Help me identify this mystery grill

Thanks for any help on telling me what this is from.

 

It appears to a early 30's Henway, or maybe a 35...
Pappy

 

No, no those were made from unobtanium, this one is definitely steel and brass.

 

Looks like one stolen from a Pebble Beach project car. NOT USA made??

 

possible 33 Hupmobile

 

I'm interested in finding out what the shell is from. Overall shape is like 34 Ford, but NOT in the upper portion. Vertical oval emblem area rules out Ford, which had horizontal oval. Almost looks like a modified grill?? I have tried checking all kinds of weird stuff including old Renault, Graham, Auburn, and Cord grills but can't find anything EXACTLY like this. The mesh almost looks like chicken wire! Somebody on here knows what the shell is from.

 

It is interesting that there were 2 of them, both identical. The grille itself is woven brass mesh. the only mesh I can think of made like that is from screening plants like for sand and gravel. The oval opening on the other one has a yellow glass lense in it.
I also looked at every model I could find on this site.
http://www.carnut.com/photo/list/flist.html
and didn't see anything close. I am thinking maybe a fire truck of some sort? since most trucks didn't have fancy plated grill shells. The grill is big, in the picture it is taller than a stack of four 31x10.50s

 

A mid 30's White Truck is close, but not quite.

 

Dimensions, or a pose by a common Ford grille?
I'm thinking this is on the small size, just guessing from size of radiator cap hole.

 

lincoln mid thirtys ishh

 

I'm somehow smelling garlic and frog's legs here...getting flashbacks to days of roaming the most bizarre sections of French junkyards looong ago.

 

Did anyone check Star? Just a guess...

 

1927 Pierre?

 

Hudson and Terraplane pickups had some pretty stylish stuff, I just haven't found anything that's an exact match yet...

 

1936 - 1937 Checker...There was one here in Vegas at an old cab lot. When I saw it I thought the bars in the middle were an add on but after research, that's the way they made them. The tow truck below is a sedan that was modified:

 

Kinda like a Brewster or Lincoln grille made out of erector set parts!

 

OK, I'll bite. What's a Henway?

 

That's pretty cool---didn't even know they made Checkers in the 30's



Marcy

 

Me either Marcy, I went and did some reading and had no idea that Checker got its start in the 20's...I assumed they started in the 50's with their famous chevy lookalike cabs...they also made REO and Ford pickup cabs in the 30's, along with some other oddball shit...

 

Never seen one of those 30's Checkers before this post. Heck of a lot better looking cars than the last of the series!
V/8

 

Where you see them is in ancient movies and Life magazine!

 

http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/avian/pfs20.htm

 

OK, here it is between a 37 and a 35 pickup grills with a 28-29 model A grill in front of it.

 

Yahtzee! I think that's it.

 

Any plans for it? It has an aggresive shape to it. Would look nice restored and in front of a large-ish Hot-Rod, maybe raked back a bit.

It's possible someone is restoring a 30's Checker and wants it really bad.

 

It would also look neat on an early sprint or modified. Nice mix of exotic shape and grille parts that look home built, though they aren't.

 

1937 Checker. Dam, I didn't even know such a beast existed and i thought I had seen most of everything with 4 wheels. The power of the HAMB never ceases to amaze!

 

Yellow made their own cabs in the 20's, too. My Dad drove 'em in Chicago... he also told us Al Capone would use a Yellow Cab when he went out collecting his "protection" money from the locals... Dad said he drove him around a few times and he tipped with a $50.00... three weeks wages!

 

I read somewhere that there are NO existent Checker cars left anywhere from what was produced in the 30's up until the 50's. Any truth to this??

 

Here's a pic - must be at least one left!

Steve