Of interest to some may be the U.S. Patent Office documents related to the Chrysler Crossfire Design Patent.

The web site is a little arcane but with a little persistence you can retrieve the design patent for the Chrysler Crossfire Coupe (Patent # D0500000)

Go here:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html

Enter the Patent # D500,000 in the Term 1 field. (with D and comma)
Select "Patent Number from the "Field 1" Drop-down list.
Click Search

This will land you on the main patent page.

In order to view images, install the image viewer that enables viewing TIFF files in your browser (not possible with IE without it), you will need to visit the web site cited by the Patent Office first. It's easy and fast, and well worth it.

Go to http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/images.htm for the details and install the Alternatiff software for your browser (free). Without it you will not be able to see the images - the real bonus of this exercise.

Click the "Images" button top and center and with the software installed, you will get the patent images. You can cycle through the images using the yellow arrows on the left side of the window.


Incidentally, the design patent for the prototype is referenced in the production car patent and is also quite interesting (D0455676); the coupe Patent Number is D0476601


Here's a teaser image

 

Cool. Thanks.

 

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.

 

Here's another way: use Google patent search, just type in the same D500,000 number and this will come up- no reader download required: http://www.google.com/patents?id=M54...AJ&dq=D500,000

 

That is very cool and quite useful. Though I noticed when I went this route the images are reduced in size and quite a bit of detail is permanently lost. If you want the best quality images, sadly the front door to the government site is the best way to go.

 

Yes, that is cool, thanks for sharing. I did some poking around and found the docs for the Crossfire Concept as well - D0455676 if you care to know.