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Chrysler Royal (Australia)
The Chrysler Royal is an automobile which was produced by Chrysler Australia from 1957 to 1963. After investing in tooling to stamp body panels for the 1954 P25 series Plymouth locally, and with Chrysler headquarters in Detroit unwilling to assist in the costs of retooling for the new US models, Chrysler Australia made the decision to develop their own range, using as much of the existing tooling as possible, whilst also realising that the new car had to appear as different as possible. The doors and basic structure of the P25 sedan was retained, and with input from Australian and American Chrysler designers, the 1955 US Plymouth front sheetmetal was adapted to the P25 body and the rear quarter panels redesigned. They also added a wraparound rear windscreen, which caused development problems with Pilkington Glass, the Australian suppliers, who struggled to get the correct curved shape.〔"Great Ideas In Motion, A History of Chrysler In Australia 1946-1981 by Gavin Farmer"〕
==AP1==
The first version of the Chrysler Royal, the AP1, was introduced in May 1957.〔 It was a development of the American Plymouth P25 design 〔Gavin Farmer, Great Ideas In Motion, A History of Chrysler In Australia 1946-1981, page 29〕 of 1954 which had itself been produced by Chrysler Australia as the P25 Plymouth Cambridge and Cranbrook, the D49 Dodge Kingsway and the SP25 De Soto Diplomat.〔Gavin Farmer, Great Ideas In Motion, A History of Chrysler In Australia 1946-1981, pages 23 & 24〕 Original designations for the three different designs were AD1 for the Dodge, AS1 for the DeSoto and AP1 for the Plymouth.〔 Plans to market the updated version under these three names were dropped late in the development program and the new model would be sold only as the Chrysler Royal〔(The Australian Chrysler Royal, Plainsman, and Wayfarer ) Retrieved from www.allpar.com on 27 March 2010〕 thus revising a name used by Chrysler in the US market 〔 from 1937 to 1950. The design chosen for the final model was that proposed for the Plymouth variant, thus the AP (Australian Plymouth) designation was adopted, and changed to stand for Australian Production.〔
The Royal differed from the P25 in using front and rear mudguards similar to those on the 1956 US Plymouth and a rear window which was larger than that of the P25.〔 The AP1 was produced as a Royal four-door sedan, a Plainsman four-door station wagon, and a Wayfarer two-door coupé utility, and was offered with two versions of Chrysler's valve-in-block straight-6 engine: a with manual transmission and a with the Powerflite 2-speed automatic. Chrysler's polyspherical-head V8 was introduced as an option during the AP1 model run.〔 V8 powered Royals were popular with the South Australia Police, where they were employed as Highway Patrol cars.〔
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