Dodge Kingsway for 1957
Photo taken by my dad somewhere in Los Angeles circa 1960. That's my mom with our 1957 Dodge 4-door sedan. This was scanned off of a photo print which I believe was a print from a transparency.
My mom was born in 1922. So as I post this for today it would have been the occasion of her 100th birthday! She passed away in 2015, being not quite 93 years old. She was of course, a wonderful, loving mother to my sister and me for which we are forever grateful and we honor her today for this occasion.
The 1957 Dodge shown was a bit of an oddity. It was a model meant for export, the 'Kingsway.' What made it unusual in the US was that the rear was that of a 1957 Plymouth! It was originally ordered for overseas use but plans changed, so it was held here in the US for my dad to to pick up at the embarkation point in San Francisco.
When I was much older, my mom told me that because this was configured in this way and with the 'Kingsway' emblem, there were occasions in which a stranger would ask my dad if he was from Canada. Because my dad was coincidentally raised in Vancouver, BC, sometimes his thought was that perhaps the person was someone he might have known. But apparently it wasn't uncommon for Chrysler Corporation to sell such Dodge/Plymouth fusion models in Canada, and some in the past were named 'Kingsway' just like this one. Thus those friendly questions arose because of the rare southern California appearance of this unusual Dodge+Plymouth "hybrid"!
Dodge Kingsway for 1957
Photo taken by my dad somewhere in Los Angeles circa 1960. That's my mom with our 1957 Dodge 4-door sedan. This was scanned off of a photo print which I believe was a print from a transparency.
My mom was born in 1922. So as I post this for today it would have been the occasion of her 100th birthday! She passed away in 2015, being not quite 93 years old. She was of course, a wonderful, loving mother to my sister and me for which we are forever grateful and we honor her today for this occasion.
The 1957 Dodge shown was a bit of an oddity. It was a model meant for export, the 'Kingsway.' What made it unusual in the US was that the rear was that of a 1957 Plymouth! It was originally ordered for overseas use but plans changed, so it was held here in the US for my dad to to pick up at the embarkation point in San Francisco.
When I was much older, my mom told me that because this was configured in this way and with the 'Kingsway' emblem, there were occasions in which a stranger would ask my dad if he was from Canada. Because my dad was coincidentally raised in Vancouver, BC, sometimes his thought was that perhaps the person was someone he might have known. But apparently it wasn't uncommon for Chrysler Corporation to sell such Dodge/Plymouth fusion models in Canada, and some in the past were named 'Kingsway' just like this one. Thus those friendly questions arose because of the rare southern California appearance of this unusual Dodge+Plymouth "hybrid"!