Chevrolet does not build many cars like the Chevrolet Master: a 2-door coupe w/rumble seat / 2-door cabriolet w/rumble seat / 4-door sedan / 2-door pickup truck with 206 cuin OHV 6-cylinder, built from 1933 when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. Production ran to 450,435 cars.
The background
The Chevrolet Master and Master Deluxe are American passenger vehicles manufactured by Chevrolet between 1933 and 1942 to replace the 1933 Master Eagle. It was the most expensive model in the Chevrolet range at this time, with the Standard Mercury providing an affordable product between 1933 and 1937. Starting with this generation, all GM cars shared a corporate appearance as a result of the Art and Color Section headed by Harley Earl. From 1940 a more expensive version based on the Master Deluxe was launched called the Special Deluxe. The updated corporate appearance introduced a concealed radiator behind a façade with a grille.
This was the last Chevrolet that was exported to Japan in knock-down kits and assembled at the company's factory in Osaka, Japan before the factory was appropriated by the Imperial Japanese Government. When Toyota decided to develop their own sedan called the Toyota AA, a locally manufactured Master was disassembled and examined to determine how Toyota should engineer their own cars. In May 1925 the Chevrolet Export Boxing plant at Bloomfield, New Jersey was repurposed from a previous owner where Knock-down kits for Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac passenger cars, and both Chevrolet and G. M. C. truck parts are crated and shipped by railroad to the docks at Weehawken, New Jersey for overseas GM assembly factories.
The engineering
Under the skin sits 206 cuin OHV 6-cylinder. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 113 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Where it sits in Chevrolet's history is not in doubt: the Chevrolet Eagle, Chevrolet Standard Six came before it; the Chevrolet Deluxe followed it; it was built at Main plant. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Bugatti Type 57, the Tatra 75, the Škoda Auto Škoda 420. Its Chevrolet stablemates include the Chevrolet Adra and the Chevrolet C-10.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Chevrolet Master — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.