Barn find-what is it?

I was helping a buddy put away his 60' Cad last weekend. We drove to a farm about 60 miles away where he stores stuff. I was talking to the farmer about finding some relic to put in my garden as a planter. He led me to the back of a shed where he showed me this:





Apparently some body guy in Princeton Mn. built about 6 of these for someone in California. The bodys were only roughly finished, with more work to be done somewhere else. The front is all hand made with heavy gauge sheet-metal, as is the back and fenders. The firewall, doors and rear cowl area looks like it is early 60's Austin Healey Sprite or Midget. The frame is from an early 70's full sized Ford. The frame is shortened nicely to a 115" wheelbase. The hood is 66" long! It is not a Clenet. I am able to put in a Stude President straight 8 (which would, of course get two TO-3 Chrysler junkyard turbos...) or a 472" Cad + TH400 ($600) but, before I do, I'm wondering what it is? Man, it cost me $300.....

 

no clue , but im continualy amazed at the cool stuff that keeps turning up in mn!!

 

If it cost you $300 what it is is a steal. Don't hang a name on it just build it and drive it.

Tell everyone its an Edsel Alley Ostrich.

 

That is a 1937 Friggin Sweet. Haven't seen one in a long long time.

 

$300? You didn't get hurt on that one. BTW, my wife wants one to use as a planter in one of her flower beds. I've been trying to get her to do a auto themed planter for some time but haven't come up with anything she is excited about.. Just showed her this and she is, "get me one of those and you will get your "old car garden".

Frank

 

Gigantor, I have to argue and say that it is a 1936 Friggin Sweet. The 37's were not as friggin sweet.

 

Nope, 38 Whatthehellisit !!

 

It's hard to tell for sure without the hood (that's a dead giveaway) but you might be right.

 

It's a '35 Henway!

 

The title I bought somewhere says it will be a 36' Nash......
The rearend was worth the $300. Plus, free storage till spring....

 

Nah, you are all wrong. That is obviously a 1935 Makujelous. It is the rare Badaz roadster model.

 

I had a huge mockup body that was based around an MG midget tub, using '36 Ford rear fenders and Model A fronts, plus a whole shitload of cardboard and wall plaster. It was the buck to make a fiberglass body, and it looked somewhat similar to yours. I think it was popular to do stuff like that in the kit car era. Neat body for $300, mine also had a Caddy 501 in it.

 

Nope it's a 36 Greecianurn!!

 

whatever it is, I LIKE IT!

 

Cool find! Can't wait to see some progress pictures. Normal Norman

 

Looks like the one I sold back in '74. Whatever it was, I sure miss that car.

 

Hmmm. You still want it? Maybe we can barter......you are close by and I have a lot of projects ahead of me.

 

That grille almost looks like a Brewster.

 

And here I was thinking that it was a '35 Whatchamacalit Special Edition Thingamabober Roadster Coupe... My Dad's first cousins uncle's neighbor had one just like in his garage...only his was different...

 

1937 dayum ... rare model, only 13 made

 

I remember once, jogging down this street and seeing a real one. The guy was in his driveway. I just shouted out "nice Brewster" as I ran by and kept going. Wonder what he was thinking!

 

