Mystery car pix

xwesx

ab348 said:

I’m thinking that’s a Dodge Spirit R/T.

Yes, Spirit. That's the middle-sized one.

fintail

Parked in the garage at left, something very non-foreign, appears to be a full sized 65 Ford.

andys120 said:

I love this photo, it's a good example of what :"imported car" dealerships were like on my native Long Island. I'll call the Datsun pickup which wasn't common on LI. You guys do the rest.

stickguy

import looks like 3 MGs. B in the showroom and right out front, and a Midget by the pumps where the PU is.

next to the B inside, might be a weird reflection but lights make me think of an early 60s C1 vette.

Jag Saloon (Mark IIV?) in the road.

Michaell

ab348 said:

I’m thinking that’s a Dodge Spirit R/T.

That’s what I was thinking, too.

andys120

stickguy said:

import looks like 3 MGs. B in the showroom and right out front, and a Midget by the pumps where the PU is.

next to the B inside, might be a weird reflection but lights make me think of an early 60s C1 vette.

Jag Saloon (Mark IIV?) in the road.

The Jag saloon is a Mk.II, the VII was a larger less sporty car. The car you ID as a Midget could be a Mk.II Healey Sprite, they were identical from the side.

The same building is still in Oyster Bay serviung as offices! TOM says the octagonal shape came from the MG logo so that company had sold Imports from the 1920s. I'd guess the photo dates from the mid-60s
(AKA the zgolden age of Euro imports)

andys120

Another from the Ellenville Hillclimb>

stickguy

Looks like hooovies 350h he got recently.

explorerx4

Might as well rent a car to do that climb.

magnette

This is a photo from the early sixties taken in eastern London suburb of Barking.

Estate car on left is a model I don't recall ever having seen in Britain, and it actually has a temporary Registration Plate - the code QG was allocated from 1956/7 through to about 1965 - for a maximum period of twelve months. It's also LHD

explorerx4

I'm getting a Triumph Herald vibe from the car in the middle.

fintail

Wagon reminds me of an early Nissan Cedric, but details don't line up and LHD would be odd. Does the sign on the car say "Caution: Left Hand Drive"? I will guess it is French, a Simca of some sort.

I will guess the BMC Farina at right is a Morris Oxford.

andys120

On left an Austin A55 Cambridge?

magnette

@fintail

Yes that is a Simca Marly estate - here is a similar one from the front
And that BMC Farina is a Morris Oxford Mk V

@explorerx4

The middle car is indeed Herald - its actually a Herald S which was initially a stripped version with the 950 engine and more basic trim - they only made about 700 of that model and they were frequently used for driving schools etc I think

andys120

kyfdx

andys120 said:

'66 Riviera?

those are some wide whitewalls...

tjc78

Looks like a 66 to me. What great looking car. I’d prefer thinner whitewalls and different wheels, but the color is perfect.

texases

And it has that crazy mechanism for its headlights:

sda

The clamshell headlights on the 65 are unique as well

andys120

Yup, it's a '66 Buick Riviera GS. I agree , I'd like it better w/o the phony wires and skinnier sidewalls. I prefer the '66-'68 front end over the '63-'65.

andys120

stickguy

Mid 80s maxima. I like that style. I think that’s the last of the RWD straight 6 models. Though the first series FWD V6 looked similar.

fintail

85-88, I believe these were FWD.

stickguy

Yeah. I looked at it again and it’s got the chunkier hood. Gen 1 went through 1984, gen 2 FWD started in 1985. The earlier ones where still very boxy.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/1st-Nissan-Maxima.jpg

kyfdx

My uncle had a new ‘87 Maxima wagon. I remember it as being very nice.

xwesx

kyfdx said:

My uncle had a new ‘87 Maxima wagon. I remember it as being very nice.

Same. My uncle had an 88, IIRC, and it was, to that point in my life, a whole new level of nice! And, it could really scoot, too.

fintail

Those early cars were initially badged "Datsun 810 By Nissan" and marketed as the "810 Maxima" during that funny Datsun/Nissan co-branding era.

stickguy said:

Yeah. I looked at it again and it’s got the chunkier hood. Gen 1 went through 1984, gen 2 FWD started in 1985. The earlier ones where still very boxy.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/1st-Nissan-Maxima.jpg

ab348

Columbia, SC, circa 1968.

tmart

60 Ford followed by a 55/56 Ford.

sda

The 59 Caddy has a sort of mean look. I like the 62 Buick convertible. Columbia is about 90 miles south of me, straight down I-77. Hot as heck in the summer.

explorerx4

Thelma & Loise in the red Buick convertible before they traded in on a TBird.

stickguy

I went to Columbia a few times with my daughter when she was college shopping. I liked it. Though I am fine with hot and humid.

round light Falcon in front of the red Buick. And I think 2 65 Fords in the right lane.

left side, 2 back from a green F100, looks like a white Matador.

ab348

stickguy said:

I went to Columbia a few times with my daughter when she was college shopping. I liked it. Though I am fine with hot and humid.

round light Falcon in front of the red Buick. And I think 2 65 Fords in the right lane.

left side, 2 back from a green F100, looks like a white Matador.

Still would have been called a Rebel back in '68 though.

I bet that Buick convertible was a nice car.

fintail

Far right lane, 66 Ford behind a 65 Ford, maybe both LTDs.

andys120

The '62 Buick brings back memories of an Electra convertible I drove back in the day (401 Wildcat motor)

bhill2

On the far left, just behind the light green Dart, a gen 1 Corvair coupe. In the inside inbound lane, three behind the burgundy '63 Ford, is another Dart.

fintail

Seattle, 54 years and 2 days ago (should zoom well):

ab348

Can't tell if it's a '59 or a '60, but the Buick convertible caught my eye first.

stickguy

Big rambler next to the Buick. And down the row next to a 65ish Malibu, a Mercury with back slant rear window. A1960?

uplanderguy

Merc is a '63. Buick is a '60.

WTH is going on on the driver's door of that Mustang?

texases

That Buick reminds me of the cars used on a number of Perry Mason episodes. Officer Tragg often drove a sedan, others drove convertibles.

Maybe there's something in front of that 6-cylinder Mustang?

andys120

The Buick is definitely a '60. The tips oif the fins are rounded.

Mustang coupe is a '65 based on the wheel covers. Low end 6 cyl version.

explorerx4

A white 67 Malibu coupe and an earlier(65?) one above the hood of the 67.

andys120

Whitewalls on a police unit?

fintail

I see a 59 Ford non-Galaxie sedan just behind the front/hood of the police car

tmart

57 Ford Sunliner tutone with Continental kit.

andys120

1960 Buick fintails just behind police unit

bhill2

1959 Chevy next to the Buick

ab348

5th Avenue, NYC, circa 1979. Should expand very well.

stickguy

based on the grill looks like a Monza wagon in the middle all by itself. And a VW 412 (could be a 411) on the curb. Most awful car I ever spent time driving. My grandmother had one. Took my drivers test on it.

Nose is obscured but I think the small car in front of the VW is a Mazda (RX3 or boing boing equivalent).

Volvo later 145 wagon up past the ambulance.

explorerx4

An Andre1969 Chrysler Newport on the left just ahead of the mailbox. On the other side of the street, a Cadillac Seville.