Guest Tishabet Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 (edited) Any ideas what this car once was? Fairly distinctive bumper, but the chrome "spears" on the solid metal backing has me scratching my head... Edited May 2, 2011 by Tishabet (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Can you tell better by this view? The grill sort of looks like a 1940 Chrysler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest De Soto Frank Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Not sure it's one wrecked car so much as a mangled pile of parts from several cars...The vibration damper and brake backing plates do NOT look like MoPar... also, the bare rim looks far too wide to be from the same era as the rest of this heap... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 (edited) Not sure it's one wrecked car so much as a mangled pile of parts from several cars...The vibration damper and brake backing plates do NOT look like MoPar... also, the bare rim looks far too wide to be from the same era as the rest of this heap...Yeah....what engine IS that? I agree....it does not look MoPar-like in nature. That's why I said the grill "sort of" looks like '40 Chrysler. Edited May 2, 2011 by keiser31 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tishabet Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Yeah, I am puzzled too... I agree that the grill looks much like the style on the 40 Chrysler. My brother sent me the picture, the wreck is located on a piece of property he is thinking of buying and he was wondering out of idle curiosity if I could identify it... I told him between the grill with the broad chrome spears and the bumper/iron design I figured late 30s/pre-war but couldn't nail it down more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 (edited) 1941 Pontiac has a bumper very similar to the wreck's bumper. Edited May 2, 2011 by keiser31 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tishabet Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 1941 Pontiac has a bumper very similar to the wreck's bumper.Looks like a match to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Mellor NJ Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Did the 41 Pontiac have coil spring suspension? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I have to say yes and the car was definitely a 1941 Pontiac. Here is a '41 Pontiac fender from ebay....looks identical to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 :eek: It looks like a train hit it first, then it fell over a cliff, and then a D-8 cat had some fun shoving it around. I hear tell Wile E. Coyote was chasin the Road Runner in it with a rocket fastened to the trunk. He survived more wrecks than anyone I know. Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest my3buicks Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 looks like rather than a wreck it is the result of an early crusher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lichtfel Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Reminds me of the farmer in Michigan that was tearing down his metal shed in 1917.The neighbor asked what he was going to do with the steel. He said he was going to bundle it up and send it the Ford company for their war scrap drive. Two weeks later he gets a letter from Ford, "this is the worst wreck we have ever seen but will have your Ford Model T fixed in two weeks." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jim_Edwards Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Wreck? Looks more like a "Cruncher" puked and that's what came up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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