Old Cars and Old Planes

The Inspector · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2012 8:28 pm

.....and the only thing that separated a Chevrolet El Camino from a GMC SPRINT/DIABLO was the grill and tail lamps and a couple of pot metal badges, sort of like trying to get the fly poop out of the ground pepper innit?

TonyM · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2012 9:28 pm

The Inspector wrote:

# #10 is a 37 FORD humpback (built in trunk) there's another 37 FORD sedan a couple pictures later,'.

Inspector,

I own a 1937 Ford "Slantback" and it has a "built in trunk".

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Rick65 · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2012 11:06 pm

fnqvmuch
You obviously know more than you are letting on about the coupe utility (aka ute) and the Australian Staggerwing.
Looks like a "FX" (marketed as Holden) but not totally - the trims on the edge of the bonnet?
Would you let us know the full story.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 1:18 am

TonyM,
You could order or purchase a brand new 37 FORD with a hump type trunk, a flat back like you have, or if you didn't want to fork over the extra money, you could still get an external fold down stamped steel rack to place a real trunk on in Tudor or Fordor body styles. This in the days where for an extra $7.50 you could get your 37 with a factory installed leather seat until the factory told dealers to stop offering the option as they were having troubles getting enough hides.
Automobile trunks were still sort of new to the 'everyman' level of sedans and several different styles and trypes were offered until one was found that more people wanted over the others. MY dad had a 35 tudor sedan Ford and pictures of it showed a 'bumped' trunk box with what amounts to a lunchbox type lid built onto the body that hinged @ the base of the back glass.

airnutz · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 6:34 am

The Inspector wrote:

The car being loaded into the BRISTOL 178 is a custom bodied Rolls Royce

Or perhaps a custom coachwork Armstrong Siddeley Lancaster? My Rolls books, Dalton or Bird & Hallows yielded nothing comparable in the Rolls-Royce stuff, so...I went back and found this link implying it's "Taffy" Powell's Armstrong Siddeley Lancaster..tho I wasn't able to find an example of a Lancaster with those teardrop "wings". I'm guessing the coachworks tailored the "suit" to the man... :wink:

www.silvercityairways.com/the_company.htm

TonyM · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 6:51 am

The Inspector wrote:

TonyM,
You could order or purchase a brand new 37 FORD with a hump type trunk, a flat back like you have, or if you didn't want to fork over the extra money, you could still get an external fold down stamped steel rack to place a real trunk on in Tudor or Fordor body styles. This in the days where for an extra $7.50 you could get your 37 with a factory installed leather seat until the factory told dealers to stop offering the option as they were having troubles getting enough hides.
Automobile trunks were still sort of new to the 'everyman' level of sedans and several different styles and trypes were offered until one was found that more people wanted over the others. MY dad had a 35 tudor sedan Ford and pictures of it showed a 'bumped' trunk box with what amounts to a lunchbox type lid built onto the body that hinged @ the base of the back glass.

There was no charge for a trunk for 1937 Ford. Only the Cabriolet and Roadster did not have a built in trunk for 1937; they had rumble seat--all other models came with built in trunk.

TonyM
Early Ford V-8 Club of America
RG69

fnqvmuch · **Joined:** Thu May 13, 2010 7:01 pm **Posts:** 64

Rick65 wrote:

fnqvmuch
You obviously know more than you are letting on about the coupe utility (aka ute) and the Australian Staggerwing.
Looks like a "FX" (marketed as Holden) but not totally - the trims on the edge of the bonnet?
Would you let us know the full story.

Afraid to say to me it totally looks nothing like a Holden either "FX" ( actually 48-215, iirc) or FJ.
These are not my kind of car, but the contemptuous familiarity of a lifetime has me feeling quite sure it is just not narrow or humpy or slab sided or ... well, cheap-recycled-detroit-reject-styled enough.
The body curves out not under between the mudguards, the headlights are in nacelles not integral, the grill has no high centre and the bonnet(hood) is too narrow where it meets the grill, the rear window is not wide enough, etc., etc., etc.
The windows behind the doors should settle it for the afficionado, but for all I'ld know ... maybe it's a dodge.

Rick65 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:44 am

Called up as a Chevy in the following link with much more on the Staggerwing
http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austa/VH-AFP.html

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