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↑ That's gorgeous! What a gift! 
Can anyone ID this car?
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A 67 didn't have side marker lights & had a wing glass. Easy ID.
45 Dragoon
Bearcat
Huh?
Lots of 4 speeds behind small blocks
Not enough, or the automatics get bragged all out of proportion
Even if a sixties Chevy has an automatic from the factory, it doesn't have to stay that way. My 68 Nova had a 307 with an automatic. The engine was stroked & bored. Edelbrock intake with a Holly four barrel, Headman headers and custom exhaust with cutouts. The tranny was a four speed with a Hurst shifter.
I smoked more than a few guy with more cubes.
I smoked more than a few guy with more cubes.
Baxter6551
Single-Sixer
I don’t know what it is ….. but it’s cool !
Justice B. Swift
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When I saw the body beltline at the Rear where it dips down like a Mullet across the back I knew what it was. I couldn't be sure if it was a '32 or '33 as they are nearly identical. The '32 had a one piece front bumper and "Bluestreak" 6 cyl. engine, and the '33 got a two piece split front bumper and straight eight engine along with the new designation of "Custom line" to replace the Bluestreak name of the prior year. because neither the front bumper or engine were visible in your photo (of course the original engine is long gone) I could only guess which year. Basically the same anyway. I was raised in a sea of classic cars. Everything from Mustangs, Falcons, and Shelby's to early T-Birds, Rancheros and muscle cars. Among the many were '32-34 fords, Model A fire trucks, '50 shoebox ford coupes, a flathead powered lake roadster, and a slew of cool rides. There where just as many motorcycles, many of them custom built show bikes and experimental drag bikes. My father even built a Double engine Royal Enfield Drag bike with two 750 twins linked via snowmobile torque converter and running home made mechanical fuel injection. Strange vehicles and unusual Hot Rods filled my childhood and still abound 55 years later. I'm still sitting on a '55 T-Bird owned since "68, a '39 Buick Special running a 327 & Turbo 400, and in house built ford E-350 Van converted to 4x4 and rebuilt 351 Windsor. I'm still riding motorcycles too, both off-road and a Flamed Candy-Apple Harley Dyna. That Graham is very cool and I can see why you felt the need for a photo. They are rarely seen, and this is a clean one. Thanks for the "test" and Post.
ElectraClyde
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Graham design got a bit edgy in the late 30s with the introduction of the “Sharknose”. I see this one around from time to time.
Yeah, thats the only graham i recall, with the leftover cord bodies, is why i dident think graham. But google said The Mystery Car In Question was a chrysler, which dident have such fenders. Google is an idiot.
ElectraClyde
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I hate to nitpick, but you're thinking of the Graham Hollywood which used leftover Cord 810/812 bodies. Sharknose was a fresh design. And yes, I had to look that up, on Google AI........
Thats what i meant; the only graham i could recall at the time was the one w/o the coffin for a nose.
1733 tesla cyber car
OP
I read that shark nosed car pretty much nailed their demise. They went from that gorgeous car in the OP to that? It made the Edsel design look downright genius.
I actually liked the edsel looks, even back then. Especially the drawing i made of one with a deuce grille. . The thing was, it was a whole new set of engineers ( designers, actually) who made it cheap and loaded with breakdowns waiting to happen. Nobody i ever knew had one as a daily driver, it was on rotation.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
I like the sharknose. Very avante garde for the 1930s.
