Hey, I pulled these pictures off the internet, and was wondering if anyone knew who owns this '34 or '35 Hupmobile coupe. It has an Oregon antique car plate, and that's all I know about it. I was hoping to ask the owner some questions about it. Thanks, Kinky6
Kinky: That's a cabriolet body with a top grafted on. Door hinge placement and door window openings are first big clue. Tim
Link to shots of an original one https://www.flickr.com/photos/myoldpostcards/5115371381/in/photostream/ Interesting car. and the door hinge position is correct for that model of coupe. It looks like someone is trying to pretend the one in the photos you posted is a Ford though.
Tim, you're correct, up to a point. In 1934 and '35, Murray Body Co. sold slightly modified versions of last year's (1933 & '34) Ford bodies to Hupmobile for their "W" model. This was the least expensive of some seven models offered in '34 as Hupp struggled to maintain market share (#14) during the depression. So, yes, the coupe got the cabriolet doors w/o the window frames, and the 4 door sedans look just like the Fords from the firewall to the back window, with the late '34 Vicky trunk lid panel added below the body line and modified to hold the partially inset spare tire. Unlike the Vicky, it didn't have the bottom hinged trunk, although some touring models got fitted w/ a "potters" trunk. With all the Ford sheet metal, some Hupp purists refer to them as the "bastard Hupp".
Well!!! In that case I'd cut the top off!!! ha ha. Is that a hupp grill in pic #1? Also, if I find a hupp coupe I could cut the top and make a emoval hardtop for my cabrio! I had never realized this, thanks for the thread. tim
I'd like to read that tag on the cowl. That body looks like a glass 34 cabriolet. & no cut out for the hood latches & the radiator support rods look aftermarket. A couple of builders out there make a glass top. Upgraded the grill in the last pic & it has the ford logo on it
Kinky6 thanks, did some searching(googled Hupmobible 417) & I am probably wrong again. I did read a bout a guy in Phoenix Or that is into Hups. His moniker on the Hup site is Keiser 31
I do not know anything about this car. There was one here in the northeast USA that the guy put the Hup body on a Ford chassis and did the car in a resto-rod style. Ford fenders and flatty engine. Drove the Ford guys nuts for a few years.
There is one of those Hupps here in B.C. It would be tempting to put one a Ford frame with a Ford nose and fenders.
Keiser31 is me. I have not seen that coupe before, but I will look around for some information about it here in Oregon.
Some guy in Omaha was driving one as a winter beater in the early 80s. It was painted flat pink or light purple with black fenders. It was gone before I could get a photo of it. I'm originally from Oregon but never saw that car.
The pictures with the Ford grille were taken at an event next to the Market St. Rock-n-Rogers in Salem, Oregon .
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