The three Graham brothers found success building trucks in the years following the First World War. After selling their truck business to the Dodge brothers, they bought the ailing carmaker Paige-Detroit and in 1928 introduced the Graham-Paige. By 1930, the name had been simplified to just Graham. Graham automobiles found success in hillclimbs and other speed trials, but financially the company was lightly capitalized and not on a sound footing to deal with the Great Depression. After the controversial “Sharknose” Graham failed to win market acceptance Graham reached an agreement with the Hupp Motor Company to build the Hupmobile Skylark as well as a separate Graham version of the car. These were based on the innovative and highly respected Gordon Buehrig-designed Cord 810/812, the tooling for which Hupp had acquired when Cord went into receivership.

The Graham version of the car was called the Hollywood, and was distinguished from the Cord by its rear-drive layout, fixed headlamps, altered bodywork from the cowl forward and overall shorter length by ten inches. Produced only in 1940 and sold during 1941, the Graham Hollywood is an incredibly rare car with around 2,500 examples produced.

This 1941 Graham Hollywood Sedan is an older but very well presented restoration that is finished in medium blue and has a tan cloth interior with plaid door panels, wide whitewall tires, chrome hub caps and trim rings, Unity spotlights, chrome bumpers with bumper guards, very pretty three-piece front grille, split front windshield, 218 cubic inch L-head straight-six, three-speed manual transmission, period radio and beautiful dashboard with full instrumentation. A sound, well kept, pretty and enjoyable example of a car that is rarely seen, it will elicit curious admiration from onlookers and spark conversation and compliments at any automotive gathering.