RE: Need help in identifying a 1930's automobile

[brad kaste]

RE: Need help in identifying a 1930's automobile

Does anyone know who is the manufacture of this automobile? It was photographed by a friend of mine a few years ago at the Auburn/Duesenberg auto museum in Indiana. Very odd and strange looking,...but looks expensive. too.

 

[CWOJackson]

That would be the 1948 Tasco...

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Info: http://autorestoration101.com/2008/05/16/1948-tasco-prototype-automobile/

and http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z15182/Tasco-Prototype.aspx

 

[brad kaste]

Much thanks CWO for the quick and accurate reply. I had never seen such a vehicle before. Reading the info,....it mentions it was 'one-off' type of production car. I can see why. Now,...if it only a couple of .50 cals. tucked in in the front end of the car....

 

[CWOJackson]

I love the cockpit on that thing...

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...but the large lever on the right doesn't fit in. It appears to have a release on the front; parking brake?

My favorite view...

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[wombat666]

Unfortunately it was built on a shortened 1948 Mercury chassis and powered by the same engine.
Not certain but I'd say that ugly uprighy box is the housing for the handbrake.