1923 Flint Division, Durant Motors Corp., Long Island City, New York.
1924-1927 Flint Motor Company, Flint, Michigan.
The Flint was a product of Durant Motors by default. Its prototype was to have been the Chevrolet Six, its development underway at the former Wills Corporation plant in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which had been temporarily rented by Walter P. Chrysler, by the Zeder-Breer-Skelton engineering team when the plant was acquired by William C Durant. Under a prior arrangement, the car's prototype also became a Durant holding. With minor modifications, work on the new car was continued, its result being Durant's new Flint which was introduced at the Hotel Commodore in New York during January 1923. The Flint was fitted with a 7 bearing crankshaft and a steel tube for added reinforcement. A well designed and equally well-engineered car, the Flint would occupy a prominent niche in William C Durant's automotive empire, with various models introduced during its existence of more than four years, priced from $960 to $2750 with a complete line of both open and closed body styles. All Flint cars were powered by Continental 6 cylinder L-head engines 6E, 7U, 9L and 14U, with wheelbases of 115inches (2919mm) and 120/130 inches (3046/3300mm). Disc wheels were standard on all Flint cars except for the Models 40 and Z-18, the smaller Flints which were fitted with the wood artillery type.
The Flint occupied the sales position between the Durant Six and the Locomobile in the contemporary Durant line up. Another proposed car, the Princeton, planned to fit in between the Flint and Locomobile, was abandoned at the pilot stage when it became the senior Flint line.
Flint sales peaked in 1924 when 14,778 cars were sold. Total Flint production from 1923 to 1927 was nearly 37,000 cars.
