Hot Rods Any Idea what kind of car this is?

A friend of mine is trying to figure out what kind of car this is, and I don't have any clue. Usually I can figure this kind of thing out, but with the angle of the windshield, and the number of door hinges, and no vent window, I can't find any matches. This is the only picture he has of the car.

-Taken in the early 1930's in Minot North Dakota

-The owner of the car worked in a body shop at the time, so it could have been modified?

 

Dodge

 

I don’t know what make it is but it looks foreign.

 

Has a rumble seat.

 

HA !!! I bet myself that someone would guess Mopar in the first 10 responses.... Nailed It !


But, I don't think it's any sort of Mopar....... this time......

 

30-31 model a
carson top
leant back a pillars

 

34 Pierce Arrow

 

Boxy windshield but heavily leaned back, top looks like it's padded all the way to the drip rails but it has full window frames on the doors. Interesting for sure, I don't recognize it either.

 

Could you ask the lady to move out of the way so we can have a better look at the car?

 

Reminds me of Weymann (sp?) bodies late '20 - early '30s ... maybe Stutz ?

 

What do you make of those wheel hubs?

 

Durant? Belt line looks right and no vent windows, but different a pillars.

 

It doesn't seem to have the hinges in the right place, or the right bead-line transition on the cowl to be a Durant, I'm pretty sure it's not any heavily modified model A, and the bead line doesn't look like any Peirce Arrow I can find pictures of? It's a weird one, there were so many car manufactures back then !!!!

 

How can fellow Hambers miss the 1932 frame reveal in the photo posted ?

 

That looks more like a splash panel than a '32 frame; too much radius on the upper edge.

 

Yea, the "frame revel" is similar but the upper hinge in the middle of that massive, 4" wide beltline is the distinctive detail that will peg it....... if we can peg it.

 

I noticed the similarity of the frame area right away, but I agree with @TCTND . The belt line reveals don’t look like any I’m familiar with either. I do think it’s a coupe with a rumble seat, there is a step pad on the rear fender. How about it @j hansen , can you ID it as foreign?

Edit-I meant to say it’s a Cabriolet

 

The dual trim pieces across the sides I believe are the answer.
I don't ever remember a car with that except 1941 Studebaker.
It is definitely not that.

 

It will turn out to be some European brand automobile.

 

That's the flavor, that I taste.
I don't see Ford.

 

The bolt-on wheels and the distance the rear fenders seem to protrude from the body both look American to me. The A-pillar is unusual enough to suggest bespoke coachwork. This was neither all that unusual nor that inaccessible in the era, which I'd guess to be around 1928. But it would lead me to guess at a chassis at the bottom end of the quality market i.e. somewhere between Hudson and Packard.

The front fenders appear to be skirted (like a '34 Ford compared to a '32) and that might have happened later than the coachwork first fitted. Updates of that kind were not unheard of.

 

kinda looks like a Stutz
Most high end cars with a windshield like that would also have side mounts.

 

Seems to have a rumble seat as evidenced by the step pad on the rear fender.

 

The body lines are similar to 31-32 Chevy or Pontiac.

 

Minot, N.D. was not exactly in the mainstream in the '30s, nor was it the most affluent city in America ( North Dakota really suffered during the Depression/Dust Bowl), therefor my guess would be either Chev/Pontiac/Oakland/Buick or one of the smaller companies that wound up going out of business during the Depression.

 

The wheels look like the 19 inch ones That were on my 31 Buick, but it doesn't look Buick

 

ask the lady in the picture. I bet she knows.

 

I ain't asking her! You ask her. I already asker her to move. You see how far that got me...

 

so many distinguishing features, but I can't find one like it.
Look at that rear window shape, and vertical bars.
Most hi end cars of that era had suicide doors, and side mounts,
Is that a zipper above the windshield?

???

 

There has to be someone who can positively identify this !