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DeSoto Airstream
The Desoto Airstream is an automobile that was built DeSoto during model years 1935 and 1936. During both years, the car was sold along with the streamlined DeSoto Airflow. The DeSoto Airstream 4-door sedan sold for $220 less than a 4-door DeSoto Airflow.〔''The Complete History of the Chrysler Corporation 1924 ''-'' 1985, Beekman House, 1985, pg. 79.〕 Chrysler fielded its own Chrysler Airstream model concurrently; visual cues separated the two automobiles.
==More successful than Airflow==
The Airstream was created to capture market share lost during the 1934 season when DeSoto only offered the Airflow. In 1935, there were 20,784 Airstream cars sold, as compared to 6,797 Airflow models.〔''Riding the roller coaster: a history of the Chrysler Corporation'', Charles K. Hyde, Wayne State University Press, 2003, pg. 98.〕 Airstream sales nearly doubled the units of Airflows, 13,940, sold in 1934. While streamlined and aerodynamic, the Airflow was not embraced by the public, and the more mainstream Airstream was introduced as a stopgap measure until a fully redesigned DeSoto could be introduced in 1937.
In reviewing the Airstream, conventionality was its best attribute. Solidly built, and more conservatively styled, the 241.5CID 6-cylinder Airstream did away with the Airflow's integrated headlights, broad grille work and monocoque construction. While the super structure of the Airstream was all-steel (as opposed to wooden framing - a practice still followed by some US automakers in the mid-1930s), the car rested on its frame, while Airflow's unibody build qualities placed the passenger compartment within the frame structure. It has a 118" wheelbase.〔
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