Beechcraft "Plainsman" family car (1946)

[Grey Havoc]

By any chance, was the Model 32 the Plainsman Concept Car?

[IMAGE CREDIT: 2007 Publications International, Ltd/howstuffworks blog]

 

[Stargazer]

Wow. Never heard of the Plainsman before. Great addition to the Beechcraft lore!

What makes you think this might have been the "Model 32"? Do you have clues to support this, or is it merely a wild guess based on the fact that it came out before the Model 34 Twin Quad and Model 35 Bonanza?

 

[Grey Havoc]

Wow. Never heard of the Plainsman before. Great addition to the Beechcraft lore!

What makes you think this might have been the "Model 32"? Do you have clues to support this, or is it merely a wild guess based on the fact that it came out before the Model 34 Twin Quad and Model 35 Bonanza?

My suspicion about the designation comes from the fact that work on the project began in late December 1945, and the go-ahead for the original Model 33 seems to have been given in very late December or early 1946. That doesn't make it a slam dunk of course. They could have gone with a letter code instead for example.

 

[Stargazer]

My suspicion about the designation comes from the fact that work on the project began in late December 1945, and the go-ahead for the original Model 33 seems to have been given in very late December or early 1946. That doesn't make it a slam dunk of course. They could have gone with a letter code instead for example.

You came up with "Model 32" on the premise that Beechcraft followed a perfectly logical and chronological order for its types AND that a car would necessarily fit into the same list as their aircraft productions. Although the former was probably still true in 1945-46 (there was a Model 33 in 1946 that was NOT the later Bonanza) there is indeed no guarantee about the latter. Even if true, the Plainsman could also have been Model 29, 30 or 31, right? Unless you know the allocation for these three numbers, which I personally don't. So?

 

[Grey Havoc]

You came up with "Model 32" on the premise that Beechcraft followed a perfectly logical and chronological order for its types AND that a car would necessarily fit into the same list as their aircraft productions. Although the former was probably still true in 1945-46 (there was a Model 33 in 1946 that was NOT the later Bonanza) there is indeed no guarantee about the latter. Even if true, the Plainsman could also have been Model 29, 30 or 31, right? Unless you know the allocation for these three numbers, which I personally don't. So?

All good points. As I said, it was just a suspicion.

 

[Stargazer]

The images from the original post have disappeared—yet another occasion to remind everyone that a linked image has a limited lifespan, and is subject to servers being taken away, companies going bankrupt, etc. A linked image is NOT automatically saved onto the forum's server. Once the source page is down, so are the image links!

Allow me therefore to re-share those images, and a bunch of others too:




From Beechcraft, Pursuit of Perfection:



And the original article that had spawned the initial publication:



I sure wouldn't mind one of these!

 

[Hydroman]

Grandfather of the AMC Pacer.