Chevrolet Copper-Cooled

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Copper-Cooled Series M
Production period:	1923
Class :	Lower middle class
Body versions :	Touring car , roadster , sedan , coupé
Engines:	Otto engine : 2.2 liters (16 kW)
Length:	3607 mm
Width:
Height:	1886 mm
Wheelbase :	2616 mm
Empty weight :	680-852 kg
Previous model	Chevrolet 490

The Chevrolet Copper-Cooled Series M was a car of the lower middle class , the only model year 1923 Chevrolet parallel to B Superior series was produced. Together with the Superior, it replaced the 490 from the previous year, but instead of a water cooler it had a radiator grille with air slots behind which the air-cooled, overhead-controlled four-cylinder in-line engine with 2212 cm ³ displacement and an output of 22 bhp (16 kW) was located 1750 min ⁻¹ . Its cylinder block was provided with cooling fins made of copper. Thanks to the air cooling, the cars were almost 100 kg lighter than their water-cooled counterparts.

There were six different bodies: a two-seat roadster, a two-seat coupé and a five-seat sedan (coach) with two doors each and, as a four-door variant, a five-seat tourer in standard and luxury versions, and a five-seat sedan.

The air-cooled cars were lighter than the water-cooled superior cars, but they were also around US $ 200 more expensive. The sales prices ranged between US $ 710 and US $ 1060. This made these models an economic flop and disappeared after a year of production and 759 copies. In 1923 only 100 pieces could be sold; the rest was sold in the following years; Chevrolet used 150 copies as works cars, 239 pieces even had to be scrapped again. Two cars of this type still exist today, one of them in the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit .

literature

• Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark, Jr .: Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 .