Topic: SOLVED - Geraldo´s #155 - Chrysler Imperial 1926

[jotage21]

A friend of mine need to identify this car to made a caption to one period picture. One point to who tell me which car is this.

[jotage21]

The picture is from 1928, not necessary the car year.

[Paul Jaray]

I'd say Chrysler Imperial 1926.

[jotage21]

According to my friend it´s a Nash. I think that it´s look specialy like the 681, from 1921. What do you think?

[Paul Jaray]

I'll keep digging, but I still think the Imperial look closer for several reasons:
the radiator is not regular but has got rounded corners just like the blurried puzzle car
the bottom of the radiator is like that, larger at the end and shorter than other cars
the lights seem the same (not big deal, I know) but they are in the same position.

[jotage21]

The biggest difference between the Chrysler and the pictured car is the below part of the radiator, I´ll digg a little more, I have look the Nash pictures at the Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942, and have some resemblances with the pictured car

[jotage21]

to BH

[mymokke]

I must throw my vote behind PJs choice of the 1926 Imperial.
The NASH's of this period do not have the character indentations on the radiator shell.
The easiest explanation for the difference in the appearance of the front end below the radiator is that the bumper was removed for some reason.
It also appears the hand crank cover is present on the lower radiator shell.
With the date being from 1928 for the photo, this car was around long enough to have been involved in a small accident causing the flimsy bumpers to interfere with the front wheels necessitating the bumpers removal.
Just my opinion and conjecture of course.

[mymokke]

I've located an image of the 1921 Nash model 681 for reference purposes.
The Nash does generically resemble the automobile in the puzzle photograph, however, the subject automobile has a chrome/plated radiator shell and the 1921 Nash does not. The Nash's "painted" radiator shell has continuous radius curvature and does not show the character indentations showed in the original puzzle picture.
The picture presented for the puzzle is a chrysler sans front bumper.

[jotage21]

I think that it´s OK. A point for PJ (for discover the car) and one to mymokke (for prove that it´s not a Nash)