Re: IML: Airflow Imperials

[Tom Hubbard <tom_hubbard1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a very nice example on eBay right now, item
270072065198.  I must say that the style of these cars
is really starting to grow on me!  The
longer-wheelbase versions look better in my opinion.

--- Bill Watson <wwatson5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Briefly, in the United States and Canada -
> 
> DeSoto Aitflow - 115.5" wheelbase, 6-cylinder,
> 
> Chrysler Airflow - 123" wheelbase, 8-cylinder -
> extra length in hood to fir
> the lonhger 8-cylinder engine.
> 
> Chrysler Airflow Imperial - 128" wheelbase -
> 8-cylinder.  Rear axle moved
> back and rear doors do not have dogleg.  Rear
> quarter windows also longer
> and are two piece.
> 
> Chrysler Airflow Custom Imperial - 137.5" wheelbase
> - 8 cylinder.  Body
> lengthened using front doors  from the coupe.
> 
> Chrysler Airflow Custom Imperial, model CW - 146.5"
> wheelbase - 8 cylinder.
> Body by LeBaron with virtually no exterior panels
> shared with lesser
> Airflows.   Has first 'production' curved one-piece
> windshield.
> 
> 1934 Airflows were also the first cars to have
> 'waterfall' grilles.
> Chrysler of Canada produced a 6-cylinder model CY
> Airflow in 1934.
> Basically a DeSoto Airflow with a Chrysler grille,
> instrument panel,
> nameplates and badges.
> 
> In Great Britain -
> 
> Chrysler Croydon Airflow - A DeSoto Airflow 6 with
> Chrysler nameplates and
> badges.
> 
> Chrysler Heston Airflow - basically a Chrysler
> Airflow 8.
> 
> Chrysler Royal Airflow - basically a Chrysler
> Airflow Imperial 8.
> 
> Airflow sales were poor, and in Great Britain
> leftover 1934 Heston models,
> CU, were sold as 1935 models by updating the grille
> and placing the letter
> "L" after the model number, becoming CUL..  "L" was
> the engineering
> department code for the 1934 model year.    And the
> Heston models (CU) not
> sold in 1935 were marketed as 1936 models, with the
> letter "M" after the
> model number.    The British 1936 Royal Airflows,
> C2, were leftover 1935
> models, changed as above to become model C2M.
> 
> As for the Croydon Airflow, leftover 1934 model SE
> models became 1935 model
> SEL.  True 1935 Airflow SG models were sold in
> Britain, and leftover cars
> were sold as 1936 Croydon Airflows, model SGM.
> 
> Thus all British-assembled 1936 Airflow cars were
> actually leftover 1935 or
> 1934 models.
> 
> Bill
> Vancouver, BC
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Andrew Minney
> To: Mailing-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:25 AM
> Subject: IML: Airflow Imperials
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I'm a newbie to this list and I am reseaching
> Airflows.
> Can anyone tell me the differences between Airflow
> Imperials, Imperial
> Customs and Royals? I have just started looking at
> Airflows and have got
> lost in a sea of names.
> Many thanks,
> Andrew,
> Twickenham, England.
> 
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