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

That does look more like it. The picture of the tan one was listed as a 36 on the site I borrowed it from, but maybe it is really a 37. I should know, as I owned a 37 Dodge four door in my teens, but that was a few years ago (), so I forget what it looked like exactly. Also, the Dodge has the taillights mounted on the rear fenders, and his clearly have the remnants of a taillight mount right on the trunk hump. Very confusing, maybe it is a midyear thing or something as you have suggested.

At least we have narrowed it down to some Chrysler product.

Don

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 Itoldyouso

The picture of the tan one was listed as a 36 on the site I borrowed it from, but maybe it is really a 37.
Don

I consider the internet an enormous knowledge resource........however......I've felt the need to double and triple check almost every assertion for validation/agreement.

This isn't unique to the internet though. Rod magazines have been a reference source since day one and have, at times, been in error as well. I recall on here several years ago someone put up a picture of a '60s era customized F100. The poster really liked the bumper treatment and wondered what it come from. I recognized it as '55 Pontiac and responded. Another poster, a "rat rod know-it-all" type, said that he had the magazine and it said it was a Plymouth bumper so I obviously didn't know what I was talking about. The humor in that is that I had anticipated possible skepticism and had also posted a picture of a '55 Pontiac in my original post. Oh well!

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

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????

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