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

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by rustynewyorker, Dec 5, 2005.

  1. 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..
     

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  2. Slag Kustom
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    wow that is ugly
     
  3. jstorm
    Joined: Apr 10, 2004
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    I want, I want.
     
  4. 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.
     
  5. 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 -
     

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  6. Bruce Lancaster
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    That thing would look cool if you put skirts on it...
     
  7. 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.
     
  8. attitudor
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    I saw the same ad on Ebay, it says: "supposed to be one of 8 known to exist."
     
  9. TINGLER
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    TINGLER

    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
     

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  10. hatch
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    I want mine with a nailhead.....
     

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  11. FERG
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    That thing just oozes white trash.........I love it!!!
     
  12. The37Kid
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    Where's a tornado when ya need one?
     
  13. HA!

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



     
  15. rattlecanrods
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    Can you say BLINDSPOT?!?!?

    The other question you you should be asking is: how much are you going to chop it?
     
  16. 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.
     
  17. Paul
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    I've been looking for pictures of the Phutney Creech Land Yacht


    anybody have a picture?
     

  18. I love it :cool: . 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?
     
  19. farna
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    I think I'll send my wife pics and tell her I'm gonna build a replica of a 30's motor home... :D
     
  20. Dino
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    What in the hell is THAT?
     
  21. The result of a collision between three or four identical '62 Buick station wagons, I think.
     
  22. 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.
     
  23. Kittitas Jack
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    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. :D

    [​IMG]

    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. :eek:

    Jack
     
  24. for some weird perverted reason, I do too:cool:
     
  25. HAHAHAHAHHAHAH f king excellent!!:D
     
  26. KATFISH
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    This looks like just a tow behind trailer placed on top of a ch***is.

    I like it...
     
  27. fiat128
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    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.
     
  28. oilslinger53
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    self propelled teardrop trailer?
     
  29. HOLLYWOOD GRAHAM
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    Motor Homes been around a long time.....
     

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  30. chopdtop
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    I like it too.
     

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