![]() ![]() It featured solid axles front and rear supported by leaf springs and hydraulic dampers in all four corners. The 5.3-liter inline-eight engine was mated to a standard, 3-speed, Borg-Warner automatic gearbox. The 1934-'35 cars featured a round-faced dashboard that was changed to more conventional square gauges in the last production year. 1933 Chrysler Sedan (CC-1447238) for sale in Cadillac, Michigan. Chrysler Heston Airflow Eight was the British designation for this Airflow Eight. Six Airflow Eight Imperial Airflow Imperial Custom Airflow. It featured seats with exposed frames until they were replaced with lower ones, for easier ingress and egress in 1945. 1936 Chrysler Airflow (CC-1621674) for sale in Cadillac, Michigan. Home Chrysler 1933 Chrysler 1935 List 1934 Next page. Widely recognized as the first truly modern automobile, the 1934 Airflow was an 'engineer's' car, which was hardly surprising. Like most of the other cars from that era, the sloped back featured a trunk and the spare wheel inside. After making few changes through 1933, Chrysler made a major one, summoning the future with the most-radical production car yet attempted by a U.S. The split windshield could have been opened via two rotating knobs inside the car, to allow a better air-flow into the cabin. The grille was high, in a V-shape forging forward, and with horizontal chromed bars. The Chrysler Airflow featured a front fascia wit the headlights enclosed in the front fenders, in a time when most of the other car-makers installed them on a stainless steel rod, in front of the grille. A floor lever shifted the four-speed transmission, which featured all helical gears for. With the advent of the CL, the straight-eight was cradled in Chrysler's patented Floating Power engine mounts, to isolate the rest of the car from the engine's vibration. It was available as a two-door coupe and four-door sedan. The Imperial's horsepower was rated at 125 at 3,200 RPM, raised to 135hp in 1933. It featured more important discoveries than most of the other vehicles on the market, starting with the double-glazed windows, steel, tubular, frame, hydraulic power brakes, and a rounded shape. But it was too far ahead of its times so the customers could appreciate it. While the Airflow was a sales failure, the qualities of that vehicle were strong. On top of that, the streamlined shape made it faster and more fuel-efficient. It was a car ahead of its times, with unibody construction, not based on a chassis like any other car on the market. ![]()
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