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Close! It's a Henway alright, but it's not a
'35, it's a '36 - and it's not just any ordinary
old 1936 Henway either! From the photos,
it's appears to be what's left of the missing
and long-lost, one-off, experimental 1936
Henway "Camel Toe" roadster concept
car! The car was constructed sometime in early
1936, by a group of Henway engineers working
at the Henway Motors Corporation' 'super, ultra
and way above even top-secret' "Area 52"
research and development facility. So secret
was - and is - this place, that even in most
company documents to this day, "Area 52" is only
ever referred to as being located "somewhere
in the Watubi desert" and at a place "about
40 miles from Gopher Lunch, Nevada"!
The car was built to test the feasibility of an
experimental, supposedly, 'fuel-less' engine,
that Henway engineers there, claimed to have
developed, using a simple cold-fusion-powered
'Anorexic Regenerative Transformer', connected
in series to a 'dark matter-filled, 'neutron-beam
Transmogrifier' using 'Bose-Einstein condensate'
as both the primary and secondary working fluids!
Unfortunately - but not really surprisingly either -
the engine - the working theory and basic design
of which, came about, allegedly by 'conjuring up
spirits' with a Ouija board, during one of the
engineering team's all too frequent, drunken,
week-long, combination 'tequila, magic mushroom,
peyote and Morris dancing-fueled' sex binges,
proved to be a bust, being both unworkable in
theory and unbuildable in practice! The engineers,
fearing severe and violent retribution from top
management - up to and including being murdered
even - for squandering millions of dollars of the
company's money on a totally unworkable and
not even theoretically possible engine - decided
to try and save their pathetic, and now virtually
worthless lives, by feigning success and then,
creating a hoax to cover their tracks - disappearing
to a place as far away from company officials as
humanly possible - by defecting to the Soviet
Union! To put their escape plan in action, they
first burned all the drawings, plans and paperwork
for their unworkable 'fuel-less engine' and then
had the already completed "Camel Toe"
roadster 'concept car' fitted with a standard '32
Ford flathead V8 engine and running gear. That
done, they then requested permission from top
management in Detroit to take the car on an
extended, long-distance 'road trip' to test the
non-existent 'fuel-less engine' under actual,
'real-world' driving conditions. Permission
granted, the engineers, armed with as much
food and cash as they could carry, plus disguises,
false I.D.'s and forged passports, set off on their
mission. Driving across the plains, through the
vast, untracked wilds of rural Minnesota, they
finally saw their chance - a barn on an old,
long-ago abandoned, banana plantation, where
they could stash the car and make good the rest
of their escape! A day later, after hiding the car
in the barn, they were seen crossing the border
into Canada, where at a "Tim Horten's" outside
of Winnipeg, using the pre-arraigned secret
code phrase "I'll have a medium double-double",
they made contact with waiting Soviet NKVD
operatives. The NKVD agents then disguised
the escaping Henway engineers as 'luggage',
by stuffing them inside large canvas duffel
bags and then, hiding them inside the external
baggage compartment, smuggled them aboard
a regular Air Canada passenger-Zeppelin flight
to Montreal, where the NKVD had a 'safe house'
waiting for them! There, after issuing them with
wigs, make-up and lingerie and giving them
smart new navy-blue 'sailor frocks' to cleverly
disguise them as vacationing female Russian
sailors, the NKVD put them on a Soviet freighter
bound for Vladivostok! Tragically for the
engineers, they arrived the U.S.S.R in early
1937, just in time to be caught up in the first
of Stalin's 'Great Purges' that year, and after
a secret trial in Moscow, they disappeared
forever into the vast spiderweb of the
Siberian Gulag, never to be seen or heard
from again! Now you know.....the rest of
the story.....and how this truly amazing
1936 Henway 'Camel Toe' roadster
concept car came to be found, abandoned
in a barn, on an old, deserted, former
banana plantation in rural Minnesota!!!


Mart3406 ('Official Henway Motors Corporate
Historian and Archivist')
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Mart, you don't have enuff to do.

I'm glad too cuz that was very entertaining

 

It almost looks like a Delahaye, but that front valence panel is throwing it off!!

 

That explains the potato peelings I found in the trunk the Boise-Einstein condensate was made from boiling Idaho bakers!
The Russians had anticipated using Borscht-Einstein condensate
due to a problem with translation. The defectors got beet in the process....

 

Henway: yes
Camel Toe Concept: no

This car appears to be the original one-off of the soon to be released '36 Wadafuh Gizzit. Yes, there were six made, but do to a strange time warp caused by flannel sheets and the newly invented "K-Y Super Lubricant", the prototypes disappeared, only to be replaced by a donkey and five bushels of apples. Henway executives, suspecting that espionage was involved, hired operatives to sneak into Russia and recover the one of a kind vehicles.

While no record of this ever happening has been produced, there was a considerable increase in the number of children born out of wedlock in '37 around the Henway production facilities...

 

That makes you an automatic canadate for "Lifetime Member" of the LA Roadsters!! (When its finished, that is!!!) LOL

 

Finished fiddling around? The car is an all metal rendering of a line manufactured in San Jose, by Bay Area Roadsters member Sky Clausen. His main fabricator, Joe ---(can't recall Joe's last name) bought up every MG td hood in the county, modified them for use on these. (I want to call the car a "Gatsby", but not sure that name was on these.)
Hemi 32 should know Sky Clausen, or who he is...The car mfg was going on the the late '70s-mid '80s, the shop was on Old Almaden Rd., across from Reliable Plating. Gospel.

 

DANG!! I was certian it was a '34-'35 Ahwanniht, but I've only seen them in a Pheaton. Didn't know they made a roadster too.

 

Great score!

I'm surprised no one has made mention of the '54 Ford Hardtop~

Quick!!