Mystery Car?

it's NOT a Porsche for crying out loud. It's a full-sized car - you can tell by the scale of the house and carport. I first was thinking Panhard or a derivative thereof, but could find nothing. Certainly could be a heavily customized Packard (like "Doc" Brown's in the BttF movies). Something about the trunk is trying to give me a hint, but it's just not jumping out. It is not a factory production US car, and it has to be from between 1947 and 1952, although some Euro cars continued with the Terrapin/Tortoise look into the mid-50s. I'll keep wracking my brain.

dj

 

I think Packard.
MY $.02

 

Looks kinda like a Panhard Dyna, but is way too big for that.

 

I am emailing this to my friend of many years. He has more odd ball car books than you can imagine. I have a book that might have a picture of one of these in it. I am thinking a Curtis car of some sort. On another note, I went into a Nissan dealer and there was a completely restored BMW ISETTA! Got some good pics of that thing.

 

I am pretty confident it is either a retouched photo or an artist's rendering to evoke the general appearance of a luxury car of the era in which this article appeared. that is quite common, even today, in various ads I have seen (and you probably have too).

In those cases it is common to see styling touches from contemporary vehicles yet the composite isn't any of them.

Ray

 

Agreed. it is absolutely not any production car, American or otherwise.