If you can't afford a 300 or simply want a more available luxury Chrysler, these handsome Virgil Exner creations of the mid-'50s may be just the ticket.
   The 1955 had that "hundred million dollar look," with a split eggcrate grille and tall, chrome-encased taillights, plus attractive cloth and vinyl interiors and the ever potent hemi-head V8.
   The 1956s acquired a more massive and unified grille and more prominent (though still conservative) tailfins housing larger vertical taillights. New that year was the Newport hardtop sedan, which offered four-door practicality with pillarless construction. PowerFlite two-speed automatic was standard (three-speed Tor-queFlite became available for mid-'56) controlled by a menacing chrome wand jutting from the dash on '55s and by the famous pushbuttons on '56s.
   The more plushly trimmed St. Regis two-door proved quite popular. Bargain hunters, but not serious collectors, might also consider the less expensive Windsor equivalents, which had their own distinct front and rear styling for '56. Though not as fast then or as desirable now, they were still every inch a Chrysler.
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