1942-JANUARY

America is now at war!

Our 1942 Chrysler Town&Country is one of the very last civilian vehicles produced in January 1942. It came off theassembly line one month after Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, and just before Chrysler built Sherman tanks beganrolling off the assembly lines.

Not only is this vehicle one of the rarest of T&C vehicles, only the pre-war T&C were built in this configuration, it is oneof two remaining “black out” vehicles. Thanks to Tojo and Hitler the monochrome paint scheme predated our currentmonochrome paint schemes by 50 years. Most of the typically chromed trim is painted and the overall level of trim iseven less than the regular, pre-war, production vehicles.

Richard Larger rescued this rare vehicle from the burning “Hough” area of Cleveland in 1966. The vehicles mileagewas a 22k at the time and it essentially had not been driven for the previous 15 years. The original owner, E.S.Carpenter, had used the vehicle for his industrial training film company in the 1940’s and was very meticulous about itscare. The vehicle has reportedly never seen snow and its rarely been exposed to rain. All of the wood and interior arecompletely original owing to the low protected use of the car during its first years.

In 1976 Jeffrey Larger freshened the exterior paint and again in Spring 2004 Jeff and Gary Larger freshened someexterior paint, bumpers, and performed other minor detailing. We have endeavored to retain as much of this vehiclesoriginality as possible, which is why you see some age and wear on seats, under the hood and in the trunk areas.

1941 and 1942 T&C are unique from their post-war successors; they are not the sedan and convertible models that wereproduced from 1946 to 1951. These pre-war vehicles are also not station wagons but rather a combination of sedanand wagon. Built on the Windsor sedan chassis these cars were mostly hand built and only 1,100. vehicles wereproduced before war production in 1942. Fewer than 200 6 passenger vehicles, like ours, were produced and less than20 are now known to remain.

Historical Information

Original Owner: E. S. Carpenter (ESCAR)Current Owner: Richard & Maureen Larger, since 1966Mechanical Refresh: Gary & Jeffrey Larger, 2004

Paint-Detail Refresh: Gary & Jeffrey Larger, 1976 & 2004