This Strange Car Thing I Found Hiding in the Brush.... (a flood of UPDATES: '29 Buick and 'buck rakes' !)

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"I have a strange car looking thing that was hiding in the brush. Maybe you could possibly help me figure out what it is. Here you go, hope you can figure out what it is, most people I talk to say add it to the scrap metal pile, just wondering if they are right or not." Melanie Welcher / California
Editor; I am not sure how easy to crak this one is. But let's go to the basics. What we see looks like the remains of tractor conversion made out of a sturdy everyday car. Chaufferur postion was changed over tiem making the kit a rear-engined and steered unit... Anyway, they started of with a staightforward chassis with artillery wheels (12 spokes), no frontbrakes. The engine is a (six in line (click)) with the ignition on the right, a four blade fan and at the bottom something which looks like a waterpump-dynamo-starter assembly. The bulkhead is all what is left of the coachwork showing one vent door and at the top a horizontal indentation which may be a giveway for the shape of the full car. Honestly, we have no idea. Except that it must be US made and probably early to midtwenties. Show us your knowledge & surprise us! [email protected]
UPDATE: for a quiet sunny Sunday we received massive response to this rusty remains... Leif Homberg, Nick Bell, Josef, Mark Dawber, Ivan Saxton, Hugh Nutting & Kit Foster differ in details but all agree on Buick. High Nutting is convinced the bulkhead is '29 Buick which is consistent with several other expersts. The chassis may be a bit older. More intersting form a historical perspective is Hugh Nutting's observation on the - let's say - agricultural modifications on the car. Read Hugh Nutting at the next page:...."Farm and Ranch folks called them "buck rakes".....

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