Not much mystery here, but who wants to work hard on a Sunday? A cool period pic from 1962. I believe it may be from Alison at Vintage Los Angeles but I'm not 100% certain.
Not much mystery here, but who wants to work hard on a Sunday? A cool period pic from 1962. I believe it may be from Alison at Vintage Los Angeles but I'm not 100% certain.
The search function here seems to be not working as it used to, but the results returned didn't indicate this one had been posted previously. I could have sworn we've seen it before but since I can't find any reference to it I'll give it a try. Southdale Center, Edina, Minn, 1964. Expands well.
amazing in that era how a couple of model years difference looks like a whole generation (even modern vs old) different. 58/59 vs 61/62 was some major styling changes (even if a lot of the underneath was probably carry over).
Nice small Rambler center/right, a couple down for a '58 Chevy.
Oldie in the group, aside from maybe a pickup in the background, is the torpedo body sedan in the foreground center left, appears to be a 46-48 Pontiac. Just "above" it I see a then-new Vista Cruiser. Big Imperial coupe background left next to the "2A" sign. I also see a 64 Galaxie and 64 Impala in the background. No fintails, no clearly visible 60 Fords. Import job far left foreground row looks like a Fiat 1100.
The search function here seems to be not working as it used to, but the results returned didn't indicate this one had been posted previously. I could have sworn we've seen it before but since I can't find any reference to it I'll give it a try. Southdale Center, Edina, Minn, 1964. Expands well.
Even before looking for our friend Sixty Ford I like that first glance of seeing so many cars and so few trucks parked at a shopping center. And if it were a color pic, wow! Vintage Detroit paint chart.
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Would you believe that parking lot is one of a horse racing track in Mexico? The horses don't run there anymore, but the greyhounds do.
It’s odd. I found 2 copies of that pic I had saved at different times. One was very specific in its name/location as I posted above. The other was called Tijuana1964 which I figured was wrong. I don’t know which is correct. But based on that tree I see up near the top, you may be right.
There was a 4 door Ranch Wagon, lowline car with no rear quarter rocker trim:
That one looks like it had the tinted glass option but not the back up lights. Having had a car without back up lights, living in the country where it is pitch black at night, it is truly harrowing to backup without any significant light.
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Would you believe that parking lot is one of a horse racing track in Mexico? The horses don't run there anymore, but the greyhounds do.
It’s odd. I found 2 copies of that pic I had saved at different times. One was very specific in its name/location as I posted above. The other was called Tijuana1964 which I figured was wrong. I don’t know which is correct. But based on that tree I see up near the top, you may be right.
Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico. It had a tremendous patronage by residents of California.
Would you believe that parking lot is one of a horse racing track in Mexico? The horses don't run there anymore, but the greyhounds do.
It’s odd. I found 2 copies of that pic I had saved at different times. One was very specific in its name/location as I posted above. The other was called Tijuana1964 which I figured was wrong. I don’t know which is correct. But based on that tree I see up near the top, you may be right.
Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico. It had a tremendous patronage by residents of California.
Wow good catch! That explains "SECC" parking lot signage.
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I bet something like that existed. My dad's car was a Country Sedan, 352 (largest engine option), automatic, power steering or brakes (not both, and I forget which it had, but I know it was just one), radio, but instead of full wheel covers usually seen on a Country Sedan, it had dog dish caps with thick trim rings that almost resembled a larger wheel cover, and no reverse lights. Oh yeah, and not sure if electric wipers were an option, it had vacuum wipers.
That one looks like it had the tinted glass option but not the back up lights. Having had a car without back up lights, living in the country where it is pitch black at night, it is truly harrowing to backup without any significant light.
Sorry - my posted BMW picture was two days ago and I haven't been online in-between so it has fallen back
It was actually a BMW 1804 or 2004 SA from 1974
This was a South Africa assembled model based on a Glas 1700 (Glas had by then been taken over by BMW for a few years) and was necessaries the local market required 4-door cars and the 2002 was deemed unsuitable as too small or something.
The Glas 1700 was offered with BMW badges to fill the gap but didn't appeal and the forthcoming 5 series was not ready for overseas assembly so they developed this interim model as a stop gap for one year only until the 5 series could be sold there in 1975 - by then they were selling the latter in RHD in Britain too.
