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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: sixtee5cuda on September 17, 2012, 05:48:05 PM

Title: SOLVED: WTH # 103 - 1922 Hudson Super 6 retractable hardtop by Ben Ellerbeck
Post by: sixtee5cuda on September 17, 2012, 05:48:05 PM
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.
Title: Re: WTH # 103
Post by: sixtee5cuda on September 25, 2012, 12:56:45 PM
One week gone, moving Up!
Title: Re: WTH # 103
Post by: Craig Gillingham on September 26, 2012, 11:49:20 PM
Something like a 1916 Hudson Super Six? with a Biddle & Smart body?
Title: Re: WTH # 103
Post by: sixtee5cuda on September 26, 2012, 11:57:18 PM
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.
Title: Re: WTH # 103
Post by: Craig Gillingham on September 27, 2012, 12:31:51 AM
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.
Title: Re: WTH # 103
Post by: sixtee5cuda on September 30, 2012, 02:06:16 AM
(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:
Title: Re: SOLVED: WTH # 103 - 1922 Hudson Super 6 retractable hardtop by Ben Ellerbeck
Post by: grobmotorix on March 20, 2013, 05:49:03 PM
a 1927 drawing of another Ellerbeck retractable hardtop design: