Hot Rods anybody have any info on this car?

it was just posted on the traditional images that need no explanation thread.

 

No explanation needed.

 

love the full wheel covers and exhaust, especially if it is capped off and run under neath the car through mufflers.

kind of wondering about the rear suspension, is that a quarter elliptical set up?

 

Front suspension looks like later spring ahead axle with spring in "stock" location in frame

Wonder how well it ran,
Supercharged dual four Y block short wheel base could be a wild ride

 

i know, right. column shifted too. somebody build that today and they'd put the front axle two feet out in front of the grill shell. i can't take my eyes off this car.

 

would the pleated fan shroud help with cooling? ha-ha

 

Did you ask the person who posted the picture, where they got the picture?

 

Bitchen Car and makes me want to build one like it

 

looks like it came from a magazine. @Ron Brown

 

I think it's just on a Model A frame with the rear crossmember almost at the back of the body with a later spring-behind rear. Crossmember may be flattened with a matching spring or maybe the frame is kicked with an A spring.

Spring ahead you mean?

This car looks to me like it is sitting on 35 up rolling gear to me. I think the offset on the rear is about 7.5" iirc and I think something like 4 to 6 ish inches back off the front crossmember (if someone remembers the exact number, please correct me) but that would shrink a stock Model A WB down from 103" to somewhere between 89.5 and 91.5" which, to me, looks about like what we are looking at here.

Looks like this car belongs in that INTIMIDATING HOTRODS thread to me for sure!

 

The question is...how many "copy and paste"s ago was the magazine there, with the rest of the story on the car?

 

If it was show coverage than the caption you can see above may be all the information there was.

 

I love the short wheel base. Not every car/roadster needs the front axle stuck do far out ahead of the frame. Restraint shows well here.
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That's pretty likely. But it would have the year and location....

 

then what am i seeing underneath the car, is that some sort of traction bar?

 

Piss poor proportioning...guess not all can be perfect

 

That's a lot of engine on such a short wheelbase. Looks very well executed though, clean even for it's day.

 

I thought it had polished aprons of some sort but it is really tough to tell with that stanchion rope running right through there and only the one view of the car. But that looks like the wheelbase you would get by putting 35* up front and rear in an A frame to me.

I'm just imagining what this thing would be like on a corner at speed. How much does a Y block weigh? I'm inclined to think with that weight centered over the axle, sitting high, and not much else to the car, it might be a bit harrowing.

*EDIT: I spot a 3 on the tree shifter. I bet it has a 40+ front and rear too.