Author Topic: Whaddyacallit #400 - The Libby streamliner (Read 4170 times)

Ray B. · « **on:** August 18, 2009, 05:53:06 PM »

A kind of bigfoot streamliner for my number 400.

Do you know what its is? Please respond below and let us know the make and model of the car posted here.
I only have a name and some details about it, but little certainty. So this is a 2 points puzzle.

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Ray B. · « **Reply #1 on:** August 26, 2009, 08:48:17 AM »

Experts?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #2 on:** August 26, 2009, 11:30:47 AM »

I found a few late 1930 home-built "teardrop" specials, built in the USA. Is this one of them?

Ray B. · « **Reply #3 on:** August 26, 2009, 05:58:41 PM »

You tell me (read my post more carefully)

Ray B. · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2009, 05:20:12 PM »

Pros?

250gto · « **Reply #5 on:** September 15, 2009, 04:03:30 PM »

Is it a McQuay Norris?

streamliner · « **Reply #6 on:** September 16, 2009, 12:02:37 PM »

I'm going with the 1932 Hill Arrow Plane...

Ray B. · « **Reply #7 on:** September 17, 2009, 11:19:43 AM »

Don't you think it would have been easy to google both those names and check that it's neither of those?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #8 on:** November 09, 2009, 06:43:17 AM »

Those wheels, tires, its size suggest this: "Hill Auto Body went on to build the Arrow Plane – inspired McQuay Norris streamliners, the Grove Laboratory land yacht and, in 1936, a gigantic streamliner for Bromo Seltzer on a bus chassis. "

Does anyone got a photo on the "gigantic streamliner"?

Ray B. · « **Reply #9 on:** November 09, 2009, 08:30:35 AM »

I don't. This is to small to be the "gigantic streamliner" but there is a tire company involved (its name appears on the photo, but I masked it).

Ray B. · « **Reply #10 on:** November 19, 2009, 11:57:10 AM »

What about putting this one to be nursed in the Pros secret garden?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #11 on:** January 06, 2010, 10:31:52 AM »

Can it be the Bremac from Sidney, Ohio, 1932?

Ray B. · « **Reply #12 on:** January 16, 2010, 05:32:43 AM »

Hard to tell from such a drawing. It's not the name i have (but my source gives no details at all).

GrahamClayton · « **Reply #13 on:** January 19, 2010, 12:03:17 AM »

The closest car I could come up with was the 1934 McQuay-Norris streamliner, which although similar, is not identical:

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Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #14 on:** January 19, 2010, 04:31:16 AM »

Graham - no links allowed when proffering an answer.

Please read: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6856.msg43125#msg43125

Ray B. · « **Reply #15 on:** January 23, 2010, 05:19:58 AM »

It''s not the McQuay Norris.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #16 on:** February 03, 2010, 10:57:27 AM »

Is there a Hoppe or a Streut mentioned related to this car?

Ray B. · « **Reply #17 on:** February 05, 2010, 11:10:50 AM »

Not as I know.
But there is a "Riley" (not the british make).

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2010, 06:24:33 PM »

Samuel Eliot built a serie of 3 rear-engined sedans, called Crickets....#3 of 1937 is quite known, could it be one of the other two? They were made in Boston and Holliston, Massachusetts during the 30s.

Ray B. · « **Reply #19 on:** February 06, 2010, 05:41:05 AM »

I honestly don't know. Except that it's not the name I have. As this seems rather hard, I am posting the untouched picture of the car.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #20 on:** February 06, 2010, 05:54:15 AM »

Thank you.
Isn't that sign saying: "General Streamline Jumbo"?
I'm looking into the Standard Catalog.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #21 on:** February 06, 2010, 05:57:46 AM »

Nothing unger: Major - General - Jumbo - Riley.
I'll look for Baltimora based companies, but it will take some time.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #22 on:** February 06, 2010, 06:15:39 AM »

none of the 26 makers from Baltimora can be responsable for this...
none of the 11 makers from Akron Ohio, where the General Tire & Rubber Co was based, either

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #23 on:** February 06, 2010, 06:59:17 AM »

I've found this picture elsewhere, tagged as the Libby Body Riley Head car

Ray B. · « **Reply #24 on:** February 06, 2010, 07:03:45 AM »

A Bingo for Otto!
Libby is also the name I have, but nothing else. Yet I have it from the files of a very well-known specialist so I accept it. As for "Riley Head" a quick check showed me that they appear to be some improved cylinder heads (like Ardun) used with Ford flatheads.
Now, in our endless quest for those 1930's streamliners, if anyone can bring some more and important information about this one, there might be another point to take.

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Author Topic: Whaddyacallit #400 - The Libby streamliner (Read 4170 times)