Mystery car pix

fintail

Yup, early Prelude. Quite rare now but common in these parts at one time.

andys120 said:

Good eye Tex, the rig on the left edge of the deck is the gizmo with lights to signal incoming aircraft if they are in correct position to land on deck. The low slung yellow vehicles are tractors for towing planes on deck. As for cars on the bottom just to right of a Pinto hatch
is a 1st gen Honda Prelude ('80-'83?). Most of the cars visible are post Vietnam era (after 1975)

stickguy

Tri 5 Chevy in the middle. And a white courier PU with roll bar and spare in the bed.

stickguy

Late 70s corolla hatch In front of a red screaming chicken firebird. And cute how tiny a rabbit looks in between a caprice 2 door and the early 70s satellite.

texases

fintail said:

Definitely an LN7, I think the EXP gained the bubble rear window later in life. Car behind the U-Haul looks like a Pinto to me, Amusing to me that the U-Haul is being towed by a Datsun B210 - I bet that was fun.

There's one oldie in the pic, too.

Is it the '65 Plymouth (Belvedere?)?

fintail

Stickguy found it, 57 Chevy sedan just to the right of a GMC stepside pickup wearing a small canopy, upper right.

texases said:

Is it the '65 Plymouth (Belvedere?)?

magnette

Orange Austin America bottom right just to right of the Firebird
Candidate for the oldest car would be the 57(?) red & white Chevrolet towards the top right
However that old green Ford pick up - next to the grey Gremlin - looks ancient but I have no idea how you date those.
Is that light blue car behind the u-haul trailer a Mercury Bobtail? - which I think was a Pinto restive - it looks Pinto but not quite right, as ab says

andys120

Dubious>

fintail

Close on the Ford pickup, that's a 58-60.

Not sure about Pinto vs Bobcat rear ends. The fronts were heavily differentiated though. That reminds me when I was a young teen, a retired dentist down the street had a pristine Bobcat woody wagon, a car that would probably get crazy bids now, there was something charming about it in a way. But one day in the early 90s a negligent driver turned left in front of him IIRC, and that was it.

magnette said:

Orange Austin America bottom right just to right of the Firebird
Candidate for the oldest car would be the 57(?) red & white Chevrolet towards the top right
However that old green Ford pick up - next to the grey Gremlin - looks ancient but I have no idea how you date those.
Is that light blue car behind the u-haul trailer a Mercury Bobtail? - which I think was a Pinto restive - it looks Pinto but not quite right, as ab says

stickguy

is that green and white 4 door a Kaiser?

tmart

59 Ford Sunliner. Is the little grey a bug eyed Sprite?

stickguy

a spridget for sure.

ab348

Another shot from the opening of the L.A. County Museum of Art in 1965, courtesy of Vintage Los Angeles. Should expand a bit with a right click.

stickguy

a pair of 58 Chevy 2 doors. The white one is partially blocking a white foreign car that I can't quite tell what it is. Maybe a Dauphine?

Lostwrench3

stickguy said:

is that green and white 4 door a Kaiser?

It is a '52, '53 or '54 Nash. If I could only see the grille and back of the hood.

sda

The color of the 61 Chevy Biscayne behind the 58 Chevy is the same color of my grandmother's 62 Olds Dynamic 88 sedan which she traded for her specially ordered 68 Cutlass S coupe. The color on the 62, even clean looked dull and blah.

Lostwrench3

On the right, a 1957 Olds.

andys120

tmart said:

59 Ford Sunliner. Is the little grey a bug eyed Sprite?

stickguy said:

a spridget for sure.

Yup, the grey roadster is an Austin-Healey Sprite Mk.1, a minimal automobile with no frills and not much power that is huge fun to drive or even ride in. It was known as the "Bug-eye" on this side of the pond, the Brits called it a "Frog-eye."

The more conventionally styled Mk.2 was known as the "Spridget" since it was a near twin to the MG Midget but the Mk.1 had no equivalent in the MG stable.

fintail

Roof of a squarebird peeking out at far right of it. Foreign car in front of it, perhaps a Simca Aronde.

andys120

Lostwrench3

I'll grab the 1949 Buick.

imidazol97

Is that 52 or 54 Ford next to t he Buick?

fintail

Joisey plate?

