Please help, What car is this?

[Brudda]

Hello , I received this kit and have no idea what kind of car it is. Please help. It does not say what it is anywhere. 

[Little Timmy]

Looks like a Deusenberg 

Could be a Lincoln...

 

 

Edited December 10, 2022 by Little Timmy

[Plowboy]

Looks like a 33 Cadillac Town Car.

[keyser]

[Richard Bartrop]

It looks like a rebox of the old Gakken kit.

[StevenGuthmiller]

It's a '33 Cadillac.

I had the Testors Fleetwood version.

 

 

 

 

Steve

Edited December 10, 2022 by StevenGuthmiller

[keyser]

It’s 1/16 Minicraft, bottom right corner. 
Testors Italeri did do similar car in 1/24. The one Steve posted is the ex Al Jolson V16 phaeton. 
The town car in the first photo is the ex Mae West V16 car. 
Gakken Entex Minicraft same tool. 
 

Edited December 10, 2022 by keyser

[StevenGuthmiller]

Oh, okay.

Still a '33 Cadillac.

 

 

 

 

Steve

[Mark]

That police department had one heck of a budget...

[Richard Bartrop]

47 minutes ago, Mark said:

That police department had one heck of a budget...

Nooooo, no corruption here....

[Brudda]

Thank you guys very much. I knew someone would know what it was. I’m lost on these old cars. This is what I love about this site. The knowledge you guys have is totally amazing. Thanks guys.   One heck of a budget???? No corruption…….????

[Richard Bartrop]

No problem.  The V-16s powering the original is IMO one of the prettiest engines ever made, though I have no idea what the quality of the kit engine is like.

 

A great source of reference material on V-16 Cadillacs, and lots of inspiration: 

https://www.newcadillacdatabase.org/Historical/Automobiles/V16

[Dave Van]

Make a cool Hot Rod!!!!!

 

[Engine 51]

5 hours ago, Mark said:

That police department had one heck of a budget...

Sometimes the manufactures would sell these type of cars to local police departments for $1. They wanted to have the cars out on the streets to be seen. I know Ford did that in the 80’s with Lincoln Town cars. Sold them to the Dearborn police for a dollar each. I remember seeing them decked out as patrol cars all around that city. 

[Brian Austin]

The Matchbox folks had some fun with their 1:43-ish 1933 Cadillac V16 tooling. 

Police (probably derived from the fire version):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325113620589

 

Fire  (model offered in a variety of configurations over the years):

https://www.awesomediecast.com/matchbox-1933-cadillac-v16-fire-wagon/

 

It would appear there are precious few pictures online, but there was at least one 1933 Cadillac fire vehicle, built in Switzerland.  You can see on picture if you scroll down the page a bit: 

https://www.newcadillacdatabase.org/static/CDB/Dbas_txt/prof3336.htm 

One other picture showed up in a social media post, see below.

 

While a Town Car Cadillac might be highly unlikely as a police car (particularly during the Depression!), you can still have some fun kitbashing the kit.  ?

[Oldcarfan27]

8 hours ago, Dave Van said:

Make a cool Hot Rod!!!!!

 

Um, the 80s just called, they want their monochromatic, pastel paints back! ?

[Dave Van]

8 hours ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

Um, the 80s just called, they want their monochromatic, pastel paints back! ?

BINGO!  I built that in the 80's!! It was pretty trendy at the time. Still a favorite of mine. Built because the model club I was in claimed all I could build was NASCAR racers. So I did this......

PS....I have the 1/16 kit too........if I ever get around to it!!!

Liked it so much I built this..........

 

Edited December 11, 2022 by Dave Van

[Brudda]

Thank all of you!!!!