Chevrolet Master DA
Chevrolet Master DA Chevrolet Master DA
We only knew each other for about twenty minutes, and the sensation seemed to have lived together for many years. The car is very comfortable, thorough and friendly. You believe this from the first minutes. A driving style recalls much younger European models.
PEOPLE'S ELECT
Many years ago, a wit managed to make a joke: they say, 60 percent of modern Americans are conceived in the seats of the Chevrolet. Why not recognition of the nationality? This brand in the concern “General Motors” from the very beginning focused on the mass and not the richest buyer. And the main competitors of cars with a cross on the grille were the Fords.
This "Chevrolet Master DA" was born in 1934 - in an era of change. The worst years of the Great Depression were already behind us. President Roosevelt’s new course has given its first fruits: unemployment has declined slightly, while production has risen. Of course, there was still a long way to the real rise, but that year already sold more than half a million Chevrolet, the lion's share - namely the DA model, which is older than the more modest DC.
Chevrolet Master DA
Chevrolet Master DA Chevrolet Master DA
In a literature lesson of the past, the “Master” would be called a “typical representative” - he was nothing (or rather, almost nothing) stand out among the mass of American cars. Frame, tall body with massive wings, long springs at the rear. An in-line six-cylinder engine with a volume of 3.35 liters in those years was no longer considered a special achievement: Ford flaunted the affordable G8.
The cost sworn rivals were very close. The cheapest Chevrolet-Master DA with an open body cost $ 540, a solid sedan at 640. Fords cost $ 30–40 less. But the Chevrolet had an undeniable advantage - an independent spring suspension of the front wheels, which made the car much more comfortable and obedient to the Ford with its transverse spring.
The speedometer scale is marked with a huge margin: up to 150 miles per hour
The speedometer scale is marked with a huge margin: up to 150 miles per hour. The speedometer scale is marked with a huge margin: up to 150 miles per hour.
That's where the feeling of ease of control comes from. One would like to, taking advantage of an almost empty road, reinvigorate the car as much as possible and quickly fill it into a turn, despite solid banks. Although it only seems to me that the speed is pretty decent, in fact, fifty kilometers an hour …
FOREIGN SPECIALIST
In Europe, where this “Master” was at the very beginning of his life, the Chevrolet was considered a symbol of solidity and good wealth. They say that before the Second World War, the car belonged to a doctor. And, most likely, one who could afford to receive patients in his own office.
He traveled only to those patients whose cars were no less prestigious than the doctor’s, and who signed the corresponding treatment bills. By the way, our doctor must have traveled with a hired driver. The car, although without a limousine partition, is royally spacious at the back, and the sofa is trimmed with soft expensive fabric. The front seat is chauffeurously unpretentious - leather.
The passenger seat is spacious and comfortable
The passenger seat is spacious and comfortable. The passenger seat is spacious and comfortable.
In America in those years, 80 power forces are not a record. But for Europe, where the engines are 40-50 hp were considered by no means weak - a very impressive indicator. A Chevrolet ad read: “80 mph with 80 horsepower.” I think this sedan really could accelerate to 125, or even to 130 km / h. Only the process of gaining speed was long and did not deliver pleasure.
The normal highway speed of the “Master” is seventy-eighty kilometers. Then the car is not tense, and the driver with passengers at ease. Long rear springs and stunning comfort sofas guarantee what they bought such cars for - comfort and tranquility.
True, the driver, especially the impressive build, was a bit crowded. The most inconvenient thing is to squeeze between the sofa and the low steering wheel. Tight pedals and a not very malleable gear lever are the norm of those years. The main thing is not to forget that a heavy machine is equipped with mechanical brakes. Even with not the most emergency slowdown, the back itself is squeezed into the back of the seat, helping an extremely strained leg.
In the front of the cabin, the laconicism and simplicity of the interior decoration are fully consistent with the status of the mass model. It relies on sitting on practical, but far from luxurious skin
In the front of the cabin, the laconicism and simplicity of the interior decoration are fully consistent with the status of the mass model. It relies on sitting on practical, but far from luxurious skin. In the front of the cabin, the laconicism and simplicity of the interior decoration are fully consistent with the status of the mass model. It relies on sitting on practical, but far from luxurious skin.
The thirty-fourth year turned out to be relatively calm in the world: the crisis gradually receded, life on both sides of the ocean became fuller and more stable. True, books are already being burned in Germany and the first concentration camps are being built, while in the USSR what begins to be called the “great terror” begins. But the re-cut of Europe and the next world war is still far away, and I don’t really want to think about such things in the mid-1930s. Especially sitting in such a Chevrolet.
LONG LIVER
This Chevrolet has a number of inconsistencies with the original. The car has long served as an ordinary vehicle. In Europe, especially not in the richest part of it, such cars even 30 years after birth completely satisfied everyday family needs. Of course, they did not look fashionable at all. But for those who owned the car after the Second World War, this was not the most important thing, the solidity and reliability of the design were much more important.
Rama and some other units have still not really been restored, and the car is quite on the go. Capital cars once made cars! Even popular ones - like this Chevrolet.
TYPICAL YANKS
Chevrolet Master DA
Chevrolet Master DA Chevrolet Master DA
The Master model appeared in the Chevrolet series in 1934. The DA version with a base of 112 inches (2845 mm) was equipped with an 80-horsepower 3.35 liter engine and a three-speed gearbox. The company offered eight options for open and closed bodies. The chassis also served as the basis for third-party bodywork creations. In 1934, 454, 412 DA Masters were built, including 124, 754 sedans.