The stuck on composite stone cladding on bay window of the old building with the ladies looking out is very similar to the cladding all over my grandma's mid century rambler, it's even on an inside wall.

Lostwrench3

imidazol97 said:

Is that 52 or 54 Ford next to t he Buick?

Too much stuff on top of the nose to be a Ford.
Looks like one of those mid 50s Dodges with the two tone, two level hoods.

Lostwrench3

1956 Dodge.

ab348

Ladies looking out the window at the 3 Jersey guys.

fintail

The later days of Camelot, August 28, 1963, opening of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge:

Lostwrench3

On the right, a 1957 Pontiac Safari wagon.

tmart

I’ll take the 57 Ford going away and the approaching proverbial 60 Ford.

imidazol97

There are 2 1960 Fords approaching: sixth car in left approaching lane is 1960.

stickguy

MG T series bottom right heading onto bridge. A couple newer ramblers coming off the downslope, and a Porsche 356 mid span.

heading away, 4th car up in front of a Pontiac behind a white Ford, what is that little car? Resembles the shape of a Beetle but isn't.

imidazol97

What is the 5th car in the left lane going away from the camera.

stickguy

ahead of the 2 beetles, behind a batwing Chevy?

bhill2

stickguy said:

heading away, 4th car up in front of a Pontiac behind a white Ford, what is that little car? Resembles the shape of a Beetle but isn't.

It's a Renault 4CV. Forerunner (in the USA) of the Dauphine.

bhill2

imidazol97 said:

What is the 5th car in the left lane going away from the camera.

I pretty sure it's a '55 Plymouth.

Lostwrench3

bhill2 said:

imidazol97 said:

What is the 5th car in the left lane going away from the camera.

I pretty sure it's a '55 Plymouth.

I agree, with a 6 cyl.

bhill2

Lostwrench3 said:

bhill2 said:

imidazol97 said:

What is the 5th car in the left lane going away from the camera.

I pretty sure it's a '55 Plymouth.

I agree, with a 6 cyl.

It is indeed a 6. Nice touch.

magnette

The small white car coming towards us - just about to close the gap on the approaching VW - is a Fiat Millecento

imidazol97

imidazol97 said:

What is the 5th car in the left lane going away from the camera.

It's ahead of the 60 Chevy and following a 55? Oldsmobile?

ab348

Here's a pic of Searchlight, NV in 1985 from the remarkable collection of pro photog Dave Glass on Flickr. Blows up real good with a right-click.

stickguy

where old caddys go to die?

andys120

The 4CV and the Fiat 1100 were imported rarities, how amazing that they're in the same shot.

andys120

Searchlight NV is a pretty minimal town, a perfect place for a junk...er... recyling yard.

The oldest car is the mid-50s Ford, by quite a few years.

Lostwrench3

imidazol97 said:

imidazol97 said:

What is the 5th car in the left lane going away from the camera.

It's ahead of the 60 Chevy and following a 55? Oldsmobile?

1963 Olds F-85.

Lostwrench3

andys120 said:

Searchlight NV is a pretty minimal town, a perfect place for a junk...er... recyling yard.

The oldest car is the mid-50s Ford, by quite a few years.

1956 Ford Customline.

fintail

In NV I see an Opel GT next to the Monte Carlo parked at a double wide just right of center in the pic.

magnette

I looked up Searchlight Nevada and apparently its's the birthplace of Airman Nellis, who they named the base after.
Probably not enough to mean it would be on many tourist itineraries though.

andys120

Don't let the dog-dishes fool ya.

omarman

The fender looks like the 427 emblem and the body/trim is late 1963 Ford Galaxie with the fastback roof. Don't think the slapper bars were stock but I had Lakewoods on my Torino. (Minus the 427 R code)

fintail

The Netherlands, 1968 - at least a couple things here are a little unusual:

omarman

'64 Corvair. '68 Opel Kadett B.