At this point, after seeing all of the different cowl and body numbers, I don't think that there is any evidence that supports the 300 number, other than hundreds of books that say 300! As for the car being cancelled, It was just a poor marketing idea, and the production numbers show that. If you build your company around selling the countries cheapest cars for the masses, it is hard to sell to that upscale consummer that wants something special. Like you said, it would take a chauffeur to drive to let the owner feel the satisfaction of the top down experience in this car. If someone wanted a convertible, the cabriolet or much cheaper roadsters and phaeton were available. People with chauffeurs were not driving Chevrolets! So how does that account for 8-9 thousand sales? First, there is always a part of the market that wants to own the newest and nicest thing going, and this was certainly it! This type of consumer preorders stuff, or is waiting at the dealership for roll-out day! Second, if it is true that GM sent one to every dealership, that means the cars had to be built. This beautiful car likely could sell itself in the window of a dealership, but given few colour choices and that weird convertible top, would you really order one? It seems more of an impulse buy! I think the 8000 sales likely came early in the year, and the cancellation came from a slow down in sales and feedback from the market. Just changing the roof to a fixed roof resulted in 42,000 sales for half a year of the Imperial sedan... a much more functional car, and apparently what the consumer was looking for!

I doubt if slow sales was the reason the Imperial Landau was discontinued. Almost 55,000 were sold in 1928. I think a more likely reason was customer complaints of a leaky roof. The seal and water drain system between the convertible top and the fixed roof is a very primitive design that probably led to a lot of ugly water stains in the interior. The stock market crash was at the end of 1929, so the price was not likely to have caused a sales decline. Chevrolet sales were still good through 1930 and most of 1931, some folks in hard times were buying Chevrolets instead of Buicks and Cadillacs.

The 1930 head and block that I have is all but perfect new poured bearing and on and on