Identify this car (year, make, model, & coachbuilder) for a point:
Experts?
Pros?
European?
USA on a commercial vehicle chassis?
Australian?
Asian?
Canada
South America ?
Where's left? Africa?
New Zealand
Cadillac by Crawley Ridley?
Quote from: ropat53 on August 15, 2023, 09:05:38 PM
Cadillac by Crawley Ridley?
Yep!
LOCKED for you to identify the year and model.
1930 V-63?
1931 355?
1933? It can't be very much newer, by 1934 the chrome radiator shell was gone and so were the wood wheels. Maybe the body was built on an early chassis?
Quote from: ropat53 on August 16, 2023, 06:42:26 PM
1933? It can't be very much newer, by 1934 the chrome radiator shell was gone and so were the wood wheels. Maybe the body was built on an early chassis?
According to my source, the car was completed and delivered 12/1934 (photo taken 5/1934). The issue you bring up regarding the wheels is mentioned. I'm of the opinion that either the chassis was ordered with specific components (e.g., beefier wheels to handle the lengthened chassis and heavier body), or they were installed by Crawley Ridley for the same reason.
Either way, just name the model series and the point is yours.
(Still
LOCKED for ropat53)
If it's 1934 it
has to be Model 355D
Quote from: ropat53 on August 16, 2023, 09:32:59 PM
If it's 1934 it
has to be Model 355D
My apologies for the confusion. The source (with a connection to the coachbuilder) states that the car was delivered to the client in December 1934, but identifies it as a Series 353. I believe both of these to be true, which means this was a 1930 Series 353 rebodied in 1934. You had all of the pieces to begin with, so the point is yours!