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Welcome to the official website of the Airflow Club of America!
In the early 1930s, Walter P. Chrysler decided to make a splash by offering a truly unique automobile for the tenth anniversary of the founding of the corporation which bore his name. The result, introduced in 1934, were the Chrysler and DeSoto Airflows.
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Chrysler called it "The first real motorcar". It was an engineering triumph, incorporating a combination of features rare when the Airflow was introduced, but eventually to become common.
Some of those features include all steel design, a streamlined body - the first ever designed in a wind tunnel, automatic overdrive, movement of the passenger compartment so that occupants are cradled between the axles and not subjected to the harsh ride while perched over the rear axle and a then unique monocoque body bolted to a frame for unheard of rigidity and passenger safety.
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Chrysler's famous "Three Musketeers of Engineering" - Zeder, Skelton and Breer - followed the maxim that "fashion follows function".
Many of the automobile buyers of the day still wanted fashion for fashion's sake, however! While all of the features of the Airflow were eventually incorporated into mainstream automobile design, at the time the radical new look inspired either admiration or criticism.
Take a look around our website and decide for yourself what you think of this game-changing automobile!
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PRELIMINARY 2011 MEET PHOTOS - Click on photo for full view
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| CLUB JACKETS NOW AVAILABLE
Western Region Director Tom Prince has made it possible to order ACA Club Jackets. They are beautifully embroidered with the Club logo on front and the Rothenbuher's Airflow on the back. You can download an order form from the "General" section of the site Library! |
| NEW LIBRARY DOCUMENTS
Check out the new documents in the library - Airflow Body Manual, NEW Standards of Correctness Manual, REVISED parts and services guide and Philco Radio Installation & Service Notes! Get those Airflows back on the road in ORIGINAL condition! |
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