WALTER CHRYSLER FELL IN LOVE WITH A CAR IN 1907 AND THEN LEFT RAILROADING TO CREATE THE THIRD-BIGGEST AUTO COMPANY AND THE BEST-ENGINEERED VEHICLES OF HIS DAY
He built the finest American car of its time—huge and powerful and smooth as silk—using a technology that almost every other automaker had abandoned. If he hadn’t been such a perfectionist, we might be driving steam cars to this day.
