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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,126
    Yep, Simca.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    texases said:

    Yep, Simca.

    I only knew that one because I knew a guy that had one, they were never very common in the USDM. My buddy's always smelled like brake fluid for some reason. Like most French cars it had great seats.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,126
    The tilted trim over the tail lights had me fooled:

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    edited February 2021
    @andys120
    Yes it is indeed a SImca 1000 like the one in your picture - it struck me as an unusual car to see in what looks like small town in Minnesota

    Actually your picture is a Spanish licence built example - Spanish sales of imported cars were subject to tariffs until Spain joined the EEC /EU in the eighties so Simcas were assembled in Spain with some local content and marketed by a firm which called itself Simca- Barreiros - that is the badge to the left.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    @texases
    They made millions of mk 1 Ford Cortinas and nearly all of them have disappeared except the sporty ones including that Lotus Cortina (incidentally on Dutch plates)
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    A typical British town ?



    Nicosia Cyprus 1969
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,483
    Old looking one at left a Ford "Pop"?
    magnette said:

    A typical British town ?
    Nicosia Cyprus 1969

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,483
    GAZ Pobeda 4x4 model. I see other Russian cars around it too.
    lemko1968 said:




  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    One of these does not belong>


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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 267,144
    Corvair!

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,472
    is that the only USDM model?

    and what the heck is that double decker monstrosity? Looks like a giant duck boat.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,402
    Kinda looks like it’s being towed by the bus!
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    edited February 2021
    @fintail - Nicosia complete with British phone box in the distance - and right hand drive too.

    The Ford Popular is actually even more ancient - its the immediate post war Anglia E04A which was phased out in 1948
    Any ideas on the grey and white sedan?
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    @lemko1968

    The GAZ Pobeida is great - sedan meets monster truck

    In the background the blue car pointing at the camera near the rear wall is Moskvitch - either a 403 or 407 and there is a Lada RIva in the top right corner
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    edited February 2021
    In Paris the DUKW bateau must be a surprise in traffic although until about ten years ago less flamboyant models using DUKW chassis were offering river cruises in London until one vehicle caught fire - fortunately on land in Southwark - so I think they have been pensioned off now

    The black taxi with the red roof is a SImca Ariane - there is a similar blue taxi on the left too - these were the SImca Vedette / Verasailles body with the much smaller Aronde 1300cc engine as they were cheap to run and tax - popular with cabbies
    There is a two tone Simca Vedette Chambord or a similar variant with the old Ford V8 engine
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,335
    I see a Panhard behind the red over black taxi.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    They are Ford Skyliners, I think the the first generation 57 Fairlane Skyliner
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Yes, IIRC, 57 was the first year for the Skyliner w its retractable h/t. 1959 was the last.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,335
    Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, 1960 or thereabouts:


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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,599
    I didn’t care for the front end styling of the 57 Ford but the Skyliner was a neat car. IIRC the 57 Ford outsold the 57 Chevy.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    sda said:

    I didn’t care for the front end styling of the 57 Ford but the Skyliner was a neat car. IIRC the 57 Ford outsold the 57 Chevy.

    Yes, Chevy lagged behind Ford in '57 but ironically it was the Chevy which became an icon
    of the 50s and present day values reflect. that.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,483
    A couple are obvious picks for me, but the Hudson Italia 3rd from left has to be the oddball of the lot.
    ab348 said:

    Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, 1960 or thereabouts:

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,483
    Old assembly line pics always make me think of the intro to "Christine".

    Also, this:




  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    edited February 2021
    In Saudi Arabia
    Good to see two of the locals are in front of an Austin Cambridge
    Not quite as rare as a Hudson Italia !
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,402
    ab348 said:

    Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, 1960 or thereabouts:


    57 Ford and Mercury. Kinda weird picks for the Saudis.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 825
    In Saudi Arabia
    a 1959 Mercury and a 1955 Imperial.
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,402
    edited February 2021
    andys120 said:

    Yes, IIRC, 57 was the first year for the Skyliner w its retractable h/t. 1959 was the last.

    You do recall correctly. The 59 had the best rear end visually compared to te rest of the 59 line. The 57 was too flat/vertical compared to the graceful curve of the trunk. The 58 was better, close but no cigar. 59 pretty much got it right.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,688
    In the Saudi picture, the person in the group of 3 is leaning on a low smaller car. It has vents above the
    headlight.
    What is that?

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,483
    Hudson Italia. Pretty obscure thing.
    imidazol97 said:

    In the Saudi picture, the person in the group of 3 is leaning on a low smaller car. It has vents above the
    headlight.
    What is that?

  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 825
    imidazol97 said:

    In the Saudi picture, the person in the group of 3 is leaning on a low smaller car. It has vents above the
    headlight.
    What is that?

    I don't think those are vents. My guess is that the headlights can be raised and lowered from inside the car.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 825
    edited February 2021
    Oops. You are correct. They are air vents.
    Only 26 built!
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,688
    edited February 2021
    I looked up this car. I learn so much on this site about cars I didn't learn about in the Midwest.
    I found the full front view off-putting. But then I saw the rear. Wow.
    But a Detroit automaker competing in Europe?




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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,688
    edited February 2021
    The Hudson Italia is related to Hudson and to its US car design. It was on a Hudson Jet chassis and Hudson had
    sent a 1954 Hudson to the Italian company for the 1957 Hudson prototype styling. This is the singular result that only was saved by chance.

    http://hudsonmotorcarcompany.com/thecars/hudsonhornetitalia.html

    Clicking on small pictures at bottom of that linked page with both the Italia and the Hornet Italia prototype shows how the concept was applied to the larger car.





    And the resulting 1957 Hudson.
    image

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,335
    imidazol97 said:


    And the resulting 1957 Hudson.
    image

    Something was lost in translation. :D

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Brochure art>


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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,402
    Is that the Speedster?
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,335
    This one from the Ruscha collection at the Getty is a mystery to me - what's that between the Beetles?


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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    If its getting between the Beetles is it Yoko?
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,126
    Is that a Lotus Elite? You know you’re small when Beetles tower over you...
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,483
    Yep, early Lotus.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    texases said:

    Is that a Lotus Elite? You know you’re small when Beetles tower over you...

    The Elite was the first Lotus available as a complete road-worthy car (ca. 1959-arlier ones were kits)

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    tmart said:

    Is that the Speedster?

    Nein, the Speedster featured a cut-down windshield.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    The Lotus Elite 14 was one of the first cars to have fibreglass monocoque construction and was successful in club racing and on the road.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    edited February 2021
    When they were new.... 1


  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,233
    When they were new ... 2


  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,602
    OK, the second picture is of Minis, which were iconic. The first picture is of '58 Chevies, which were less so.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,335
    The '58 Chevy assembly line pic makes me curious as to what the red lighting above is for. Since these appear to be finished/trimmed cars I cannot imaging they are baking the paint at that stage.

    Would be shot of the Minis be from Longbridge (Austin) or Cowley (Morris)? I'm guessing the former.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,335
    This shot is from Hejhal Oldsmobile in the Chicago area, circa 1962. A surprising number of conquest trade-ins from other manufacturers here.



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