Mystery car pix

andys120

texases

Another Bristol? A Beaufighter Zagato convertible, '87-ish.

omarman

@thebean posted that mystery car on Friday the 13th.
@ab348 posted the link to that very same car on the same day. And now it's back.
https://www.sljhackett.co.uk/cars/blue-1984-bristol-beaufort.htm

kyfdx

-insert theme to Twilight Zone here-

andys120

oops!

ab348

Andy must have been napping when all that happened. :laughing:

ab348

Istanbul, Turkey, 1965. We can easily ID the early '60s Chevy pickup, but what is the 2-tone sedan next to it?

tmart

omarman said:

tmart said:

Definitely a good picture of Carroll and Steve and a Fairlane 500, Cobra, and Econoline van.

At that time I think Ford marketed the Econoline based Club Wagon passenger van as a Falcon.

You could be right, but I’ve seen it several ways, Econoline, Falcon Econoline, and Falcon.

omarman

The 12-window Club Wagon pictured in Shelby's shop looks like it's branded Falcon on the passenger side rear door.

bhill2

ab348 said:

Istanbul, Turkey, 1965. We can easily ID the early '60s Chevy pickup, but what is the 2-tone sedan next to it?

One red chip on Simca Vedette.

ab348

There are a bunch of photos at that source of a trip to Turkey and Greece by the photographer in May of 1965. Interested to see that in Turkey almost all the cars shown in the photos were American, while in Greece it was much more of a mix of European cars with some American iron tossed in.

andys120

Michaell

Ferrari 456

texases

Are those factory headlights? Not a good look, IMO.

ab348

Lots of Ferrari styling in recent years has left me cold.

andys120

Michaell said:

Ferrari 456

You're a little off, it's a 2002 575 Maranello. It's similar to the 456 and 456 M but did not have pop-up headlights

texases said:

Are those factory headlights? Not a good look, IMO.

I don't particularly like them but it is a better look than the pop-ups. the 550/575 were basically good looking IMO but need nice colors to highlight the style.>

ab348 said:

Lots of Ferrari styling in recent years has left me cold.

Ever since the Lambo Contact found it's way onto the walls of every young guy, exotic car styling has left me cold. Even Aston-Martin has left restraint by the roadside.

I do think Ferrari is doing better recently.

bhill2

To my eyes, the headlight treatment is lost to the absurdity of that snout.

andys120

kyfdx

andys120 said:

BMW 840i

Guessing 840, as I don't see a V12 badge

omarman

kyfdx said:

andys120 said:

BMW 840i

Guessing 840, as I don't see a V12 badge

Did the 850i come with a V12 emblem? I don't remember that.

andys120

I looked at 8-10 850 pics on BAT and none had a V12 badge. FWIW-That gen 8-Series is known as the E-31 in BMW speak.

It's interesting to me how BMW seems to have had a thing for pillar less coupes ever since the original 2000CS of the 1960s, which is odd since after the late 50s the style began to go extinct. I guess Hoffmeister and his brethren were really impressed by one of the last and best-styled of the pillar-less designs>

texases

MB loves their pillarless coupes, too!

kyfdx

omarman said:

kyfdx said:

andys120 said:

BMW 840i

Guessing 840, as I don't see a V12 badge

Did the 850i come with a V12 emblem? I don't remember that.

That might have been a "custom" job on one that I saw.

kyfdx

andys120 said:

I looked at 8-10 850 pics on BAT and none had a V12 badge. FWIW-That gen 8-Series is known as the E-31 in BMW speak.

It's interesting to me how BMW seems to have had a thing for pillar less coupes ever since the original 2000CS of the 1960s, which is odd since after the late 50s the style began to go extinct. I guess Hoffmeister and his brethren were really impressed by one of the last and best-styled of the pillar-less designs>

Change to US headlights, move the mirrors to their proper position, and change color from blue to gray, and that looks just like my '67 2000 CS!

Wish I had pictures from the '80s..

fintail

MB has even more of a thing for 2 door HTs, with at least one in the lineup since the 1961 model year.

andys120 said:

I looked at 8-10 850 pics on BAT and none had a V12 badge. FWIW-That gen 8-Series is known as the E-31 in BMW speak.

