Look what "Hupp"ened today...

Good one, Moe.   Here's a bit of information:

1941 Graham Hollywood Supercharged. But Graham never really got it into production.  The lines stopped, and only war production of various sorts kept the company alive.  Then, with the end of World War II, a new plan arose and Graham named their new product after their president, Joseph Frazer.  The rest of the story comes from Wikipedia:

The company resumed automobile production in 1946 producing a modern-looking new car, the 1947 Frazer, named for new Graham-Paige President Joseph Frazer, in partnership with Henry J. Kaiser. It also began production of farm equipment under the Rototiller name. In August 1945, Graham-Paige announced plans to resume production under the Graham name, but the plan never materialized. On February 5, 1947, Graham-Paige stockholders approved the transfer of all their automotive assets to Kaiser-Frazer, an automobile company formed by Frazer and Kaiser, in return for 750,000 shares of Kaiser-Frazer stock and other considerations. Graham's manufacturing facilities on Warren Avenue were sold to Chrysler, who used the plants first for DeSoto body and engine production, and finally for assembly of the Imperial for the 1959, 1960, and 1961 model years.

And here's a little on the Hupmobile, from CLASSIC CARS WEEKLY:

A very small percentage of American automobile manufacturers made it to the outbreak of WWII. Two such struggling companies were Hupmobile and Graham-Paige. Hupmobile had acquired the rights to the “coffin-nose” Cord 810/812 design but didn’t have any money to start building them. So they teamed up with Graham-Paige and offered them a deal: build us a slightly-altered version of the Cord, and we’ll let you use the design too.

So that’s what happened. The Graham Hollywood and Hupmobile Skylark debuted in 1940. The Skylark received a 101 horsepower, 4.0-liter straight-six. Changes from the Cord included a shift to rear-wheel drive, conventional headlights, and a less coffin-like hood.

Production lasted into 1941, but production delays meant canceled orders. Only 319 examples of the Skylark were sold before the company went out of business. Graham had only slightly better luck.

@d-m-holcombe 

Great info, thanks David!

That is a very nice model from Brooklin, NEO makes a nice Graham in dark blue, they labeled theirs a '40. I like the model, but not the tires-need to switch them when I find a good donor. 

the green Graham was (or still is) on display at the ACD Museum and when I saw it in 2014, it was the 1st time I'd seen one. They had it displayed along with Hupmobile Convertible.

They are definitely rare, I was fortunate to run across another one at the Orphan Car Show in 2017. This is a '41 Graham Hollywood.

I loved Brooklin in those days.

They had models no one even thought about.

How they have changed.....  

@jcarnutz 

Wow, John, that blue NEO Graham is stunning! I don't think I've ever seen it before, thanks for showing it!

Automotive trivia:  Cord to Graham, one of the few body shells that went from front wheel drive to rear wheel drive.  Others were Austin 1800 (aka "land crab") that went to Austin 3 liter of 1968-69 and Triumph 1300 that went to Triumph Toledo circa 1970.  Austin 3 liter, the only Leyland car to mate Hydrolastic suspension with rear wheel drive.