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Discuss among yourselves. Brian
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I want it!
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49?
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what...no suicide rear doors?..haha....looks like some fabulous old school work..or bored chevy engineers ...it saying uruguay on it makes me think it could be real...seems like overseas has some different takes on what we see here...that would be a very neat project
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time to move that thing. check out the roof trussses.
pretty cool, sorta like those old 36-42 chevy coupes with the pick up rear part. http://oldchevytrucks.com/blog/index...coupe-pick-up/ |
03-05-2019, 10:26 PM | #6 |
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Coincidentally I just posted this same vehicle in the Craigslist thread. Someone said it's an Australian General Motors-Holden.
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03-05-2019, 11:07 PM | #7 |
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looks like an AD cab & front clip grafted on to a passenger car rear body
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03-06-2019, 04:43 AM | #8 |
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Hunting down Club Coaches Classicos uruguay brings up a FB group where the photo was.
Blowing up the photo shows that it is a truck chassis under it and someone on that FB group thought that the back secton was Ford. Rear does look to be 46/48 Ford Coupe though. I'm thinking someone created it out of the left overs from two rigs. Holden had some sedans that kind of looked like AD trucks but weren't that close. That and they favored 4 doors over coupes.
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I have to disagree with the whole Ford idea, that is NOT a Ford rear body. The roof gutter and the distance from the glass to the gutter matches perfectly to a Chevy.
A 46-48 Ford is WAY different there. Then the "Shoe box" Ford's window doesn't match either with a way tighter curve at the rear. The belt body line is what blows me away the most, that just doesn't look out of place, it's perfect. To make that would be VERY difficult and most builders of such a mishmash kinda rig wouldn't work that hard to do that. The front of the rear fender sure looks a lot like a panel fender. The trunk lid doesn't roll down as much as the 46-48 Ford either. The more I study this the more it looks like an amazing creation from scratch, and a factory car/truck from some country that we never saw before. I am blown away by this thing. Brian
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I'd have to agree that it is/was someone's creation.
The chrome trim on the fenders may have created a body line that made the poster on FB say Ford back end. That same type chorme is stock on a lot of loweriders now though. Well carried off in that it looks factory rather than something created in someone's shop as a one off. You can think that someone got an almost new burb with a damaged roof and back end and went out back in the wrecking yard and found a coupe that had been hit in the front and got out the tape measure.
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Looking at 41/48 Chev Sedans the roof and quarter window could have come from a sedan rather than a coupe.
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One thing I know for sure, I want either the mystery coupe that started this thread, or the green 49/50 coupe with the red wheels. Love them both.
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That is freaking cool. Love it.
First thing that came to mind was an old Packard 120, but its still not right on the rear.
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Or.....
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I'd just like to have been sitting around in the BS session that started the build on that coupe. There had to be some good "what if"'s thrown around about that time.
The back end might not even be a US car but something built in South America at that time.
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Very interesting. I saw a ~50 Chevy truck sitting calmly at an intersection yesterday that looked like it was in a field the day before. Nice.
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