Folks seem to like this segment so let’s continue with 1950.
19 major car makers existed back then and Chevy topped the production totals with 1,498,590 units followed closely by Ford with 1, 208,912. The rest of the field were all less than have that.
Plymouth – 610,954
Buick – 588,439
Pontiac – 466,429
Olds – 408,060
Dodge – 341,797
Studebaker – 320,884 (Don’t ya wish they would have made it? I would love to have seen their innovation continue.)
Mercury – 293,658
Chrysler – 179,299
Nash – 171,782
DeSoto – 136,203
Hudson – 121,408
Cadillac – 103,857
Packard – 42,627
Lincoln – 28,190
Kaiser – 15,228
Croslely – 6,792
Frazer – 3,700
Of note:
This was the last year for the Old 6 cylinder 76 models, while their Rocket 88 set speed records at Daytona – averaging 100.28 mph.
Packard began selling the only automatic transmission ever developed by an independent car maker.
The Rocket 88 - record setter.
Can a pick a Frazer out of a line up? Me either. Here’s one.
1950 Frazer Manhattan Convertible
How about a Crosley? Yeah I could do that one.
Crosley Hot Spot - circa 1950
And what did a automatic transmission look like in 1949? Here is the Packards Ultramatic.
The looked a lot like todays automatic transmissions
Thanks for reading.
Tim
