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1931 CHRYSLER STRAIGHT EIGHT RUMBLE SEAT CONVERTIBLE
Chassis No. 7505781
Engine No. CD7183
Black with brown leather interior
Engine: straight eight, sidevalves, 240.33 cu.in., giving 80bhp at 3,400rpm; Gearbox: four speed manual; Suspension: front beam axle, live rear axle, half elliptic leaf springs all round; Brakes: four wheel hydraulically operated drum. Left hand drive.
Chryslers at every price are Chryslers - and are therefore joyously different from other cars. More alive, more responsive, smoother in action. When the Chrysler's two great straight eights came along, the Imperial on its 145 inch wheelbase, and the Chrysler Eight De Luxe on a smaller but still impressive chassis of 124 inch wheelbase, the Corporation's publicity was at pains to stress how strongly the cars were related to each other and to the less-costly six-cylinder. They had the same general design, the same general basis of quality, the same excellence of engineering, the same general spirit of performance. Styling too was exceptionally successful, for Walter P. Chrysler had noticed and approved the lines of Leamy and Van Ranst's rakish front drive Cord of 1929. The Chrysler Eight's impressive wheelbase and low-swept chassis frame gave body designers plenty of scope. From the patrician vee radiator cowling with its vertical slats, to its long, narrow hood and flowing fenders, the 1931 Chrysler range had looks that were taken straight from the Cord but in turn provided inspiration to other quality car makers both in the USA and Europe.
Entirely conventional but one of the earliest straight eights to be offered in the medium price bracket, the Eight rode easily on unusually long leaf spring suspension and initially, like the Imperial, was given Chrysler's dual high gear transmission. One high gear, they said, was for flashing action in traffic, another still higher gear gives faster car speeds at slower engine speeds... Prices ranged from $1,525 to $1,585, compared with the Imperial's $2,745 to $3,145. This highly original Chrysler was purchased by the Pettits in the 1950s from the original owner who had purchased the car to take on her honeymoon in 1931.
WITHOUT RESERVE
Chassis No. 7505781
Engine No. CD7183
Black with brown leather interior
Engine: straight eight, sidevalves, 240.33 cu.in., giving 80bhp at 3,400rpm; Gearbox: four speed manual; Suspension: front beam axle, live rear axle, half elliptic leaf springs all round; Brakes: four wheel hydraulically operated drum. Left hand drive.
Chryslers at every price are Chryslers - and are therefore joyously different from other cars. More alive, more responsive, smoother in action. When the Chrysler's two great straight eights came along, the Imperial on its 145 inch wheelbase, and the Chrysler Eight De Luxe on a smaller but still impressive chassis of 124 inch wheelbase, the Corporation's publicity was at pains to stress how strongly the cars were related to each other and to the less-costly six-cylinder. They had the same general design, the same general basis of quality, the same excellence of engineering, the same general spirit of performance. Styling too was exceptionally successful, for Walter P. Chrysler had noticed and approved the lines of Leamy and Van Ranst's rakish front drive Cord of 1929. The Chrysler Eight's impressive wheelbase and low-swept chassis frame gave body designers plenty of scope. From the patrician vee radiator cowling with its vertical slats, to its long, narrow hood and flowing fenders, the 1931 Chrysler range had looks that were taken straight from the Cord but in turn provided inspiration to other quality car makers both in the USA and Europe.
Entirely conventional but one of the earliest straight eights to be offered in the medium price bracket, the Eight rode easily on unusually long leaf spring suspension and initially, like the Imperial, was given Chrysler's dual high gear transmission. One high gear, they said, was for flashing action in traffic, another still higher gear gives faster car speeds at slower engine speeds... Prices ranged from $1,525 to $1,585, compared with the Imperial's $2,745 to $3,145. This highly original Chrysler was purchased by the Pettits in the 1950s from the original owner who had purchased the car to take on her honeymoon in 1931.
WITHOUT RESERVE