Looks like it's only a couple years away from being nothing more than an iron oxide stain in the gravel
Cowl lights were an accessory- some came with/some without. I've been tying to find good pics of firewalls, which should narrow it down.
Think that's the right track, most of the Chrysler firewalls I have seen have the coil mounted through it.
Weren't there somewhere around 300 car manufacturers in in the USA in the late 1920s? We only have 290 more options... OK, maybe like 250 more options, some just wouldn't be close at all.
We're sneaking up on the answer, I can tell. There is an unreal wealth of knowledge within the members of these pages, the right guy just hasn't seen the Pic yet!
This was a time when there was an incredible number of manufacturers with near cloning going on kinda like now eh.... This ones a real challenge... @61gasser any better pics of this carcass... The closest hit so far is the 1927 Chrysler model 60...but as Squirrel said there are details such as the bumper, lack of cowl vent and someone else mentioned fender shape issues...could it have met the Jalopy wrench at some time in its journey...
What's happened to the Hamb?!?! Four days and no positive ID? And worse, so many calling this worthless junk? Come on, guys! A cowl and doors with potential, and you don't even need a hippo boat to haul it off! Have all the dreamers moved to Instagram?
the mystery car again, for comparison. and a whippet engine, so you can compare the firewall, which looks different to me.
I don't know, @squirrel, that firewall looks kind of close. The way it's outdented and the horizontal bead across the top. The rest is too fuzzy/muddy in the original to really tell.
The bead on the mystery car extends all across the top, then down the sides. The Whippet, it stops near the end, and there's a separate bead going down. It's similar, but not the same.
Could it be that downward curving bead in the mystery cowl is some other remnant or photographic trick of the light? Firewall beads were usually symetrical, and I don't see a corresponding downward curving bead on the passenger side of the original pic. But as I said, it's a fuzzy shot and cowl is covered in ancient grease/mud buildup. So who knows. Everything else sure looks close to the Whippet images.
That curve in the alleged bead is probably a cleaner line under where that brass tubing is running on the green firewall. The original finish was probably protected for so long that the original shade is still present along that line. Or maybe it's actually the corner of the firewall? That horizontal bead looks to stop before reaching the sides of the firewall in both the new and old image. The large holes where wires etc go through the firewall seem to match. It sure looks like the Whippit to me.
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