Mystery car pix

stickguy

Nice hood fit at the front.

fintail

Riley something. That door cut is kind of inelegant.

fintail

I wonder when this will happen again:

tmart

Falcon Ranchero, Maverick, fastback Stang, several bugs.

andys120

Just behind the red VW bug at the left-most pump is a red Triumph sports car either a TR-4/4A or a TR-250.

This looks like the first oil embargo in 1973 (IIRC). I doubt it will be repeated anytime soon, the price of oil is dropping fast as the world slides into a recession.

fintail

I'll pick off the Chevy II hardtop and early Falcon in front of it in the 2nd leftmost lane. Also appears to be a J50 Landcruiser under the roof at right, behind a Beetle.

I wonder what would happen if either people went into a hysterical panic, or a swath of refinery or trucking was impacted by the virus. Sometimes I think we're on somewhat thin ice, even with declining demand.

stickguy

Early bmw 2002 or 1600 next to the white poncho with black roof. And to the right a chevy chevelle Laguna.

magnette

The Riley was a 2 1/2 litre Roadster, model RMC.
Apart from the strange cutaway doors, which echoed prewar Riley roadsters, the other really clumsy detail, not shown on this particular example, was that the front bumper had four overriders, making it look very clumsy.
It was a three seater - bench seat - and very much aimed at the US market.

magnette

That shot of the gas station reminded me of the early 70's when I was first driving back in Wales although we didn't have too much trouble provided you knew the garage owner - they always had petrol for their regulars.
Probably worse in large towns where people had less personal link with the garage..
Here we have seen the results of some panic buying for food and essentials- haven't seen a toilet roll in a shop for a bit - but making do as best one can.
Not aware of any fuel problems here but not going anywhere to find some as we are pretty much indoors or just in the garden at present.
One strange thing is that we have clear skies here after weeks of grey cloud and despite usually being under the flightpath for half the planes landing at Heathrow, and all of them at London City airport in the docks a few miles from our house, we have very few planes coming over.

andys120

magnette said:

The Riley was a 2 1/2 litre Roadster, model RMC.
Apart from the strange cutaway doors, which echoed prewar Riley roadsters, the other really clumsy detail, not shown on this particular example, was that the front bumper had four overriders, making it look very clumsy.
It was a three seater - bench seat - and very much aimed at the US market.

Surprising to hear it was designed for the USDM, I have never seen a Riley of any kind.
IIRC Riley tagged "RMC" onto various different models.

andys120

tmart

62 Ford Galaxie 500 hardtop. Nice looking!

kyfdx

That Galaxie appears identical to my grandfather’s car, though I don’t recall the white stripes on the seats. Nice!

andys120

fintail

I remember looking at a Galaxie just like that around 1992. It was a black on red 62 XL, I am pretty sure the seller wanted $2500 for it. It seemed immaculate to me, but I seem to have noticed my standards when it comes to a car being "mint" were lower when I was younger. What I remember most is the the multi-colored door interior courtesy lights. My dad didn't like the car for some reason, so no deal - but I would have been all over it.

kyfdx

My grandfather died when I was 13 (1971). My grandmother didn't drive, but had a two-car garage. The car only had 33K miles. I begged my mother to buy it for me, and leave it in Grandma's garage until I started driving.

You can imagine how that conversation went. It was sold for $500.

magnette

andys120 said:

magnette said:

Surprising to hear it was designed for the USDM, I have never seen a Riley of any kind.
IIRC Riley tagged "RMC" onto various different models.

Yes, I think it was a Morris attempt to emulate the Austin Atlantic (this was before Austin and Morris combined in 1952 to form BMC)
They sold virtually all the roadsters abroad and I have hardly seen one other than at car shows here.
The Riley models after the war were the RM range and had different codes according to which version
RMA was the one & half litre saloon 1945-52
RMB was the two & half litre saloon
RMC was 2 & half Roadster
RMD was 2 & half Drophead coupe - a very nice looking car that was sold here
RME was the updated 1 & half litre saloon from 1952-55
RMF was updated 2& half litre saloon 1952-53
RMH was the Pathfinder saloon although that was a different model altogether.

ab348

Never saw one of these previously. Someone here likely will get it straight away:

stickguy

Is that a Magnette?

ab348

Yes sir!

andys120

Still no takers for the coupe I posted, hint: think Italo-American hybrid>

stickguy

Some sort of facel Vega?

andys120

stickguy said:

Some sort of facel Vega?

Nope, Facels were French-made, used American V8power.

fintail

Cunningham, I believe, I don't know the name but I think alphanumeric.

andys120

fintail said:

Cunningham, I believe, I don't know the name but I think alphanumeric.

