Mystery car pix

andys120

fintail said:

Caddy in the immediate foreground, not totally visible, appears to be a 59. Same behind it, I don't think it is a convertible, rather a 6 window sedan. I wonder if there's a Caddy dealer at left.

Huh, the partially visible car behind the blue car has to be an open ragtop, the upturned visor being clearly visible above the thin windshield header. The way the edges of the header are squared off looks more FoMoCo than GM IMO.

There's a white 1959 Chevy taxi coming toward camera on left.

imidazol97

That convertible behind the Cadillac has its brand name showing through the rear glass of the Cadillac along with what looks like the hood ornament. The 4 headlights show as well.

Studebaker? Is that what the script logo is saying on the front of the hood?

ab348

imidazol97 said:

That convertible behind the Cadillac has its brand name showing through the rear glass of the Cadillac along with what looks like the hood ornament. The 4 headlights show as well.

Studebaker? Is that what the script logo is saying on the front of the hood?

Stude never had a headlight configuration like that so I don’t think so. There does appear to be a Studie on the street behind and to the right of the Chevy cab though.

fintail

Yep, I am looking at the car in front of the upturned visor car. 59 Caddy 6 window (likely a Sedan Deville), with another 59 Caddy in front of that.

andys120 said:

Huh, the partially visible car behind the blue car has to be an open ragtop, the upturned visor being clearly visible above the thin windshield header. The way the edges of the header are squared off looks more FoMoCo than GM IMO.

There's a white 1959 Chevy taxi coming toward camera on left.

andys120

OK Fintail, I took a closer look at the blue Caddy towards front and I can see the six windows.
I was fooled by what is apparently a fabric or vinyl covered roof.

Lostwrench3

Lostwrench3 said:

We had a photo of this area before, did we not?
I remember that nosedived aircraft.

Found it. The same photo was on another "ID the Car" web site.

ab348

Let's visit Loa Angeles in 1973 and take a spin down Hollywood Blvd to the Hollywood Sport Cars showroom to look at the many interesting models they have on offer. These two pics should be stitched together but since they aren't I'm posting both of them. Consider them as one, looking from L to R:

magnette

The range would be quite wide - Ferrari Daytona convertible and a 365GTC4 coupe and yet at the other end Midget and Spitfire. Even a Marina 2-door out on the left.

stickguy

nice Volvo P1800ES next to the building. and a Jensen inteceptor next to it. I like the TR6 outside too.

looks like a Lotus hiding behind the Volvo.

andys120

MGB-GT between Jensen and TR-6, XK-E (probably 12cyl) at end of row, a Triumph Spitfire behind. Those were the days

magnette

Yes - the Lotus is a Europa

Most of these cars except the Ferraris would be fairly easy to find at a car show here, but not the Marina 2 door - really quite rare now I think.

magnette

One of these cars has a name which would not be allowed now....


(And I don't know who D Graham is)

fintail

4th car in parked on the street at left in Carlisle appears to be a Vauxhall PA Cresta/Velox. Maybe a Wolseley 1500/Riley 1.5 behind it (more Matchbox car spotting).

stickguy

first car past the sidestreet is a Jag sedan.

andys120

stickguy said:

first car past the sidestreet is a Jag sedan.

Looks more like an XK-120 FHC to me. Tall black unit driving past Austin/Morris Mini might be a Beardsmore taxi.

They're all driving on the wrong side!;)

magnette

The car in front of the white Triumph Herald in the left foreground is a Morris - but although it looks like it, it is not a Morris Oxford or Cowley.

Instead as the four chrome letters above the rear numberplate show, it is a Morris Isis (the six cylinder larger Oxford - a bit like the Austin Westminster to the Cambridge)

Don't imagine the innocent name of the river Isis as it passes through the city of Oxford was controversial as a name in the fifties...

magnette

Andy, that black car looks like a Beardsmore, but it is actually an Austin Ten - they were making that model (another genreration of Austin Cambridge) from 1939 to 1947 and the plate on that one is 1947
The older car facing us on the other side of the Mini is another Morris Six, this time from the late thirties

The two tone car on the right of the picture is one of the first BMC Farina models - the 1958 Wolseley 15/60, the first version introduced.

magnette

@fintail - Thought you would like the set of Matchbox / Dinky toys - quite a few represented here.

Carlisle is the northernmost town on the west coast of England - a mile or two further north and it's Scotland.

ab348

Cleaning up some old saved pics, here is an easy one for a Tuesday, from 1965, Montebello, CA. Blows up well.

stickguy

A 2 fer on the 60 Fords. Nice red Malibu. A 65?

magnette

To the left a 64? Galaxie and a distant shiny red Dodge - about 1950

ab348

When I come across these pics of 1960 Fords, it is remarkable how many of them were painted white. The one further away from the camera here seems to be a shade of that 1960s Ford paint staple of a light non-metallic powder blue.

fintail

The 60 in the foreground is the "Town Victoria" Galaxie 4 door HT that I like. Looks like it was aging fast too, maybe to be expected in an era when cars depreciated fast and new cars were relatively inexpensive compared to the strength of the working class.

