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Woods-bodied town car
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Not at ALL ugly to my thinking. It's a car of its times. And a beautiful example thereof.
I'll make room for it in MY garage any day!
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It was indeed a High Hat body style and I recall the day my wife got me a copy of Fred Roe's book that the first car I saw when I opened it was J315. Maybe the owner wanted to stand up and stretch a bit without getting out of the car. Levity aside,it was part of the story as was the Woods bodied car and the 5 Weymann fabric bodied sedans.Richard Quick has restored to as near to original one of the Weymann fabric covered cars and it is the only one ever brought back so at least there is one to look at from time to time. It is not a bad looking car at all and is totally 1930 in all respects The other cars still exist but have been rebodied to sportier appearance types.
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How many "J"'s carry a new DCP body? J487,the first "J" I ever saw and later helped reassemble was an out of proportion car with the top up but not too bad with it down. The Marcus Lawrence Brunn bodied DCP IMHO was certainly a trend setter or should have been. It made the others look like relics in a day when relics were in vogue.
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J-315 is still in Texas with an enthusiastic owner who seems to love it. It has a recreated Murphy Dual Cowl Phaeton body.
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And it's not THAT ugly. Well, not entirely.
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The head in the foreground of one of the pictures,is that one of Jim Schneck's new ones?
Leno is to be commended for this restoration of a car that 60 years ago would have been parted out or scrapped altogether.
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