Hot Rods Identifying this 1954s/1950's American sedan?

Photograph taken approx. 1957 in the UK.

What is the car parked behind the modified racer? here is the photo link: http://www.oldstox.com/images/hudson query.jpg

I'd also like to confirm that the modified's motor is a sidevalve straight-8 --- Buick perhaps?

You guys have been super helpful in the past; I just wish I'd had the expertise to help someone in return --- but still waiting. Meanwhile, thanks..

 

Looks like 49/52 4dr chevy you can,t see enough to be sure.

 

The door handles don't look right for GM---I'm not sure what it is tho---

 

Buick never built a side valve 8. Hudson??

 

Chevy would have had push button door handles. Two piece windshield and just a glimpse of the hood ornament says Pontiac.

 

The tow car's rear window has a distinctive "quarter light", and that's a big roof quarter panel back there. Not quite a 40 Ford sedan deluxe. Plenty of chrome trim. Can't quite see if it has a rear door or not. Anyone?

 

Close to a '49 Chevy De Luxe?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/97/92/96/97929677f35af079ca398c706f30347a.jpg

 

Thanks; I've looked at Packards and Hudons and Pontiacs, and it's awful hard for me to distinguish among them.
However, quite a few Hudsons were imported into the UK, and Hudson straight-8 engines were built into the rare Railton cars in the 1940's, so your identification seems sound.

 

48 Buick

 

I've been puzzling over the apparent "chrome strip" that follows the rear fender line: could that be a reflection/highlight along the fender crease, in the old photograph? The Buick has no chrome strip there.

The rest perfectly matches the Buick you showed, especially that heavy roof quarter panel, a lovely bit of bodywork.

 

I think it matches the Buick, I think you are correct that is a reflection rather than trim on the quarter panel.

 

The car behind the coupe is a '42 thru '47/ '48 GM "C" body car, most likely a '46/'48 Buick. But it could be a '42/'47 Cadillac Series 62 or Olds 98. IF Buick, it would have an OHV straight 8 of either 248 or 320 cubic inches, depending on specific model.

The car in the foreground, I don't know about, but the engine in it is definitely not Buick, but if GM, could be Pontiac or Oldsmobile???? or something else entirely.

Ray

 

It is always a pleasure to see the kind of informative and polite and helpful responses that H.A.M.B. members post. There is no other forum where posters are so prompt and so 'straight-arrow', and with so much careful expertise. There, end of the flattery component

 

1931 olds?


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I was going to suggest like others a larger GM 'C' 'body like a 46-48 Olds 98, only by the wrap around rear bumper tip, a little different to the Buick pictured above.

 

47-48 Buick was my first thought but yes, now I think it's an Oldsmobile.

 

Okay, now his cars: below I see a Morris grille on a 1930-32 Ford Model A, probably a Dagenham car, and Dennis has taped/papered over the rear quarter-light .

Behind is Dennis's 1948 Buick Roadmaster

http://www.oldstox.com/TheEarlyDays.htm

 

I think the modified coupe might be a Dodge or DeSoto eight from around 1930.

 

I opened the link you provided and saw the description of the race car as a Model A.
In my opinion, that description is in error. The door appears to be way too long, the quarter glass area too narrow and the windshield pillars/framing are not the same as Model A details.

I may not know what is, but I think I know what it isn't.

Ray