Lambda Car Club Delaware Valley Region

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The Delaware Valley Region of Lambda Car Club International is a membership club that celebrates enthusiasm for motor vehicles, welcoming LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies who have an interest in these vehicles for social and recreational purposes.

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Skippack with DelVal at Revive & Drive! Great to see everyone!
05/31/2026

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Skippack with DelVal at Revive & Drive! Great to see everyone!

BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Lambda DelVal members who won awards at the 2026 Grand Invitational in Atlanta!!Bob Sp****la for ...
05/17/2026

BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Lambda DelVal members who won awards at the 2026 Grand Invitational in Atlanta!!

Bob Sp****la for his 1990 Buick Reatta

Donn Schroeder & RJ King for their 2011 Hyundai Genesis

05/11/2026

Linvilla Orchards has partnered with The Historical Car Club of Pennsylvania (HCCP) for over three decades to present their annual Spring Meet. More than 250 spectacularly restored and maintained antique, classic, and muscle cars take over one of Linvilla’s big fields. Previous highlights have inc...

We are excitedly building a calendar of events to make this year even better than last! Be sure to save the date for Re...
03/01/2026

We are excitedly building a calendar of events to make this year even better than last! Be sure to save the date for Revive & Drive!

Hope your chariots are staying warm indoors. To keep us connected during these winter months, here is our next member f...
02/01/2026

Hope your chariots are staying warm indoors. To keep us connected during these winter months, here is our next member feature!

Today we pause from Facebook scrolling to admire this 1926 Chrysler Model 70 Phaeton, owned by Mike Schaffer and Ben Wilson. It has been in Mike’s family for three generations. Remarkably, 1926 was only the third model year of the Chrysler brand. Walter Chrysler had taken over the Maxwell Motor Company and renamed it the Chrysler Corporation in 1925. Happy 100th to the Phaeton!

The Model 70 is powered by a 68hp Chrysler-built 219cid six-cylinder engine paired with a three-speed transmission. It sat above the four-cylinder Model 58 but below the top-of-the-line Model 80, with an original price of $1,395. Be sure to note the display plaque with the Phaeton.

Mike’s grandfather bought both a 1926 sedan and this Phaeton in 1961 for $800. The sedan became a parts car while he spent years restoring the Phaeton. In 1972, he finally completed it and earned First Place at an AACA show. Sadly, after his passing in 1976, Mike’s father lost interest in the car, and it sat for years with its lacquer paint peeling away. Knowing his son loved the old Chrysler, Mike’s father signed it over to him in 1981 after Mike graduated college, asking only that it be moved out of town since it was a painful reminder of his own father’s death.

The Chrysler then sat in self-storage for years until 2009, when Mike committed to a full frame-off restoration, completed in 2011. Its first post-restoration show was the 2012 Lambda Beach Ball Grand Invitational, where the Chrysler won Best in Show. Mike later brought it to its first AACA Grand National in 2016, achieving Senior level recognition in 2018.

This rare beauty is one of only three other 1926 Phaetons in the country. This April, the AACA will welcome the Chrysler into the Century Club!. Del Val members truly feel privileged to have such a rare American automotive treasure in the club’s fleet. Who else has a treasured ride that has been passed down through the family?

Credit to Mike Weiss for original write-up and photographs.

Remember to register for WINTERFEST, which is coming up next weekend! Due to rescheduling the event, there have been som...
01/31/2026

Remember to register for WINTERFEST, which is coming up next weekend! Due to rescheduling the event, there have been some cancellations, but some new registrations as well. Deadline for registering is 11:59pm tomorrow, Sunday, February 1.

Enjoy a potluck dinner with DelVal members and guests at a beautiful venue in Center City Philadelphia. Afterwards, we‘ll hit up the gayborhood! Book a room so you can stay over and not worry about driving home.

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