History Help identify that car

Can someone tell me what the car is that a young jfk is sitting on? The external boot hinges are throwing me off, i thought they started them in the 40s as cars in the 30s had dickie seats? The photo is meant to have been taken in 1937.
Any help

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Looks like a 37 ford to me

 

Looks like it could be a '37 Ford Club Cabriolet. Great looking Dachshund as well.

 

What's a dickie seat?

 

probably a rumble seat, if you live somewhere else

 

That's just a great photo, and one I don't recall having seen before. I wonder if this is just a crop from a larger image.

 

37 Ford convertible sedan.


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Great picture! I'm with the rest, '37 Ford.

 

Yeah, 31Apickup is right. That's a 37 convertible sedan.

 

Thats what I say a 37 Ferd Conv Sedan with the Optional Hemi engine.

Just my 3.5 cents

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Now that we have established what the car is, I would think dickie seat & external boot hinges are Aussie terms for rumble seat & trunk hinges. HRP

 

Thank you HRP...I read that and me mum`s Bristol got wedged in me auntie`s lift.

 

I have shirt tail relatives that live in England that call a trunk a boot. Actually in some parts of Mexico a trunk is called a Bote which would translate to Boot or jail.

 

Sorry yeah hear in Australia their called dickie seats

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Haha yep they sure are, not sure where we got dickie seat from its just as they've always been called here. And yes trunks are boots here and hoods are bonnets haha

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Yeah i thought that too, its strange how he is positioned in the photo, i doubt the person taking the photo didnt have him centered in the frame. Strange

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Crisis solved, thanx guys 37 ford convertible sedan, ill sleep easy now

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That's the first time I've seen JFK's wiener. (I've not actually been searching for it.)

 

Maybe its called a dickie seat because when you sit in it, its so cramped that you end up sitting on your dickie.....

 

Did you also notice the camera case in the top center of the photo, just above the trunk hinge? You don't often see that either.

 

Another view taken at the same time:

Said to be taken on a 1938 trip to Europe, but I'm guessing UK or Ireland, judging from the cars in the background.

 

Oh wow thats insane, great job finding that.

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Yeah the car next to him is right hook so thatd be a good assumption

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Not until you mentioned it haha i didnt even picknup on that, you'd reckon they would take the case out of the picture

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You have to remember that JFK was just a kid of 21 at that time. It was probably just a part of a group of family vacation pics. Nobody had any idea of where his life would go.

 

LOL! Right hook. Mum's Bristol. Auntie's lift. Dickie seats. God, I love that kind of talk. Or should I say "banter"?

 

Wasn't his father the U.S. ambassador to England then?

 

cool car next to him, real wire wheels, suicide door, wonder what that is?

 

I noticed the horn, what is the light on the windshield.

 

His father was the US Ambassador to England at the time.