Mystery car pix

tjc78

stickguy said:

no encore actually went fast.

In all reality nothing in the 80s went fast except for leg warmers and shoulder pads.

bhill2

ab348 said:

Here's another shot from the Halifax Municipal Archives of the downtown waterfront area, probably from around 1966 or '67. Expands some.

If it's 1966, it's late 1966. The piece of front end peeking out on the lower left belongs to a 1967 Chevy.

Lostwrench3

Terrible strain on those electric poles, far too much bend. Not good.

magnette

I see the Halifax Vauxhall dealer has been at it again - Vauxhall Epic - your local version of the Viva HA - in front of the Chevrolet by the sign.

A Valiant at the head of the line of parked cars beyond the VW bus and another - a wagon - on the far side of the parking lot through the fence

stickguy

Falcon du jour behind the VW bus.

ab348

Hollywood Auto Imports, 1973, another from the Ruscha collection of photos at the Getty Museum. We didn't know how lucky we had it back then to be able to walk into a place like this and see things like this place has in the showroom. Pic expands for a better look.

texases

1970 Lambo Jarama by the window. Unusual intake layout, I guess because it's a 60 degree V12:

stickguy

That must be a nightmare to work on.

stickguy

Alfa spider sideways in the back. And 68 cougar parked in front.

Michaell

ab348 said:

Hollywood Auto Imports, 1973, another from the Ruscha collection of photos at the Getty Museum. We didn't know how lucky we had it back then to be able to walk into a place like this and see things like this place has in the showroom. Pic expands for a better look.

I had no idea he's been taking pictures since 1965, and that there are hundreds of thousands of them over the years.

texases

stickguy said:

That must be a nightmare to work on.

This might be worse:

tmart

Michaell said:

ab348 said:

Hollywood Auto Imports, 1973, another from the Ruscha collection of photos at the Getty Museum. We didn't know how lucky we had it back then to be able to walk into a place like this and see things like this place has in the showroom. Pic expands for a better look.

I had no idea he's been taking pictures since 1965, and that there are hundreds of thousands of them over the years.

Cougar parked on the street. Always liked the hidden headlights and sequential taillights.

andys120

Next to the Lambo is an Alfa Romeo Guilia Sprint, probably a 1600.

A buddy of mine has a nice '67 Cougar/390.

ab348

If you look closely inside the showroom I think you can spot a second Lambo with its nose facing the camera.

andys120

I see a black car facing the Camera but not enough is visible to tell make or model

texases

andys120 said:

I see a black car facing the Camera but not enough is visible to tell make or model

I think the half-covered headlights mean it's another Jarama, like @ab348 thought.

ab348

No mystery here, but Shorpy.com has this Ford factory photo from the introduction of this favourite featured today and it is such a nice pic I thought I’d post it here.

tmart

A nice 60 Ford County Squire in, I believe Lime Gold.

andys120

texases said:

andys120 said:

I see a black car facing the Camera but not enough is visible to tell make or model

I think the half-covered headlights mean it's another Jarama, like @ab348 thought.

I hadn't noticed the h/ls were half covered but on second lookI think youse are probably right, IMO the Jarama was one of Lambos best looking cars.

sda

ab348 said:

No mystery here, but Shorpy.com has this Ford factory photo from the introduction of this favourite featured today and it is such a nice pic I thought I’d post it here.

That does look smart and notice no driver door rear view mirror. Options, options...

stickguy

probably left the mirror off in the picture (drawing?) to see the car/driver better

I love that house though. Big fan of mid century modern.

imidazol97

sda said:

ab348 said:

No mystery here, but Shorpy.com has this Ford factory photo from the introduction of this favourite featured today and it is such a nice pic I thought I’d post it here.

That does look smart and notice no driver door rear view mirror. Options, options...

I _think_ the mirror was optional. I can't find it in the brochures. On models pictured, no door mirror.

imidazol97

Just to get our fill of 1960s since they are rare in the real world...

ab348

Some more pics of them I have on my phone:

omarman

As a full-size wagon, the Country Squire could seat nine people and the middle bench featured a 2/3-1/3-split for easy access to the last row. Upmarket options for the Country Squire included a SelectAire Conditioner, a pushbutton-tuned Console Range Radio, and a four-way manual tilt or power front seat.

I know these were big station wagons and the brochure art kinda reinforced that idea.

fintail

Pretty sure the red Galaxie above is the same "tomato red" as the primary color on my dad's car (it was red and white). Still such a unusual looking car to me, but not in a bad way. I remember when we "discovered" it around 1990, I don't think I had seen a 60 Ford in person before, I knew it had to be rare, and it looked fascinating to my 13 year old eyes.

stickguy

that Ford certainly looks like it has great all around visibility.

andys120

Outside rear view mirrors were optional on many (most?) cars then.

kyfdx

Even in '82, my Honda didn't come with a passenger-side mirror.

imidazol97

andys120 said:

Outside rear view mirrors were optional on many (most?) cars then.

Were they "dealer installed" options in most cases for that era?

ab348

imidazol97 said:

andys120 said:

Outside rear view mirrors were optional on many (most?) cars then.

