I don't think it was a Buick... My Mom and Stepfather had a fire about 6 or 7 years ago. Her great Grandson, my great nephew was playing with matches (literally) in a garage near some hay bales and burned the entire house down. No one was hurt except they lost the pet bunny. I took this a few days after the fire and just found it scrolling through some old pics. I don't recall what it is, anyone have any idea? Google must added some cool borders or something, I like the picture...
Close, but it looks like the burned one has a continues grill from side to side, and the pretty picture has a nose and two distinct grill sides.
Here is a '41 Chrysler. Right idea, but grille too wide and turn signals on top of fenders rather than below headlights, as on burned car. '42 Chrysler is much different.
Which is why I thought it was a 41-42 Chrysler. Take a look at the beak, and with the heat of the fire the pot metal is likely to have burned away.
Take a look at the 1941 Chrysler front, the turning signals are not in the same location: The grille of the 1942 Chrysler is way different, it runs under the headlights and around the front corners:
Right; that's because they could have been aftermarket. Working flashing turn signals have been on Buicks since 1938 but weren't required by law until 1953. A lot of guys opted out for a cheap retrofit kit that put beehive style lights below the headlights, and there was likely another set of separate lights on the tail. This was very common to do in the 50s and into the 60s, it wasn't until the mid 70s that another kit came out that allowed you to splice into existing parklights. I agree the grille is different, so I'm leaning more to a 1941 model again. I've looked at a lot of pictures of the 1940-42 models of all makes and just can't seem to nail it down 100%, and the 41 Chrysler was the closest.
You guys were right on top of it : '40 Chrysler. Same grille perimeter, same hood vent rectangle, same hood seam, same door character line.
