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| 1940 GRAHAM HOLLYWOOD SUPERCHARGED SEDAN |
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Price: $59,900 |
Last Updated 23 hours ago
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1940 |
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GRAHAM HOLLYWOOD |
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SUPERCHARGED SEDAN |
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RED/BLACK |
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Call or Email |
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319896 |
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Classic/Custom |
| Condition: |
Used |
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Used Cars |
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Vehicle Description
Limited production under 200 made. Based on Cord Westchester design. Attractive front end was designed by John Tjaada (known for futuristic prototype for the Lincoln Zephyr) In-line six cylinder. Three speed manual transmission and telescopic shock absorbers. This is a timeless body design. A piece of rolling art! By the end of 1930s both Hupmobile and Graham (Graham-Paige) were in severe financial situation. Hupmobile closed production in early 1936 and did not resume it for 18 month. Graham sold some of the tooling to Nissan of Japan. To revive the company, Norman deVaux, general manager of Hupmobile, bought the body dies for then defunct Cord 810/812 with the view of manufacturing Hupmobile rear-wheel drive low-cost versions of the Cord cars. Reportedly 6000 advance orders were placed. A 115 inch wheelbase was used, 10 inch shorter than that of the original Cord. Plans were made to manufacture a four-door sedan and a two-door phaeton (convertible sedan). However, only one or two prototypes of the phaeton were ever built. From cowl back the production cars were virtually the same as Cord Westchester sedan. The attractive front end of the prototype was redesigned by John Tjaarda, known for i.e. the futuristic prototype for the Lincoln Zephyr. In 1939 Hupmobile build 4 (5?) hand-made prototypes to display them at different automobile shows. The same year the dies were brought to Hayes Body Corp., which stamped out a trial run of bodies for 30 cars. Later, Graham agreed to start production of the bodies for Hupmobile, provided they could build their own version of the car. However, because of the extreme complexity of the Cord dies it took Graham nine month to start production (May 1940), when most of the advanced orders have already been cancelled. In fact, only the top for the Cord sedan was comprised of seven metal pieces, and it doubted that a large volume production was possible at all. The production four-door sedans were called Hupmobile Skylark and Graham Hollywood respectively. Both companies used their own engines. Graham had a supercharged version of their engine and built five times more cars than Hupmobile. The major exterior difference between the two cars was the grill: a one-piece painted for Hupmobile, and a two-piece plated for Graham. In October 1940, just after the start of the model year 1941, Hupmobile gave up car production. Graham in turn seized car production in November 1941. |
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