Can you help me identify these cars?
I was going through old family photos and stumbled upon some pictures of cars, and I would like to identify what they are.
Here are a few images of them:



The last I could only see the grill of the car and not sure how good that will be in determining what model that is.
Here are a few images of them:



The last I could only see the grill of the car and not sure how good that will be in determining what model that is.
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Bottom one a mid 60s Pontiac. Maybe a bonneville.
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The Pontiac at the bottom is a '66, full size, but I can't tell if it's a Catalina, Star Chief, or Bonneville.
That Ford is an LTD, either 1971 or 1972. I'd need to see the rear end to tell for sure. If it had the optional body side molding, I'd be able to tell too but it doesn't, so I can't! The '71 was a new body (the '69 and '70 had the same body, but again, the '71 was new), and the '72 was virtually indistinguishable from the '71 from the profile.
Your family bought across the whole "Big Three" spectrum back then!
Now that I look at pics of the '69-70, versus '71-72, I can see some differences in the sheetmetal. For instance, the '71-72 has more rounded fenders, where they're a bit more squared off for '69-70.
I guess the beak just doesn't show up as much as I thought it would, from the side, as in that pic posted above.
As a car-crazy kid, the first car I can remember that didn't have a massive facelift in the third year was the '73 full-size GM line (Chevrolets, in my case). I kept waiting every year--no new car until the '77's! Worth waiting for though, as I liked that era big GM.