Guest Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) Ran when parked. Edited May 14, 2021 by Andrew46Coupe Rearrange photos (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 That looks like 2 different car rear portions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28 Chrysler Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Looks like an old rear end accident with an over loaded Ute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Huston Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthcranbrook Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Ran over when parked? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 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* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 1928 Velie Model 66 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dandy Dave Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Glad to hear you are rescuing it. If memory serves me correctly, these were powered with 6 cylinder Continental engines. Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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