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Title: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: m_fumich on April 29, 2020, 11:40:20 PM: I’m sure Elroy would know what this is.

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Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: pep on April 30, 2020, 06:37:20 AM: Dodge maybe cause of doors & the trim on the fenders. You know what white socks say about a chick, so she's a safe date.

Some will LLH @ that (Laugh Like Hell)
Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: john k on April 30, 2020, 03:19:43 PM: Body shape says GM. Center opening doors about 1940. Taillights Chevy. The double stainless trim spears got popular after 39, down low on the fenders. The single one on the hood confuses it a bit. Pretty sure is a chevy 1940.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: goodfellow on April 30, 2020, 05:16:34 PM: It looks like a '40 Chevy Deluxe series, but the gas tank filler neck is on the wrong side.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: m_fumich on April 30, 2020, 05:18:24 PM: Someone on Facebook suggested a ‘41 Hudson.

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Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: goodfellow on April 30, 2020, 05:27:42 PM: Quote from: m_fumich on April 30, 2020, 05:18:24 PM
Someone on Facebook suggested a ‘41 Hudson.

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Could very well be -- Chevy and Hudson (and even Plymouth) read ends looked very similar.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: m_fumich on April 30, 2020, 05:30:25 PM: It’s so hard to find a rear view picture of those cars. Thy did find one of a Hudson though.

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Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: Elroy on June 15, 2020, 09:31:46 PM: Quote from: m_fumich on April 30, 2020, 05:18:24 PM
Someone on Facebook suggested a ‘41 Hudson.

Elroy would suggest it's a 41 Willys Americar. But the suicide doors say Desoto.
Title: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: m_fumich on June 15, 2020, 09:37:39 PM: Quote from: Elroy on June 15, 2020, 09:31:46 PM

Elroy would strongly suggest it's a 41 Willys Americar

All the pictures I can find of the 1941 Willys Americar show it to have a split rear window. The car in the original picture does not have a split rear window. The window is also shaped significantly different. Hudson’s also had suicide doors.

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Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: Elroy on June 15, 2020, 10:16:22 PM: Quote from: m_fumich on June 15, 2020, 09:37:39 PM
All the pictures I can find of the 1941 Willys Americar show it to have a split rear window.

Keep looking

The bottom of the door on your original example don't match the Hudson
Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: muddy on June 16, 2020, 08:29:39 PM: Alright guys took me about 15 minutes.....but it's a 42 Hudson.

Plymouth was close but taillight design and position of fuel fill cap gave it away.

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Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: DeadNutz on June 16, 2020, 09:13:01 PM: The fender trim looks different on the Hudsons and the trunk lid shape looks a little different.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: john k on June 16, 2020, 11:14:45 PM: Hudson used a much fancier back window.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify this car?
Post by: Elroy on June 17, 2020, 05:31:00 PM: Quote from: m_fumich on April 30, 2020, 05:18:24 PM
Someone on Facebook suggested a ‘41 Hudson.

That was a good suggestion