Mystery car pix

ab348

No parking? No problem! Bedford St, NYC, 1970s.

stickguy

Citroen DS behind a Volvo 144. Good thing that has hefty bumpers with thick rubber on them, considering how much touch parking must go on.

stickguy

And another 144 on the far cross street. And looks like a Toyota Corona behind the Citroen.

fintail

Big GM Clamshell wagon parked at right, Olds?

andys120

ab348 said:

Looks like an Alfa peeking in from the right?

Yup, that's the nose of an Alfetta GTV (Tipo 116)

sda

It does look like an Olds Custom Cruiser parked on the sidewalk

fintail

Humber College, Toronto, 1980 - should zoom nicely:

stickguy

Hello 75 corolla. Same style as my brown one.

Dang, I had a bunch of the cars here, similar vintage. Also the hornet hatch, gremlin, duster, late 60s nova. Just need a 1st gen Camaro and an Opel manta to get me through to college graduation!

Of, far back, an orange Le Car

ab348

Lots of ‘70s Japanese rust in the foreground. Nice ‘69 Charger further back. Even further back a Datsun 510 wagon next to a mid-60s Rambler American.

andys120

The Dodge or Plymouth 4door in mid-pic seems to have a CB antenna on the trunk. It's next to a Gen 2 or 3 Fiat 124 Sport Coupe.

magnette

I can see an AMC Gremlin red with Starsky & Hutch stripes over the right hand side ahead of the metallic green Ford truck
beyond the Gremlin a red Pacer wagon with the wood trim I think
Ahead of that pick up with the roof on it there is a Datsun Bluebird Estate car - appropriately dark blue

ab348

I suspect the picture is from a few years earlier than 1980. Cannot see any GM downsized full-size cars which came out in the fall of ‘76.

stickguy

student parking could explain that!

fintail

For some reason, the big yellow Torino wagon at background left catches my eye - not one of my favorite styles. Some of those rust prone Japanese cars are quite collectible now, low survival rates maybe being part of that.

The school has several pics all claiming to be from 1980. Here's another, with a certain newer car sticking out:



(should zoom well)

stickguy

snazzy red Pontiac Astre in front of the vinyl roof Maverick.

Yellow AMC spirit (Gremlin model).

far left, 1 taillight from a Gen 1 Capri.

tmart

Ford Country Squire, Pacer.

ab348

That isn't a Maverick, @stickguy , that's a 1973 Mercury Comet with the LDO option! Already showing wear and tear with the bent rear bumper, and missing rear hubcap.

I see a pair of 2nd-gen Pontiac Grand Prix (es?), one over by the building in the distance and a snazzy gold one over to the left.

stickguy

Good catch on the taillights.

Middle right, silver blue 75ish corolla 4 door.

andys120

Enough of the 70's crap. Let's look at real cars!

stickguy

Big rambler crossing the intersection. And a smaller blue one parked at the left curb just behind it.

fintail

Real cars? I don't see any 60 Fords or fintails

60 Pontiac convertible in the middle - Catalina?

stickguy

Couple of batwing chevys at least. Not seeing any falcons though either.

ab348

It looks like the '49 Chevy convertible that was in @fintail 's Seattle pic the other day made the trip to wherever this pic is from since it's parked at the right side curb just ahead of a '58 Chevy Impala.

Is that an early '50s Mercury wagon parked at the curb 2 cars ahead of the convertible?.

fintail

Yep looks like a 54 Mercury woody.

tmart

52/53 Ford, 55 Ford

andys120

fintail

Eagle Vision. I remember my mom test drove one back in the day (but bought a Taurus).

andys120

fintail said:

Eagle Vision. I remember my mom test drove one back in the day (but bought a Taurus).

That's right, whatever else they were, those LH cars were good looking.

magnette

This one was new to me and not known here....

fintail

Looks like a DKW 3=6 Kombi to the left of the red car.

fintail

The one my mom drove was loaded, I remember riding in it - white (maybe grey two tone) with grey leather, moonroof, etc. I think it might have been a lease return or demo or something - our town didn't have an Eagle dealer, but it was at the Mopar dealer. Someone warned her off it as Eagle was already known to be a dead man walking, and she didn't want to end up with an orphan.

