1931 Plymouth Model PA Sport Roadster

The PA Model Plymouth was the first totally redesigned Plymouth and the first low-priced car to offer the combination of four-wheel hydraulic brakes, a double drop frame, free-wheeling, full instrumentation, independent front suspension at all four wheels and full pressure engine lubrication. It also features floating power - a unique patented system of mounting the engine in rubber and suspending the engine along its own center of gravity to give the engine 'the smoothness of an eight and the economy of a four.'

The handsome styling of the PA Plymouth includes the 'Flying Lady' radiator ornament, a decorative grille, a rounded chromed radiator shell, and its double drop frame enabling the car to sit several inches below the comparable Ford and Chevrolet models plus significantly lower its center of gravity.

The PA Model enabled Plymouth to move into 3rd place in sales behind Chevrolet and Ford, a position it retained until 1954.

A significant pre-curser to the Plymouth's future racing heritage was a stock PA model four-cylinder, four-door sedan, driven by two Chrysler employees. They would set a new round trip San Francisco to New York speed record in 1931, smashing the existing record set in a much more expensive eight-cylinder Franklin driven by noted race car driver Cannon Ball Baker.

This particular PA Model Plymouth was manufactured on July 31st, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan at the Chrysler Kercheval Plant on Jefferson Avenue. It was sold to a Plymouth Dealer in Valley Falls, Rhode Island.