Thread: What is it ???

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Well heres my problem. The car in the attachment was given to me and I don't know the year, make or model. Could anyone help me?004.jpg

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I'm pretty sure it is a 35-36 Plymouth four door sedan body, but so many cars back then looked similar it is really hard to tell. But look how the tail lights mount and the belt lines, they look the same to me.


The only thing throwing me is the dash. I couldn't find a 35-36 Plymouth with a dash like that.
Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

The only thing throwing me is the dash. I couldn't find a 35-36 Plymouth with a dash like that.
Don

You're close Pops, try a '36 Dodge.

That was my first thought Bob, but several things made me think not. First of all, the taillights on the Dodge mount to the fenders, not the trunk hump, like in his picture. Then, the Dodge has a split back window, his is one big window, and finally, the door handles seem further down from the beltline on the Dodge than on his. The beltline on the Dodge sweeps down in the back toward the ground. His beltline continues up around the roof, more like on the Plymouth.

But that dash still has me wondering. Here is a picture of the Dodge, see the differences?

Don

That's the Dodge dash, perhaps this is one of those Canadian combo cars.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...26tbs%3Disch:1

BTW, the tan picture looks more like a '37 or 8

Here ya go Pops: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...26tbs%3Disch:1

quick !! if you hurry maybe you can put it back before anyone noticed it was gone .. but serriously though your`e gunna spend 60 thousand bucks on a 15 grand car ..

Originally Posted by HOSS429

quick !! if you hurry maybe you can put it back before anyone noticed it was gone .. but serriously though your`e gunna spend 60 thousand bucks on a 15 grand car ..

Well yeah, that was also something I was wondering about. While I know we car nuts like to save every car possible, the reality is that SOME cars are too far gone to financially make it unrealistic to try to do anything with them. IMO this car is one of those. The good parts are gone and will cost you a fortune to try to replace, plus, there is the matter of the overall condition of the car itself..............it's a rustbucket. No offense, but honestly, you will be better off pulling the few remaining good parts (doors?) and selling them to some other rodder or restorer so that another, better car can live again.

Don

Originally Posted by HOSS429

quick !! if you hurry maybe you can put it back before anyone noticed it was gone ..

You're thinkin' what I'm thinkin'.

it may make a nice piece of yard art .. i know this ones been sitting for about a hunnert years

Well given the"picture size",my back-up computer,the only service I can get in my area(yepper dial-up),the fact I started to download this thread about lunch time and it is now 11:40PM("still downloading"),I am wearing three d glasses,I would guess,now this just a guess mind ya.It is a Deffendorf Roadmaster which was the only early car built with a hit and miss slant 6.But I'll check back tomorrow morning once the thread downloads.

is there a tag on the firewall of any type???maybe the angle of the pictures but it seem that the roof line has more of a forward slope to it than the photo's.is there a firewall???.engine????

It's pretty rough, but you could use what's there to build something like this...

Originally Posted by J. Robinson

It's pretty rough, but you could use what's there to build something like this...

I like it J., looks like a dirt track escapee...

I like it, too. I don't know where that picture came from, but it shows what can be done with a good imagination. That car is nicely proportioned...