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La Salle Automobiles

1927 - 1928
Specifications & Photos

 

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1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940

 

Nota: Since these pages were prepared, in 1996, the definitive book on LaSalle
automobiles has been published; it is entitled La Salle - Cadillac's Companion Car
[ISBN #1-56311-519-0]. Thoroughly researched and written and by my friends
Ron Van Gelderen and Matt Larson, I strongly recommend that you refer to that
book for more precise facts and figures, plus lots more photos of these beautiful cars

 

There were  write ups on the new La Salle in Britain's The Autocar  for March 11, 1927 and The Motor for March 27, 1927. If anyone would like a Xerox copy of that article, please let me know.

Another fine series of articles on the early LaSalles appeared in Special Interest Autos (SIA) for May-June, 1971, as also in the Classic Car Club of America's (CCCA) The Classic Car for June and September, 1972.

 

 

1927-28 La Salle Series 303 (90° V-8)

Bore : 3 1/8"

Stroke : 4 15/16"

Displacement : 303 cu.in. (hence "303")

Brake HP : 75 BHP ("Motor" said 80)

Wheel bases : 125" and 134"

Tires : 32 x 6.00

Total units built 1927: 10,767 (one source), 16,850 (Van Gelderen)
Total units built 1928: 16,038 (one source),    9,954 (Van Gelderen),
Combined total (Van Gelderen): 26,804 (incl. 89 chassis and 65 unidentified cars)

Price range : $2495-2685 [$2495-2895, according to period ads, $2350-2875 on AT listing]

Engine numbers : 200001 to 226807 [1927-1928]
Engine numbers : 400001 to 422961 [1928-1929]

27LasBoston.JPG (28952 bytes)     27LasEarl.jpg (27947 bytes)
Two historical photos shot in front of the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on March 5, 1927;
[Left] Standing,  (from L to R) Mr. Danforth, Larry Fisher, Mr Dunnon, Mr. Stephens,
Lynn McNaughton, Harley Earl, H. Batchelor (in bowler hat, while all others are wearing Homburgs!)

R. Rose and Mr. Bakom; seated in the car: Ernest Seaholm (passenger), Mr. Widman (driver)
[Right] Standing, Mr. Danforth, at the wheel, Harley Earl

 

Body styles

Fisher bodies on 125" wheel base
(in ascending order of rarity)

    27LasGrl.jpg (17586 bytes)
Style #7380, 5-passenger sedan with leather back, $2,685
[5001 built 1927 only]
1

     ls27rds2.jpg (13002 bytes)
Style #7400, 2-passenger convertible coupe with rumble-seat, 3800 lbs, $2,635 (1927) and $2,550 (1928)
[3001 units built 1927-28]2

Las28CvCp2.jpg (57501 bytes)
1928 version of the same car - a survivor in 2008


Style #8110-A, 5-passenger family sedan, metal back, $2,350 [2720 built 1928 only]
(Photo: courtesy Ross Morgan, Perth, Australia)

[ photo needed ]
Style #8120, 5-passenger sedan, leather back, $2,495
[1823 built 1928 only]
3

 

     27Las4pVic.jpg (26954 bytes)


A beautiful survivor from the 1928 production run
[ (cropped) Photo: courtesy CLC-Canada and NZ Cadillac Club, 2012 ]

ls27ad1.jpg (9002 bytes)     Las2804.jpg (14068 bytes)
Above, left: Style #7390, 1927 4-passenger Victoria coupe,  $2,550
Above, right: Style #8130, same style as above but built in 1928
These illustrations are from
1927 product brochures or magazine ads published in 1928
[Combined total: 1655 units (1250 in 1927,  405 in 1928)]

ls27ad3.jpg (13993 bytes)
Style #7410 (1927) 2-passenger coupe with leather or fabric-covered top, 3975 lbs, $2,585
Style #8140 (1928), same body style, but $2,450
[Combined total: 1627 units (1100 in 1927,  527 in 1928)]

ls27ts5p.jpg (7343 bytes)     28Ls5pcp.jpg (7156 bytes)
Left: Style #7420 (1927), 5-passenger town sedan, metal back, 3975lbs, $2,650
Right:Style #7420 (1928), a survivor of the same body style, $2,495
[1600 built 1927-28]

Las2801.jpg (11812 bytes)
Left: Style #
8080 (1927-28), 5-passenger cabriolet sedan, leather back,  $2,895
(picture from 1928 ad)

[
500 built 1927-28]

ls27pha.jpg (10627 bytes)
Left:  the artist appears to have taken some liberty, showing both doors opening at the center post and
with a convex instead of a concave molding running down from windshield to body sill


28lasph.jpg (8648 bytes)     Ls27pha2.jpg (11253 bytes)      Las27Pha2.jpg (10833 bytes)
Style #1168, 4-5 passenger phaeton, 3680lbs, $2,495 - some fine survivors
[1575 built 1927-28]

   

Ls27rds3.jpg (8256 bytes)     Las27frt.jpg (27692 bytes)

ls27rds.jpg (12418 bytes)     27RdsRR.jpg (19395 bytes)     27LasRds.jpg (24542 bytes)
These 2 rows: Style #1169, 2-passenger roadster with rumble-seat (1927), $2,485-2,525
[ the three artists' views are from the 1927 LaSalle product brochure ]


This lovely roadster is from the former Le May collection, now in Colorado

ls27lbrg.jpg (7139 bytes)     28rdst.jpg (9842 bytes)
Left: again, Style #1169, 2-passenger roadster with rumble-seat; right: 1928 version
[1184 units built 1927-28]

[ photo needed ]


Style #8110, 5-passenger sedan with metal back, $2,495 [763 built 1928 only]4

Las27coupe2.jpg (90410 bytes)

27LasCp.jpg (26019 bytes)     Ls27cpsv.jpg (10403 bytes)
Style #7410, 2-passenger coupe (cloth or leather back), $2,585 [1001 built 1927 only]
Style #8140, 2-passenger coupe (leather back), $2,450 [527 built 1928 only]

[ photo needed ]
Style #8140-A, 2-passenger business coupe (leather back), $2,350 [446 built 1928 only]

ls27spph.jpg (7767 bytes)     las27phae4.jpg (99783 bytes)
Left: Style #1168-B, 4-passenger dual-cowl phaeton (sport phaeton) [new, July 1927?], $2,995
Right: Style #1168-B, 5-passenger sport phaeton (1928), 4080lbs [AT listing], $2,975

[270 built 1927-28]

 

Fisher bodies on 134" wheel base

Las2803.jpg (11473 bytes)
Style #8060, 7-passenger sedan with metal back, 4000lbs, $2,795 (1927), $2,775 (1928)
Ad is from 1928 [1666 built 1927-28]
5

[ photo needed ]
Style #8060-A, 7-passenger family sedan, $2,575
[1064 units built in 1928 only]

[ photo needed ]
Style #8050, 5-passenger coupe with metal back, $2,625
[1001 built in 1928 only]

[ photo needed ]
Style #8080, 5-passenger sedan,  leather roof covering, no quarter windows), $2,675
[500 units built 1928 only]

ls27ad2.jpg (10016 bytes)
Style #8070, 7-passenger limousine, metal roof, division, $2,895 (1927), $2,875 (1928)
Ad is from 1928 [485 units built 1927-28]

[ photo needed ]
Style #8090, 5-passenger limousine, leather roof, division, no quarter windows)
$2,795 (1927), 2,775 (1928) 
[210 built 1927-28]

[ photo needed ]
7-pass custom tourer [one single unit built 1928]

 

Fleetwood "Semi-Custom" bodies on 125" wheel base
(in ascending order of rarity)

28ls3130.jpg (8690 bytes)    Ls3130.jpg (7539 bytes)
Style #3130, 5-passenger town car,  new as of July, 1927, $4,500-5,000
[22 units built in 1927-28]
Artist's view (in color) is from the rare 1928 brochure, Fleetwood Creations for Cadillac and LaSalle

ls273120.JPG (8471 bytes)
Style #3120, 5-passenger sedan,  new from July, 1927, $3,800
[13 built in 1927]

ls273110.JPG (8829 bytes)
Style $3110, 2-passenger coupe, new as of July 1927, $3,600 [1927], $4,275 [1928]
[12 units built  in 1927-28]

28ls3051.jpg (7723 bytes)
Style #3051, 5-pass. town car, $4,700
[9 built in 1927-28]

Artist's view (in color) is from the rare 1928 brochure, Fleetwood Creations for Cadillac and LaSalle


Unidentified Body Style

ls27sd5c.JPG (10628 bytes)
Unidentified body style (5-passenger sedan with landaulet roof?)

 

Fleetwood "Semi-Custom" body on 134" wheel base

[ photo needed ]
Style #3751, 5-passenger town car, $4,800 [only 2 units built (1928)]

 

Bare chassis

125" wheel base = 55 built
134" wheel base = 34 built

 

Unidentified Cars

65 units6

 

Principal features [1927]: Firewall-mounted parking lights, twelve broadly-spaced vertical hood louvers on each side of hood [easy ID], double-bar bumpers, single, oval tail-light curving upwards, new 90° Cadillac V-8 engine (L-Head).

Principal features [1928]: Firewall-mounted parking lights, 28 slim vertical hood louvers on each side of hood [easy ID], double-bar bumpers, single, oval tail-light curving upwards.

N.B. Weights and prices listed in AT differ from other sources
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1  41 units built in Canada
2  16 units built in Canada
3  4 units built in Canada
4  24 units built in Canada
5  18 units built in Canada
6  an additional 57 unidentified units were built in Canada [mainly styles #8110 and #8060]

   

 

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1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940


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