History We ALL Love a DARE! PIX of TRULY Extinct Makes?

Grahame, I recall seeing mention of a Chevy body style dubbed a "sloper" which was only made in Australia (if I recall correctly). Indeed, the back didn't look like anything sold in America. Does this ring a bell for you?

 

Jimi,

This would be the "Sloper",





http://members.optusnet.com.au/hartleyfamily/newindex

The "Sloper" was built by Holden in the late 1930's until production was interrupted by WW2.
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The 195-Y-.. project was US based and, at least, the 195-Y-15 was 4-door (the Australian preference for family use even today).

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The 1939 Chevrolet in Australia also had differences to the US model, because the body was built by Holden.



http://1939chevy.com/Australia.htm

The big difference between the 195-Y-.. Chevrolet (prototypes) and other Chevrolet models being the 195-Y-.. were like 3/4 scale models.

 

A little OT, but, this was an Australian 1938 Buick Sloper (compare the A-pillar back to the Chev)



and a Chev Ute



http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f68/gmis-history-holden-pre-1948-information-thread-15439/

 

Re Project 2000 and the Willys ...... Holden were building bodies and doing assembly of Willys.



http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f68/gmis-history-holden-pre-1948-information-thread-15439/

 

I like 'em ALL, Grahame!!!

 

A while back, SunRoofCord covered the unique utility coupes
(aka coupe-pickups) built by Studebaker, Chevy and Hudson/-
Terraplane (posts # 1677, 1679 and 1680, respectively).
Since I love the Terraplanes, and the Terraplane coupe-
pickup was only made for ONE YEAR ONLY, 1937, I scratched
around some more today and found some more SHARP pix
of survivors.

BTW, Hudson continued to make them through 1942, as Hudsons
ONLY. The style did not resume after the war. The Terraplane
utility coupe had good power from its 212 engine and could haul
half a ton, once the three-position bed was slid out from the
trunk.



This beautiful Terraplane utility coupe-pickup series is THANKS to flickr!

THANKS to Wikipedia and the WikiMedia Commons project for this
sharp photo of an obviously very functional specimen of the HUDSON
utility coupe, or "coupe-pickup."

 

It's not extinct, but, there aren't going to be many of these found anywhere:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/50415738@N04/5093044084/in/photostream/

"1934 Terraplane ambulance. An original Queensland ambulance restored in the period correct livery of the Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade."

Probably based on a Ute, by the look of the rear window and rooflines (?).




http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/AustralianCars/

"1936 Terraplane UTEThis car is owned by Skip Sail from Australia."




http://classic-car-history.com/1937-terraplane-ute.htm

"1937 Terraplane Ute"

 

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http://cars.ebay.com.au/CHEVROLET-1...E-HOT-ROD_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQitemZ320646087265



http://imcdb.org/vehicle_237184-Chevrolet-Coupe-Utility-1939.html




http://1939chevy.com/New Images/FOTMJun2004/Chev 001.jpg



http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/PickupTrucks/index1941.html

"Chevrolet UTE by Holdens"



http://www.nextcar.com.au/e.2005.mfs.260105.g1.html

"1948 Chevrolet FJ series 1200 Stylemaster"




















http://www.classic-car-restorer-and-trader.com/classic-car.html



http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/...rts-rare-spares-56k-warning-92020/index2.html



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/aushotrods1/kn092004.jpg

 

Some Pontiacs.. not as Coupe Utes but Roadster Utes:



http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=32903&l=fr



http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z125/nota_photo/1941PontiacRoadsterUtility.jpg





http://qldpontiac.com/41ute.html



http://www.gvmvdc.org.au/clubvehicles.html



http://www.mtalexander.com/cars/41chevrpu.jpg

 

http://www.speedtv.com/forums/viewthread/345721/P20/



"Australians loved making Utes out of other vehicles. When Lewis Brandt sent his concept back to the US for approval, Ford US was interested, but only thought that the Ute should be a local adaption.
Here is one concept he had, never produced as World War 2 intervened."

 

http://www.gvmvdc.org.au/images/clubphotos/images/1948 Dodge ute.jpg

If you name it and it was available in Australia, there will probably be a Coupe Ute version (well quite often anyway).

 

You're damn right, even the Peugeot 203

 

Hey,

It's interesting that the story makes no mention of Mr. Gardner getting any help on the construction of the aluminum body from master metalshaper/racecar builder Emil Deidt.
There are some great build photos in the Fawcett Publications Book 156 " How To Build Hot Rods ''

" Humpty Dumpty was pushed "

 

Last week I got to shoot a coupla museums in Oregon. One's in Hood River and is a pretty laid-back place:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/cruisin2011/20110218/Welcome.html

Some unusual cars there were an 1899 White Steamer Stanhope, a 1910 Brush Roadster, a 1911 Altman-Taylor Steam Engine and a 1915 Trumbull Roadster.