Were they "dealer installed" options in most cases for that era?

Passenger-side ones often were a dealer item. Not sure about drivers side. I just looked at the 1960 Ford brochure and not only did none of the illustrations show a driver's side mirror on any of the cars shown, its availability wasn't mentioned anywhere either.

kyfdx

I wonder if they were left off for art purposes in the brochure?

ab348

They weren't standard back then. In the '60 Ford brochure, things like seat belts, rear child safety door locks, padded sunvisors and padded dashboards were all optional as well.

I missed the outside rear view mirror in the brochure. It is there and pictured as an extra-cost option.

omarman

imidazol97 said:

sda said:

ab348 said:

No mystery here, but Shorpy.com has this Ford factory photo from the introduction of this favourite featured today and it is such a nice pic I thought I’d post it here.

That does look smart and notice no driver door rear view mirror. Options, options...

I _think_ the mirror was optional. I can't find it in the brochures. On models pictured, no door mirror.

It does look like the brochure lists the side mirror (and heater) as optional for the 1960 Ford.

magnette

I think they had a red 60 Country Squire in the external shots for the diner in Twin Peaks sometimes

stickguy

Interesting. It’s a “must for safe driving” yet they make it optional.

andys120

stickguy said:

Interesting. It’s a “must for safe driving” yet they make it optional.

Well they made it optional but almost everything now comes w large outside r/v mirrors on both sides, probably because the law required. Some models now have rear facing cameras with on-dash monitors. I expect that to soon be universal.

tjc78

stickguy said:

Interesting. It’s a “must for safe driving” yet they make it optional.

Well seat belts used to be optional too!

sda

Yep, my 62 Galaxie didn't have seatbelts, back up lights, door mirror(s), windshield washers. It did have one speed electric wipers (thankfully not vacuum) heater/def, and a wonderful sounding horn. Metal dash competed the non-safety aspect of the car. At least it didn't crack as it got older.

magnette

Here we had no requirement for external mirrors on saloon cars until the eighties, but I remember when my father got a Vauxhall Victor estate car in 1965 and the law changed a while after that and all estate cars had to have two wing mirrors -not saloons though.
Basically as it had a tailgate it was in the same regulations as commercial vehicles I think.

Also it wasn't fitted with seat belts and the law on that changed in about 1967 or so as my dad had to get those fitted as well but my mum's Mini was a year or two older and didn't have belts fitted nor required retrospectively.

It became compulsory to wear seat belts in the front of a car in UK in about 1983 I think and nowadays if they are fitted we have to use them in the back as well

My 1955 Magnette never had front seat belts until I got them fitted in 2012 - and that was because they were clearly a good thing and we didn't want to go into the solid dashboard... In all the time until they were fitted the car didn't have them but continued to pass the annual MOT test of roadworthiness, but now it has them I am obliged to wear them as with all modern cars... I still don't have to have rear belts though

fintail

Wow, you're right, I have no memory of this:

magnette said:

I think they had a red 60 Country Squire in the external shots for the diner in Twin Peaks sometimes

fintail

My dad's 60 had vacuum wipers, one mirror, no reverse lights, but it did have a factory radio. It either had manual steering or manual brakes - I can't recall which, and that period Ford design with the automatic shift rod visible on the steering column. It had dog dish hubcaps with thick beauty rings, I am pretty sure I recall it being a 352.

The 66 Galaxie had power assists, automatic, radio, one mirror, reverse lights, seatbelts, full wheel covers - a pretty normal car. 390.

The 68 Fairlane still amuses me. Manual steering and brakes, one mirror, dog dish hubcaps with no beauty rings, factory radio, 289 3 on the tree. Icing on the cake, it was white on white.

sda said:

Yep, my 62 Galaxie didn't have seatbelts, back up lights, door mirror(s), windshield washers. It did have one speed electric wipers (thankfully not vacuum) heater/def, and a wonderful sounding horn. Metal dash competed the non-safety aspect of the car. At least it didn't crack as it got older.

imidazol97

When did Ford start using the vacuum-assisted wipers that used a pump cam on the crankshaft? It may have been a fuel pump and vacuum assist both?

magnette

Yeah - I was hooked on Twin Peaks when it came along in about 1990 and we have had a look at the original series a couple of years ago on repeat just before the new version was launched about two(?)years ago.

I wouldn't have remembered that car though unless I had seen an odd episode last summer with a shot of the diner and it came to me when we were looking at all these 1960 Fords again now.

ab348

If I had been cruising down Sunset Blvd in L.A. in 1965, I might have had to stop at Bricker Lincoln to take a look at "Today's Special" on the used car lot.

andys120

White car is a very handsome Lincoln Continental Mk.II ca. early-mid 50s. They didn't sell well due to high price (over $10K!).

kyfdx

I really like those Lincolns.

tmart

Is that a 60 Ford next to the Merc Marauder?

fintail

I think the car next to the Marauder is a 63-64 Monterey.

Lincoln (56-57 IIRC) might have been something of a special interest car by then.

tmart

I was going by the Galaxie top and chrome trim on the door.