I.D. This Car, Please......

[DEEPNHOCK]

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[BobPalma]

It's not a Studebaker, Jeff.

I'm going to guess a 1931 or 1932 Plymouth. BP

[Chris Pile]

MAN! How fast was it going, and what did it hit?

[63t-cab]

I don't know,but all I can think about is how something like that would have happened in a Three Stooges movie

[dean pearson]

She's hurtin for certain!
Proof positive that D.U.I. is nothing new.

Dean.

[jclary]

I believe that is the "Coon Dog" car.

Easy to see it tried to follow the coon up the tree!

[JoeHall]

I am gonna guess Packard, due to the grill design.

[jclary]

I am gonna guess Packard, due to the grill design.

c'mon Joe. You're too experience a car guy to think Packard would have made a car that looks a light as this one. I don't think even the cheapest Packard of the era would have been built as fragile as this one looks.

[rockne10]

I'm leaning to something by Walter P. Chrysler, based on the grill.

[kurtruk]

Double-bar bumper and dual sidemounts. Hit a tree or pole.

[gordr]

It'll buff out. (Well, somebody had to say it.)

[bezhawk]

Looks like a Chrysler grille to me too.

[dictator27]

This a puzzle! I was going to agree with Joe, based on the radiator shutters and the large centre disc wheels. Packard was probably the most consistent user of shutters and disc wheels, although the wheel hub was usually smaller. It's indistinct, but the radiator badge could also be Packard. What doesn't say Packard are the cowl mounted sidelights - Packards of that period have fender mounted sidelights - and the vertically mounted shock absorbers.

There isn't much that favours Chrysler. The vertical shocks and cowl lights do, but that's about it. Only Chrysler Imperials used radiator shutters, but the radiator shells they were used on were pointed.* Also, this car appears to have mechanical brakes, which definitely eliminates Chrysler. Packard did have mechanical brakes.

This car has hood doors - Packard - not louvres which would be Chrysler. I believe Chryslers of the period had tubular front axles.

I guess the upshot of all this rambling is that it appears this car is neither of the above.

Terry

[skyway]

Are those the bumper ends curled up in the center? and how did it get that damaged without demolishing the grill and headlight bar?
I'm wondering if that round object laying in the street is the remnant of some sort of low lying traffic device or bumper post from on top of the island?

[jclary]

Are those the bumper ends curled up in the center? and how did it get that damaged without demolishing the grill and headlight bar?
I'm wondering if that round object laying in the street is the remnant of some sort of low lying traffic device or bumper post from on top of the island?

Ok...I was not being serious when I posted yesterday. I still don't know what kind of car it is. However, regarding what it hit...zoom the picture in and look behind the driver's side wheel. There it is. Some kind of object that is wedged under the car and holding it up in the air. Perhaps it was the base of a street light and the rest of the pole could have been not yet installed or whipped sawed out of the scene. At least the height of the part wedged under the car could explain why the suspension took such a hit and not the grille.