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12-21-2011, 01:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: East Los Angeles | | | Another "what bass is this" thread.
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Ok, not really. More like...what car is this?: 
I was thinking Studebaker but I haven't found one with the right grill. |
12-21-2011, 01:03 AM
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12-21-2011, 01:14 AM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | Considering it says Cobra on the license plate.... |
12-21-2011, 01:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: East Los Angeles | | | Yeah, but I've never seen a Cobra with that body shape or white sidewalls like that. |
12-21-2011, 01:19 AM
| | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | Asked my brother (big gear head) and he says it looks like a Vette. |
12-21-2011, 01:23 AM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | Not a 'Vette, not a Cobra. I'm working on it.
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12-21-2011, 01:33 AM
| | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | The headlights are reminiscent of a '55 Mercedes 300SL, but that's not what it is. It may be something that's been heavily customized.
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12-21-2011, 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga  The headlights are reminiscent of a '55 Mercedes 300SL, but that's not what it is. It may be something that's been heavily customized. | It could have been modified. This picture was taken at the Peterson Automotive Museum some months back. I may just have to go back and take notes IF the car is even still there. |
12-21-2011, 09:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: East Los Angeles | | Anybody else?  |
12-21-2011, 09:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seweracuse, NY | | Contact them and ask: Petersen Automotive Museum
Email the picture to one of the people listed in collections.
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12-21-2011, 09:53 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | An old t-bird? |
12-21-2011, 10:21 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | It's almost certainly a modified vehicle. The stamped steel fenders of the era would be very difficult to produce that front fender crease. The wheels are steel with a hub cap, so that's era correct. The hood lines are not vette nor is the bumper, but the hub caps have a "chevy" look to them but, again, the windshield, while "vette-ish" has the mirror mounted on the windscreen frame. Vettes of the 50's were dash mounted. I almost lean in the Studebaker direction. They had pretty forward looking designs. This could have been a concept car for the company. They "borrowed" features from other makers. That front bumper is almost certainly off a 55' Studebaker president and modified.
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12-21-2011, 10:29 AM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar An old t-bird? | That was my first thought, too, but looking at online pics, it's definitely not a T-Bird. |
12-21-2011, 12:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: East Los Angeles | | | I e-mailed the curator after all. This one was a real doozie. Here is the response:
1955 HANSEN
Cobra
Motorama Custom
This Cobra is one of three originally built by brothers Wally and Harry Hansen. The first two debuted at the 1955 Petersen Motorama while the third was built later for a personal friend of the Hansens. All three had identical hand-formed fiberglass bodies mounted on custom chassis and were powered by high compression V-8 engines from either Oldsmobile or Cadillac. Weighing a mere 2840 pounds, this Cobra, which is equipped with an Oldsmobile power unit, was capable of accelerating to approximately 90 miles per hour in the quarter mile. To save cost and reduce complexity, all three cars were built with available mechanical parts from several American automobile manufacturers including Chevrolet, Cadillac, and Studebaker. Like many other such cars of the day, this Cobra was modified over time and required a complete restoration to return it to its original custom configuration. Though the name is the same, the Hansen Cobras are not related in any way to the Shelby badged cars introduced in 1962.
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12-21-2011, 01:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Belleville,New Jersey USA | | | I found a full picture of the car should I post it? |
12-21-2011, 01:11 PM
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12-21-2011, 01:34 PM
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12-21-2011, 01:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: East Los Angeles | | | No, it's not the Mach 5. It doesn't go "gwak gwak gwak" when you catch air in it. |
12-21-2011, 02:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Belleville,New Jersey USA | | | okay here you go | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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