Weird-ass car found. What is it?

hell, paint it flat black,somebody on here will buy it

 

Sitting right next to me is a stack of Mechanics Illustrated mags from '57 - '59.... I don't happen to have the November one here. I'll have to see if I can dig it up. I want to read it!

 

the dip for the doors reminds me of a triumph tr4

 

Fugly but cool. I dig old one-offs, wether they'r Rods, Customs or sports jobs.
Someone spent a lot of time building it and probably had a lot of fun with it. If it's got an early 50's OHV-8, he may have dusted off a few A V-8's. Might have got him laid too.........

Look under it. Maybe it's a 32 chassis with an early Hemi.

 

I think you mean the TR2 AND TR3. No dip in TR4 doors.

 

It is the new state of "C - - - - - - - - a" government proposed version of how every hot rod should look. Go to your local DMV for a straight answer on this one (worded carefully so it will not fall into a political hit)

 

its a whatchacallit frrom way back when they used to fab them up out in the montgomery ward parking lot... musta been a 60's thing

 

My grandpa grew up in Roselle, New Jersey...

At the time, Bob Whitehead lived not far from him... I believe it was Plainfield...


Do you have any pictures of your old car?

 

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Actually it looks like a very rare - one of
only two-ever built - '46 Henway "PHCM"
(Pedazo Hogar-Construido de Mierda)
roadster prototype. Unfortunately for
Henway Motors Corporation the exotic for
its time 'Euro-styled and named' "PHCM"
never entered production because, even
though they had invested millions in the
design and planned to mass produce them,
after only two prototypes had been built - one
for testing and the other intended for the
1946 show-car circuit, industrial spies from
Mechanics Illustrated magazine stole the
inadvertently un-copyrighted blueprints and
published them, spawning numerous
home-built copies. loosely based on the
Henway design to be built! One quick way
to verify if it's one of the only-two factory
-built prototypes or merely a home-built
copy, based on the MI-published blueprints.
is to look under the hood. Most of the
home-built copies used standard
junkyard-available flathead or OHV Ford V8
engines and running gear, while the actual
Henway-built prototypes had HMC's radical
new 'Quadruple H-Power' supercharged,
24-cylinder, sleeve-valve, 'H-type' engine
that the company had developed specifically for
use in the "Pedazo Hogar-Construido de Mierda"
If the car has a standard Ford or other make, V8,
it's probably a home-built copy....but if it's got a
sleeve-valve "Qudruple H-Power" H24 under
the hood, it's almost certainly the real thing!!!


Mart3406 ('Official Henway Motors Corporate
Archivist and Historian')

 

trailer fenders, rear of car looks like an old rectangle fuel or water tank, hood is one continuous radius so Im thinking also a tank of some kind

 

I think It's the Red Barchetta That Rush sang about

 

I think all the car needs is a little customizing with two sicks of dynamite.

CRUISER

 

How much ???

 

On the Hemming Motor News Blog,under, Archive for "Mechanix Illustrated" tag it shows this photo. Further down the site it shows the magazine cover and the article
by Bob Whitehead...

 

In Wisconsin it's Henwhey.

 

Looks like a parts car to me. Headlights,gauges,rims and caps. Maybe frame and motor are useable. Butt ugly is more like it.

 

Well it made you LOOK !

 

My guess would be its a weird ass car

 

It looks like a Popular Mechanics do it yourself roadster special from the 50's.

 

doors are from a British sports car, MG?

 

Kill it with fire. Quick

 

Only problem is it doesn't have doors, just reliefs where you hop over the top.

 

I see possibilities. Lose the side-mounts, Lop about 2' off that front, give it a '32 grille shell, and a conventional one-piece hood with open sides (losing that weird down-slope wedge) and a guy would have a great beginning on a track-style roadster.

 

Definitely homebuilt !!!!!!!! Another one from M.I. mag in those days was the "Spyder",...a rather gnarly looking item, you put it on your own chassis.

4TTRUK

 

QUICK! Hit it in the head with a shovel!

 

I've seen uglier stuff featured in magazines and called a "rat rod" ... you could clean this one up fairly reasonably.

 

Man, that is the Traditional Rat Rod!

 

This is a somewhat poorly built MI car from the 50's. I built one in 1953-1954 (at age 17) and drove it for 5 or 6 years until my dad sold it when I joined the Marines. Mine was red also, Stewar Warner gauges, aluminum hood, luggage rack since there was no trunk, home-made seats. The car was very fast with the Ford flathead, dual stromberg-carlson two-barrell carbs, shaved heads. Frame was a 32 Ford sedan, lowered 6 inches and with a dropped front axle. I did put hydraulic brakes all around, as well as seat belts from a friend of mine who owned a small airport.
It got mostly admiring glances. Wish I still owned the thing.

 

That thing fell out of the ugly tree and hit every dam branch on the way down

 

I'll second that. I remember seeing a similar vehicle on the cover of Mechanix Illustrated or Popular Mechanix in the early 1950's. I'm sure quite a few were built in the backyards and rickety garages of fledgling mechanics(hot rodders maybe)and probably a few still survive.
This one looks to be constructed pretty nicely and with a little finish work would make a great Sunday car to run around in during the summer months.
Maybe it isn't exactly beautiful but at least it isn't HIDEOUS like some of the so-called cars being turned out today that require you to be an acrobat just to get behind the wheel;never mind actually drive it.
AH fuck it;it ain't worth discussing.