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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,748
    Nor did I see a Falcon. But that is the most gen 1 Capris I have ever seen in one place.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 265,924
    Aston Martin DBS, as featured in the Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,623
    Very much the same front end as the OHMSS Aston, but look at the badge.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,623
    Tons more to ID at Disney - among others I see are a Rabbit, maybe a Saab 99, Mustang II fastback, but we can move on.

    Lompoc CA, 1962 (click and zoom etc):

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,748
    usually couple beetles and a batwing!

    and appears to be at far left, a woody 1960 Ford country sedan. though the woody part might be a shadow since can only really see the front end.

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  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Lower right next to the Oldie Olds is a '73 Cougar with half vinyl top.
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  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Where were you in (Lompoc CA) '62?
    Looks like a blue '62 Olds 88 Starfire wagon.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,748
    edited April 2020
    being born.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,748
    whats that smaller white 2 door wagon toward the lower right? partially hidden by the Olds wagon.

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  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Maybe a Nash. 1960ish?
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,623
    White wagon at far left looks like a 61 Mercury to me.

    However, at lower right beside a batwing (appears to be a 60) Chevy is a blue and white 60 Ford wagon!
  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Looks like a light '60 Ford parked straight in at Woolworth's.
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,623
    Aha I see that 60 as well, under the "OO" of Woolworth's.

    White wagon near the Olds is a Rambler, yeah.
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,612
    Yes, a Rambler American. A more or less contemporary Rambler wagon, black, lurks at the end of that row (mostly hidden by the green Mercury wagon).

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Michaell said:

    Aston Martin DBS, as featured in the Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

    It's a Chrysler Hemi powered 1972 Monteverdi 375S.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    This is a collection belonging to a tech mogul that is now up for auction to satify tax liabilities. It certainly defines the word "eclectic":



    I'll pick off the red car in the foreground; it is a Fiat 8V (mid 50s?) with a Ghia body.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,411
    fintail said:

    Tons more to ID at Disney - among others I see are a Rabbit, maybe a Saab 99, Mustang II fastback, but we can move on.

    Lompoc CA, 1962 (click and zoom etc):

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,411
    andys120 said:

    This is a collection belonging to a tech mogul that is now up for auction to satify tax liabilities. It certainly defines the word "eclectic":



    I'll pick off the red car in the foreground; it is a Fiat 8V (mid 50s?) with a Ghia body.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,430
    The boys at GM Design back then must have been really challenged trying to adapt the tubular rear quarter panels of the '61/'62 Olds body to a station wagon design.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,430
    Speaking of GM Design, here is a good example of how GM was just really good at spending money back in the day:

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    What you are seeing is a customized GMC motorhome built for the upper echelons at GM, used by them to view models of proposed designs outside while circling the Design Center patio, to ensure they were protected from the heat of summer or the cold blasts in winter. Special custom windows and seating facing that wall of glass. Pics courtesy of Dean's Garage. Amazing.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,748
    very pretty dark blue Aston DB4. always one of my favorite cars.

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  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,183
    Love the color on the 59 Caddy.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,152
    I think that Jag is a modernized version, big$$.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,430
    texases said:

    I think that Jag is a modernized version, big$$.

    Yes, it looks like an Eagle E-type.

    https://youtu.be/66owXqZaexs?t=127

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited April 2020
    stickguy said:

    very pretty dark blue Aston DB4. always one of my favorite cars.

    It's s DB-5, those had faired in headlights, the DB4s w ere open


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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,623
    MB in the techdork's collection is a 300S/Sc - I think I'd take that one.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    texases said:

    I think that Jag is a modernized version, big$$.

    ab348 said:

    texases said:

    I think that Jag is a modernized version, big$$.

    Yes, it looks like an Eagle E-type.

    https://youtu.be/66owXqZaexs?t=127
    It's the Lightweight coupe version of the E-Type, designed for endurance racing, a few "continuation" examples were made in recent years.

    https://www.evo.co.uk/jaguar/xkr/13949/jaguar-e-type-lightweight-revealed

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  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,183

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,748
    Mustang SVO. 2.3l turbo. Ahead of it's time. Mid 80's for just a few years. No clue which year this one is.

