Mystery car pix

magnette

Toronado above the dent in the Falcon
Beyond the Benz is that white wagon with side trim behind the lamp standard an AMC / Rambler Ambassador?

omarman

On the right, 3 people walking toward a '68 Torino GT.

fintail

MB is a 300SL roadster. It can be a 7 figure exotic now, but then was a $5K high maintenance used car.

The wagon is an AMC of some kind. Beside it looks like a "buttress" style 69 Galaxie 2 door HT like I posted a couple weeks ago.

andys120

Wow Kay Ballard and Pat Buttram, they weren't even B-list celebs, more like C-list.

ab348

andys120 said:

Wow Kay Ballard and Pat Buttram, they weren't even B-list celebs, more like C-list.

Yeah, that's why I described it as not exactly the glamorous part of town.

I remember watching game shows on TV in the '70s and occasionally a prize would be a trip to Vegas with accommodations at the Fremont. That must have been disappointing.

andys120

bhill2

I can't make this anything but a Mustang fastback, probably a '66, with a gt350-type window behind the door. It has no other gt350 aspects (side stripe, trunk badge, etc.)

stickguy

those sewer pipes coming out the side, were not stock.

I can imagine that thing is deadly to drive on that snow.

imidazol97

The rear wheels are larger in diameter and width than the fronts. That was
commonly done to handle the torque in the day.

kyfdx

Nice Impala in front of it.

andys120

Hard to tell whether the Mustang is a '65 or '66. i think there's way to tell from the gas cap.

Aside from the side glass the biggest GT-350 clue is that big side pipe, an option on the Shelbys. That said I doubt it's a GT-350, those didn't all have the big fore and aft stripes but they all had the rocker striped w the "GT-350"

ab348

NYC, 1976. Expands to a large size:

Michaell

ab348 said:

NYC, 1976. Expands to a large size:

I'm not sure I see a single cab in that picture. Pretty amazing for NYC.

stickguy

first gen Civic CVCC. Looks like a minnow swimming among the whales. Followed by a 2 door Torino.

fintail

Beside the Civic, maybe a 76 LeSabre.

lemko1968

Michaell

lemko1968 said:

Mitsubishi Colt?

lemko1968

Yes.JDM 1977 Mitsubishi Lancer Colt.

lemko1968

Michaell

lemko1968 said:

No idea of the make or model, but I'm pretty certain the engine is in the trunk.

stickguy

some sort of Renault?

lemko1968

1965 Renault R8

bhill2

This looks like a warmed-up version. Is it by any chance something like a Gordini?

ab348

Lemko is back under an assumed name! Welcome!!

ab348

In the NYC pic I posted, I put it up because I was intrigued by the beak-nosed '71 Montego, a car that wasn't particularly common even back then and which is almost unseen these days. I must have gotten used to that front-end treatment as I like it now whereas I did not at the time.

magnette

That Mitsubishi Colt was actually sold here when new - not just a grey import - but it was marketed as a Colt Lancer with no mention of Mitsubishi from 1973 to 79 - this one is 1977 but Colt Lancers were sold as such until about 1981/2 and similarly we had the Colt Galant, Sigma, Sapporo and Mirage.

This 1977 car has a different grille from the first ones we had and they had frequent facelifts.

magnette

We also got this version of the Mitsubishi Sigma under the name Lonsdale in 1983/4 - it was the earlier Sigma but assembled in Australia and sold to UK to bypass quotas - ironically the Sigma had already been updated by this time and we got the old Oz one and the by then Mitsubishi badged Sigma using the new Japanese built model from 1984



Lonsdale was a separate make here and not sold through Colt / Mitsubishi dealers

magnette

@ab348

I wondered what that car was - didn't recognise the Mercury Montego

fintail

I get a strong "Back to the Future" vibe:

fintail

We never got that here, but we did get the wagon for a few years, incredibly rare now:



We then got the Galant for MY 1985, but they sold in small volumes for some time.

magnette said:

We also got this version of the Mitsubishi Sigma under the name Lonsdale in 1983/4 - it was the earlier Sigma but assembled in Australia and sold to UK to bypass quotas - ironically the Sigma had already been updated by this time and we got the old Oz one and the by then Mitsubishi badged Sigma using the new Japanese built model from 1984

Lonsdale was a separate make here and not sold through Colt / Mitsubishi dealers

andys120

The newest car readily visible is the yellow/black Mercury ca. 1955MY . The far side of it are a couple of cars w mid-50s wraparound windshields, everything else seems to be early 50s/late 40s.

lemko1968

I see a 1948 Chevrolet, a 1950 Cadillac, and a 1953 Oldsmobile next to each other and a 1953 Chevrolet in the front row near the lower right hand corner of the picture.

imidazol97

That Mercury is a Montclair, 1956. The 56 had a continual side trim with the zag in it and Montclairs
had the shadow color trim sections below the side windows. I loved those cars when I was 12.

magnette

Our Lonsdale was also offered as an Estate - I think I saw one once but they must have been rare.
Lonsdale was the name of the suburb of Adelaide I think, where they assembled the cars

magnette

The wagon central to that snowy scene is a 52 (?) Chevrolet perhaps a Fleetline or Styleline

Michaell

magnette said:

Our Lonsdale was also offered as an Estate - I think I saw one once but they must have been rare.
Lonsdale was the name of the suburb of Adelaide I think, where they assembled the cars

Lonsdale, S Australia

imidazol97

The Allegheny Market House, Pittsburgh, PA
Newest? Oldest? Pic enlarges very well.

fintail

Nice pic, rainbow of cars. I see a couple 57 models. Old car might be in the left row, to the right of a Chrysler or DeSoto with its trunk open - could be a 41 Chevy coupe.

imidazol97

Photo was colorized. Imbued with Hues from FB

There's a blue car next to the cargo van? ID on it and the van?

bhill2

The white over red car parked on the left nearest the corner represents one of my eccentricities. It is a '57 Chevy Bel-Air 4-door hardtop (sport sedan). I always thought it was far better looking than the much more popular sport coupe. Simply better proportioned.

ab348

Nice period early 1960s pic of the Cliff House in San Francisco. Expands some.

Michaell

ab348 said:

Nice period early 1960s pic of the Cliff House in San Francisco. Expands some.

Didn't I just read something that the restaurant just closed, permanently, due to COVID-19 restrictions?

texases

Closed Dec. 31, here's their side of the story:
https://cliffhouse.com/

Michaell

texases said:

Closed Dec. 31, here's their side of the story:
https://cliffhouse.com/

That's right - not Covid, but the National Park Service pulling the rug out from under them.

fintail

Rump of the blue car makes me think ~49 Plymouth.

imidazol97 said:

Photo was colorized. Imbued with Hues from FB

There's a blue car next to the cargo van? ID on it and the van?

fintail

60 Ford in multi-toned livery at right, maybe a taxi. Near the entrance, to to the right of a red pickup, looks like a "cigar" Thunderbird.

ab348 said:

Nice period early 1960s pic of the Cliff House in San Francisco. Expands some.

sda

What a nightmare story and predicament that led to the closing of the Cliff House. How sad.

ab348

sda said:

What a nightmare story and predicament that led to the closing of the Cliff House. How sad.

Indeed. If their story is accurate (I have no reason to doubt it), that seems inexcusable on the part of the NPS after 47 years of operation by the present management.

andys120

sda

Simca 1300/1500?