[FWDLK] '57's: History of dual vs. quadrilight headlights?

["Marko Lonngren" <marlon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11.00 28.1.2000 -0800, Wayne wrote:

>Regards Chrysler Division, the Nov. 7, 1956, Letter of
>Announcement for the 300C (this model being a late introduction)
>includes dual headlamps as standard equipment but only three '57
>300Cs were built prior to that.   There were 51 300Cs built
>during the month of December.  A further letter dated Dec. 12,
>1956, states that all 300Cs will be built with four headlamps,
>however a few serial number cars higher than approx. #0030 have
>been found with 2 headlamps from the factory.

'Collectible Automobile' May 1985 issue has a Chrysler 300 Letter Series
story. In page 43 is a picture of a black '57 300 C and it has 2 headlights.
Owned by Ken Block, NS-1 man..

I have not ever seen a pix of '57 DeSoto Adventurer with 2 headlights.

All the '57 Mopars which imported new in Finland were with 2 headlights,
but Adventurer wasn't an export model (still 0 would have been, if it was).

                        MTL