Maybe if he has time, nessy can check my math. I hand-counted the number and it was in the 10 or 12 range for ’34 CU Coupes. I looked at his registry when it came in the mail last fall. I think the Airflow Register may list 12. There are even 1934 Desoto (6-cylinder) Airflow coupes that survive.īut the cool one to have (as he tries to explain in his ad) is the ’34 CU Coupe. There are other coupes from later years that survive and there are other 1934 Airflows that survive. The rarity is based on them being 1934 CU Coupes. These belong to a friend of mine (the seller). With values of restored cars varying pretty wildly within such a small sample size, it’s hard to say whether the $85,000 ask for this pair is on the money-don’t forget, you’d also be doubling your restoration costs-but for a car that combines historical significance, advanced engineering, stunning style, and rarity, plus the cachet of knowing you’re probably the only person who owns two, it’s an intriguing offer! and could be considered “not complete,” so who knows if and how it figures into the count of survivors! It would be interesting to piece together the whole list. While the Hemmings ad claims that the two project cars in Brooklyn are “perhaps two of the last remaining unrestored examples of the 10 know cars in the world,” Barrett-Jackson said that this car was “believed to be one of only 8 coupes that are complete cars in the US.” Are these two being added to the eight to get to ten, or are they included in that lower figure? I also found this car, sold by RM Sotheby’s in 2009 for $57,200, and this Canada-based coupe, which sports a Hemi mill and a custom-fabricated chassis, and is not in the U.S. These are described as “sound cars” that come with “a mountain of extra parts, including grills, heads, correct upholstery material, correct overdrives, etc.”įor reference, here’s a restored car that was sold by Barrett-Jackson for $90,750 in 2006. Produced only for the Airflow’s first year, 1934, on the shortest of the four available Chrysler Airflow wheelbases (the companion DeSoto Airflow rode a fifth, shorter-still wheelbase), the combination of a long, bulbous nose with a fairly short, fast roofline make these cars look like they’ve just jumped off the pages of a ’30s Superman comic book. These are the only two photos provided, but they show two fairly complete-looking cars, and two photos of this pair is more than most people will ever see of an Airflow CU coupe. You can find them on Hemmings, and thanks to reader Tom C. Of course, rarity doesn’t come cheap, and the seller is entertaining offers in the neighborhood of $85,000 for the pair and won’t split them up. They are down to $45k on eBay with all the same photos, so this one will require some investigating!įROM – Owning a car that’s one of ten known to survive is interesting enough…but how about owning two? That’s the opportunity presented by this pair of 1934 Chrysler Airflow CU coupes in Brooklyn, New York. They are still available on Hemmings, but with their original $85k asking price. Fast forward two years and they are now up for grabs here on eBay. UPDATE – This pair of Airflows first showed up back in late 2017.
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