Mystery car pix

stickguy

mid 70's little red truck. I love these.

I remember back in the day car and driver did performance tests, I think top speed, and these were right up there, faster than corvettes. Duster 360s were the other hot rods of the day

kyfdx

Dodge L’il Red Wagon.

1977?

andys120

stickguy said:

mid 70's little red truck. I love these.

I remember back in the day car and driver did performance tests, I think top speed, and these were right up there, faster than corvettes. Duster 360s were the other hot rods of the day

kyfdx said:

Dodge L’il Red Wagon.

1977?

There's a confusion about the names. The caption for it was 1979 Little Red Express Truck but like Kyfdx i recall "Li'l Red Wagon" and remember the name appearing on the side door but I've only found pix showing the Express Truck name>

There was a drag race version of the A100 called the "Lil Red Wagon"


i don't know if there was a production version. Color me confused

kyfdx

I probably mis-remembered it.

ab348

It was definitely "L'il Red Express Truck". They sold a lot of them and there were several locally. Not to my taste, but hey, it was the '70s.

tjc78

Always liked those trucks.

andys120

berri

59 Edsel Villager? wagon.

That Dodge lil' truck needs some marker lights over the cab

tmart

59 Edsel Villager wagon.

andys120

tmart said:

59 Edsel Villager wagon.

Yup, it's similar to a '58 that I saw this summer in Plainfield NH (lots of interesting old machines around there).

andys120

lostwrench1

Well, it's a '67 Pontiac but why are the wiper arms visible?
"Oh, Canada...….."? Parisienne?

tmart

67 Pontiac Parisienne 2+2. I like the 5 "portholes" in front of the door. Looks like a Javelin behind it.

ab348

I have a soft spot for '67 Pontiacs (we had one when I was a kid) and that one looks great. Too bad it is a Chevy underneath the skin, Chevy powertrain and narrow-track chassis. The 2+2 models were always fairly uncommon here as I recall.

berri

I like that kind of silver green looking color. Buddy had a 69 Mustang in something similar in color with a black vinyl top. Sharp looking car. 67 Pontiacs stand out because they often created a like it or not response back in those days. That's not a negative comment either. It reflects some design risk taking on a big GM car.

andys120

It's a 1967 Pontiac Parisienne 2+2. It looks like a Catalina 2+2 but under the hood instead of a 428 is a 150hp Chevy six!

lostwrench1

When I was stationed in Germany my First Sergeant popped into my office and said he was going to the PX for a while. I asked if he was going to get some snacks. He replied that he was going there to buy a car. So he left and I thought he was going to purchase a toy car or car model for one of the kids at the off post military housing. He returned empty handed. I asked "no car models available?" He said "Toys? This car is for me." I said I don't understand. He said he purchased a 1968 Tempest which will arrive in around 8 weeks. It did. He bought a car at the PX! I liked it. When I returned to the states, I bought a new '68 LeMans convertible. 350 engine - 4 on the floor. I loved it and drove it for 10 years.

stickguy

that is an AMX behind the Pancho. I love those. Though I am probably the only person here that owned not only a Gremlin, but also a Hornet.

texases

When the first gen Javalin came out I saw it at a Cincinnati car show. They had a booth where you had a shifter and tried to match the shift points on a sound track of the red/white/blue race version. I matched on the ‘practice’ run, but missed a shift in the ‘real’ race.  Bummer!

ab348

I saw this Javelin commercial on YouTube the other day and it instantly took me back 50 years. Richard Dreyfus and Vic Tayback are recognizable in it.

https://youtu.be/0hGEaBrf1-E

kyfdx

We had a ‘67 Bonneville, but it opposing wipers, not the parallel wipers in that picture.

berri

I am probably the only person here that owned not only a Gremlin, but also a Hornet.

Stick, maybe you should have grown up in Chicago or Milwaukee

I recall years back reading an article, I think in the WSJ, about how the Alabama State Police bought some 2nd gen Javelin's (the more angular styled one) as pursuit cars, but aerodynamically they were kind of a failure.

andys120

magnette

We used to see German Ford Taunuses in the 60's - purchased by British Army or RAF personnel bringing them back from Germany, and sometimes other stuff like Simcas, odd Opels, Borgwards etc - mostly RHD but then you could get most of those in RHD for Ireland and some colonial markets too.

Also, of course, especially in Eastern England or London, we used to see lots of US forces cars based here.

