The Chrysler Six is a 2-door coupe / 2-door brougham / 2-door coach / 2-door roadster / 4-door sedan / 4-door Phaeton / 4-door Town Car / 4-door Crown Imperial Sedan from Chrysler, built from 1924 to 1936, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. Under the bonnet: 180.2 CID Chrysler I6.
The background
The Chrysler Six was a series of cars that were all installed with the Chrysler Straight Six when the company assumed operations of the Maxwell Automobile Company in 1924, and Chalmers Automobile Company in 1926.
The Chrysler Six initially consisted of several Models, then Series designations that originally declared the approximate top speed each vehicle was able to consistently maintain, then each series number was incrementally updated every new model year, and each series was offered in several body style choices. The engines were technically advanced for their time and were entered in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for 1925, 1928 and 1929.
The engineering
Power comes from 180.2 CID Chrysler I6; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 3-speed manual transmission. The wheelbase is 109 in / (Series 60) / 112.75 in / (Series 70) / 120 in / (Series 70) / 124.5 in / (Series 77) / 118 in (1935 C-6 & 1936 C-7) / 121 in (1935 CZ & C-1/1936 C-8 ) / 133 in (1935 C-1. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Chrysler Royal (Straight Six) / Chrysler Imperial (Straight Eight); assembly was at Highland Park Chrysler Plant, Highland Park, Michigan. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Tatra 13, the Citroën B10, the Bugatti Type 35 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Chrysler stablemates include the Chrysler Falcon and the Chrysler Chronos.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Chrysler Six — 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.