d worked on layouts to study tyre to body clearances, suspension and steering geometry, and the rear suspension geometry for sedan/wagon/Ute and Charger, where Jim Munro came up with the bright idea of trimming the rear spring for Charger from the 55-inch Sedan configuration
