Re: IML: Airflow knock-off?

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "A. Foster" <monkeypuzzle1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kenyon;
>    The Peugeot 403 was an intentional copy of a
> Chrysler Airflow

I'd heard about the Toyota, but the Peugeot was a new
one and really jumped off the screen at me today. 
Learn something new every day and all...

    It's interesting that people think of the
> Chrysler, DeSoto, and Imperial
> Airflows as a failure. In a sales and marketing
> sense they were when they
> hit the market for 1934, but in an engineering sense
> they weren't. 

I couldn't agree more, and after inspecting Jim
Martin's before he sold it (yes, Jim, I did pine for
it), I was VERY impressed with the car.  After
collecting the sales material that's posted to the
website and reading it as I got it, I decided that I'd
prefer to have a 1934 (over a 31-33) with the original
waterfall grille (not the revised 1935 one that they
gave to 1934 owners for free as a sop to complaints
about the car's unconventional looks).

Most of the material that I've read goes out of its
way to trumpet how dismal and disappointing actual vs.
projected sales figures were to Chrysler management,
and especially in light of the sound logic that was
used to justify the cars in the first place.

> In fact within five years of the Airflow
> coming out the entire
> industry was marketing cars with that same potato
> shape
 
Couldn't agree more.  It WAS an incredible feat and
they were WAY ahead, and the repetition of Airflow
themes in others' cars is proof that they were onto
something back in 1929 when they started work on the
cars:

http://imperialclub.com/Articles/Trifon/index.htm
http://imperialclub.com/Articles/Breer/index.htm



Kenyon Wills
 
 






















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