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Calling all history buffs! Identifying this car shouldn’t be all that hard. But there’s something unusual and extremely rare about this particular variant. An oddity of history, if you please. To win, you need to explain.
It’s a Volvo Amazon with automatic transmission!
Can’t edit my post, sorry… by “Amazon” I mean Volvo 122
The windshield wiper control is equiped with a power spray option?
It’s a 1950 Cadillac, stick shift 3 speed. I owned and raced such a car for about 10 years between 1993 ann 2003/4
It looks to me like it might be the partial photo of the dash of a 1953 Cadillac ElDorado.
This body style of ElDorado was only manufactured one year (1953) so that would make it pretty rare example.
Then again it could be as 6c1500 suggests however i see the brake pedal but I don’t see a clutch pedal for the three speed stick.
It obviously is an early 50’s Cadillac dash.
Yeah, where did the ‘edit’ go?
Would this have been the last year for a manual transmission in a full sized Cad?
48 or 49 Cadillac with stick (no Hydramatic quadrant)
Georgie points out that there’s a pedal you can’t see. But the one you CAN see is where the clutch pedal is located; too far to the left to be the brake pedal, which, for some reason is not clearly visible. The dash design is as used only in ’50 and’51; ’52 and ’53 were different. You could still order a manual transmission in ’51, but not after that, except possibly on a commercial (hearse or ambulance chassis).
Yes it is a 1950 Cad. The historic oddity is that from this point until 1959, designs were influenced by aviation, mainly war birds, creating some very unique cars.
You can see the brake pedal, alright, it’s just the rubber pad is missing from the top of it. I have a very old memory of an example of this, probably no later than 1958, on a car that was prpobably already old. Or maybe–and this maybe the oddity–the brake lacked the rubber pad.
Also, you have that ancient thing where the rods the brake and clutch pedals (the rubber part) rest on go straight into the floor. We had this on the ’50 Studebaker, but the rods for the pedals on the ’57 chevy and Ply went horizontally towards where the firewall would be, as cars have done since the ’50s.
My description ofthe difference in the mechanics of hte rods is a bit off. They do go straight in, rather than acting as levers, but not directly into the floor, but rather towards the firewall. The later ones acted as levers, kind of like teeter totters.
Looks to me like the steering wheel was crafted from elephant tusk. That would be an oddity.
Looks awfully familiar to my old Volvo Duett, but not quite. Perhaps an earlier edition?
It’s a 49 or 50 Cadillac with a stick shift, a truly rare beast.
There’s a little nub on the knob to the far left on the lower part of the dash. My guess is this is the push-button control for the windshield washer, which Cadillac introduced in 1950. But I don’t know if that innovation qualifies as “extremely rare about this particular variant.” Maybe all ’50 Caddies had that feature.
I think it’s more likely a ’49 than a ’50
What’s up with the steering wheel. It looks like a piece of ivory.
I’ll call it a 1950 Series 61, perhaps a coupe, with a manual transmission. Rare, but the option of a manual was not discontinued until 1953 and the last year of the 61 was 1951. Possible historical significance: like the Cunningham LeMans car.
It’s a 1950 Cadillac, stick shift 3 speed. I owned and raced such a car for about 10 years between 1993 ann 2003/4
Now that’s a story I want to hear more about…