Mystery car pix

tjc78

If I’m being honest, I thought they already had discontinued it.

fintail

I didn't know the Maxima was sold outside of the USA, or hasn't been for some time anyway. A huge amount of sales have to be to fleets these days.

andys120

kyfdx

andys120 said:

2+2? '66?

ab348

That's a custom street rod that uses a '65 Pontiac 2+2 body shell and interior components but not much else. LS7 power, custom frame and suspension, wheels, brakes, etc. It's a beautiful custom but it's not a Pontiac. Really doesn't belong on here.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2022/08/11/22-750-horsepower

texases

Yeah, those wheels/tires look a bit more aggressive than '65 stock...

andys120

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Extra points of you id the building.

sda

Look how clean the styling and even smaller looking the 64 Olds convertible and 62 Buick look compared to the 58 Mercury and other older cars.

Lostwrench3

1955 Buick.
1957 Mercury.

tmart

57 Ford Sunliner, 58 Ford

ab348

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. The area has been reconfigured so that parking is no longer located in front of the building.

Lostwrench3

On the right border - 1956 Chrysler Windsor.

fintail

Looks like a 61 Ford in front of the 58.

andys120

1961 Chevrolet Impala "flattop" in front of the olds convert. VW "Beetle"on extreme left.

andys120

For a few years in the late 50s the Dauphine was a hot seller (4 doors to the VW's 2)




Car on the left of the first row next to sign is the Dauphine's predecessor the Renault 4CV

andys120

The blue Yank tank behind the 4CV could be a Hudson "Step-down".

fintail

2nd row in 5th from left looks like Peugeot 403 Break, with a 403 sedan next to it.

andys120

Behind the 4CV is a red Ford convertible, ca 1953-4

andys120

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tmart

Renault Dauphine, 57 Chevy convertible, Dodge, Ford F100 pick up.

fintail

That brief flash of time when the Dauphine was big enough to warrant a custom sign like that.

I get a sense something is going on in the leftmost lane, car behind the apparent Ford panel van (which is behind the Dodge) appears to maybe have rear-ended it, and the Dodge maybe was hit too. I notice traffic is going around it, and people in the Chevy are looking.

magnette

To the right on the other lane we have about a 48 Pontiac two door

To the left in the Dauphine lot what is that car above the rear of the Renault 750?
I thought a DeSoto but can't make it out

andys120

On the left, I think that's the same Renault 4CV that appears in the prior color shot. Has anyone mentioned the 1957 Bel Air coming towards camera?

tmart

Yes, I did at 9:32AM.

fintail

magnette said:

To the right on the other lane we have about a 48 Pontiac two door

To the left in the Dauphine lot what is that car above the rear of the Renault 750?
I thought a DeSoto but can't make it out

I think the Pontiac is a 49-52 style. You are right on the DeSoto, looks like a 53.

fintail

Paris, must be around 1960, cool pic - these look like Dinky toys (should zoom well):

andys120

They do look like Dinkys! i count 5 2CVs and 4 Citroen DSs. White over black sedan looks like a Simca Aronde.

Looks like good traffic discipline considering no painted lanes!

magnette

In Paris there are a couple of interesting ones - especially some of the taxis

Bottom left is a black & red Simca taxi - and this would inevitably have been the economy model if bought as a taxi - which would be the Ariane.

The Ariane was a base model Simca Versailles - a development of the French Ford Vedette model - but instead of the former Vedette engine - a Ford V8 - it had the 1300 engine of the SImca Aronde..

They weren't all taxis though - that blue car in the bottom left corner is another in normal colours so it may be an actual Versailles or an Ariane and there was even an Ariane 8 which was the equivalent of say a Vauxhall Cresta

There is also an ancient taxi just next to the coach.
Renault and Citroen both made old models for the taxi trade before the war and kept on selling them well into the 50s - in much the same way that the pre war Austins in Britain evolved into the old familiar London Taxi in the same period, I suppose.

magnette

@andys120

That lane discipline is only an illusion - there was probably a cacophony of horns as an accompaniment

First time I was in Paris we tried to cross a side road near the exit from a roundabout off the Place de Concorde just as the lights changed and about seven lanes of traffic raced each other to funnel into the bottleneck of the street we were in...

