Hey all, I ran across the front section of a (my guess) mid 20's touring car in a central Alberta barn bolted onto a horse-drawn sleigh. Up here in Canada we call these Bennett Buggies, as he was in Parliament during the Depression when most of these cars where converted. Now for the car, it has suicide front doors, but the rears appeared to have opened conventionally. It is a very smooth body with hidden hinges up top and exposed lower hinges, and is devoid of any body lines except for at the very top of the doors. Most of the hardware was made of stainless steel, so I would place the year after at least 1915, but was still flat blade and square nuts and bolt heads. There was a great deal of wood in it's construction. The only stamping numbers I found were a serial number on the inside of the doors and under the seat. I did find what I believe to be a model number of some sort, 35K. ANY help or suggestions as to what this may be would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Lucky (ps. I will post pictures as soon as I find out how to!)
Dodge was an all steel body as far as framing. I just scabbed a 20s cut-off roadster back together for a guy near here. No wood in the sills or doors. He says Dodge always was steel framed.
Googled Buick and Dodge, no such luck. The wooden body hints to a Fisher body, but the suicide doors are a curve ball. I know the early Chevys had suicide doors, but they weren't so smooth. Any other suggestions or ideas, I'd love to hear it!
Cadillac Dollars to donuts that's what it is. don't have time to find exactly what model for you but 191x-192x caddy
------------------------------------- Yep....you nailed it!, Scott! And it's not just any Henway either! It appears to be what's left of an extremely rare, Canadian-built, Fall & Winter-1919-'21 edition, Henway "Yeti-HP" 'Custom Double Deluxe' horse-drawn snowmobile! The base-model Henway 'Yeti-HP's' came from the factory with 1 hp, provided by a single Percheron or sometimes, an optional, 'dealer-installed' Belgium. But the super-ultra-rare, 'up-market' "Custom-Double-Deluxe' model Yeti-HP's" like this one, all had 2hp - in the form of a pair of factory-matched and installed, twin Clydesdales! The 2hp, twin-Clydesdale-powered Custom-Double-Deluxe' "Yeti-HPs" had only a marginally higher top speed, compared with the single-horsepower base models, but had twice as much traction and a lot more torque, which gave better acceleration and more pulling power in the hills!! By the way too - the 2HP Custom-Double Deluxe' was a true factory hot-rod and single-handedly, started the horsepower-race between the various sleigh manufacturers of the day and launched the short-lived 'muscle-sleigh' craze of the late-teens and early-20's!!! Mart3406 ("Official Henway Motors Corporate Historian and Archivist") =========================
Checked into Cadillac, doesn't seem to be any with suicide doors and hidden door hinges and handles. And yes, it is definitely an old car body, however I'm not sure that will fly with the registry....Henway...nice. Hahaha. Keep 'em coming guys, someone's got to know what the hell this thing is.
You need to look a little better then. Cadillac most certainly did have suicide doors Depends on the model, not all of them. Look here, bunch of odd ball stuff and a Cadillac with smooth cowl, round bottom doors, wide B pillar and suicide rear doors http://www.google.com/m/search?site...i=X46LTeD6IN6Qtgefv_nkAQ&ved=0CBcQ1QIoAA#i=24 http://www.earlyamericanautomobiles.com/1915.htm
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