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Jim Liberty
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Car ID.

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My partner here at Liberty Motorsports would like to identify this car. It was his great grandfather's on their farm in Kansas. .............Anybody? ....Jim.
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I know it isn't a Miata but that is all I know. It looks like it is a home built on a very early chassis. The tank on the running board looks like an add-on. No front brakes. No fenders. No lights. Looks like a hot rod, race car. It has the Speedster style of rear body like the sports cars of the day.
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#3 Post by Martin Benade »

The tank is an acetylene tank for the (useless) headlights. My friends ‘12 Reo has that setup.
After googling his car, this one’s radiator shell looks identical, so I think it’s a Reo. But hot-rodded.
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#4 Post by Don Gale »

It has a lot of the features of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat
1958 356A 1600 Super Sunroof Coupe
former 1966 Euro 912 Sunroof
former 1978 Intermeccanica Speedster w/'68 912
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