I can remember being confused when seeing a Sunbeam Rapier which had a British looking number plate (something like KBA 123) but with an international oval that read EAK

I asked the chap who was cleaning it and it turned out he had been working in Kenya for the government and had driven back through North Africa in it having bought it there. Probably not a journey that would have been so easy now.

magnette

The blue wagon appears to be a Checker - is that a Marathon for the non taxi market?

andys120

magnette said:

The blue wagon appears to be a Checker - is that a Marathon for the non taxi market?

Yup,it's a 1965 Checker Marathon station wagon and I'll bet it could haul a ton of stuff.

Mr_Shiftright

Yes, but not uphill!

berri

Probably don't want to haul any breakables either !

Mr_Shiftright

That would have either a flathead Continental engine or possibly a flathead with overhead valve conversion.

andys120

tmart

64 Thunderbird. Like the skirts.

andys120

tmart said:

64 Thunderbird. Like the skirts.

Yup, a '64 Ford Thuderbird Landau to be exact.

andys120

texases

Lemme guess....Fiat 1200 Spider? '57-'59?

ab348

That Fiat is a handsome design.

Mr_Shiftright

I know where there is one, cheap. Downside? It's in about 15 boxes.

andys120

texases said:

Lemme guess....Fiat 1200 Spider? '57-'59?

Good guess, it's a 1957 Fiat 1200 Spider, sometimes called the 1200TV because of it's close resemblance to the Fiat 1100TV Trasformable.

ab348 said:

That Fiat is a handsome design.

You can see plenty of American design influence in the wraparound windshield, tail fins, big chrome grille and whitewalls. Later post-1959 1200 Spiders had more conservative but handsome styling by Pininfarina.

Mr_Shiftright

Has a Ghia look, doesn't it?

bhill2

Mr_Shiftright said:

That would have either a flathead Continental engine or possibly a flathead with overhead valve conversion.

Maybe not. If you zoom in on the right front, it has a V8 badge.

berri

I may be wrong, but I seem to recall way back then at the Chicago auto show that top line Checker's could be ordered with a GM 350 V8 option?

andys120

bhill2 said:

Mr_Shiftright said:

That would have either a flathead Continental engine or possibly a flathead with overhead valve conversion.

Maybe not. If you zoom in on the right front, it has a V8 badge.

Looks just like the one they put on some Chevys.

berri said:

I may be wrong, but I seem to recall way back then at the Chicago auto show that top line Checker's could be ordered with a GM 350 V8 option?

I think I remember that too.

andys120

Porsche?

texases

Not with those 3-lug Citroen wheels! But I have not idea what model.

Mr_Shiftright

bhill2 said:

Mr_Shiftright said:

That would have either a flathead Continental engine or possibly a flathead with overhead valve conversion.

Maybe not. If you zoom in on the right front, it has a V8 badge.

Right you are! First V8 appeared in 1965!

andys120

texases said:

Not with those 3-lug Citroen wheels! But I have not idea what model.

Those may or may not be Citroen wheels but the car is not a Citroen. They were fitted w a variety of wheels and wheel covers.>

lostwrench1

Mr_Shiftright said:

bhill2 said:

Mr_Shiftright said:

That would have either a flathead Continental engine or possibly a flathead with overhead valve conversion.

Maybe not. If you zoom in on the right front, it has a V8 badge.

Right you are! First V8 appeared in 1965!

Hmmm, my info has it that the first Chevy V8 for the Checker was available as an option in 1964.
Also, I find there was a Chrysler V8 in the pre 1964 Checker Aerobus Limousine.

Mr_Shiftright

I was using the Standard Catalog of American Cars.

andys120

Need help with the funky Porsche-like thing I posted earlier. Here's some help:
Back in the 50s a French fellow, Jaques Redele, decided to build a rally car out of this>



Redele replaced the sedan body with a 2+2 fiberglass coupe body but kept the rear engine configuration, beefed up the motor to 43hp (!) and scored a class victory at the 1956 Mille Miglia.

About 650 were eventually produced and the manufacturer is still in business.

bhill2

My guess is a Renault 4CV.

andys120

bhill2 said:

My guess is a Renault 4CV.

The four-door I posted is a Renault 4CV, the coupe uses the chassis of the 4CV and some of the mechanicals and was sold under a different name. Hint: Rendele's company was eventually bought by Renault and today sells performance cars that are informally known as "French Porsches".

Is that enough for you to figure it out? Going...going...?