Mystery car pix

andys120

Lostwrench3

1969 Plymouth GTX.

ab348

Huh. For 50 years I never noticed those character lines on the front and rear fenders of that generation of Plymouths.

ab348

There's always a joker in the deck...

stickguy

toilet seat valiant and the required Falcon. Middle right is a 64ish Chevy II.

Lostwrench3

1960 Dodge Dart.

andys120

The taxi is a 1962 Ford and the VW on left is a 58-66 vintage Beetle (Type 1200cc)

magnette

The Rolls Royce is a Silver Cloud III - coachwork by Park Ward

This car always reminds me of the film Blow Up - David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Birkin, and the music is great too - loads of atmospheric shots of late 60's suburban London

ab348

andys120 said:

The taxi is a 1962 Ford

Maybe take a closer look. You got caught by the joker I mentioned.

texases

Crazy tail lights on that '62 Meteor taxi.

andys120

Doh! forgot about those Meteors. Got MY wrong, it's a '61.

texases said:

Crazy tail lights on that '62 Meteor taxi.

Pity the poor stylists tasked with altering a perfectly good design so it wouldn't look too "American."

texases

Kind of like some of the Edsels.

fintail

Yep. Also Rodney Dangerfield's Car in 'Caddyshack'. There appears to be a MB W116 driving away in the background, then a new car. The driver is Marvin Gaye.

I thought a few of the domestics in the background would be easy for some.

magnette said:

The Rolls Royce is a Silver Cloud III - coachwork by Park Ward

This car always reminds me of the film Blow Up - David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Birkin, and the music is great too - loads of atmospheric shots of late 60's suburban London

fintail

Seattle, the mid-late 70s - things long gone on many levels:

stickguy

'77 Monza hatchback. Still IMO a nice looking car, and like an exotic back then. That was the car I looked at used (maybe around '82?) where the mechanic we used said don't bring it here for service (or maybe just plugs) since you had to jack the engine up to replace the rear plugs. It was cool though. Shiny silver, V8 with a 4 speed. Already had some rust IIRC. Did not buy it (pretty sure it was stretching the budget too far).

Woody Pinto wagon hiding behind it. and won't swear to it, but the car behind the Pinto reminds me of the nose of a LeCar

fintail

I get a 75-79 Corolla vibe from the car behind the Pinto. I've always been amused they crammed a V8 into Monzas.

A few more to ID, found this humorous pic online:

magnette

Was that Meteor taxi earlier a 61 Rideau?

ab348

magnette said:

Was that Meteor taxi earlier a 61 Rideau?

I believe so. That was the low-line model and likely what was used for cabs.

This was the front-end styling, quite different from the equivalent Ford:

stickguy

fintail said:

I get a 75-79 Corolla vibe from the car behind the Pinto. I've always been amused they crammed a V8 into Monzas.

A few more to ID, found this humorous pic online:

Sadly, only one I actually know is the Delorean. But I think it is next to a Ford. Maybe a 56?

omarman

Left of the '56 Ford looks like a black '53 Ford.

Lostwrench3

There's a '53 or '54 Packard in there on the left. I would need to see the side trim.

bhill2

stickguy said:

fintail said:

I get a 75-79 Corolla vibe from the car behind the Pinto. I've always been amused they crammed a V8 into Monzas.

A few more to ID, found this humorous pic online:

Sadly, only one I actually know is the Delorean. But I think it is next to a Ford. Maybe a 56?

Yes, it's a '56, and it looks like an unusual model; a Fairlane 2-door sedan. I don't think they sold a lot of those.

tmart

Also, a 52/54 Ford next to the 56 Fairlane.

ab348

The other day @magnette commented on the popularity of Hillmans over here. This picture from the late 1950s of downtown Vancouver, BC shows a Nash/Hillman/Humber/Rover/Willys dealer in all its glory. Imagine the logistics of shipping those British vehicles from their homeland to the west coast of Canada! It should expand well in the usual manner.

magnette

I love the 1920s ? car parked out the front in the then regular traffic- already a good few years old. What is it?

The departing Ford wagon is chasing an MGA following that then new Mopar. There is a white convertible in front of the window which may be a Sunbeam or Sunbeam Talbot and the wing on that dark car obscuring it's door looks like a Hillman or possibly Humber?

The car parked on the corner is a late version of the E series Vauxhall Velox / Wyvern - the grille was updated in 1956 and that is the last version. If it was a Cresta there would probably be more flashy side trim.

I know the later Victor was named the Envoy - did the earlier cars like this have a different name in Canada?

Do you think the route for those cars would have been from Australia up the Asian coast or to the Great Lakes and eventually across the Canadian Pacific Railroad? Either way it is really an Epic journey

ab348

magnette said:

Do you think the route for those cars would have been from Australia up the Asian coast or to the Great Lakes and eventually across the Canadian Pacific Railroad? Either way it is really an Epic journey

I don't think they would have come from Australia since the assembly plants there only produced RHD cars to my knowledge, and were fairly small in scale.

