Anyone want to decipher what this car is? http://www.stevesnovasite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13904 Tommy
For sure its a -40something pontiac,see the dashboard,its all pontiac. but seemes like the frontlights has been frenched.
Definitely Pontiac, 1941 - 1948. Hard to pin the year down without seeing the grille. No way is that a Mopar.
-------------- Yeah....but not just *ANY* '52 Henway! The car, or what's left of it, appears to be the long lost remains of the "one-of-only-one ever built". '52 Henway 'Mongoose Special Sports Sedan' prototype!!! The car, designed by the nefarious Henway corporate 'black-ribbon 'engineering and styling' team, headed up by Henway 'Chief of Engineering', Professor Edsel K. Murphy, infamous and notorious for his invention and then, synthesis and world-wide distribution of 'Murphy's Law' - and Henway Chief stylist, J. Newton "Nutbar" Lowery, the insane, blind, younger half-brother of famed automotive styling wizard, Raymond Lowery - was intended to be the prototype for a sadly, stillborn line of ultra-high-performance, super-luxury sedans that Henway planned to introduce for the upcoming 1954 model year. Besides the exotic and 'way, way, ahead of it's time' "Nutbar" Lowery styled coachwork, the lone "Mongoose S.S.S.' prototype also incorporated many futuristic engineering concepts and technological innovations in it's design too - including advances and wonders such as "four-wheel, hydrophonic drive", a steam-driven, 'metaphysics, dark energy and magnetism-actuated', automatic transmission(!) - and the most unique feature of all - an experimental 450-plus hp, 8-liter, triple-cross-compound-turbocharged, sleeve-valve, two-stroke straight-8 engine!!! Unfortunately, it was not to be and all came to naught when the lone engineering prototype was lost early on, during testing. Exactly what happened and precisely how the car came to be lost is still a mystery, but rumors, myths, lies, allegations and counter-allegations surrounding the car's disappearance still abound to this day! For years - and right up up until now even - it was thought by all of the most respected and most highly-esteemed and most knowledgeable Henway historians (such as myself!) - that the car had been lost - "somewhere in the wilds of Bolivia" - during a disastrously ill-fated 1952 South American road testing expedition - with the long held 'common belief' among *most* Henway collectors, historians and aficionados, that the car was lost forever, after accidentally sliding off a rain-slicked Andes-mountain goat path, where it then either fell into - A) - a bottomless pit of molten radioactive quicksand - or B), into a flood-swollen river, where it swept over a waterfalls and then attacked and devoured by a rare and particularly vicious and voracious local species of 'Bolivian metal-eating piranha fish"!!! Obviously, since the car has now miraculously- and mysteriously(!) - reappeared in the U.S. A. - and more or less intact too (!!) - neither of these things ever happened! Henway Motors would likely be very interested in buying the car back at any cost and restoring it, for display in the Henway Museum. If by any chance, the car is for sale, please contact me in person at Henway Motors corporate headquarters in Detroit Michigan or at the Henway Museum in Dimwit, South Dakota, immediately! Whatever you do, this thing is far too rare and far too valuable to customize or to cut up and make into a hot rod!!!! Mart3406 (Official Henway Motors Corporate Historian and Archivist) ============================
DAMN .. All that above and nobody did it??? I guess its up to me to pull the trigger.... ... SO.......... WHATS A HENWAY????
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