sandtrooper Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Interesting picture snipped from magazine showing Yankee know-how and production in the form of frames for Chevys around 1936-1938 era. Trying to keep up with Henry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Mellor NJ Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Nice pic for that X-frame guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Pretty good stash. The story in the magazine would be interesting. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1940TORPEDO Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 @X-Frame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Frame Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Thanks!... where is the original available at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Frame Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 (edited) On 5/15/2016 at 2:05 PM, sandtrooper said: Interesting picture snipped from magazine showing Yankee know-how and production in the form of frames for Chevys around 1936-1938 era. Trying to keep up with Henry. Actually, Chevrolet used this chassis layout from 1934-1936 (only on the Master in 1936) and Pontiac also used it the same years. Not an "X" but is called a K-Y frame yet functions the same way. Chevrolet went to the boxed girder ladder frame in 1937 (1936 on the Standard model) and Pontiac went with a more traditional X braced frame in 1937. Chevy played with a X brace ladder frame on the 1935 Standard model, one year only. And the 1935 Pontiac Deluxe had a different frame which was a cross between the K-Y and X. Would like to find the original photos of this to get a scan. Edited May 23, 2016 by X-Frame (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest peter123wallace Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 Fascinating indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinneyhill Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 (edited) On 16/05/2016 at 6:05 AM, sandtrooper said: Interesting picture snipped from magazine showing Yankee know-how and production in the form of frames for Chevys around 1936-1938 era. Trying to keep up with Henry. Actually, Chev caught up with Ford in 1927 in sales volume (although of course Ford factories were shut down for a while to change over from Henry's Model T to Edsel's Model A). This website gives a rundown: http://www.autonews.com/article/20111031/CHEVY100/310319973/chevy-and-ford-have-waged-a-sales-battle-for-a-century This is from the website: "Then came eight ping-pong years. The lead flipped back and forth -- Chevy in 1928, Ford in 1929 and 1930, Chevy again in 1931-34 and Ford in 1935. In 1936 Chevrolet began a remarkable streak. From that year through 1986 (omitting World War II, when auto sales ground to a halt), it outsold Ford 44 times in 47 years. Ford's only victories were in 1957, 1959 and 1970." Wikipedia has a chart of production figures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Automobile_Production_Figures So how many day's production is that in the photo (which is quite an eye-opener)? There appear to be at least 8600 chassis in the photo. Chev sold over half a million vehicles in '34 and '35 and over 900,000 in 1936. So assuming they worked a 5 day week and production was even all through the year, they made about 2000 a day in '34 and '35 and about 3500 in '36. So it is barely a weeks worth of production! Edited November 7, 2016 by Spinneyhill (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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