Chevrolet Master Six

The Chevrolet Master and Master Deluxe are American passenger vehicles manufactured by Chevrolet between 1933 and 1942 to replace the 1933 Master Eagle. It was the more expensive model in the Chevrolet range at this time, with the Standard Mercury providing an affordable product between 1933 and 1937.

Starting with this generation, all GM cars shared a corporate appearance as a result of the Art and Color Section headed by Harley Earl. From 1940 a more expensive version based on the Master Deluxe was launched called the Special Deluxe. The updated corporate appearance introduced a concealed radiator behind a façade with a grille.

This was the last Chevrolet that was exported to Japan in knock down kits and assembled at the company’s factory in Osaka, Japan before the factory was appropriated by the Imperial Japanese Government. When Toyota decided to develop their own sedan called the Toyota AA, a locally manufactured Master was disassembled and examined to determine how Toyota should engineer their own cars.

In May 1925 the Chevrolet Export Boxing plant at Bloomfield, New Jersey was repurposed from a previous owner where Knock-down kits for Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac passenger cars, and both Chevrolet and G. M. C. truck parts are crated and shipped by railroad to the docks at Weehawken, New Jersey for overseas GM assembly factories.

Assembly: Flint (Michigan, USA)

Year: 1934—1942

Length: 4775 mm

Width: 1811 mm

Height: 1764 mm

Engine: 6 cylinders; 3389 cc

Power: 80 HP

Max speed: 128 km/h

Fuel consumption: 16 l/100 km

Weight: 1270 kg

Rahmi M. Koç museum (Istanbul, Turkey)

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