chrysler museum

walter p chrysler museum

chrysler le baron

turbine chrysler

Thursday 28th May
Today we headed out from the motel to the Walter P Chrysler Museum. It was a bit of a drive and we wanted to get there and have lunch afterwards. The museum was easy to find. We had a good chat to the guys who volunteer at the museum about Chrysler in Australia and they were quite interested about what we had in Australia and what Chrysler's we sold. The museum had lots of old Chrysler's including the first one made. There was a good selection of cars leading through the years with a bit of history about the company along the way. There were a few brand new cars that were the first ones of the line of new models from the 80’s and 90’s. One car in particular which was interesting was a turbine powered car. They built 200 of them and over a 2 year period they gave them to people to drive as a test car. At the end of the 2 years they crushed 190 of the 200 made. We have seen 2 of them and Chrysler own 3. I wonder where the other 7 are.

After a couple of hours we headed to KFC for lunch. I had KFC and Bronte had A & W, lunch was good and then we headed for Chicago which was about 450 kms away. The road was really good, four lane freeway all the way and the speed limit was about 70 mph most of the way.

Arrived at out motel on the outskirts of Chicago and checked in. This motel was probably the worst one so far. I guess you can’t complain when you only pay $35USD. At least it was a place to sleep! Headed to Walmart again to get some stuff for dinner. Walmart did not have any hot chooks left so we went to another supermarket and got one and took it back to the motel to eat. The motel was also in a bit of a dodgy place, it just looked like you were in a seedy side of town. Oh well inside the room and locked the door started eating dinner and we both heard a loud bang!!! Sounded like a gun shot, but we were not going out to look. Watched some TV and went to bed.