# Identifying an Antique **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [April 24, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237 "2008-04-24T20:14:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HayJoy27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9dc877/32.png) [@HayJoy27](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HayJoy27)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/1 "2008-04-24T20:14:19Z")
How do I identify an antique car (just the shell) that’s up in my woods? Is there someplace I can upload a picture? A friend thought it might be a 1935 Oldsmobile, but it doesn’t look like any of the photos I’ve seen online. I’m thinking about using it for a planter, unless there’s someone who might be interesting in it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/2 "2008-04-24T21:09:48Z")
Try spending some time at Barnes & Nobles Bookstore brousing through antiqe automobile reference books. ---
**Author:** ![jsutter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@jsutter](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jsutter)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/3 "2008-04-24T21:35:19Z")
Try looking on Ebay motors. They have loads cars in all sorts of disrepair. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/4 "2008-04-24T21:53:44Z")
Hemmings Motor News publishes a magazine called Hemmings Classic Car (I am a charter subscriber!), and this is undoubtedly your best source for information of this sort. Each month, they publish photographs in their Lost & Found column of antique and classic vehicles that are difficult to identify. And, invariably, within a month or two, readers will give definitive information about the car in question. You can submit your car photograph and your personal information to them via US Mail at: Lost & Found c/o Hemmings Classic Car P.O. Box 196 Bennington, VT 05201 OR, you can submit your photograph and personal information to them at: [dstrohl@hemmings.com](mailto:dstrohl@hemmings.com) ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/5 "2008-04-24T22:38:53Z")
If you’ve already taken pictures of the vehicle, you can upload them to a free image hosting site such as photobucket or imageshack ---
**Author:** ![Beefy\_Norm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@Beefy\_Norm](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Beefy_Norm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/6 "2008-04-24T22:58:29Z")
Well, if there is someone in it that would be interesting. But yes, someone will be interested in it. I think it would make an awefully expensive planter. Your best reference would be on-line sources for identification. In fact, that is where most antique restorations start: from an old hull found in the woods or in the corner of a barn. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/7 "2008-04-25T12:29:04Z")
“I’m thinking about using it for a planter, unless there’s someone who might be interesting in it” Well, Jimmy Hoffa would be interesting. Do you think that he might be in it? ;-)) ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/8 "2008-04-25T16:12:03Z")
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**Author:** ![HayJoy27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9dc877/32.png) [@HayJoy27](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HayJoy27)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/9 "2008-04-30T17:27:42Z")
Thanks for your help! ---
**Author:** ![HayJoy27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9dc877/32.png) [@HayJoy27](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HayJoy27)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/10 "2008-04-30T17:29:24Z")
Ha! I hadn’t realized I wrote “interesting” rather than “interested.” Still, thanks for the chuckles! ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/11 "2008-04-30T20:19:29Z")
It could be an Oldsmobile, or a Pontiac, or a Chevy or… Seriously, like the police department whose toilet was stolen, there is really nothing to go on here–or at least not much. Although it will take a bit of time to get an answer, I strongly suggest that you submit this photo to Hemmings Classic Car, as I suggested in my earlier post. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/12 "2008-04-30T20:23:54Z")
From the picture, it appears to me to be a General Motors car from the mid 1930’s. GM cars had one piece rear windows, while most other cars had split rear windows. ---
**Author:** ![HayJoy27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9dc877/32.png) [@HayJoy27](https://community.cartalk.com/u/HayJoy27)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/identifying-an-antique/13237/13 "2008-04-30T21:58:18Z")
Thanks, VDCDriver, I’m in touch with Dave at Hemmings. I think we might be able to figure this out if I send him some closeups. Meanwhile, “Seriously, like the police department whose toilet was stolen, there is really nothing to go on here…” you guys just crack me up!