The Wright stuff

These images come from a rare 1945 promotional booklet published by Dodge when its Chicago assembly plant was made over for the licensed production of Wright Cyclone radial aircraft engines during World War II. At the time, one of the plant’s managers was Joe Lencki, a longtime race rat from Chicago who fielded cars at Indianapolis, designed a six-cylinder DOHC race engine and later became a self-taught creator of fuels and lubricants. Among many other things, the Chicago plant included th

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