Hemmings Classic Car – October 2019

BY DANIEL STROHL

LOST&FOUND

MOSTPEOPLEWOULDSEETHIS 1964 PLYMOUTHVALIANTWITHMISMATCHEDPAINT

anddismissitasjustanotheroldcar.DaleEdwardJohnsonofRegina,Sas-

katchewan,Canada,however,pickeduprightawayonwhatmadeitunique:

Plymouthneverbuiltatwo-doorhardtopstationwagonValiantin1964.

“Didtheymaketheminlimitedquantities?”heasked.“Perhapsonly

inCanada?Isthisaprototype?Ormightthisbetheworkofacreative

autobodyspecialist?”

WescouredbothU.S.-andCanadian-marketbrochuresfor 1964 Plymouths

anddidn’tseementionofsuchacreature.Sure,Plymouthbuilttwo-door

hardtopsandstationwagonsthatyear,butitdidn’tevenofferanytwo-door

stationwagons,withapostorwithout.

Sosomebodyverywellcouldhaveplayedweld-’em-upwithsomePlymouth

bodypanels.Iftheydid,however,theydidaremarkablejob,consideringthat

wedon’tseeanyevidenceofbodyworkaftofthedoors.Curious...

THE PHOTOS OF A FIBERGLASS CAR OF UNKNOWN

parentage that Tom Jacobsmeyer sent in (see

HCC #179), generated a couple responses,

including one from Ed Salerno, who suggested

Marcos GT. “It has been modifi ed in the front

but the rest of the car is Marcos,” he wrote.

The ducktail and those rear haunches

certainly support Ed’s hypothesis, but we see

far more differences between this car and the

Marcos than similarities. The side and rear

glass shapes, for instance, along with the

fl attened wheel arches, the taller Kamm panel

beneath the spoiler, and, of course, the funky

hatches instead of doors.

Then again, this car has clearly had a lot

of fi berglass work, so whoever built it may well

have used a Marcos GT as a launching point.

RE: Jagerrari

Edsel Ford’s Third Speedster Found, Sort Of

TrafficWiththeDevil,a 1946 Theater

ofLifeshortfilmabouttrafficproblems

intheLosAngelesarea,includesaquick

2-secondshotofthespeedsterdriving

past.Asshown,itfeatureslight-colored

AFEWYEARSBACK,WEWONDEREDOVER

ontheHemmingsDailywhateverbe-

cameofEdselFord’sthirdspeedster,

theonehedesignedin 1935 withBob

GregorieandthatJenseninEngland

usedasthebasisforits3½-Litre

roadster.Whiletheactualcar

hasn’tturnedup—itslastknown

whereaboutswasausedcarlotin

Burbank,California,in1952—

ourreadersdidmanagetospot

itmakingacameoinanoldfilm.

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paint, beat-up fenders, the Carson

padded top of its later appearance, and

its original Ford grille instead of the

La Salle grille added later on. There’s

no real explanation of why it appeared

in the fi lm—we’re guessing it

simply caught the eye of whoever

was gathering B-roll that day.

This doesn’t, of course, answer

the question of the car’s ultimate

fate. Where might it have gone after

sitting on that used car lot?

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