Guest Xprefix28truck Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I know what it is. So I was just wondering if any of you have ever seen it before and know what kind of car it used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 This thing isn't that Tucker Convertable??? Is it? Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xprefix28truck Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Nope!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xprefix28truck Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Maybe I should have posted it in the What Is It Forum..Sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbenvie Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Looks like a Nash grill, Buick sides, and a Lincoln trunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Radical. Please dont keep us wondering too long. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodkarmechanic Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 my guess it it started life as a 56 continental mark II.Lots of work done to it since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Not a Mark II, but the original Continental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I don't think it's either. I'm guessing it's a postwar GM product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palosfv3 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I agree with Barry. Hard to tell when this custom was built . I'm guessing 1970's early 80's. I dont recall seeing this car in any of the old magazines. If anyone will know ,its going to be Rik Hoving or OO Mack on the HAMB message board of the Jalopy Journal site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I don't think it's either. I'm guessing it's a postwar GM product.U R blind. Look at the trunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG57Roadmaster Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 "...what kind of car it used to be..."It used to be pretty, I'm sure.TG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Rohn Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 (edited) look at the cowl, belt line and dash:<img src=http://forums.aaca.org/attachments/f169/31984d1246241215-have-any-you-ever-seen-car-vic2.jpg><img src=http://forums.aaca.org/attachments/f169/31985d1246241215-have-any-you-ever-seen-car-vic3.jpg>it probably WAS a late 40's GM product, Olds or Buick perhapsobviously a Continental style deck was grafted to it as well as the Nash grille, but it looks every bit of a mid 50's custom, In this case a Custom for Vic, whoever Vic is/was Edited June 29, 2009 by Jim Rohn (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_OToole Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 (edited) 1948 Bucyrus-Erie Blue Cloud Eight with Belchfire engine and Diarrhea Drive. Edited June 29, 2009 by Rusty_OToole (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xprefix28truck Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 How long should I wait before I tell you? It has been in Magazines. I saw them. HINT: the trim and hand fabricated fender skirts used to be all chrome. Magazines I saw were from the fifties. And this car was built from a brand new car! Never was on the road before it was done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Looks to me to be a 1947 Buick convertible with a Continental trunk and various other stuff grafted on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 All right West. I'll cede that it a Buick with a Continental rear end.It sure is ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xprefix28truck Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 It started life as a 47 Buick Roadmaster. Brand new.. Any idea who built it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I'll bite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 All right West. I'll cede that it a Buick with a Continental rear end.It sure is ugly. I believe that the appropriate word is "hideous"!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 It started life as a 47 Buick Roadmaster. Brand new.. Any idea who built it? Happy to know that I was correct about the year and make. Is it a George Barris? Alexander Brothers? Hollywood set car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xprefix28truck Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 None of the ones that you have listed Keiser31. Think Foreign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 It has a Talbot-Lago look to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 This looks nice, too. Was Bugatti around it '47? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Delahaye? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Pinin Farina? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Delage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Graber? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiSwede Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Ghia?I think it's cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xprefix28truck Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 It was built by FIGONI et FALASCHI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Ahhhhh, see, I knew it was a foriegn tucker convertable.....Not... :eek: Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palosfv3 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Somebody is pulling my leg !!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 This looks nice, too. Was Bugatti around it '47?Bugatti was around until 1951. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xprefix28truck Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 NO I'm not pulling your leg.... This car has had a pretty hard life. I wish I would have taken pictures of the magazines, or at least got the exact dates. It was in a custom Rodder magazine, and several papers. It was beautiful in the original pictures. It was a different color and had all the chrome trime and skirts. The color that it is now doesn't do it justice. It was in Paris. I saw the articles. So i'm not pulling anyones leg. I wish I knew how to find past pictures of it. I saw pictures of when it was found. I'm not sure I would have bought it in the condition it was in. All the chrome was badly pitted so the owner smoothed everything out and painted it all. I'm not sure why it ended up where it did, before the present owner bought it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palosfv3 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Do you remember the magazines ? Month /year ? They are probably still around on the web somewhere. Your comments explain some of the things I was keying off of that led to my comment.. Painted bumpers and trim, aluminum wheels. Typical early 80's custom stuff. There were many customs done in the late 40's to the mid 50's that followed a similar build pattern .Its hard to imagine, if the owner knew this was a F&F bodied car, why he did what he did. It just looks so out of character in its posted configuration and seems to be lacking the F&F hallmarks of design. Maybe someone here is good at photoshop and take the posted images and color them appropriately to give us a better idea of how the car originally appeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xprefix28truck Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 (edited) I wish I had taken photos of the magazines. The room where the info was, was very dark and all I had was my camera phone. They were from the early 50's. He had many articles about the car. He even had a foreign news paper that showed pictures of it. I just thought the car was an odd one is the only reason that I took photos of it. I will call him and see what the magazines were. Edited July 2, 2009 by Xprefix28truck (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palosfv3 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Paris based Italians Giuseppe Figoni & Ovidio Falaschi are the coachbuilders best know for slippery shapes, producing 700 custom bodied cars before the war and another 450 in the postwar period before closing their doors in 1955. Clearly some of these were the most beautiful cars ever made including their luscious Delahayes, Darracqs and teardrop Talbot Lago Coupes. Like Saoutchik however, not all of Figoni’s designs were breathtaking. In a constant effort to outdo themselves and come up with something new and different, both designers created “Narwhal” nosed Delahayes that sadly looked like proboscis monkeys and a number of others creations that missed the mark.french designA “narwhal’ surfaces at Watkins Glen in 1950. Note the bulbous proboscis. Photo by Frank Shaffer. I have been digging on the web a little. Seems Guiseppe and Ovidio retired by 1950 and one of their sons took over the shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Rohn Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 here is one of their earlier efforts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hugh32 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Looks like it was a 1950 Buick with the rear half of 1948 Buick front fenders grafted in and a Nash grille Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palosfv3 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Several car friends were kicking around this car last night. The question whether F&F built the car continues to be one of debate. The main reason being , F&F used manufactured chassis and running gear for their designs but the coackwork was all custom made. Their cars did not use metal body pieces from other cars in their work. Why would they change this pattern that was so successful ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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