History Name that scrap

Anyone know what this is/used to be?
Found in a park on Cape Cod, M***achusetts.

 

Maybe a stationary engine - like for a sawmill?

 

a sawmill with shocks

 

BUICK from the 1920's. Bob

 

Still some lining left on that right front brake..

 

So it's a car? How can you tell it's a Buick?

 

I name it Heavy.

 

Did you dig it up yet??? (Discreetly)

 

Henway

 

Still bolted to a ch***is going by frame horns that are visible

 

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Agree with mgtstumpy, looks like the engine is still bolted to the frame, and the frame is buried

 

the Buick suggestion sure looks right....here's one from 1920

 

Looks like a"green" buick.

 

Man, talk about going back to the elements, that has just about disappeared.

 

I don't know but it would make cool yard art...

 

...Until you hit a chunk of it when you were mowing! Then it would make cool sparks!

 

Bet it's a 215 Chevy

 

Ok what's a henway.

You guys are a bunch of bung holes, just leave a guy hangin like that.

and you are absolutely wrong its a peterfor.

 

The side covers are the tip, thanks Squirrel for posting the photo. Bob

 

You are the engine ID expert!

 

I now think this may be a Buick from the 1920's - used to power a sawmill. The shocks are clearly there to cushion the boards as they fall free from the logs. The side covers gave it away...

 

I'll play along. A good hen weighs about 2 or 3 pounds.

 

Nice yard art! Great patina! I'd like to have the complete engine, frame horns, shock, etc. just as it is for my front lawn.
-Dave

 

Maybe a bit lighter for a free range chicken.

 

You may be right, appears to be the same as a *****fer..

 

Thanks to all the knowledgeable people sending clues and answers.

Is that thing in the front of the photos part of a Dubonnet, or "knee action" suspension? Or is it just a regular shock absorber?

I ask because it seems like if it's knee action, that might narrow it down. Subject to confirmation: knee action was used by General Motors from 1934 to 1939. The inventor was a French race car driver who also happened to be the heir to the Dubonnet aperitif fortune. It appeared as standard equipment on the 1934 Chevrolet Master p***enger cars and sedan deliverys, and the Pontiac Economy Straight Eight, also a p***enger car. After that year it became a much rarer extra-cost option until it was dropped for the 1940 model year.

Again subject to confirmation: it's probably not a Pontiac, because as far as I can tell, no Pontiac had both knee-action and a six-cylinder engine. But that engine could easily be a 1934 or later Chevrolet "stovebolt six," 206 cubic inches, producing 80 horsepower. Buick had a version of the stovebolt six that was similar to the Chevy, but again, no Buicks offered knee action. So my guess right now is that the car was a 1934 Chevrolet Master, pictured below.

 

That's not a Dubonnet unit, but a dual piston hydraulic, lever armed shock absorber. Not unlike what was used on '30s/'40s/'50's GM IFS, but combined with the upper A arm in those models.

And the iden***y has already been 'narrowed down'...it's Buick!

Ray

 

According to my wife I'm for mowing the yard and taking out the trash.

 

whoever left it is likely rotting away as well