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It looks about like this '34 Chevrolet to me.

 

http://paramountpicturecars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/34-Chevy-black-rear-1100x674.jpg

 

Edit: I think it looks more like this 33 Buick Victoria sedan, the hubcap and wheel seem to match.

 

http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/uploads/photoalbum/1933-buick-80-series-victoria-sedan-runs-and-drives-well--5.JPG

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The '34 Chevy image/link isn't showing, but going to have to disagree on the 33 Buick... the "joint" (for lack of a better word) between the roof and the body in Joe's pic has a larger roll on the top, while the Chevy has a roll on the bottom. The bumper attachment(?) is also very different... Chevy looks like the plate is just large enough to hold the bumper and bolts, while Papa Joe's plate is way bigger. It's also much more under the wheel, whereas the Chevy is where the dude is sitting.
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Maybe a Chevrolet Confederate?? 32 vintage, but the brackets on the rear bumper are off (Maybe one was updated?)

 

http://veh-markets.com/uploads/postfotos/1932-chevrolet-confederate-2dr-sedan-5.jpg

 

Too much like fun (Now back to work........)

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The '34 Chevy image/link isn't showing, but going to have to disagree on the 33 Buick... the "joint" (for lack of a better word) between the roof and the body in Joe's pic has a larger roll on the top, while the Chevy has a roll on the bottom. The bumper attachment(?) is also very different... Chevy looks like the plate is just large enough to hold the bumper and bolts, while Papa Joe's plate is way bigger. It's also much more under the wheel, whereas the Chevy is where the dude is sitting.

 

1933 Pontiac has the same belt line roll.

 

Pontiac_Economy_Eight_2-door_Sedan_000_Series_601_1933-1935_backright_2012-04-13_A.jpg

 

I don't know if you can go by bumpers and attachments on the car since they all changed between trim levels. Also people just kinda mixed and matched back then because parts were kinda scarce. The hubcap def looks like 1933-35 buick and the wheel is a 1933-35 bent spoke wheel. The "Bumper attachment" is an overrider trim piece that was available for both buicks and pontiacs in the 1930's.

 

I am leaning toward 1930's buick of some sort, but for all we know it could also be an obscure brand like a Willys-Knight, or a Marmon, or a something even more weird.

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Talked with a friend and showed him the image his best guess was a 30s Cadillac/LaSalle due to the hubcap and the running light on the fender.

 

looking at pics its the best fit.

 

http://pre05.deviantart.net/b326/th/pre/i/2016/043/1/0/cadillac_lasalle__33_rear_by_daemonangel-d9rfvba.jpg

 

http://cdn.barrett-jackson.com/staging/carlist/items/Fullsize/Cars/96782/96782_Rear_3-4_Web.jpg

 

Finding a rear pic of these cars is oddly hard to find.

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OT, but what was I looking at that had a beautiful '30s sedan like that for sale for like $7500??? Seemed like a deal considering the rarity of some of those really old cars.

 

Hardly anybody is alive anymore who "remembers" them so you don't have the nostalgia markup. Also a good many of them can't do highway speeds for any long period of time and if they could can't panic stop in enough time to prevent them from forced rear entry into the Odyssey minivan in front of them. Basically their value is their quirkiness. I mean a Duesenberg will always be a duesy and big money, and some of the really interesting cadillacs - but a 1935 buick in driver shape? it's worth more as hot rod fodder than "restored" these days.

 

I had a buddy on Long Island who Daily Drove a 1936 Dodge 4 door sedan with a flathead 6. He lived in bayshore so rarely did he need to get on the LI Expressway. I think he sold it a couple of years ago for $2500.

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