Topic: Old car ID

[upperlake04]

 Trying to organize and label some old family photos - can anyone help with the make, model or year of this car?
   ps - if you want your descendants to find value and meaning in your photos - label them now. It's bittersweet to have original old family pictures that show your people and places that cannot be identified because there is no one alive to do it.          Thanks

[gregk]

upper

My guess would be late 40's Dodge/Plymouth.

Greg

[Uncle Ernie]

Yeah.  I'm thinking '42 Plymouth.

[Demon67]

Yeah Upperlake I used to have fotos from places like N.D. of some family members don't know who and when I was going to take time to research them, everyone that could help was dead, the other thing is make copies and distribute them to other family members, if you don't the pics will be gone. The reason I think that the pictures should be spread out is the Xmas that I was going to give the pictures and letters to my kids the house burned down on Nov 18 that year everything was lost and part of the history of the family was gone.
Bill the demon.

[mlinder]

Looks a lot like 42 dodge. Body shape and fenders, etc. Grill looks similar, but has fewer horizontal bars..

[gerhed]

Not sure Any Dodges or Plymouths were made in '42.
Could be a Caddy.

[mlinder]

Not sure Any Dodges or Plymouths were made in '42.
Could be a Caddy.

42 dodge: http://cll.hemmings.com/uimage/1262470-200-0.jpg

Completely wrong grill for caddy.

[bill440cars]

   Yeah, not a 42' Plymouth

            http://www.hemmings.com/users/55806/story/64.html

[Uncle Ernie]

Ding dong- my mind was thinking Dodge but my fingers typed Plymouth.  I know better- I have that hood ornament.

[upperlake04]

 42 Dodge it is.       Thanks guys!

...everything was lost and part of the history of the family was gone.

  Sorry to hear that Bill, that's a tragedy. That stuff is irreplaceable. A few years ago, thieves broke into my 80+ year old parents' house and stole a wood jewelery chest (after dumping the contents on the floor) that had been my great-grandfathers final apprentice project for journeymans' ticket.  I still get furious when I think about it.
  Your point to copy and distribute family pictures now is excellent. Even if the originals are lost, the images would still survive.

 An uncle visiting the old family homestead around 1948.

 

[dusterdude]

upper,is the rusty car whats left of the black car?

[mlinder]

upper,is the rusty car whats left of the black car?

Naw, black car is 4 door, appears to be suicide doors. Rusty car is 2 door.

It looks an awful lot like a 42 dodge, but there are subtle differences between the 42 I posted a link to (and other 42 dodges) and the ones that upperlake posted, namely the number of vertical slats in the grill. Grill style is the same, but the number of slats is different.

[gerhed]

What were they doing building Dodges in '42 ?----Should have been making tanks.
Ah--Canadian--they still made 'em in Canada.?--Windsor probably.

[Sam Green Racing]

Did those Canadians not help out during the war ?

Sam.

[greenjeans]

Couldn't resist.....

I think it's a '46 Dodge Special Deluxe ?     

[mlinder]

Grill is stil subtly different.

[Rocking-M]

It was Dave's first car, he bought it off the showroom, if he wasn't so old he could
probably remember what it was. 


You guys are good!

[DarkRider]

Hey Rocking i think i found a pic of your first car on the net somewhere....





 

[754]

What do mean no cars during the war?

 of they made them..41 models for 4 yrs straight!.. usually little chrome on them..

[tramp]

grill looks taller on the 46

[Rocking-M]

Hey Rocking i think i found a pic of your first car on the net somewhere....





 

I've been looking all over for that car, I want to buy it back.