Those are just a few of the critters in captivity there. Some pretty kool aircraft, too...like a 1928 Boeing 40C "Mail Plane" that was restored from a crashed aircraft 80+ years after the fact (I'm amazed there was anything left to restore.)

One other vehicle I found really interesting was a 1924 Ford TT truck that had been converted into a "motor home." As it was explained to me, the owner of the truck was terrified of being struck by lightning, especially with the tin roof (coulda been galvanized) on the box. So he attached a hefty cable to the roof's metal and drove a long grounding rod into the ground whenever he stopped to camp. Ya can't argue with the results, since he was never struck by lightning....but I did the same camper thing in the late 60s in Europe and North Africa (yeah, I was wonna the Marrakesh hippies) and my VW camper bus was never struck by lightning. I think the TT owner mighta been just a little paranoid.

 

"first ute in the district

down on the farm lake cargelligo"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dryasadingo/2751681771/in/photostream/

I assume (always a bad move, to assume anything) the Hudson Ute would be an Australian conversion at the point of assembly. From the notation with the photo, it was delivered in Ute form.

 

This last weekend I did a photo shoot at the Salt Lake Autorama. Not the sorta place that one would expect to find old, rare, defunct or extinct vehicles. But there was one there that caught my eye. A 1916 board track racer that used an Indian V-twin motor:

No motor was present and the sign said that the owner is looking for a motor. The car seems to be in "barn find" condition with 3 wire wheels bare and the shreds and tatters of white rubber tire and inner tube present on the right front.

The suspension was really intriguing to me. A semi-elliptic spring at each corner, but mounted in such a way as to function (I think) as both a quarter-elliptic and a strangely mounted semi-elliptic. There seems to be a travel limiter in the center that, when the whole spring is sufficiently loaded, it limits travel to the outer half of the spring. It was the first time I'd ever seen something like that. An old friend (now passed) told me that way back in the day, transverse springs were preferred on oval racers because they could snub the right front corner and limit body lean. He felt that was quite an advantage over longitudinally-mounted springs and why he preferred Fords over other makes when building race cars. Something to think about.

The whole shoot is here along with links to other shoots I've done this year:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/cruisin2011/Welcome.html

 

Funny you should mention unusual suspension. In my worldwide search for information on the Continental brand of cars I found that some were shipped to Australia without passenger compartments, to be bodied by Australian companies to comply with content laws.

This is the rarest of the rare Continentals. It's a body style not offered in the US. It is an Australian bodied Continental Flyer phaeton. Only a Roadster open car was offered. Out of contrast with the other offerings, this car had conventionally hinged door.

In order to avoid steep import taxes the Continetal cars complete, less the passenger compartment, were shipped in and bodied by T. J. Richards, who made and industry out of putting bodies on foreign makes as Australia had no auto industry of their own. T. J Richards also specialized in assembling total knockdown kits from all US manufacturers due to big tarrifs on complete cars.

The chassis is the same as my car. Note the rear suspension.

Here's the Australian newspaper advertisement.



The car in the barn at Herberton Historic Village, Herberton, North Queensland.



Torn down for restoration.



Check out the rear suspension. I've had mine completely apart. It's brilliantly simple.





Original C-600 Continental engine.

 

Hmmm...would ya call that a 4-link or quad quarter-elliptic?

 

Bet you never seen one of these ( 4 door vicky convertible sedan w/decklid )

 

Not sure if anyone pointed out that this is a Model T with a different body and radshell...

That bottom one is a Willys.

 

MINIATURE TEN WHEELER Only three of these were ever built , by Everett McClelland the first was featured in HOTROD Magazine Jan 1955 issue ( Jack Webb on the cover) this is the third one built in 1997 by Everett 1922-2009 it sits on a handbuilt chassis ,has Chevrolet V-6 power, both rear axles push

 

It's a funky little truck, what GM V6 does this one use?

 

the first truck he built was Flathead 60 V-8 powered,the Second was mid engine Studebaker Golden Hawk powered,this third one was originally powered by an ISUZU 4 cyl. Diesel,which was way under powered,so He installed the current 229 Cu.in. V-6 from a Camaro

 

Does this one still get driven?

It reminds me of a heavier duty Jeep FC.

 

Oh yeah, but trying to Insure it is an economic disaster.as they want Huge money because of the extra axle=TENWHEELER, so we don't get far from home = no policy at the moment

 

Ever considered removing the rear axle then getting it insured... then you could just re-attach it later.

 

Might work (I)

 

Currently on Ebay. I never have seen one of these before. 1952 Ariel Wood car

Ps. This thread is awesome.

 

Very interesting handbuilt critter. Ariel 4-Square motorcycle motor and Citroen suspension. I bet the sequential 4-speed transmission makes it kinda hard to back outta the driveway...unless it was a sidecar or trike with reverse.

They want $24k for it. I'd pay up to maybe $6k...on a good day.

Yep. Awesome thread.