my neighbor is trying to sell me the back half and roof of this sedan for $50. neither of us have any idea what make, model, or year it is. if anyone out there can tell me what it is and if its worth it that would kick ***. thanks all
1.A lot of work? 2.The beginning of a cool project? 3.Ran when parked? 4.A 1928-1931 Henway? 5.A 1928-1931 ****fer? Stop me when I'm getting close.... For $50 it should be safe in your garage and then the question of what it is posted..... And do an Intro! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=18
I would agree with Lowfat it is a chevy 28-29 i think i have a rough cowl and sedan door to go with it
If you look at the thread 32 5 window reshuffle it has the basic appearance of a 32 Ford 4 door rear but the way it's falling apart it's hard to tell.
Considering how many cars got turned into pickups or doodlebugs that can be had fairly cheap these days, the back of the body is the hard part to find, most definately worth $50 to have something to cap the back off with for a pickup or extended cab pickup build. I've used **** like that to cob things together to flip and made good money with it.
With the nail holes, not a ford. But I will agree that its a 29 or 30 chevrolet 4 door sedan. Your neighbor ought to give it to you. And then send it to me..John
-------------------------------- I agree that there's a high probability that the 'mystery car' in question here could be your number 1, 2 or 3 choices - ie - "a lot of work", "the beginning of a cool project" and/ or "ran when parked" But as to your numbers 4 and 5 suppositions about the car being a "1928-1931 Henway", or a "1928-1931 ****fer"......absolutely no way. The rear quarter window opening are not right for a '28, '29, or '30 Henway, although they do look disturbingly similar to the window openings used on a mid-to-late-model-year production '31 Henway "Flaming Tortoise Sports Sedan". Also, some '31 Henway "Flaming Tortoise" models' came with bullet holes right from the factory, as part of a special, one-year-only, "Gangsta' Cruisa' Look-alike" option package, so that's another possible tip-off in identifying this car. Depending on the particular caliber and the exact pattern of the bullet holes too, the car might even be one of the rare "John Dillinger" or "Bonny Parker & Clyde Barrow" or if you're really lucky, maybe even one of the ultra-rare "Ma Barker Gang" 'Signature Series' special edition models! But then again, the car could be just a regular '31 Henway "Flaming Tortoise", with the bullet holes added later, either by a dealer, distraught at the thought of receiving yet another unsold and virtually unsalable, new '31 Henway to clog up his lot with, or by a disgruntled Henway owner, driven into a justifiably violent rage, at the prospect of still having to make years of car payments on his still new but already irreparably broken-down and now worthless automobile! More likely though, the bullet holes were factory or 'dealer installed' though, because most '31 Henway owners caught up in this all too common predicament, simply shot themselves, rather than wasting ammunition on the car too. As far as the car being a '28-'31'Dikfer' - the preferred, formal, 'non-lumpen' spelling being 'Dikphor', by the way, no, definitely not! First, the quarter windows are all wrong for a '28 or '29 model. The '28 and '29 Dikphors all used unique, patented, so-called "panoramic vision" 3-piece bay windows on their rear p***enger compartments. And secondly, there were no '30 or '31 Dikphors ever produced. The company, already nearly bankrupted by the so-called "Great *** Scandal of 1928", after being forced to pay out millions of dollars in palimony and hush money to the tens of thousands of women it grievously and wantonly victimized in an illicit, corporate "cars for ***" scam during the 1928 model year. Then in early 1929, just as the new '29 models were beginning to roll off the ***embly line, the company was rocked by yet another scandal and finally ruined and forced out of business. While already deeply in dept from the previous year's '*** scandal', the company desperate for new technology to revive it's tarnished and rapidly falling star, borrowed millions to invest in a supposed, 'ENRON-cycle' "fuel-less engine" perpetual motion machine. Unfortunately and not too surprisingly, the supposed, fuel-less, "you can drive forever, for free!" wonder engine that Dikphor bet it's future on didn't exist. In spite of glowing reports on the device by noted krypto-journalist, pseudo-science writers at the 'Weekly World News' and other equally impeccable 'supermarket tabloids' of the day - and the fact that shares in the device were being wildly promoted by the famous Wall Street bon vivant, noted kleptophile and ponzi-scheme name-sake, Charles M. Ponzi himself, the device turned out to be a fraud! When the scam was revealed, the banks came calling on Dikphor to get their money back, leading to the immediate and final collapse of the once mighty Dikphor Motors Corporation !!! Mart3406 (Official Henway Motors Corporate Historian and Archivist) =========================
I say, it looks remarkably similar to the rear of a Rolls Canardly aye what! Rather, the Towne Sedanette, don't you know? Any chauffer worth his snuff can affirm that from furlong distant.
I think its this. A 1934 Dodge. I saw this a while back and when I saw your post I remembered the lines.... Also, look at the back window,its a telltale sign on dodge cars...
I agree with choppershox ,Before I saw his post I was thinking 34 something .The back has the lines of a 34 ford but isn't .
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