Chrysler? What year?

[West Peterson]

This appears to be a Chrysler to me, possibly 1926. I was wondering if anyone could tell me its model number, or year.
Thanks.

[De Soto Frank]

West,

I'm not aware of any Chrysler products except the '26-'28 Imperial having a scalloped hood & radiator shell, and they were bigger cars than this...

Also, the stanchions underneath the headlights look more like GM or Hupp... don't recall seeing Chryslers with stanchions under the headlights...

My first guess, what with the Right-hand drive and all, is that this might be a Vauxhall ?

If it is some sort of export-model Chrysler, I would guess it as 1930-31...

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[Dave@Moon]

Frank is right, with the right hand drive and fender-mounted parking lights this is almost certainly a British market car.

The radiator badge is a six-pointed brass star mounted against the chrome shell, much like the Dodge Bros. star. (It's visible if you blow the image up.) There was a British car company called the Star Motor Co. (no relation to the Durant product) which used the six pointed star as a trademanrk. However I can find no pictures of a British Star car model that resembles this car.

At this time in Britain very few people could afford cars (other than the Austin 7). Most cars were built in very low production numbers, and custom coachwork was very common. It's likely that this is a full custom built on a Star chassis, or possibly an imported Dodge.

[West Peterson]

Yes. Frank is right on the nose. Vauxhaul, designed by GM. Here's the answer from friend, Nevy Clark, Savannah, Georgia.
West

The mystery car is a 1932 Vauxhall Cadet. I think it's 32 because it has
chrome plated hub caps. According to my info. '32 should also have a low
mounted windshield wiper but who knows maybe that was a running change.

The Cadet was the first fully GM designed Vauxhall launched in 1930. It was
essentially a low priced model aimed at the British and European market. It
was quite successful and the first Vauxhall to sell in volume. Vauxhall had
previously been a manufacturer of high quality low volume motor cars. and
even now the 1925 Vauxhall 30/98 is rated as one of the best vintage cars
of all time and a definite cut above the 1920s Bentley 3 litre.

GM didn't really want to buy Vauxhall Motors, they were after one of the
volume manufacturers like Austin or Morris but that didn't work out, so
they ended up with VM by default. It's all written up in Alfred Sloane's
'My Years with GM'. Transforming VM into a volume manufacturer must have
been hard going by comparison with GM's purchase of Opel which was already
a volume producer when acquired.

The Cadet's design was somewhat Chevy like with ohv sixes of 2048cc (124 cu
in) or 3180cc (194 cu in) but unlike Chev it did have pressure fed
lubrication and a 4 bearing crank. (I'd have thought the Chev stove bolt
six also had a 4 bearing crank, but that's what it says here). Wheelbase
was 107 in. and price £280 to £295 (When a pound was worth 4 dollars) The
Cadet is probably most famous for being the first car in Britain to have a
synchromesh gearbox launched in 1932. So the acid test is, does the mystery
car have synchro on second and top.

[Peter Gariepy]

Photo of a 32 Vauxhall