Hot Rods Stright-8 motor, side-valve ---- whose is it?

This motor was in a [probable] 1930s Nash, but does not look like a Nash engine to me. Or is it?

(I have also posted a separate thread querying the identity of the right-hand-drive "probably" Nash that some have said is a Ford A.)

 

Are you sure it's a side valve (flathead). It looks OHV as were Nash engines at that time.

 

Looks like a hudson straight 8 to me.

 

That one looks side valve to me..

also, Nash made many models in those years, and they had OVH straight 8 as well as sidevalve straight 8 in the same year. the medium to largest Nash W/B chassis models got the OHV

 

Thank you guys; Detroit was turning out A LOT of cars around 1930, a LOT of different motors, and to a modern eye they look so similar!

 

I guess. I thought it might be an OHV with the rocker cover off. To bad the picture isn't better.

 

I think I have now identified the car fairly closely: a 1930 Dodge Business Coupe? The mouldings and vent flap and hinges match perfectly.
http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Dodge/30-Dodge-Business-Model-DD-DV-09_RMH-04.jpg

They had six-cylinder engines, and I am trying to find photos that help to compare against my lousy photograph. If any of you know the Dodge 6-cyl and can offer an opinion, I'd be grateful

 

The blue Dodge you linked, does not have a beltline continued on the rear quarter side.

Bear in mind that Dodge had 6 and 8 in 30-31 etc, so bodies may differ slightly

also the old pic looks like a padded top and padded rear going down to the belt, so maybe look at some Chrysler 8's?

 

Here is a closer shot of the engine....

I can see now that it has a shutter control device for the radiator louvers on the front of the engine. That engine DOES look like a Chrysler 8, but the single belt molding on the body is odd.

 

This same car photo was posted, with the same questions, some time ago here on the HAMB.
I don't recall the outcome of that thread, but a search should produce it.

Ray

 

Yes, it is an ongoing thread. It was misidentified as a Nash coupe.

 

Hudson had the grille shell which was made up of vertical shutters, and were big on flatheads.

 

Identified in the other post about it as a 1931 Chrysler CD8.