SOLVED: WTH # 103 - 1922 Hudson Super 6 retractable hardtop by Ben Ellerbeck

[sixtee5cuda]

For one point, provide the year, make, model, and builder of this old car.

Once you know the builder's name, you can tell me what that young lady is doing.

[sixtee5cuda]

One week gone, moving Up!

[Craig Gillingham]

Something like a 1916 Hudson Super Six? with a Biddle & Smart body?

[sixtee5cuda]

It is a slightly newer Hudson Super Six.  Not sure if Biddle and Smart were involved.  Looking for the name of the man who customized this car.

[Craig Gillingham]

I've found it now, the car was customised by Ben B. Ellerbeck. It is said to be the first retractable hardtop, built on a 1922 Hudson Super Six. Although, I think that style of radiator surround is more like the 1916 style, rather than the later and wider 1922 style. The lady is winding a small crank handle that raises and lowers the roof.

[sixtee5cuda]

(Sorry I missed your answer for a couple of days)

Craig Gillingham gets a point for the complete answer.

Somehow, there is even a functioning rumble seat, when the top is retracted:

[grobmotorix]

a 1927 drawing of another Ellerbeck retractable hardtop design: