VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - 1945 AND EARLIER 1933-1936 Eagle becomes Master + Mercury

This is an old Topic but today I received a three page article on 33 Chevies. On the last page is a Model Breakdown Chart showing the "CC Mercury" CPE 2P Price 445 Prod. 8909
CPE 2-4P Price 475 Prod. 1903
Coach 5P Price 455 Prod. 25,033

I have not been able to find out it's Orgin but was on pages 59-60-61, interesting.

It wasn't from Chevrolet...Joe

probably something like an old issue of cars and parts magazine ?????? is where they might have come from.

mike .

What was your source of information?

yOU ASKING ME OR JONJET ???????????

I bought one off ebay for my 35 roadster last year. It was cut out of a cars and parts. So one would have to guess they also did a similar one for 33 std series. ???

mike

I do not see any markings as to where the pages came from. They are large pages ( (9-3/4x 12-1/4) on heavy pages. I also bought mine on E-bay.

I would be willing to bet it was not published by Chevrolet. I have a number of things that refer to the Mercury but nothing from Chevrolet.

And the challenge continues. Find something written from Chevrolet that indicates the "New Standard Six" is called or was to be called the "Mercury series". When the Master was introduced mid year 1933, paper work from Chevrolet indicated they would not be using names to identify the cars as was in the past with Universal, Confederate, etc. The "New Standard Six" came to be at almost the same time as the "New Master Six"...Joe

Despite the editor of Cars and Parts being a VCCA member, they consistently published articles about Chevrolets that were fraught with errors. Don't ever remembering and corrections being published in spite of being informed of them more than once.

Cars and Parts has not been published for a few years now. Also Stevens passed away with in the past year.

At one time it was a good publication, back when Meno Derksen had articles. At the end it was lousy.

Yep, that's true. Many of us sent in corrections to Cars & Parts and very rarely did a correction get published. One of their sources was the book "Standard Catalog of Chevrolets" and that book should have been thrown into the trash can the day after it was published. But, Cars & Parts kept on using that inaccurate source anyway.





I agree. Back when Meno Derksen was doing the "Free Wheeling" column the magazine was great. After he retired and later when the magazine was sold it slowly started to go down hill. Finally, the magazine became nothing but ads for automotive businesses and it was crap. The magazine became so bad that subscribers were asking for their money back but Amos Press (the owner of the magazine) would never pay up.

I think I might have mentioned cars and parts by accident in a prior post.

I accidently found an article I bought off ebay stuck in with my 1934 parts book for " last of the chevy roadsters 1935 standard series " from SPECIAL INTEREST AUTOS #121 FEBRUARY 1991 .

In that 3 page article written by ARCH BROWN, he writes that the " Chevy had an ace up their sleeve and this was the STANDARD MERCURY, which most people referred to simply as the Chevrolet Standard series " ...... HE IS DISCUSSING the introduction of the 1933 CARS.

Somehow this MERCURY 33 standard won't go away. I guess In reading about 33 I picked it up like a lot of others. If I had a 33 standard I would get some t shirts made that said/.........front and back , "its not a 33 Chevrolet mercury".

lmao

mike