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Weird-ass car found. What is it?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by BeatnikPirate, Aug 23, 2010.

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  1. GaryB
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    hell, paint it flat black,somebody on here will buy it
     
  2. drunkenJesus
    Joined: Jan 13, 2010
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    Sitting right next to me is a stack of Mechanics Illustrated mags from '57 - '59.... I don't happen to have the November one here. I'll have to see if I can dig it up. I want to read it!
     
  3. the dip for the doors reminds me of a triumph tr4
     
  4. Hot Rods Ta Hell
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    Fugly but cool. I dig old one-offs, wether they'r Rods, Customs or sports jobs.
    Someone spent a lot of time building it and probably had a lot of fun with it. If it's got an early 50's OHV-8, he may have dusted off a few A V-8's. Might have got him laid too.........:D

    Look under it. Maybe it's a 32 chassis with an early Hemi.
     
  5. I think you mean the TR2 AND TR3. No dip in TR4 doors.
     
  6. It is the new state of "C - - - - - - - - a" government proposed version of how every hot rod should look. Go to your local DMV for a straight answer on this one (worded carefully so it will not fall into a political hit)
     
  7. kevin mac
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    its a whatchacallit frrom way back when they used to fab them up out in the montgomery ward parking lot... musta been a 60's thing
     
  8. Standard32
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    My grandpa grew up in Roselle, New Jersey...

    At the time, Bob Whitehead lived not far from him... I believe it was Plainfield...


    Do you have any pictures of your old car?
     
  9. mart3406
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    --------------------
    Actually it looks like a very rare - one of
    only two-ever built - '46 Henway "PHCM"
    (Pedazo Hogar-Construido de Mierda)
    roadster prototype. Unfortunately for
    Henway Motors Corporation the exotic for
    its time 'Euro-styled and named' "PHCM"
    never entered production because, even
    though they had invested millions in the
    design and planned to mass produce them,
    after only two prototypes had been built - one
    for testing and the other intended for the
    1946 show-car circuit, industrial spies from
    Mechanics Illustrated magazine stole the
    inadvertently un-copyrighted blueprints and
    published them, spawning numerous
    home-built copies. loosely based on the
    Henway design to be built! One quick way
    to verify if it's one of the only-two factory
    -built prototypes or merely a home-built
    copy, based on the MI-published blueprints.
    is to look under the hood. Most of the
    home-built copies used standard
    junkyard-available flathead or OHV Ford V8
    engines and running gear, while the actual
    Henway-built prototypes had HMC's radical
    new 'Quadruple H-Power' supercharged,
    24-cylinder, sleeve-valve, 'H-type' engine
    that the company had developed specifically for
    use in the "Pedazo Hogar-Construido de Mierda"
    If the car has a standard Ford or other make, V8,
    it's probably a home-built copy....but if it's got a
    sleeve-valve "Qudruple H-Power" H24 under
    the hood, it's almost certainly the real thing!!!
    :eek::D

    Mart3406 ('Official Henway Motors Corporate
    Archivist and Historian'
    ):D
     

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  10. indyjps
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    trailer fenders, rear of car looks like an old rectangle fuel or water tank, hood is one continuous radius so Im thinking also a tank of some kind
     
  11. MrFalcon62
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    I think It's the Red Barchetta That Rush sang about
     
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  12. Cruiser
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    I think all the car needs is a little customizing with two sicks of dynamite.

    CRUISER :cool:
    [​IMG]
     
  13. OldoginMd
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  14. azzizzjohn
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    On the Hemming Motor News Blog,under, Archive for "Mechanix Illustrated" tag it shows this photo. Further down the site it shows the magazine cover and the article
    by Bob Whitehead...
     
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  15. shmoozo
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    In Wisconsin it's Henwhey.
     
  16. Looks like a parts car to me. Headlights,gauges,rims and caps. Maybe frame and motor are useable. Butt ugly is more like it.
     
  17. wetatt4u
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    Well it made you LOOK !
     
  18. Rogue63
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    My guess would be its a weird ass car
     
  19. SquireDon
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    It looks like a Popular Mechanics do it yourself roadster special from the 50's.
     
  20. doors are from a British sports car, MG?
     
  21. Kill it with fire. Quick
     
  22. Only problem is it doesn't have doors, just reliefs where you hop over the top.
     
  23. Jessie J.
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    I see possibilities. Lose the side-mounts, Lop about 2' off that front, give it a '32 grille shell, and a conventional one-piece hood with open sides (losing that weird down-slope wedge) and a guy would have a great beginning on a track-style roadster.
     
  24. 40FordGuy
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    Definitely homebuilt !!!!!!!! Another one from M.I. mag in those days was the "Spyder",...a rather gnarly looking item, you put it on your own chassis.

    4TTRUK
     
  25. delaware1930
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    QUICK! Hit it in the head with a shovel!
     
  26. I've seen uglier stuff featured in magazines and called a "rat rod" ... you could clean this one up fairly reasonably.
     
  27. dmw56
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    Man, that is the Traditional Rat Rod!
     
  28. Kenn
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    This is a somewhat poorly built MI car from the 50's. I built one in 1953-1954 (at age 17) and drove it for 5 or 6 years until my dad sold it when I joined the Marines. Mine was red also, Stewar Warner gauges, aluminum hood, luggage rack since there was no trunk, home-made seats. The car was very fast with the Ford flathead, dual stromberg-carlson two-barrell carbs, shaved heads. Frame was a 32 Ford sedan, lowered 6 inches and with a dropped front axle. I did put hydraulic brakes all around, as well as seat belts from a friend of mine who owned a small airport.
    It got mostly admiring glances. Wish I still owned the thing.
     
  29. Von Rigg Fink
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    That thing fell out of the ugly tree and hit every dam branch on the way down
     
  30. I'll second that. I remember seeing a similar vehicle on the cover of Mechanix Illustrated or Popular Mechanix in the early 1950's. I'm sure quite a few were built in the backyards and rickety garages of fledgling mechanics(hot rodders maybe)and probably a few still survive.
    This one looks to be constructed pretty nicely and with a little finish work would make a great Sunday car to run around in during the summer months.
    Maybe it isn't exactly beautiful but at least it isn't HIDEOUS like some of the so-called cars being turned out today that require you to be an acrobat just to get behind the wheel;never mind actually drive it.
    AH fuck it;it ain't worth discussing.:mad:
     
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