Hot Rods 1933 Continental Coupe

This is the Continental Flyer in the shop in Dayton,Ohio the day I bought it.

 

I've seen this baby in what I believe is it's completed state, and it is super sweet!!

 

I've got a really nice 1933 Continental Ace body with side mount spares if anyone needs one.

 

You always seem to find the coolest stuff.

 

Not sure if this thread is still active, I recently inherited my father's 1933 Continental Beacon Coupe and was thinking about putting it up for sale as it needs to be gone through to be show worthy (as it was last worked on a decade or two ago). It is running, but engine seems tired and paint/body are definitely in need of work. Has mustang II front end, chevy 350, turbo 350 trans, for 9" rear end, ac, holley sniper system. Please message me if you're interested.

 

You don't know what your talking about, Continental was never part of Ford. They were an engine builder, and supplied engines for over 100 name plates. Some one that they built engines for went bankrupt . Continental hadn't been paid for those engines, almost $500,000. worth. So they didn't want to take a loss on all those engines so they took over the assembly line , changed the name on the car. This was during the depression, people weren't taking a chance on any new names, they only trusted the big 3. Not many people knew that Continental built most of the engines for a lot of those cars that were already out driving around. Plus tractors, airplanes, industrial , They had been around for quite a while . Continental was banking on their previous reputation . The public still wouldn't give them a chance , even though their suspension and motor mounts were far advanced beyond any thing the big 3 had to offer. But after just less than 2 years , they had had enough ,and decided to close the doors on the assembly line . They never left the engine manufacturing business. They just tried so salvage lost money on a deal gone bad. They are still in business today Teledyne Continental. Continental has been around for over 100 years.

 

Gary. You are new here & don't know how this works, obviously. Shaun's 1 and only post was from 2018. He obviously isn't reading your response. Hover your cursor over his icon and you will see it says 1 post. Also, you obviously didn't look at the bottom of his post where it says it was from 3 years ago. This place is loaded with knowledge. Oh, and don't tell porknbeaner he doesn't know what he's talking about. That won't go over well here either.

 

does beg the ? as to what car co. it was originally that went belly up-certainly nice lookers!

 

It don't matter. he gave information that he believed was correct. I have been wrong in the past and lived through it.

BTW the car in question sold in the 350-450 dollar range new. 500K (the alleged debt to Continental) computes to about 1.5 million cars, if the car was just motor and no other parts. People read this crap online and obviously do not know simple math.

anyway it don't matter.

 

Continental Motors Company was a manufacturer of internal combustion engines. The company produced engines as a supplier to many independent manufacturers of automobiles, tractors, trucks, and stationary equipment (such as pumps, generators, and industrial machinery drives) from the 1900s through the 1960s. Continental Motors also produced automobiles in 1932–1933 under the name Continental Automobile Company. The Continental Aircraft Engine Company was formed in 1929 to develop and produce its aircraft engines, and would become the core business of Continental Motors, Inc.

In 1905, Continental Motors was born with the introduction of a four-cylinder, four-stroke cycle L-head engine operated by a single camshaft.

In August 1929, the Continental Motors Company formed the Continental Aircraft Engine Company as a subsidiary to develop and produce its aircraft engines.

Continental Motors entered into the production of automobiles rather indirectly. Continental was the producer of automobile engines for numerous independent automobile companies in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, including Durant Motors Corporation which used the engines in its Star, Durant, Flint and Rugby model lines. Following the 1931 collapse of Durant, a group having interest in Durant Motors began assembling their own cars, the De Vaux-Hall Motors Company, using the Durant body dies, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Oakland, California, and under the De Vaux brand name. When De Vaux-Hall collapsed in 1932, unable to pay creditors, Continental Motors assumed automobile assembly and marketed the vehicles under the Continental-De Vaux brand name for the balance of the 1932 model year.

Continental Motors introduced a completely new line of Continental-branded automobiles for 1933. These cars were not based upon the 1931 De Vaux, a product of the De Vaux-Hall, which had been using body dies left over from the former Durant produced by Durant Motors until 1930.

The 1933 Continentals were marketed in three model ranges: the largest and most expensive was the six-cylinder Ace, next was a smaller six called the Flyer and also the low-priced four-cylinder Beacon. The 1933 Beacon roadster was the lowest price full-size car offered for sale in the United States in the 1930s, costing only $US335.None of these met with success in the depression era economy. At this same time, Dominion Motors, Ltc. of Canada was building the same Flyer and Beacon cars under arrangement with Continental for sale in the Canadian market, and importing the larger Ace models. Dominion then converted to building Reo brand trucks. The Ace and Flyer models were discontinued at the close of the 1933 model year. Finding that its cars were unprofitable, Continental stopped assembling even Beacon automobiles in 1934.

Continental was a major manufacturer of horizontally opposed 'flat four' airplane engines and supplied a similar engine for Sherman tanks during World War II. Apparently the US government contracts continued during the Korean War. As the jet engine began to replace piston engine powered airplanes, Continental began losing their military contracts. The jet engine technology thus creating an understandable end to Continental's military prosperity. When Korean War ended, Kaiser Corporation, who used Continental engines in all their vehicles, was able to gain ownership of a Continental engine making factory.* It was during that time of downsizing Continental's operations that many Continental employees dispersed to find jobs elsewhere in the industry -those engineers finding new jobs at other companies like the newly formed American Motors, even Chevrolet.

Kaiser, working with a Continental-designed engine, introduced the USA's first mass-produced OHC inline six-cylinder engine. It debuted in Kaiser-owned Jeep Corporation vehicles in the mid-1960s. However, Stutz built both single and dual overhead cam inline six-cylinder engines in, respectively, the late 1920s and early 1930s (sohc) and the early 1930s (dohc). Moreover, these were fitted in Stutz production cars (though their numbers were comparatively small).

Particular models of John Deere tractors are currently being supplied by Continental since the ownership transfer to Korea, as stated on the tractor's engine identification plate.

 

Hello everyone! Any Flyer parts anywhere? Badges, headlight clip things on the bottom to hold the lights together, the little cover that over the top of the fuel tank to cover the fuel lines? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

 

Not mine.
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