If they were coming from Britain, the route might depend somewhat on the time of year. In winter the Port of Montreal was closed by the freeze-up of the St. Lawrence River, so they would have needed to come into Halifax most likely and then make the cross-country trek by rail. At other times of year they might go to Montreal but until the St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 that's as far as they could go by ship. I suppose it is also possible they could have traveled by ship to a port on the east coast of the USA since back in those days there were no regulatory requirements for cars that were different between Canada and the US. Or they could have gone on a much longer sea cruise through the Panama Canal of course (forgot that option earlier). In any event, it was a very long trek.

ab348

Oh, sorry @magnette, I don't know the answers to your other questions. I suspect, though, that the Vauxhalls would have been sold here under their original names back then. The Envoy name was used in the 1960s when Chevy dealers also started selling what became rebadged Vauxhall models as Envoys, while Pontiac dealers handled the Vauxhall brand as they did back in the 1950s.

magnette

To put it into context we also sold a heck of a lot of cars in Australia which is even further - although there they were locally assembled to avoid tariffs by the 50's - stuff like BMC etc were quite popular in the towns I think although I imagine the average road in the outback would have finished off any Morris 1100 ADO16 or similar...

magnette

I saw a Vauxhall Envoy - the mark 1 FA Victor- at a British car show a few years ago - the couple who bought it - in Canada - had it in great condition and of course it was eligible for the Vauxhall car club here so was with them.

fintail

Burrard St. in Vancouver, looking south. The modern building in the background is the BC Electric building, which is still there. Likely nothing else visible in the pic is still there, the area has been built up dramatically in the intervening 60 years. No car dealerships in that immediate area either, they moved south of the bridge eons ago.

The sidemounted old timer is an apparently American larger car from around 1930, maybe Olds/Buick in market position, really tough to determine.

andys120

I think this one has been retouched to make the colors more vivid but there's an interesting> range of models here>



Don't miss the white CJ-5 parked on the beach in the center of picto the right of the roadway.

fintail

61 Galaxie 2 door post just past the crosswalk at right.

ab348

That 1960 Dodge convertible with the blue top would be a conversation piece these days.

Lostwrench3

ab348 said:

That 1960 Dodge convertible with the blue top would be a conversation piece these days.

I think it's the nicest Dart of them all.

tmart

Surprised no one claimed the red Corvette!

fintail

That white on red 61 Impala convertible is likely like the one my mom bought as an ordinary used car in 1968, for $800. Too bad she didn't hold on to that!

ab348

Trying to ID the silver convertible ahead of the blue ‘64 Pontiac. Could it be a Benz?

fintail

Silver convertible does kind of suggest MB Pagoda, but those have a split rear bumper. Larger cars had 3 piece rear bumpers. I can't place it.

Ahead of that, dark car apparently parked, a 2CV?

omarman

I think the silver convertible looks like a '64 Tempest but not a GTO.


edit: @texases is correct. It's actually a '63 Tempest.

bhill2

That was my first guess Omarman, so I'll throw in with you.

fintail

Looks good to me, too.

texases

That pic above is a ‘63 Tempest

andys120

White car in right hand lane is a Volvo PV544. It's by far the tallest car in the pic and the only import.

tmart said:

Surprised no one claimed the red Corvette!

Hard to say from that angle but i think the 'Vette is a C2 (aka Stingray)

andys120

The pink Buick is a 1961, the tell is the points on fenders.

kyfdx

andys120 said:

White car in right hand lane is a Volvo PV544. It's by far the tallest car in the pic and the only import.

tmart said:

Surprised no one claimed the red Corvette!

Hard to say from that angle but i think the 'Vette is a C2 (aka Stingray)

Definitely a C2

ab348

More from Vancouver, this time in the late 1960s.

magnette

fintail said:

Silver convertible does kind of suggest MB Pagoda, but those have a split rear bumper. Larger cars had 3 piece rear bumpers. I can't place it.

Ahead of that, dark car apparently parked, a 2CV?

That black car - it does look like a 2CV but its so far away. My first impression was a Standard Ten - I think the Triumph TR10 or something with you.

magnette

Now looking at Vancouver - I'm amazed we ever got any Vauxhalls et al in the UK when they all went across the pond. This is a 57-59 PA Velox or more probably Cresta - they changed the grille and other details in October 59

Also a 54 BelAir parked at the end of the first block and beyond the cop's head a 57 Pontiac - not the flashiest one so perhaps a Super Chief

EDIT - the front wing of the car entering shot on the right - towards the cop - looks like a Sprite / Midget to me

Lostwrench3

Front right - 1967 Camaro convertible.

fintail

This time in Vancouver, I suspect this is near Stanley Park (by the sign on the building), probably looking south judging by the slight hill. No doubt the old building is long gone now.

I notice the VW is an oval window, so before 1958. Directly above it looks like a 64 Impala convertible. Maybe a Vauxhall (or a late model Valiant) behind it, too?