This Brass Era Chevy was much larger, more powerful, more stylized and therefore more expensive than the cars that would ultimately replace it.

It was a well constructed car and had a six-cylinder engine up front with a cone clutch and a three-speed gearbox mounted at the rear axle.

Standard equipment included a starter, four doors, a folding top, a tool box, cowl lights, and electric headlights.

Penned by Etienne Planche under direction from Louis Chevrolet,[1] the Chevy with its low running boards had a design more resembling European cars.

The first prototype car appeared in late 1911, and Louis Chevrolet himself tested it on the back streets of Detroit.

Chevrolet's first engine was a liquid-cooled 299-cubic-inch, six-cylinder, cast-iron block cast in three groups of two, with a T-head configuration, that produced 40 horsepower.

Seen from the end of the crankshaft, in cutaway view, the cylinder and combustion chamber resembles a T; hence the name "T-head."

The oldest example is a 1913 model, serial #93 located in the Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Canada and is an unrestored partial car.

The Classic 6 was driven daily until 1936, when it was bought by the Aldenhaven Family in Ft. Worth (who owned a Chevy dealership).