Today's bang-up edition of #DavesCarIDService is brought to you by Kenner SSP Smashup Derby!
Yes kids, in the Wild West of 1970s danger toys, nobody catered to young America's love of car crashes like Kenner. Just rip the T-strip and enjoy the laws of physics! (Until you ruin Mom's nice linoleum or accidentally get your sister's hair caught in the gyro wheel)
What kind of HOA *stops* you from removing a junk car from your property? Sign me up! Contrary to your conjecture, this noble relic appears to be a 1927-28 Nash Standard 6 sedan.
*Please remember this is a car ID service and not the Stump Dave game show; if you already know what the car is, asking me for an ID is an annoyance. I do not claim car ID omnipotence or expertise or infallibility, I just try to help if I can.
Man, tough one here, but I suspect circa 1940 Allis Chalmers orchard tractor, but will consult my tractor-restoring cousin for input. For midwestern corn farm boys like me, orchard tractors are like exotic European art deco classics.
That concludes today's smashup ID derby, I'll be back soon with a renewed focus on mystery cars from your awesome vintage family photos. Until then, Happy Motoring!
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This is of course Humphrey Bogart as gumshoe Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946), and car is a 1938 Plymouth Deluxe coupe; "B" sticker is a WW2 gas ration stamp.
Before commencing today's IDs, another gentle reminder to please follow the car ID request guidelines:
Let's kickoff today's batch with this terrific shot; car here is a 1932 Buick. Lake Geneva was a popular hot weather getaway spot for high roller Chicago swells and mobsters, including Al Capone who owned a spot there about the time of this photo.
The finest automobile ever created, a 1932 Ford coupe (a/k/a Little Deuce Coupe). Right hand steering, fender marker lights, and license plate suggest photo was somewhere in the UK (hat tip @MichaelBarger1) #DavesCarIDService
*people debate what was the first muscle car, and IMO it was the 1932 Ford. Smallish, low price car with hot engine, it was the first mass produced V8 and affordable to the average Joe. Today it remains the most desirable base platform for hot rodding.
other candidates for title of First Muscle Car:
49 Oldsmobile Rocket 88
55 Chrysler 300
61 Chevy Impala SS
64 Pontiac GTO
Most people say SS or GTO because of the deliberate high performance package branding strategy.
*under construction by my pal @Plowfink. 2 more Lincoln Projects happening in Austin
For everybody replying "gonna drive me to drinkin' " here's the genuine article, owned & built by Charlie Ryan who wrote and recorded Hot Rod Lincoln in 1955
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