Topic: Whaddyacallit #121-SOLVED- 1925 Julian Sport Coupe prototype

[Ray B.]

Ever seen this ?

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[Otto Puzzell]

Julian 6?

[Ray B.]

This is the Julian, but I don't see it's called by its owners a "Julian 6". Can you be more specific?

[Otto Puzzell]

From "Motor", August 2003:

80 Years Ago: August 1925

The first rear-engine car in nearly 20 years hits the American market. The unique design of the Julian 6, built by the julian Brown Development Corp. of Syracuse, New York, incorporates a 60-hp. six-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine mounted horizontally under the rear deck. The clutch, transmission and differential are located underneath the engine, with the rear wheels driven by axle shafts with universal joints. Four forward and two reverse speeds are provided by a sliding gear and planetary gearing, located within the flywheel. The frame consists of a 4 1/2-inch main tube with smaller diameter cross tubes at each end on which the body is mounted.

[Otto Puzzell]

According to this site - where you may have pulled the picture - it's called a "Julian Sport Coupe".

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[Paul Jaray]

Also called somewhere else Fleetwood sport coupè.

[Paul Jaray]

sorry, my connection is tooooooooooo slow!
I thin this car is now in Reno, Nevada..the Harrah collcetion.

[Ray B.]

It was, but it seems it's in Jay Leno's garage by now.
I think this was a prototype, the only one ever built. I didn't know it was a rear-engined car, and it does a pretty good job of pretending not to be.
Otto Puzzell did it!

[Otto Puzzell]

An advertisement for the company

[sixtee5cuda]

One of my favorite cars from the 1920's.  I was quite happy when I found it in the Peterson Museum a few years ago.