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  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,183
    Yes, but it’s a special model. Any takers?

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,152
    Judging by the color, is that some sort of Bullitt special edition?
  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,183
    It’s a 1985 Hertz Special Edition. I’ve never seen one before.

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,612
    edited April 2020
    fintail said:

    MB in the techdork's collection is a 300S/Sc - I think I'd take that one.

    I'll flip you for it (although I sure wouldn't flip it).

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,748
    never heard of that Hertz either. But I did notice the color as something I really liked!

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,623
    I suppose the right 300Sc cabrio might hit 7 figures. Just as special as anything else in the shot, even with its subtle prewar-inspired looks.
    bhill2 said:


    I'll flip you for it (although I sure wouldn't flip it).

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,623
    Somewhere, November 1976 (click zoom etc):

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,748
    interesting mix. top left, a gen 1 Capri. Bottom right, next to the Mustang Mach 1 (I think a 1971), a mid 70's Corolla. Might be an E-5, based on the 2 hood "vents". Mine had that! Usual boatload of Beetles, an a Peugeot 504 Wagon . Assume a diesel!

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,612
    Wherever it is, they like Beetles. My "rare-sighting" eye is drawn to the Peugeot wagon in the middle of the nearer diagonal parking row between the two Beetles and the Pinto wagon.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,411
    I spy a Cougar and a Maverick, I think.
  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Yes that Mustang Mach 1 could be a '71 or '72 without seeing the back. Funny now looking at the proportions of the Mustang parked next to the Corolla back then. Maybe only 6" difference in length for the 2020 models.
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited April 2020
    texases said:

    I think that Jag is a modernized version, big$$.

    ab348 said:

    texases said:

    I think that Jag is a modernized version, big$$.

    Yes, it looks like an Eagle E-type.


    I don't think it's either, it's the rare lightweight racing version raced in enduros like Sebring, LeMans and Targa Florio. A handful were madeabd raced back in the day, and more recently they've built a few "continuation cars.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited April 2020
    Kings Road Fulham 1959 - car sales on a bombsite.

    It's like a Dinky /Corgi Toys showroom but 1/1 scale


  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,748
    Jag sedan far right and very old beetle center.

    That’s about it for me!

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited April 2020
    It's probably a slightly different place now - this is the cheap end of the Kings Road - the other end about a mile away is in Chelsea. I imagine the site is a block of luxury flats now!

    Even worse, I'm older than this photo...
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,152
    @magnette - tell us more about "car sales on a bombsite" in '59 - was it common for car lots to be on destroyed areas?
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited April 2020
    I think the whole of the used car trade in London, Liverpool and a lot of other cities would have had sites like this. I grew up in South Wales and our nearest bombed cities were Cardiff and Swansea, but I can remember similar sites when I was a kid in the sixties - especially near the docks. London got bombed heavily not just in the East but all across the riverside suburbs - including Fulham. There is a railway viaduct behind this site so I think it's part of the Underground line there but it would have been a residential area and not that posh - Chelsea was of course but Fulham had industries too.

    Even when I was in college in East London in the mid seventies there were whole areas of dereliction - especially near the docks - and they would have car lots too. It's all changed now, of course.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Next to the shack toward right is what looks like a Triumph Mayflower.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,152
    edited April 2020
    Is that a Citroen Traction Avant on the left, rear, partially blocked by the gent in white?
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited April 2020
    There is actually a website which shows the location of bombs dropped in London, I looked at it for our street here in North East London, when we moved here, and we could tell our house which is pre war was missed by a stick of bombs because there are two blocks of flats over the road from us and one diagonally in each the two adjoining streets - they all came out of one plane I expect in a single line.

    I worked with someone about ten years ago and her boyfriend's flat in another bit of London was evacuated when workmen in the basement of their block found a bomb - the army come along and defuse it or whatever and take it away to the marshes to blow it up. Happens fairly often although it's less common nowadays in central London as most of those were found years ago with redevelopment.
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