What Is It? 2016/12/03 0825

[Dosmo]

All responses appreciated.

[nzcarnerd]

I can't help thinking that this picture is a little distorted making the car look lower and wider than it really is. It is obviously an early to mid 1920s US car and something lower priced. Note the four bolts rims. the painted drum headlights and that those lights are mounted on the fender and not a tie bar. I think what looks like a tie bar is actually the lower edge of the boards on the shed in the background.  The headlight mounts, four bolt rims and small hubcaps say 1923-25 Chevrolet but it is not a Chevrolet I think. The top look to be from a later era - more 1928-29.   The trunk may have been modified as I don't think that a factory car would have had those three exposed hinges.  Can someone interpret the license plate?  It looks like a California plate but I can't see the year - maybe it is 1930s?. I think the car is quite a few years old which might explain it being modified/updated.

 

It looks to have full length semi elliptic rear springs which would rule out 1923 and 1924 Chevrolet.

Edited December 3, 2016 by nzcarnerd (see edit history)

[Grandpa]

The California plate (9K 31 16) on the car looks like a 1936 plate.

[nzcarnerd]

Thanks Grandpa for the info re the plate. Confirms my suspicion that the car was a few years old. 

 

Having another look at the car I see two distinctive 'ridges' on the valance between the door and the running board which will help in identifying it.

[keiser31]

I'm thinking 1921 Chevrolet. Here is one with the pickup bed inserted into the trunk....the Chevrolet has those reveals on the splash aprons.

[nzcarnerd]

2 hours ago, keiser31 said:

I'm thinking 1921 Chevrolet. Here is one with the pickup bed inserted into the trunk....the Chevrolet has those reveals on the splash aprons.

The car here has full length rear springs. I don't know yet for certain but I thought Chevrolet didn't get them until 1925.

[Guest]

Only the Chevrolet 490 had quarter elliptic springs.

My misinformation has been corrected by nzcarnerd.  I once read that it isn't the things we don't know that cause us problems.  It is the things that we know that aren't so.

Edited December 4, 2016 by Guest (see edit history)

[nzcarnerd]

3 hours ago, Tinindian said:

Only the Chevrolet 490 had quarter elliptic springs.

Search pictures of 1923 and 1924 Superiors and you will find they all have the short springs.

[Guest]

nzcarnerd  Thanks for the suggestion.  I have always said it is a poor day when you don't learn something.  I stand corrected. I once read that it isn't the things we don't know that cause us problems.  It is the things that we know that aren't so.

Edited December 4, 2016 by Guest (see edit history)

[Dosmo]

1 hour ago, Tinindian said:

nzcarnerd  Thanks for the suggestion.  I have always said it is a poor day when you don't learn something.  I stand corrected. I once read that it isn't the things we don't know that cause us problems.  It is the things that we know that aren't so.

I'll catch myself watching an old movie from the 1930s or 40s on Turner Classic Movies and, occasionally, a car will appear that I can identify.  Indeed, there is a lot of knowledge on this forum and other similar venues.  An added wrinkle to the cranial mass can make a dreary day suddenly seem not so bad, after all.

[nzcarnerd]

1 hour ago, Dosmo said:

I'll catch myself watching an old movie from the 1930s or 40s on Turner Classic Movies and, occasionally, a car will appear that I can identify.  Indeed, there is a lot of knowledge on this forum and other similar venues.  An added wrinkle to the cranial mass can make a dreary day suddenly seem not so bad, after all.

Sometimes those old movies have been seen to by contributors to -   http://www.imcdb.org/

 

You could use the search page for various things.http://www.imcdb.org/search.php

 

For example here are all the movies from 1928 that have had cars identified.  -  http://www.imcdb.org/movies.php?titleMatch=1&title=&yearMatch=0&year=1928&movieType=-1

 

Edited December 5, 2016 by nzcarnerd (see edit history)

[caddyshack]

My first thought was a 1927 Chev Capital, but that rag-top looks later.

Good luck

[Marty Roth]

I had a 1927 Chevy Capitol AA Roadster -

It did not have the headlghts mounted to the fenders, but rather to the Headlight bar

also, the '27 had read Bumperettes, not a full bumper

[Guest]

Chevrolet Baby Grand had semi elliptic springs in 1915.