'35 Housecar... Anyone know anything about it?

I forget if I posted this before. Anyone know the story on these?

Supposed to be a factory conversion on a '35 Chrysler ch***is. Has a face only a mother could love. Sure would turn heads, done up right, though. If you tailgated someone, you'd never get pulled over for it, at any rate.. lol..

 

wow that is ugly

 

I want, I want.

 

Check and see if Buckminster Fuller's missing Dymaxion is under that shell.

Factory? You mean this was done deliberately?

What the hell, get us more photos please. I want to know what the rear of this thing looks like and I'm sure the interior appointments will be interesting too.

 

Inside is a big hole with '70s pine paneling falling out of it. Whoever last had it rigged up a towbar on the front and was using it like a trailer, so it was gutted of whatever the stock interior appointments were, including motor and transmission. Which makes sense I guess, it looks more like an old trailer than a car. The inside is kind of built like a house, though, it has a truss construction underneath the paneling - looks like it's done in steel.

Supposedly a company built these off new Chrysler ch***is in the 30s. I've never seen or heard of another one, but the Chrysler book does show them selling ch***is for coachbuilders in the mid-30s.

Here's the back, has the same little window on both sides and just the one door -

 

That thing would look cool if you put skirts on it...

 

The whole thing is a skirt.
If you redid the body work in corrogated metal it would look like a Quonset Hut. (Nissen Hut)

It's the same curve front and back isn't it? It could be real cool with a polished body like an Airstream.

 

I saw the same ad on Ebay, it says: "supposed to be one of 8 known to exist."

 

I don't know anything about it, but here are some interesting things along the same lines.

Here is a website that these pics came from: VINTAGE TRAILER HOMES

 

I want mine with a nailhead.....

 

That thing just oozes white trash.........I love it!!!

 

Where's a tornado when ya need one?

 

HA!

I swear I saw someone towing one of these around up North somewhere. I thought it was a homemade deerblind.

 

If you hadnt a said that it actually had tires on it I woulda guessed that it was a railroad speeder from on eof the pacific nothwest logging railroads, used to haul men and supplies...

 

Can you say BLINDSPOT?!?!?

The other question you you should be asking is: how much are you going to chop it?

 

looks like a camping trailer with built in tow vehicle. cool. i'd hate to get hit with a cross wind in that bill-board.

 

I've been looking for pictures of the Phutney Creech Land Yacht


anybody have a picture?

 

I love it . A motorized Tear Drop.

Normally the old car pulls the Tear Drop. Wouldn't this be cool pulling an old vintage race car, like a V8-60 powered midget?

 

I think I'll send my wife pics and tell her I'm gonna build a replica of a 30's motor home...

 

What in the hell is THAT?

 

The result of a collision between three or four identical '62 Buick station wagons, I think.

 

I wonder if the central set of wheels on that International steer? They must because there is no space between the cab and the trailer section that I can see.Very interesting.

 

The "Phutney Creech Land Yacht" was a fictional RV featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comic "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" #11 featuring "Fat Freddy", "Freewheelin Franklin", and "Phineas" Freak. I believe they found it as a derelict and got it running. They then had a great adventure in typical drug-sopped early '70s fashion.

It was equipped with many arcane and dated conveniences, such as a gravity flush (tank at the ceiling) toilet and wood burning stove. The hood ornament was shaped like a schooner's rudder wheel with handles all the way around and the "Phutney Creech" logo in the center.

Not that I'd admit to ever reading that kind of trash.



In the late '70s to 'the late '80s, I drove around a diesel powered 40 ft. '48 GMC TDM 4507 coach that I'd ~very badly~ converted to an RV that I christened the "Phutney Creech". How I survived that time in my life I'll never know.

Jack

 

for some weird perverted reason, I do too

 

HAHAHAHAHHAHAH f king excellent!!

 

This looks like just a tow behind trailer placed on top of a ch***is.

I like it...

 

Imagine how much fun you could have freaking out people on the highway by driving real close to a car in the right line and suddenly shifting to the left lane as someone was p***ing.

They'd be nailing to brakes trying to avoid the runaway camper trailer.

 

self propelled teardrop trailer?

 

Motor Homes been around a long time.....

 

I like it too.