Solved - PJ366- Eyston Super Power Chrysler Sport Saloon 1937

[grobmotorix]

Can you tell what marque it might be?

[grobmotorix]

Time to be promoted.

[Craig Gillingham]

It looks sort of British made to me, RHD and Lucas? headlamps. Was it made by a company within the Rootes Group?

[grobmotorix]

Pros?

[Craig Gillingham]

Not even close?

[grobmotorix]

I don´t think there´s any major british part in this on.

[Carnut]

Looks much more American to me.
I can almost see Humphrey Bogart behind the wheel...

[grobmotorix]

It is american, yes.

The show where it has been photographed took place in London, though.

[SACO]

base Chrysler 1937 ?

[Carnut]

Or is it a Willys?

[grobmotorix]

LOCKED for SACO.

It is a Chrysler, but not from 37...

[SACO]

I don't know if it's the same car ?

[grobmotorix]

I´m quite sure it is!

Your photo must have been shot some decades later.
It has lost its rear wheel flaps and I just need some more information to give you this point...

Maybe the headlights are from Lucas?

[RayTheRat]

I know this one's locked, and I'm not going to attempt to offer a solution, but look at the front door handles on the first car in the puzzle and then the white car suggested as being the same.  Unless it's concept car with different features on either side, they're not the same.

RtR

[SACO]

No ,sorry ,I don't know !

[grobmotorix]

Oh, I can sse it, too.

The doors are different. But I still think both cars must have been built by one company.

I´ll unlock it again..

It´s open for all...

[João]

I believe it's the same car.

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=15024.0

[Craig Gillingham]

I believe it's the same car.

I agree. And think it may be made up of quite a few British components.

[grobmotorix]

Thank you João.

Shame on me.

Don´t ask me why, but I did not find it via the search button function...

May some administrator please merge both puzzles?

[Allemano]

Merged.

[grobmotorix]

Danke.

[sixtee5cuda]

This is one (two?) of those puzzles that points out "The Pierce-Arrow Rule":  If the headlights are smoothly blended into the fenders, it was never intended for distribution in the U.S. before 1938.  Until the moment Pierce-Arrow went out of business, only their cars were allowed to have this feature in the U.S.

When this puzzle appeared, and was confirmed as a Chrysler, The Pierce-Arrow Rule implied it had to be European, or a limited-production model.

[grobmotorix]

Wow, thank you!

I´ve never heard about this fact, but it sounds quite reasonable.

That´s why I love this website!

[RayTheRat]

This is one (two?) of those puzzles that points out "The Pierce-Arrow Rule":  If the headlights are smoothly blended into the fenders, it was never intended for distribution in the U.S. before 1938.  Until the moment Pierce-Arrow went out of business, only their cars were allowed to have this feature in the U.S.

When this puzzle appeared, and was confirmed as a Chrysler, The Pierce-Arrow Rule implied it had to be European, or a limited-production model.

Could you expand on that "Pierce-Arrow" rule a bit?  I've never heard of it.

Thanks,

RtR

[sixtee5cuda]

Possible "old wives tale".  Pierce-Arrow received a patent on "headlights integrated into fenders" in 1913.  After that, most of their cars used this feature.  Other American cars didn't follow until 1937 or 1938, when Pierce-Arrow was fading away or gone.  Many European cars featured headlights integrated into fenders, before 1937.

It may be, that most car makers didn't see the need for the design, or thought the public wouldn't like it.  I haven't been able to find information about Pierce-Arrow licensing their headlight design to others, or enforcing it.