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’64 Plymouth Valiant became College of Alameda class project


The auto industry’s pioneers offer some very interesting history. Today, we’ll dig a little into the story of Walter P. Chrysler and his humble beginning.

At age 33 in about the year 1908, he was a worker at the Union Pacific Railroad shops in Olwein, Iowa. He traveled to Chicago to see the annual automobile show. There he saw a Locomobile that sold for $5,000 (about $159,000 today’s dollars) and he was hooked.

“I did all the body work and painting at our Alameda community college,” he said. “They have body and paint courses over there. I enrolled in the courses, and I got to do an independent study. So I got to use their professional paint booth, and I took everything down to bare metal.”

The College of Alameda’s cost was $52 a semester, and Rush took about two semesters to paint the car flawlessly and get it looking like it was just driven off the showroom floor. He duplicated the factory interior as close as he could and said he thinks his total investment is about $5,000, not counting sweat equity.

Rush estimates the current market value at $13,000 to $15,000, but he’s a collector and not a trader. This is just one of three 1964 Valiants in his collection, none of which are for sale.

Have an interesting vehicle? Email Dave at [email protected]. To read more of his columns or see more photos of this and other issues’ vehicles, visit mercurynews.com/author/david-krumboltz.



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