✅ SOLVED Can anyone identify this automobile found in a canyon?

[WilliamBoyd]

Automobile found in a canyon - It's a 1951 Pontiac

Can anyone identify the make, model, and year of this automobile found in a canyon?

1. Photograph side

2. Photograph rear

3. Photograph front

Thank you.

 

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[Indian Steve]

I think it is a 1951 Chevrolet.

 

[NHBandit]

I think it is a 1951 Chevrolet.

I'm going to agree

 

[duggap]

Did you find any bones around it?

 

[NHBandit]

Did you find any bones around it?

Unlikely there would be any bones around that one unless the victims ate the engine before they died. Just another junk car someone dumped when they were done with it...

 

[DCMatt]

Based on the trim piece below the rear passanger window, it is a 1951 Pontiac.



The body is exactly the same as the Chevrolets. Small Pontiacs and Chevy shared body parts up thru the '54 model year. But much of the trim and chrome was different.

I own a '52 Chevrolet station wagon and it shares body parts with Pontiac and Olds of the same year.

DCMatt

 

[NHBandit]

Based on the trim piece below the rear passanger window, it is a 1951 Pontiac.

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The body is exactly the same as the Chevrolets. Small Pontiacs and Chevy shared body parts up thru the '54 model year. But much of the trim and chrome was different.

I own a '52 Chevrolet station wagon and it shares body parts with Pontiac and Olds of the same year.

DCMatt

Coincidently that looks to be the only part of the entire car that's still good.. lol

 

[Old Bookaroo]

WilliamBoyd:

Looks like the seat cushions are gone. I would check around to see if there is any loose change - perhaps in the glove box, as well. You're not likely to recover a lot - but given the age of the car one or two of the right coins could be a nice find.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

 

[Subterranean]

Every intact piece on that wreck that you can salvage would be excellent ebay fodder. Car restorers want original parts. Use the money to buy metal detectors! Sub

 

[WilliamBoyd]

Thank you for your help!

I will leave it to the property owners to salvage the car.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

I found a 1939 Desoto custom out in the desert...one of 295 built...in plain sight on the ground next to the passenger door was a 1941 mecury dime...black from the sun...
someone had cut the chassie out from under the body...so I built a skid and drug the thing to a friends property...nice lawn ornament...even the hood was still there..

 

[JunkShopFiddler]

It's a PT Cruiser! My cousin bought one of the first ones and it looks just like that now!

 

[Peyton Manning]

My guess is a 1923 Duesenberg

BTW is the original manual in the glove box?

 

[WilliamBoyd]

It is interesting that in 2009 I posted some pictures of another car,
which was identified as a 1950 Pontiac.

This automobile grille - it's from a 1950 Pontiac

Who is leaving Pontiacs in the woods?

 

[Peyton Manning]

It seems to be a government conspiracy. Obama hates pontiacs!!