It's interesting to me how BMW seems to have had a thing for pillar less coupes ever since the original 2000CS of the 1960s, which is odd since after the late 50s the style began to go extinct. I guess Hoffmeister and his brethren were really impressed by one of the last and best-styled of the pillar-less designs>
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andys120

Yes, M-B has done some nice pillarless h/ts. I can't recall what they call the current E-Class Coupe.

tmart

Nice looking Monza. They may have been not safe, but they looked good.

sda

I always liked the BMW CS, yet find the second generation Corvair styling crisp and handsome. It has aged well.

magnette

I built an AIrfix kit (1/72nd scale) of a Cessna O2 in my youth. probably made a mess of the painting - I always screwed that up....

magnette

been away from the site for a few days

The Picture of the Skoda Octavia in Vienna with the Peugeot 403 behind it.

The red car beyond the 403 is a Skoda 1200 - the model before the Octavia I think although they may've been overlapped.

EDIT - may also be Skoda 1201

andys120

Newest cars I see are 1955 MY>



I'm not sure what the white car next to the black split window Ford is, perhaps a Hudson Jet.

fintail

Surprised to see so many Beetles so early. I will pick off the bathtub Packard and just-postwar Stude at right.

fintail

andys120 said:

Yes, M-B has done some nice pillarless h/ts. I can't recall what they call the current E-Class Coupe.

I think it is just called E-class coupe. On that one there is a soft pillar dividing the rear window about 90% back, so the window will go all the way down.

ab348

A shot taken in Marin County, CA circa 1968. As you go back further into the shot the vehicles become more challenging to ID.

andys120

fintail said:

Surprised to see so many Beetles so early. I will pick off the bathtub Packard and just-postwar Stude at right.

Given this is a 1955 photo (newest MY of cars) of a well-to-do area on the East Coast (Brookline MA) it isn't that surprising to see a couple of imports among that many cars.

fintail

Lady appears to be standing next to a 68 Torino. In the background a lovely blue Mk 2 Jag and what looks like maybe a ~50 Buick convertible, a somewhat vintage car even then. The van appears to be a real oddball, maybe a Hanomag or perhaps a German Ford.

ab348 said:

A shot taken in Marin County, CA circa 1968. As you go back further into the shot the vehicles become more challenging to ID.

tmart

andys120 said:

Newest cars I see are 1955 MY>



I'm not sure what the white car next to the black split window Ford is, perhaps a Hudson Jet.

Believe I spy a 57 Ford Customline parked heading left.

magnette

That van in Marin County is a real shock to me - I would never have expected to see it in the US

Had a Corgi toy of one just like it and strangely it was in Army green with a star on it indicating it was meant to be US army ! I never thought they meant it....

tmart

fintail said:

Lady appears to be standing next to a 68 Torino. In the background a lovely blue Mk 2 Jag and what looks like maybe a ~50 Buick convertible, a somewhat vintage car even then. The van appears to be a real oddball, maybe a Hanomag or perhaps a German Ford.

ab348 said:

A shot taken in Marin County, CA circa 1968. As you go back further into the shot the vehicles become more challenging to ID.

Next to the Torino appears to be a light green 57 Ford.

magnette

Leaving the oddball for you the apple green sedan second back - is that a 57 Ford - perhaps a Custom or Fairlane?

imidazol97

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magnette

The Boston area black and white shot is quite challenging as most of these never saw our shores but I did see a Lincoln Cosmopolitan which I think was 1953 or so at a British car show last year although I can't find the picture I took at the time.

I think the big black car nose first towards the earth bank is one of those.

ab348

The green Ford is actually a ‘58.

The van was the reason I posted the pic. Such an odd thing to see!

berri

1st Pix - 56 Plymouth wagon rear view, 2nd Pix - 58 Ford Fairlane Town sedan

tmart

ab348 said:

The green Ford is actually a ‘58.

The van was the reason I posted the pic. Such an odd thing to see!

Strange that there’s no chrome on the front fender!

imidazol97

I had started a post about the Ford. It has gunsights on the front fenders, it has chrome over the door pillars like the Fairlane does. But I couldn't see there was a chrome piece on the front fender. There is NOT a chrome wrap around the top and sides of the windshield of the car like the Fairlanes have in the US brochures; the wrap looks like a Custom windshield trim.'

Somewhere I saw a reference to a Custom 500. Was there another model? Or was that a mistype of 500 instead of 300?

Did Ford still have Meteor models in Canada where this might be one of those?

ab348

Here is another shot of the Ford from a different angle - the photographer must have liked it!

stickguy

That shot really shows how much design advanced in just about 10 years back then. Doesn’t happen today!

tmart

For 58, I believe there was the Custom 300, Fairlane and Fairlane 500. Don’t recall a Custom 500.

berri

The Town sedan I believe was only available as a Fairlane or Fairlane 500. Other 4 drs were the more familiar 6 windows. I liked the look of that era town sedan personally.