That's it, it's a 1952 Cunningham C3, one of a handful of sports cars made by American Briggs Cunningham, LeMans racer (3rd in 1954). The C3 had coachwork by Touring Superleggera and power via Chrysler Hemi.

The pictured car is wearing Halibrand magnesium alloy wheels with race-style knock-off hubs. Halibrand was originally a maker of alloy wheels for race cars. Their appearance on this C3 is unusual, alloys wouldn't be seen on street cars until the 1960s. Due to their high cost magnesium alloy wheels remain rare.

fintail

omarman

'74 or '75 Toyota Corona with some sport? options by looking at the grill and wheels. SR5? I cant make out the emblem on the grill. 70s earth tones man.

fintail

Yep, 74 model, badged as "SR, although this is a Canadian market car, not sure if that makes a difference. Thought the name was appropriate these days. I like the style of this car, another one unloved for ages that would now have people fighting over it, should one be found. Found the pic on flickr, original owner lamented that it rusted, but was a good drive, a Celica with a different body.

andys120

Attention Edmunds tech, I ran this one thru Safari and Chrome , got it to work on Firefox. You never know which browser is going to work. It's getting tiresome, IMO it's time for Edmunds to hire and outside consultant since you can't solve it

transamsd73

In the pic from Germany--- nice Ghia convertible!

stickguy

Maybe it’s you Andy. I never have an issue using chrome on my windows 10 laptop. iPad I never seem to figure out how to submit it once I Copy url into the box.

stickguy

kyfdx

I'm obviously not the tech guy, here.

But, I've had a lot of luck downloading pictures to my iPad, and posting from Photo Library. 95% success rate.

stickguy

I really need a mouse

kyfdx

stickguy said:

I really need a mouse

I'm glad that I never had to regularly work off of a laptop. No keypad and no mouse, cuts my productivity by 2/3.

stickguy

My laptop has a keypad. And I use a wireless mouse. I could never function just using a track pad or track ball

magnette

Nice MG ZB Varitone circa 1956-9.
The Varitone got the larger back window and the different chrome but the original rear window was used for the basic ZB (same as for my ZA)

ab348

One thing I never appreciated until recently on a lot of British and European cars generally from the 1950s and '60s was the amount of actual woodworking that went into their interior trim. That Magnette is a good example.

ab348

Man, you've got to love the '70s. I'd love to have this:

fintail

And often not the shiny fake looking stuff either.

On a W112 fintail, you got a wood windshield surround, speaker grille, dash, door caps, door window surrounds, lower door trim.



My W111 car has all of that save for door caps and speaker grille. Lower line cars had no wood.

ab348 said:

One thing I never appreciated until recently on a lot of British and European cars generally from the 1950s and '60s was the amount of actual woodworking that went into their interior trim. That Magnette is a good example.

fintail

It'd probably bring 75K on BaT, that kind of thing is trendy these days as younger people are warming up to the flamboyant style of that era, and the outdoorsman cosplay is as popular as ever.

ab348 said:

Man, you've got to love the '70s. I'd love to have this:

stickguy

That ram charger is fantastic. I would love it. Even better if the seats match the paint scheme.

ab348

Seats are saddle vinyl. But it isn't a Ramcharger (not exactly).

kyfdx

What was the Plymouth? Trail Duster?

tjc78

I would like it in a different color. I just can’t do yellow

stickguy

I had back to back yellows. Duster followed by a Gremlin. None since that I remember!

ab348

More on the yellow Mystery Car: https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2020/03/26/hemmings-finds-of-the-day-1977-dodge-power-wagon-and-1977-plymouth-trailduster-top-hands

thebean

Just a WAG - Alvis?

imidazol97

andys120 said:

Attention Edmunds tech, I ran this one thru Safari and Chrome , got it to work on Firefox. You never know which browser is going to work. It's getting tiresome, IMO it's time for Edmunds to hire and outside consultant since you can't solve it

I've not been having trouble posting from Win 10 and Chrome to Edmunds. I'd suggest
doing a Safe Mode reboot and seeing if you can post in that environment without a lot
of other programs running. I wonder if you've got some kind of conflict.

Safe Mode is not easy to get to the way it was in the past.

I also have had to use Clean Boot where all services can be turned off or certain ones left on
to determine cause of conflicts, if occurring. I had certain Win 10 updates that wouldn't complete
because of a conflict by a program for HP laptops that read the fingerprint to unlock the
laptop. That laptop didn't have the print scanner, but the software item was there.

andys120

Thanks for the advice unfortunately as an Analog Man in a digital age I have no idea what a Safe Mode or Clean Boot is. I've tried reboots but they don't always work. I know I'm not the only one having problems and I do frequent many other websites and find them way more user-friendly.