I was watching The Phantom Creeps and most of the cars in the serial are easily identified Chevys, but this one has me stumped. Anybody have any idea of what it might be?
Is it a Stutz-Bearcat?? Scroll down to the third picture.
Definately not a Duesey, since there were no external pipes, and not the Stutz, either, because the radiator cowl is curved on this, and flat on the Stutz.
Are you sure? Looking at the various pics of Deusenbergs, it doesn’t appear they all have external pipes:
http://www.speedygrl.com/Racer/wallpapers/1931_duesenberg_j_weymann_speedster.jpg
Perhaps they did during their time? I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know jack about cars.
Tuck:
It looks like a Mercedes Benz, approx. 1938.
Your picture is small, but this car looks very similar.
It’s a 1938 Model 320 Cabriolet D.
The photos don’t show the pipes because of the angles, but trust me, the Deuseys all had big chrome exhaust pipes coming out of one side or the other of the engine cowl, along with a plate on the dash saying that the car was certified to do in excess of 120 MPH.
Rico, that’s certainly close, but the car’s a two door, not a four door like you linked to, and it didn’t have a hood ornament.
Your small picture makes it hard to be definitive, but how about the Auburn 8-105:
The second Auburn looks close, but the bumper’s wrong. It’s not visible (and may not be on the car in the photo, they had the annoying habit of swapping cars during shooting, one moment they’re in a dark car, the next moment they’re in a light car, and then they’re back to the dark car), but when they climbed into the car, there were vent windows attached to the side of the front windshield.
Are you sure? When I blow the photo up, it appears to have a two-pronged hood ornament of some sort.
The Mercedes also has a split windshield with more rake to it than your picture appears to have, and the chrome at the top of the grill goes straight across, whereas the Mercedes appears tapered. Maybe a Marmon?
That’s a 1931 Marmon. I know, I no vent windows …
I zoomed the original capture image, and there might be an ornament (looks like it could be an animal), but it could just be an artifact.
yabob, it might be a Marmon, but the one you linkd to is certainly the wrong year/model.
Tuckerfan said: “The photos don’t show the pipes because of the angles, but trust me, the Deuseys all had big chrome exhaust pipes coming out of one side or the other of the engine cowl, along with a plate on the dash saying that the car was certified to do in excess of 120 MPH.”
Actually, Tuck, it was only the supercharged SJ Deusies that had external pipes, although some J model owners installed them so that people would think they had an SJ. Here’s a J and an SJ side by side ( www.campbellriversales.com/vintage_cars_4.htm) - scroll down to row 13, second from the left.
Well, color me corrected then. What’s the car 15th row 2nd one in, kind of pinkish in color? Other than some of the chrome and the grill, that could be it.
You’re all wrong. 1931 Chrysler.
That’s another J model Duesenberg; those things are HUGE and the mystery car doesn’t look much bigger than a Ford. I only get one picture from your site, and it’s pretty blurry. Maybe it’s some kind of small Mercedes with maybe British special body work. In the 1930’s all sorts of cars, even Ford Model A’s, were sometimes sold as bare chassis to be bodied to the customer’s taste at one of a large number of coachbuilding companies.
Message was for Tuckerfan, looks like Beware has nailed it.
Yeah, I think Doug’s got it. Thanks.
See, I went with this crazy hunch I had that back in the day, they probably made cars for all different markets. Not just Model As and Duesenbergs, but boring old Buicks and Pontiacs and stuff too. A 1931 Chrysler roadster is probably worth $100,000 today, even though nobody either wants one or knows such a thing exists.
Next question…who were The Phantom Creeps? (Band name!)