Hemmings Daily: The Mod Top, Chrysler’s 1969 appeal to female buyers, makes an interesting collectible today

Kim Barnes has a memory from her youth, of riding her Sears Sting-Ray-style "banana seat" bicycle past Friedman Chrysler-Plymouth in Des Moines, Iowa. [trPx] [View in Browser]( [Tremec]( [trPx] [Hemmings Daily]( Friday, May 6, 2022 Latest Stories Sponsored by [Year One]( [Year One]( [trPx] [The Mod Top, Chrysler Corp’s 1969 Appeal to Female Buyers, Makes an Interesting Collectible Today]( [The Mod Top, Chrysler Corp’s 1969 Appeal to Female Buyers, Makes an Interesting Collectible Today]( Kim Barnes has a memory from her youth, of riding her Sears Sting-Ray-style "banana seat" bicycle past Friedman Chrysler-Plymouth in Des Moines, Iowa.... 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