1928 Chryslers at Le Mans

Can anyone suggest where I can obtain pictures of the 1928 Chryslers which raced at Le Mans and came third and fourth in the 24 hour race?

GRAEME

I have a booklet entitled "Chrysler In Competition-European Road Racing 1925 to 1931" which has photos of the 1928 Le Mans cars, the 1928 24 hour Cass C record at Montlhery of 72.5 mph with hood erected and sealed bonnet and ,on the cover, a photo of one of the 1929 75s during a pit stop at Le Mans that year.The text covers the whole of the 1928 race.Every vintage Chrysler enthusiast should read this to see just how good these cars are.

Send me your details and I will let you have a copy.Contact me at fitzmckay@bigpond.com,P.O. Box 3 Warren,NSW 2824,Australia or fax Australia 02 68474652.

Would love to hear from you.

Doug McKay.

In the Summer/Fall 2001 issue of "Foward" (published by The Walter P. Chrysler

Museum)there is an excellent article entitled "The American Upstart" with pictures of the vehicles participating at Le Mans in 1928. It is of note that Chrysler entered chassis'carrying both roadster bodies offered on the series

"72".

Hello all, Can anyone tell what is the difference between a 1929 75 Le Mans car and a 1929 75 Roadster. Was the Le Mans an actual model? If yes how can I tell the difference, is it the that the Le Mans had no running boards and the fenders only covered the wheels? Also do you know the chassis and engine number of the Le Mans model. Regards

I could be wrong but don't believe it was an actual model made by Chrysler. It was probably a stock roadster stripped and possibly modified (within the rules) by the importer or owner.

Stutz made one or more lemans cars for 1929 but I doubt Chrysler did.

Rusty is correct. There was no actual Chrysler "LeMans" model by name. There was also a stripped down model that raced at the 1931 winter Gran Prix in Sweden....an L80 Imperial....

Love that caption from 70 Years of Chrysler above , stating the picture was taken at Bana in Sweden. Bana is the Swedish word for (Race-)Track, must have been difficult in the days before Google translate?

here is a 28 Le Mans photo with famous racing driver Louis Chiron and a stripped Series 72. These cars which were based on regular production models, that nowadays offers a low cost alternative to go Historic Racing with the 20 times as expensive Bentleys etc etc.

What impressed me is that the flathead Chrysler gave the Bentleys and some top European cars a real run for their money even though the Chrysler cost about 1/5th what the Bentley did.

There were a lot of Chrysler fans in Europe in those days. Years ago I read the memoirs of a Rothschild who was a young man in Paris in the twenties. He had a khaki Chrysler roadster. Fifty years later he remembered it went like a bird and how much fun he and his friends had driving it to the Riviera.

Rusty....the Chrysler had a very well engineered suspension and brake system....the red head flat head six was fed by a dual throat updraft carb....Chrysler's engineering team...Zeder, Breer and Skelton were exceptional. By the way Stutz should have won it...if they had not stripped out third gear part of the way through the race and had to finish in second gear they probably would have won!

Has anyone run dual updrafts on the model 75. I'm just wondering how much of an improvement it would make on an updraft system. We are working on a roadster to run the Milia miglia this year and have toyed around with the dual updraft idea.

I don't know how you strip 3d gear as it is direct drive, no gears involved.