found in salvage yard

Thanks for all the comments and post. I plan on building this with my 18 year old son. Everytime I bring in a HotRod magizine he always picks out the roadsters as his favorite. Its gonna be low buck, I hope with a later model 4 cylinder. Something economical and fun. But he insists on a rumble seat so he can carry more than one person.
Thanks again and if any of you find something out,,Post it please.

 

Put a hotrodded "Hurricane" 4 cyl in that bad boy!

 

Finally got a hold of the owner of this place. He had no idea about it.
Anybody else have any leads?

 

i've got the front half of that in my garage. was plannin to build a modified out of it. build my own back to the body. wanna send that half my way?? i could always change direction. not too late for that yet.

 

Please don't paint over it.

 

Its gonna be low buck, I hope with a later model 4 cylinder.
What???

 

That's not going to sound like a V8 at all.

 

My 30 coupe has the v-8. I want to build this for/with my son. With the price of gas these days he is gonna need some thing halfway economical., and still be fun to drive. I wasn't referring to a late late model 4 cyl. Maybe an early pinto or ranger, early s10.

 

We all hate you! That is one super find.

 

"...I can tell you that the style of lettering would place it in the 40's..."
Do tell! Consider doing a lettering post on 20th century lettering--I think a LOT of people on here would love to see some of what you have been studying...automotive paleography.
And...does anyone have any visuals on typical srvice messages on period trucks?? I'm thinking of things like "Radio dispatched", "24 hours", that sort of thing that was added to many sorts of truck doors. And...Yellow pages logos. There were standard images attached in there, like a little pic of a flathead that all the engine rebuild places used...
More old graphics!

 

I was scrolling through, thinking the same thing. Like to learn more about lettering-race car signage. Nice find by the way.

 

If you use the "Radio Dispatched" line, don't forget to include an antenna with a lighning bolt...

 

Not obvious to the uneducated! Thanks for the great info.

- Joe

 

Build it and call it "The Pap Smear Special".

Great save.

 

I can call it a day now...I officially learned something! Thanks for the lettering/history lesson.

 

Since this appears to have been sponsored by what was later a Jeep dealer...I'd say odds are good that it was a Willys dealership at the time of sponsorship (late Thirties or Forties). If that is correct, I'd say odds are that it was powered by a Willys 4 cyl (maybe a Go Devil, or whatever its predecessor was called)...and NOT any kind of V8. Flathead Ford V8's did not overtake the 4 cylinder engines in popularity in hot rods until after the war. Keep searching for its history, and build it similarly to how it originally was. Don't paint over that lettering!

 

Nice find! Hang it from the rafter's for while, lucky fella.

 

So, What is the rest of the story? Was it tucked in a corner or wadded up under a bunch of metal?

 

It was actually laying across the front frame rails of a 1936 Chevy coupe. Pics of the coupe are in another post about old tin.

 

Here are the only two pics I have of the PAPS MOTOR SPECIAL sitting where I found it. On the front of the 1936 Chevy coupe.

 

Now THAT is cool. Nice find. Nice trailer hitch set up on that 36 too!

 

I wouldn't call it finding mona lisa in a garbage dump, but somebody got a pic***o. Nice score!!!

 

"She's a beauty mate, but will she go?"

 

Seems to me that yard is where to find parts for it... an A frame, cowl, maybe a set of subrails, poke around and see if the rest of the car turns up, if not most of the rest is not that terribly hard to find and just get a halfway complete '28-'29 sedan for the frame, hood, etc.

 

Any more pics of that yard? Neat find by the way!

 

I can't believe they let this one get by.. Gotta give you a nod on this one Bishop.. Nice.