Eights began with the brand new Traveler, New Yorker, and Saratoga on a 128.5-inch span (the final two also offered formal sedans). A 145.5-inch chassis carried Crown Imperial sedans and limousine. A more significant change concerned the Town & Country, which was no longer a wagon but a separate sequence of six- and eight-cylinder sedans and convertibles. All have been built in 1946, an excellent three years earlier than General Motors began making sales hay with "hardtop convertibles." The eig...

Eights began with the brand new Traveler, New Yorker, and Saratoga on a 128.5-inch span (the final two also offered formal sedans). A 145.5-inch chassis carried Crown Imperial sedans and limousine. A more significant change concerned the Town & Country, which was no longer a wagon but a separate sequence of six- and eight-cylinder sedans and convertibles. All have been built in 1946, an excellent three years earlier than General Motors began making sales hay with "hardtop convertibles." The eig...