1924 Classic Cars for Sale

Walter Chrysler launched his company in 1924 with the Chrysler Six, and it immediately embarrassed cars costing twice as much. The Six offered four-wheel hydraulic brakes, a high-compression engine, and full-pressure lubrication. Packard and Lincoln were still selling refinement. Chrysler was selling engineering, and the market noticed. First-year production reached roughly 32,000 units, which was not a modest debut.

The coachbuilding trade was sorting itself into tiers. LeBaron and Rollston handled the top American chassis. Murphy of Pasadena was producing coachwork for wealthy Californians who wanted something lighter and less formal than Eastern house styles. The distinction between a factory body and a custom body was becoming commercially significant. Rich buyers increasingly wanted to be seen in one, not the other.

Collectors pursuing 1924 cars should understand that the Chrysler Six is historically important but produced in numbers large enough that examples surface regularly. The real scarcity is in the brass-era holdovers, the final Locomobiles and Pierce-Arrow sixes, where coachwork quality was high and survival rates are low. Those cars require patience and a specialist, not a generalist restorer.