Taurus lost its head gasket at 80K, I bet the LH had a transmission 'o glass or something that would have failed at the same mileage, so it's a wash.

andys120 said:

That's right, whatever else they were, those LH cars were good looking.

andys120

magnette said:

This one was new to me and not known here....

Looks like a late 60s Ford Taunus 17M

ab348

It's a nice summery day in 1973 and it looks like a lot of New Yorkers decided it would be a good time for a trip on the Staten Island Ferry. This image expands to quite a large size.

stickguy

interesting park job.

stickguy

I thought at first it was a blue SAAB 4 door toward the bottom right in front of a tan Mustang. but headlights and rear fender vents seem wrong, so probably a Renault of some sort.

center right a red Audi next to a white beetle, and far left a dark colored Volvo 142

fintail

Car in front of the two tone Mustang at lower right is indeed a Saab 99.

Big white 66 Ford non-Squire (Country Sedan I guess) wagon at left.

Lostwrench3

Toward the left - 1969 Pontiac Custom S

stickguy

must have been a trick of the light on the picture that made the SAAB nose look weird.

omarman

stickguy said:

interesting park job.

"and there are 2 vegas, making a T with each other."

magnette

@ab348 "Looks like a late 60's Ford Taurus 17M"



Fin also noted the car next to it is a DKW Kombi.

It isn't a Ford although the distant ancestor of it was once a European Ford - but not German...

This is a car I knew nothing about, but it's in Brazil, and is a 1968 - 69 Simca Esplanada, and was a product of the Brazilian Simca assembly operation.

Simca Brazil assembled various versions of the Simca Vedette which were themselves versions of the French Ford Versailles from the mid fifties.

In Brazil those versions were known as the Simca Presidence and Rallye and by the late sixties the Simca plant in Brazil was part of Chrysler, as of course Simca France was a year or two later.

From 1967 these Esplanada models were basically a 1960s Simca Vedette with new nose and tail designed in Detroit, and had badges saying "fabrica pela Chrysler" to indicate the change of owner.

In total the Brazilians built about 17,500 Esplinadas including a more basic version closer to the old Simca Ariane which was a stripped model... It ended in 1969 and there seem to be quite a few left judging by the pictures in Wikipedia.

ab348

I'll take the schweet '68 Chrysler 300 convertible holding down the end of the row across the center of the picture. There is a row of mastodons there with a '65 Ford, a pair of fuselage Chrylsers, one a Town and Country wagon, and what appears to be perhaps a '63 or '64 Mercury. Then to compensate you get an Opel Kadett, what I too thought was an Audi but might be a Renault given the small size, and a Beetle. A fullize '70 Chevy then separates it from another Beetle.

I think the oldest car is a some overly accessorized '57 Chevy (?) middle right (at first I thought it might be a '50s Buick) but I see over on the far left by the fence something that might be a Ford that is a few years older sporting a continental kit.

ab348

magnette said:

@ab348 "Looks like a late 60's Ford Taurus 17M"

Not me, that was Andy's guess.

magnette

Turning to Staten Island car park there are two red imports in the first row beyond the lateral parked cars. I think the right hand one is a Toyota and the left makes me think Opel Kadett / Olympia. I also see a Volvo 142 I believe to the left, three cars in

Yellow Chevrolet Vega boxed in by white Ford wagon and boxing in the Saab is that a Chrysler New Yorker - about a 63 hardtop sedan?

fintail

I see Simca influence in the "hip" kink of the beltline, but that front end is very mid 60s Ford/AMC, both of which also had a large presence in the 60s South American market.

magnette said:

This is a car I knew nothing about, but it's in Brazil, and is a 1968 - 69 Simca Esplanada, and was a product of the Brazilian Simca assembly operation.

andys120

Staten Is. Ferry- Saab 900 toward left next to black Chrysler.

magnette

ab348 said:

magnette said:

@ab348 "Looks like a late 60's Ford Taurus 17M"

Not me, that was Andy's guess.

Whoops - sorry

andys120

stickguy

looks like someone grafted the nose of a Valiant onto a Ferrari.

fintail

Iso something, one of the first of the marque, I think.

fintail

Humber College, 1980 again - should click and zoom pretty well for something so wide - a real smorgasbord here: