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My grandfather bought his Chrysler Airstream C8 used in 1937, and drove the thing until 1956, when he replaced it with a 1950 Buick Roadmaster. He got good dervice out of his. The Six cylinder version of this machine used the same basic engine that powered all of those legendarily Chrysler products from '24 up into the 1950's.
That eight was used in all of the Imperials up until the post-war period, and had a very fine reputation for reliability.
You claim that the car was a failure, but actually the Airstream product line saved the firm from the disaster of the technically advanced but poor-selling Airflow products.
TheChrysler Straight Eight was also a commonly used marine and industrial engine.
The Airflow was indeed an even worse failure. lol lol That engine would literally fall out of cars while they were going because the mounts were not adequate for the engine. lol lol