9/7/2023 0 Comments Chrysler desoto airflow![]() ![]() First question anyone wants to know whether it's a part a car or a service. I paid around 600 complete for the 39 Chrysler one I bought off ebay and it was just shy of NOS condition. It's a black not Ivory type wheel which seem to deteriorate much worse. I would think your offer wasn't out of line. I swapped it out for a 39 Chrysler wheel that I liked better and when I sold the car just put it in the box of NOS and nice spare parts I had collected that I gave to the new owner. I had this exact wheel in my 36 Chrysler in about the same condition. I hope this post offers some guidance for future offers. I wish the seller would have just indicated what he or she wanted for the steering wheel, but no such indication was provided. I am brand new to these vehicles and my research produced no good examples to guide my offer. Only problem is I really like the wheel in my Desoto now. You might fin d one for a $1, 000 but this is as clean as it gets, and one of my two p e rsonal Wheels that will get a good price or I’ll put in my Desoto. If you got this for a grand with horn button not only it would make your day it would make your year. “ Joe, no disrespect but I bet you would. But what happened happened, so we now take a look at what Chrysler's stylists did in their failed attempt to try to save the DeSoto Airflow line back in the mid-1930s.For the record, I offered $1,000 for the wheel with the horn button or $800 for just the wheel and received this response: To some eyes, including mine, they hold a certain charm despite some questionable styling details. Nowadays, with a large variety of vehicle types and shapes on streets and highways - in some cases strange and even ugly ones - Airflows in retrospect don't seem very odd. The link notes that the DeSoto Airflow had a significantly shorter wheelbase than its Chrysler cousins, creating a stubby look that might have been an additional factor (besides the radical basic shape) related to slow sales. The relevant Wikipedia entry is here, for readers interested in general information. The present post features DeSoto's Airflows because they are less well-known than the Chrysler variety. Chrysler acted quickly, adding the conventional-looking Airstream design to its previously all-Airflow Chrysler and DeSoto brands for 1935. Most auto buffs are aware that the radical new design proved to be a marketing flop, as the above link mentions. ![]() The Wikipedia entry on the Chrysler Airflow is here. But the dynamic, engineering-oriented young Chrysler Corporation drastically accelerated the streamlining trend by introducing its wind tunnel tested Airflow design on its Chrysler and DeSoto brands for 1934. Side valances had been added to fenders, grilles and windshields were slanted a few degrees backwards - not very much, in other words. Before the 1934 model year, streamline details were minor, almost notional. Streamlining was in the automobile styling air in the early 1930s as American manufacturers were becoming increasingly desperate to add features to their cars in order to entice buyers as the Great Depression worsened. ![]()
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