After-School specials; Once the day jobs end, the real work begins for those in Chrysler's dark shadows.(News)
AutoWeek, November, 2002 by Gritzinger, Bob
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> Byline: BOB GRITZINGER If you can remember the old Dark Shadows after-school television soap opera, you're right up to speed when it comes to the work of Chrysler's Vehicle Excitement Team, also known as VXT. Like the 1960s TV show (now in cable reruns)-in which vampire Barnabas Collins ran around sucking the blood out of what appeared to be suspecting victims and everybody knew it was going to happen-these VXT vamps at Chrysler headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, are skulking around snatching what they need to build hot rods right from under the noses of their disapproving ...
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