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From my view point it's a Hudson Hornet with twin H-Power intake manifold and two Graham/Kaiser centrifugal superchargers.

Not sure how the carburetors work in the blow through configuration ( The Graham/Kaiser supercharger was made for suck through carbs mounted on the blower itself ). In the Graham/Kaiser they used the Continental 225 6 cylinder that could be found in forklifts ( and other cars ) that didn't have Chrysler engines. I am guessing the blower was driven from the camshaft side using the gear driven cam where the hydraulic pump was in a forklift. Here's a photo showing the Chrysler version of the cam drive. Of course that requires a reverse rotation cam and a different oil pump gear.

Back in the early 1960s you could buy those blowers at swap meets for $5. lol But then that was a lot of money. 

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I wondered about the blow through as well. It seems the  G P blower was good for 116hp, over the 85 with no blower.  Could been a hoot in a relatively light coupe.  Especially for the mid 1930s.  Bet the 0 to 60 was in the 15 second range.

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