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.
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)
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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)
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Looks like hooovies 350h he got recently.
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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
I will guess the BMC Farina at right is a Morris Oxford.
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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
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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
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those are some wide whitewalls...
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Looks like a 66 to me. What great looking car. I’d prefer thinner whitewalls and different wheels, but the color is perfect.
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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.
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I bet that Buick convertible was a nice car.
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Big rambler next to the Buick. And down the row next to a 65ish Malibu, a Mercury with back slant rear window. A1960?
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WTH is going on on the driver's door of that Mustang?
Maybe there's something in front of that 6-cylinder Mustang?
Mustang coupe is a '65 based on the wheel covers. Low end 6 cyl version.
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Whitewalls on a police unit?
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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.
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