Airflow Club of America
General
Articles
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Story of the Airflow Cars, Chrysler Engineering overview of the Airflow program 30 years later. Interesting and mostly accurate.
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History of the Airflow, a concise summary with photos by Jim Lightfoot
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Scientific American article on History of the Airflow Car
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Changing Winds: The 1934-1937 Chrysler Airflow. Sources and additional references are provided at the end of the article.
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Walter Chrysler Defended the Airflow in 1935, previously published in Old Cars, 2004
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Jay Leno article from Popular Mechanics, When Car Design is Ahead of its Time. (expired images)
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Fashioned by Function - 1934 DeSoto Airflow Hemmings Motor News, Sep 2013
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1934 De Soto Airflow Hemmings Motor News, November 2015
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1935 DeSoto Airflow Sedan - Farther Out Hot Rod Network, December 2013
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Collectible Classic: 1934-1937 Chrysler/De Soto Airflow, Automobile, January 26, 2007
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Too Good to Succeed, the Paris Review, July 23, 2013
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Books
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Breer, Carl: The Birth of Chrysler Corporation and Its Engineering Legacy, 1995, Society of Automotive Engineers (Very good read about the man, by the man, with revealing anecdotes. Sometimes available on Amazon and eBay)
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Hemmings Book of Prewar Chryslers, 1924-1942
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Standard Catalog of Chrysler. There are various editions of this work, full of details and statistics, mostly correct.
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Media
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The History of Chrysler's Airflow Car, 2016 video on the significance of the Airflow
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Collection of Airflow cars and literature photos on Pinterest
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Development
Articles
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Don Butler article, Adventures in Airflow, part 1. Fascinating background on early streamlining projects and Airflow development, previously published in Cars & Parts.
Media
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Fashioned by Function. 12 minute period video describing the need for streamlining and Chrysler Airflow's solution.
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1934 Chrysler Airflow Goes Over the Cliff, Road&Track published period video proving Airflow ruggedness. A classic!
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1934 Chrysler Airflow Safety Test, 2:38 period video proving Airflow safety
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Chrysler Airflow at Bonneville. 3:20 video of record breaking new Airflow
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Chrysler Airflow Economy Run. 2:41 video of Harry Hartz coast-to-coast economy run
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​Trails of Triumph, 3 minutes of dealer training and advertising selling the Airflow
Sales Figures
Period Marketing
Advertising
1934 Chrysler Airflow Advertisements 3.17 MB
1934 DeSoto Airflow Advertisements 3.27 MB
1935 Chrysler Airflow Advertisements 4.19 MB
1935 DeSoto Airflow Advertisements 5.39 MB
1936 DeSoto Airflow Advertisements 1.26 MB
1937 Chrysler Airflow Advertisements 513.44 KB
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Brochures
1934 Chrysler Airflow fold-out
1935 Chrysler & Custom Imperial Brochure 3.94 MB
1936 British Airflow Brochure - Kew 6, Wimbledon 6, Richmond 6 5.39 MB
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Airflow Club Technical Manual
An indexed collection of technical articles tips published in the Airflow Newsletter since the club's founding in 1962. (See Members Only page. Access requires the current member password.)