Please help identify this car

52 or 53 doesn't jive with what my uncle and my dad were saying. My dad claims it was an "old" car when parked. They could be mistaken though. I saw someone mention the hood ornament, would the year be somewhere there? Or perhaps their memories are confusing what year they retired it to the bush. I might go out for a walk later and see if I can brush enough moss off the license plate to see what was the last year the car was registered.



The grill is in the trunk, according to my father, but his memory might be a bit rusty.



The car actually has remarkably little rust on the body, there's a tiny bit at the very bottom of both of the sides of the car, and none that I can see anywhere else. It has been parked under a very thick bunch of trees for the last 50 years or so. It's quite well protected from the weather by the trees, as we live in northern Alberta and the outside of that car looks that good after sitting through half a century of Alberta winters. I think the worst of what you can see in the pictures on the paint is actually moss, which is how you can tell that's the north side of the car. LOL.



The tires are gone, the rims are probably still hanging around here somewhere as my grandfather had a habit of taking parts off of whatever he could find and integrating them into wagons to pull behind his horses and such. LOL, there's quite a pile of stuff back there, I'm sure they can't be too far away.



The transmission was never returned here as the owner could not afford to pay for it, I have no idea where it ended up.



And as for what we were planning to do with the car, my uncle and I are talking about seeing if we could clean it up and get it to work. At which point we'd extricate it from the dirt. It actually looks like a coyote might be using the space under the hood as a winter time home.



Although, like you said, the condition of the underside of the car is a mystery. It is sitting on a spot that is very rarely wet, the ground always seems hard there, even in the spring, so I couldn't even guess. I can tell you that what I can see of the inside of the floor of the vehicle doesn't look to be rusted through.



Any other information I will have to go locate and drag my father from his fishing boat to give you. I'll quiz him further tonight.

Oh wow, lots of information. I'm going to have to take note as I'm unable to get to the car until we send out our cattle shipment next Tuesday. The car is in the same area as the cows and if I go out there I'll scare them and then my name will be something worse than mud.



We were talking about the lack of rust on the body of the car yesterday though, and we decided that it's probably because the car was never driven on a salted road. Of course, we won't commit to what we're doing with it until we get it out of the ground. Probably will have to cut the tree down that's growing beside it too, likely any movement of the car will run it into the tree.



I guess it's been there this long, another week won't make it fall apart any more. I will be back when I have more information. I just chose a bad week to go out exploring the back field.