I think white might have been trendy in 1960. Most 60 Ford ads I recall show white cars, and it seems 90% of early Falcons were white. I also seem to recall seeing many white 60 Chevys.

https://youtu.be/BMElpF-RkJI

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andys120

I don't recall if they were Nash Ramblers or simply AMC Ramblers when this was taken.
Checker cabs were hardly ever seen outside of NYC.

tmart

56 red and white Tudor Ford at right.

andys120

tmart said:

56 red and white Tudor Ford at right.

It's a pillarless hardtop so IIRC a "Victoria."

stickguy

Is the silver car with white top a ‘59 Lincoln?

tmart

Andys120, you recall correctly.

Lostwrench3

stickguy said:

Is the silver car with white top a ‘59 Lincoln?

1958 Buick.
Pop Quiz - It had no what? First year Buick didn't have them since 1948!

Lostwrench3

And in there, a 1954 Pontiac.

fintail

Laurelhurst, Seattle, date is on the pic, should zoom in clearly:

fintail

Portholes

Lostwrench3 said:

1958 Buick.
Pop Quiz - It had no what? First year Buick didn't have them since 1948!

Lostwrench3

fintail said:

Portholes

Lostwrench3 said:

1958 Buick.
Pop Quiz - It had no what? First year Buick didn't have them since 1948!

Correct.

Lostwrench3

I'll grab the 1960 Buick wagon and, that year, it is the return of portholes!

ab348

Some funny-looking foreign car parked at the curb In the distance ahead of the ‘60 Chevy.

fintail

Small foreign looking car in the distance ahead of the 60 Chevy looks like maybe an Austin A35/A50 or similar.

Typical older houses in that neighborhood generally zillow in the 1-1.5MM range now.

andys120

fintail said:

Small foreign looking car in the distance ahead of the 60 Chevy looks like maybe an Austin A35/A50 or similar.

Looks like a Mercedes Ponton to me.

fintail

Could be a 4cyl model, size could be right. midsection looks kind of curved or something, doesn't give me the same vibe.

andys120 said:

Looks like a Mercedes Ponton to me.

Lostwrench3

And on the right to left - 1959 Dodge - 1953 Olds - 1955 Olds.

tmart

57 Ford Customline first in line.

ab348

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles recently released online 10s of thousands of pics by Edward Ruscha, famous for among other things his photography of various L.A. streets in the '60s and '70s. Some of those I posted earlier this week come from that collection. Here is another, of a Lincoln-Mercury dealer's used car lot in the summer of 1973. Looks like people had already begun trading in their gas-guzzling muscle cars for more economical models. Some deals to be had on a few I imagine:

stickguy

2 69 or 71 Torino GTs and 2 Mavericks. Later ‘72?) Torino dead center. And far left, next to the pinto, an early 70s corolla.

I like the hid the guzzler land yachts in the back row.

andys120

view image + R click to enlarge.

I'll call out the early 50s Willys Aero (2nd car from left) .

omarman

Maybe a '69 Fairlane GT on left and "69" marked on the windshield of the Torino GT on right side. '70 Torino in the middle. The '72 had a 1 year only front clip.


Hard to pick a favorite Mustang without knowing what's under the hood. The '69 GT on the left would probably be worth more than the '68 GT on the right.

But it's a sign of things to come that the Pinto and Maverick lines are crowding the space for the front row.

ab348

omarman said:

Hard to pick a favorite Mustang without knowing what's under the hood. The '69 GT on the left would probably be worth more than the '68 GT on the right.

But it's a sign of things to come that the Pinto and Maverick lines are crowding the space for the front row.

The '69 GT has a shaker hood scoop so that probably has something interesting under the hood. If the '68 is a fastback though (can't tell) that would be my choice.

My theory is that the Mavericks and Pintos are on the used lot for a reason - people bought them when they first came out and then had an allergic reaction to them.

Hard to understand how Ford could justify the cost of that '72 Torino front end despite how good it looked, knowing that bumper regs were coming the next year. The Torinos that followed had a particularly unfortunate variation of that '72 design language.

omarman

I can't find anything on Edmunds about the upcoming 2022 Maverick yet but there are a few hints that it will be compact pickup sharing the C2 platform with the unibody Bronco Sport.

fintail

I liked that Torino style as seen in sporty 2 door from Gran Torino, but the normal coupe, sedan, and wagon didn't look nearly as good IMO.

omarman

While in HS I saw a light blue '72 Ford Ranchero on a used dealer lot in Lancaster. We stopped and looked it over and found a 400/2bbl under the hood with a factory faux scoop. No price marked on it but the lot was closed and the next time I passed by I didn't see it again.

It looked sporty enough to wear that same front clip too.

Lostwrench3

1950 Buick
The Willys
1949 Cadillac
1949 Cadillac
1952 Olds
1953 Chevy

fintail

Seattle, 1972 (should zoom ok):