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From: Daven Anderson
Email: [email protected]
Date: February 21, 2002
These were a separate low-price Dodge line for Chrysler Canada,and export. They used Dodge Coronet front clips on Plymouth bodies. The Canadian models were Crusader-Regent-Mayfair (price order like Plaza-Savoy-Belvedere),the export models were Kingsway-Kingsway DeLuxe-Kingsway Custom. The Canada cars were built in Windsor,Ontario. Kingsways,built there and also at Lynch Road in Detroit. The DeSoto Diplomat, Diplomat DeLuxe and Diplomat Custom for export used the DeSoto Firesweep front clip on the '57-'59 Plymouth bodies. For 1959,the Ply. Sport Fury had equivalents called the Kingsway Lancer and the Diplomat Adventurer.