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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 826
    Very distinctive and easy to ID
    3rd up from bottom - 1955 Pontiac.
    5th up from bottom - 1953 Pontiac.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 826
    I find that the two General Motors SW1s, 83 + 77, were still working together in August 1973!
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    A 60 Ford and the rear of a 56 Ford four door, probably a Fairlane.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    edited October 2020
    Hey a '60 Ford 4-poster behind the Studebaker Lark wagon. Why is almost every car apparently white?

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,603
    My eye was drawn to the '58 Ambassador. I don't know exactly why, it's just so square and funky. Of course, it may had something to do with the fact that it was about the size of an early Studebaker Lark and had 250 hp.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,513
    Paradise, Mount Rainier - should zoom in OK, something here is unlike the others:

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    I've been to St George Utah too... It was our first stop out of Vegas on a holiday in September 2002, just because it was convenient for the Zion Canyon Nat Park. Nice little place but we didn't know about the problems with nukes that had happened in the past.

    I remember a hill at the back of town with a large G (or maybe SG) on it I think which was to show it was St George and other towns had similar letters - guy in the diner where we had breakfast said they all had those letters to help guide early commercial pilots in the twenties
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Ford must have had a deal in 1960 with the national association of press photographers or someone to get all these cars in every shot...

    Studebaker Lark wagon ahead of todays example, and two 52 Chevrolets behind it (one beyond the rail crossing)
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,518
    is the light green car partially into the spot a big Jag or a Daimler? Doesn't quite look like a Rolls.

    Also a VW bug hiding behind one of those bugs.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    Is that a Rolls next to the 49/50 Ford convertible?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    The smaller red tour busses are White Motor Coaches. They still use some at Yellowstone.
    The only import readily visible is the gray Jag (Mk7?) sedan next to a blue Shoebox Ford ragtop.

    Across the way behind a knot of people is a small white sedan but I can't make out what it is.
    Newest cars I see are '53-54 vintage.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 826
    Well, there's a '46, '47, or '48 black Pontiac in there.
    I would need to see the grille.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Is that pinkish car next to the blue & white Chevrolet an early post war Nash of some sort?
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 826
    magnette said:

    Is that pinkish car next to the blue & white Chevrolet an early post war Nash of some sort?

    I don't see a rear "suicide door".
    I think it is the same as the whitish car, 2 cars away, a 1948 Oldsmobile 76.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,513
    Yep, the exotic next to the shoebox Ford convertible is a Jaguar Mark VII.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Hadn't thought of Olds 76
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,350
    LAX, mid-1960s. Expands nicely.


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,518
    obligatory Falcon 4 door front and center. and is the silver with black top car behind the red Batwing chevy a 66 Riviera?

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 826
    stickguy said:

    obligatory Falcon 4 door front and center. and is the silver with black top car behind the red Batwing chevy a 66 Riviera?

    Cannot see the top of the rear tire so I would say no.
    On the left a 1958 Dodge Kingsway.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 826
    stickguy said:

    obligatory Falcon 4 door front and center. and is the silver with black top car behind the red Batwing chevy a 66 Riviera?

    I'll go with its being a '65 Buick Wildcat.
  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Silver blue Mustang with white convertible top.
    A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,513
    Light blue and white 59 Edsel sedan at background right. Nice Rambler 2 door HT in front of the white Falcon.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    Lostwrench3 said:

    stickguy said:

    obligatory Falcon 4 door front and center. and is the silver with black top car behind the red Batwing chevy a 66 Riviera?

    I'll go with its being a '65 Buick Wildcat.
    Me too, it's too long in rear for a Riviera.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    I’ll take the bullet Bird.
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,603
    Rats! Fin took the '59 Edsel I was going to make a snarky comment about. I'll take the white '60 Olds flat top seen over the rear of the Riviera because one of my high-school chums rebuilt one in auto shop and drove it. Pretty cushy.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    Brochure art>



    Not hard to figure out what that is but I was struck by the sheer size of it, even with no other
    vehicles to compare it with.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    64 Chevy Impala. It definitely looks HUGE!
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    This 'un blows up nicely>


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,518
    nice gen 1 Corvair coupe bottom left. And about midway up that row, a Falcon.

    I am sure there is also a '60 Ford in there someplace but have not found it yet.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    There is a 59 Ford and I think a 61. So the 60 is corralled.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Rambler wagon ahead of the cab
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,350
    Here's one from 1956, the year of my birth, in what was then dirty old Halifax, my home town. Courtesy Halifax Municipal archives. Should expand somewhat.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 826
    Front row facing you, 1953 Chevy.
    Also in there, a '47, '48, or '49 Studebaker. Need to see the grille.
    And next to the '53 Chevy, a 1953 Mercury Meteor.
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    49/51 Ford.
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,603
    magnette said:

    Rambler wagon ahead of the cab

    I am an AMC enthusiast, but that Rambler is a one I wasn't aware of; a station wagon with plood. You learn something new every day.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,513
    I think I see the roofline of a Morris Oxford behind the shoebox Ford coupe.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    edited October 2020
    That is a Morris Oxford MO

    The convertible to the right with bonnet and boot open is an Austin A40 Somerset

    I assumed the grey car next to the Studebaker is a Chevrolet of some age, but it looks a bit like a Vauxhall Wyvern or Velox L series - the immediate post war range.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,513
    Yep, I don't think the car next to the Stude is American.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    edited October 2020



    This is the 1949 Vauxhall Velox I had in mind - particularly the rear lights low down
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,513
    Rear windscreen also matches. I am pretty sure, unlike period Austins, these were not sold in the US.
    magnette said:



    This is the 1949 Vauxhall Velox I had in mind - particularly the rear lights low down

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    I was surprised to see it too - although I appreciate Canada took more British cars then - including at least two Morris Oxfords as that was something we saw a couple of weeks back there too!

    @ab348 - it makes you think this is from our Halifax in Yorkshire - we seem to have more cars there than US ones ! On the other hand it can't be Yorkshire without cobbles, flat caps and whippets in those days...
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,513
    Intermecannica Italia?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    fintail said:

    Intermecannica Italia?

    Correctamundo, Fin. Intermeccanica, a Turin-based company founded by Canadian Frank Reisner has been making sports and GT cars since 1959. The Italia featured power from a Ford 351CID "Cleveland" V8

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    Well, it’s a Toyota Tercel SR5 wagon. Beyond that, no clue!
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,518
    It has AWD too!

    We used to call that the ATM car.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    1953 Pontiac Chieftain - is this the first Catalina model?
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 826
    It's a 1953 Pontiac. As to the model name, I think that was a confusing year when Pontiac named it a Chieftan Catalina.
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