You rarely see an un-dented car in Paris

magnette

I've found this picture of a Citroen 7UA but they also had an 11UA which was a six window version though I can't find a picture of it. the pictured car might be an 11UA




They were rear wheel drive based on light commercial chassis but used the engines similar to the Traction Avante (fwd) models

Production ended in 1939 but they were apparently common until the end of the fifties and also had a diesel engine option from 1937

Details supplied from Citroenet.org.uk

magnette

Amazingly the engine for that old girl was therefore the same one as that used in the first series of Citroen DS which was powered by the Traction Avant unit...

andys120

White car next to the old Citroen (11UA?) looks like a Peugeot 403 (could be the newest car).

andys120

fintail

andys120 said:

White car next to the old Citroen (11UA?) looks like a Peugeot 403 (could be the newest car).

Yes, that's a 403. The two fintails in the pic might be the newest designs.

andys120

Interesting that there's only a single Dauphine in that Paris photo. The Dauphine may have been the most popular French car ever sold in the USA.

texases

@andys120 said:
Interesting that there's only a single Dauphine in that Paris photo. The Dauphine may have been the most popular French car ever sold in the USA.

Aren’t there two? Cream one middle left, white with black top middle bottom?

ab348

I remain unconvinced that the "Paris" photo is real. Not only do the vehicles look like Dinkys or other miniature models, but look at the number of identical models painted in exactly the same color scheme.

ab348

Back to something we know is real, this mid-60s photo from an unnamed location (someone said it might be Houston) has a lot to see. Expands some.

ab348

andys120 said:

That's the Pininfarina Battista, a $2 million hypercar with 1800 electric horses, based upon a Rimac, who seem to have jumped into bed with many of the Euroland supercar manufacturers.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/future-cars/a40596525/pininfarina-battista-next-rimac-nevera-spinoff/

Not sure naming it after the deposed Cuban dictator was the best idea though.

explorerx4

In the B&W photo, the newest cars I see are a Gen 1 Mustang poking its' nose out halfway up on the left and to the right of the soldier, a mid 60's Chrysler.

tmart

ab348 said:

Back to something we know is real, this mid-60s photo from an unnamed location (someone said it might be Houston) has a lot to see. Expands some.

I spy a Bug, Lark, 59 Chevy, 60 Ford, mid to late 50s Mercury.

Lostwrench3

1959 Buick.
1958 Mercury.
1959 Studebaker Lark.

(The Topeka tornado.)

andys120

ab348 said:

andys120 said:

That's the Pininfarina Battista, a $2 million hypercar with 1800 electric horses, based upon a Rimac, who seem to have jumped into bed with many of the Euroland supercar manufacturers.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/future-cars/a40596525/pininfarina-battista-next-rimac-nevera-spinoff/

Not sure naming it after the deposed Cuban dictator was the best idea though.

It was named after Pininfarina Design's founder, Giovanni Battista Farina. "Pinin" was a nickname
and Giovanni Battista is Is Italian for "John the Baptist". Fulgencio Batista, the ex-Cuban dictator spelled his name with three Ts. You probably knew that and were just joking

andys120

tmart said:

ab348 said:

Back to something we know is real, this mid-60s photo from an unnamed location (someone said it might be Houston) has a lot to see. Expands some.

Not sure why a soldier in combat fatigues and a helmet is in the middle of that traffic snarl. Maybe it gets so bad in Houston they have to call out the Guard(?)

GMC truck coming up the middle.

andys120

imports and domestics> (click to enlarge)


i'll call the little Fiat 500/600 but what's that to its right?

stickguy

Ford behind the fiat looks like a shark following krill.

Jeep (or Willys) woody wagon next to it.

fintail

To the right of the Fiat 600 is a Hillman Minx. Behind the Fiat gives me a 58 GM product vibe. Something obscure to the right of the GMC truck in the front row, too.

With so many imports, has to be California, right?

re: Paris pic, I think it's real, I am unaware of any scale models of the era with such accurate sliding roofs.

Lostwrench3

There's a 1949 or 1950 Chevy wagon in there.

magnette

Behind the Fiat isn't that an Oldsmobile ?

To the right of the pick up is a bathtub style Rambler

To the left of the Fiat the wagon on the edge is one of those circa 51 Chevrolet or Pontiac wagons

tmart

55/56 Ford wagon, next to it appears to be a Thunderbird!