1931 Chevy Roadster

1931 Chevrolet Roadster - AACA first class winner! It also goes 80 MPH

My 1931 Chevrolet Roadster still stops traffic the way it did when it first left the factory. The older restoration is so tight that judges at AACA Nationals awarded it First Class honors. The yellow paint has a brilient glow and the original tan drop top folds neatly on the rear deck. Every seam and chrome bead still looks showroom-correct from every angle.

Chevrolet built only 24,050 Sport Roadsters that year, making an open scarce sight even in 1931. Under the hood sits the famous Stove-bolt Six: a 194-cubic-inch overhead-valve engine that Chevrolet advertised as a “six for the price of a four.” Factory rating was 50 horsepower; owners and period testers often claimed 60. Either way, a well-tuned example would run 80 mph—enough to leave Ford’s 40-horsepower, flathead Model A choaking on it's dust.

That was the whole point of the Independence. While Ford stuck with four cylinders and a Model T lineage, Chevrolet offered smoother six-cylinder power, a longer 109-inch wheelbase, and styling that hinted at Cadillac. When the top is down and the yellow body flashes in the sun, it still feels like 1931: the year Chevy took the sales crown and proved a roadster didn’t have to be a Ford to be the fastest thing on the road.