Velie Model 66

[Guest]

Ran when parked.

 

 

 

Edited May 14, 2021 by Andrew46Coupe
Rearrange photos (see edit history)

[keiser31]

That looks like 2 different car rear portions.

[28 Chrysler]

Looks like an old rear end accident with an over loaded Ute.

[wayne sheldon]

Looks like a sedan of some sort cut down into a pickup truck? Maybe the other sedan back section is the original? Or maybe something that might work as a replacement? Be nice to know. Either way, at best this is a big however very interesting project! It can be done! I have restored lesser cars from worse (lesser cars are easier to get needed parts and in some ways easier to cheat on some fabrication). I have also helped others work on comparable cars that weren't much better.

 

It would be nice to know the intentions of the original post? someone wanting advice about restoring a family treasure? Maybe hoping to sell and fund their child's university? Or maybe a simply "looky what I found"?

 

We can't help much if we don't know.

Probably a very rare car IF it can be resurrected.

[Mark Huston]

Interesting pictures of a big pile of car parts.  With the price of car projects  like this down to next to nothing I don’t see this project ever seeing the road again.   

[plymouthcranbrook]

Ran over when parked?

[mike6024]

Velie was a brass era American automobile brand produced by the Velie Motors Corporation in Moline, Illinois from 1908 to 1928. The company was founded by and named for Willard Lamb Velie, a maternal grandson of John Deere.  Velie founded Velie Carriage Company in 1902, which was successful, then Velie Motor Vehicle Company in 1908. *According to the Official Velie Register, world wide 230 Velies are known to exist as of 2010*

[mike6024]

 

1928 Velie Model 66

[Dandy Dave]

Just my kind of Bushel Basket and Box case. It sure enough needs rescuing. I've worked on a few Velie's in the past. 

[Guest]

The project is a 10 hour round trip from where I am. I've picked up most of the loose items and will collect the chassis in the next few weeks.

 

The car was uted at some point in its life. The farmer who I am buying the project off acquired the sheet metal for a Model 66 Tudor so it could be either rebuilt as a ute or a Tudor.

 

 

 

[wayne sheldon]

Thank you for the added information! I do hope you can get that car restored, and hopefully take some of us along for the ride!

I know a few people in your part of the world that have restored utes, and I really like them. However, a late Velie is such a rare car that (as if my opinion means anything?) I would hope it would be restored back to a factory offering. I was wondering about that two-door body section. The belt lines and moldings on late Velie automobiles were a bit different than most other cars of that era (Velie's styling was always a bit different). Looking at the picture shared by mike6024, the remains of the original four-door turned ute, and the two-door rear section are all slightly different. I don't know if that was a model or year difference or just the way they were between body styles. If you don't have the two-door body doors, making the four-door sedan doors work could be very difficult! If you do not have the four-door sedan rear doors? That could be even worse.

Sometimes the best thing is to restore the car into the nice ute it later was.

 

Congratulations on a fantastic project!

[mike6024]

 

 

This 1928 was restored in 2019 by some outfit that mainly does hotrods. Doesn't make much sense. There are many pictures of it though.

 

 

[mike6024]

[Dandy Dave]

Glad to hear you are rescuing it. If memory serves me correctly, these were powered with 6 cylinder Continental engines. Dandy Dave!