On second thought, I doubt Chevrolet would have had the metal inner door structure. Oldsmobile maybe or were all GM's wooden inner structure?
That was my thoughts exactly. Not sure if Cadillac was metal or wooden. An old '29 Buick I had was wooden. Wheels too which is why a 20-year-old me p***ed it on. It was eventually junked but the straight 8 was saved for a sawmill.
Looks like a really intense project that will require a lot of extra parts and a lot of money invested.
The leaning door looks to be a p***enger side door judging by the lock cyl hole above the door handle hole. Looks like a Chrysler to me.
Pretty sure if it was a GM product of that vintage it would have collapsed into a nice horizontal pile of tin. The cowl would be the only thing standing upright.
@VANDENPLAS Prfffftttt it’s a Dodge . Sorry but not this time. The body lines for a chev are not right. The Olds above are closer. Did GM alter their stampings slightly from brand to brand in an effort to save $? '27 Chrysler is close but the body line in the fender does not match. Some sort of GM and the story says Cadillac.
'25 Cadillac......suicide front doors with the handle and hinge in between the belt lines....as in the OP's pic (exact places). Click on pic. A little background: The Great Smoky Mountains National Park calls it the Secret Cadillac, and it is located on the Middle Prong Trail about 1.9 miles from the trailhead in the Tremont area of the Smokies, near the Great Smoky Mountains Ins***ute at Tremont on Laurel Creek Road.
Yeah, I'm not sure why the one in the original pic does and the one in second pic doesn't. The front door skin in the second pic is laying on the ground, so I'm ***uming the door propped up against the rear door frame is a front door. A lot of hikers go by this so parts are gonna get moved around. Also ***uming the second pics I posted are a lot later than the OP's pic.
I was told it was near Bland Virginia. Apparently, the same car just the pictures were taken in different seasons.
None of the possibilities so far appear to have as much material between base of the windows and the upper belt line as the car in question.
That's a good point. I was told by a ranger it was a '25 Cadillac but that was back in the 80's and didn't really look it over very long.......just remember the suicide doors and it looking a lot different back then. I've got a photo of it somewhere but finding it is another question.
I wouldn't count @Joe Blow out yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Type_V-63 Says 14 different body styles, and "The most noticeable update for 1925 was the introduction of two cl***ifications of body style choices. The "Standard" bodies was added for 1925 that offered a five-p***enger Brougham, two p***enger Coupe, four p***enger Victoria, a five- and seven p***enger Sedan and a seven-p***enger Imperial limousine. A higher content "Custom" body styles offered a Roadster, Touring Car, Phaeton, five p***enger Coupe and Sedan, seven p***enger Suburban with the top level seven p***enger Imperial limousine,"
@crider A deceased friend from Princeton WV told me that and sent me the picture several years ago so at that time in his life he was most likely mistaken. He also had a lengthy story or riding in that car several times and when it broke down where it is. I remember him saying "It was a very long walk uphill all the way". I took his story for what it was worth.
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