At Tijuana I guess the oldest is the GM streamlined sedan in the mid foreground which I think is a Pontiac and the ornament on the hood side would suggest 1948 If you go up from that then above the vista wagon is a Rambler American - that takes you to a truck with a frame over the load bed and two rows above that...
is a Hudson - a fairly late one I think. and just above my excerpt is a Corvette - its tail is over that dark Chevy parked in front of the Hudson
I would have expected some VWs at this date though
Sorry - my posted BMW picture was two days ago and I haven't been online in-between so it has fallen back
It was actually a BMW 1804 or 2004 SA from 1974
This was a South Africa assembled model based on a Glas 1700 (Glas had by then been taken over by BMW for a few years) and was necessaries the local market required 4-door cars and the 2002 was deemed unsuitable as too small or something.
The Glas 1700 was offered with BMW badges to fill the gap but didn't appeal and the forthcoming 5 series was not ready for overseas assembly so they developed this interim model as a stop gap for one year only until the 5 series could be sold there in 1975 - by then they were selling the latter in RHD in Britain too.
For a Glas, the styling sure looks like it was done by BMW, right down to the Hofmeister kink.
NSU Sport Prinz - I always thought they were great little cars although not many around now I suppose
Currently our government shows 38 NSU Prinz cars of whatever model licenced and about 20 more with suspended licence - ie they have a number plate but aren't taxed for the road so laid up
But that would include all the other NSU saloons too
I'm still looking at Tijuana and there is a Fiat Millecento or 1200 maybe - its in the lower left corner just above the tail of a 59 Chevy And I think the top left corner in the far distance is a VW - its tail is intercepted by the lamppost which has the 2A sign on it
A truly miserable, very cold, very windy day yesterday sent my mind to thought of warmer climes. What better place than L.A. in 1966, thanks to the Ruscha pics at the Getty Museum?
We have seen the main parking lot out front of the Sunset Blvd. location of the Mayfair Market before, but this is the side lot. Pictures should blow up well.
On the first one there is a Rambler wagon in the far distance - about 1957 I think Approaching us there is another - this time an American - circa 1962
Picture two has a Studebaker Hawk above that woody at the left and a Volvo PV next to the panel van
And that Chevrolet 4-door sedan would be a 57 Bel Air and I think its for sale although probably gone by now..
Window sticker from a different vehicle shown below.
Apparently the Wild Westerner was a $75 appearance group option for 1973 which I've never heard of. But I can recall some things back then which may have inspired it.
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@ab348 - I just found that picture by accident and initially thought I would post it because it had a 60 Ford, but it was only when I was doing it that I thought of the Delray - I have never seen one of those of course, and they weren't exactly the best selling model so they must have been fairly rare and as they were the lowest level of trim I suppose they wouldn't have been preserved much either - or if they survived then they would have been customised perhaps.....
Roof line looks like it could be '65 or '66 but that trim looks unfamiliar. t doesn't look like a "300" emblem on the rear fender. So maybe Chrysler something-Canadian?
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White over blue Chevy is a '57.
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No wonder I'm confused!
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Nice small Rambler center/right, a couple down for a '58 Chevy.
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It had a tremendous patronage by residents of California.
It was actually a BMW 1804 or 2004 SA from 1974
This was a South Africa assembled model based on a Glas 1700 (Glas had by then been taken over by BMW for a few years) and was necessaries the local market required 4-door cars and the 2002 was deemed unsuitable as too small or something.
The Glas 1700 was offered with BMW badges to fill the gap but didn't appeal and the forthcoming 5 series was not ready for overseas assembly so they developed this interim model as a stop gap for one year only until the 5 series could be sold there in 1975 - by then they were selling the latter in RHD in Britain too.
I guess the oldest is the GM streamlined sedan in the mid foreground which I think is a Pontiac and the ornament on the hood side would suggest 1948
If you go up from that then above the vista wagon is a Rambler American - that takes you to a truck with a frame over the load bed and two rows above that...
is a Hudson - a fairly late one I think.
and just above my excerpt is a Corvette - its tail is over that dark Chevy parked in front of the Hudson
I would have expected some VWs at this date though
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Currently our government shows 38 NSU Prinz cars of whatever model licenced and about 20 more with suspended licence - ie they have a number plate but aren't taxed for the road so laid up
But that would include all the other NSU saloons too
@ab348
"For a Glas, the styling sure looks like it was done by BMW, right down to the Hofmeister kink"
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This is the Glas 1700 complete with kink
And I think the top left corner in the far distance is a VW - its tail is intercepted by the lamppost which has the 2A sign on it
We have seen the main parking lot out front of the Sunset Blvd. location of the Mayfair Market before, but this is the side lot. Pictures should blow up well.
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Approaching us there is another - this time an American - circa 1962
Picture two has a Studebaker Hawk above that woody at the left and a Volvo PV next to the panel van
And that Chevrolet 4-door sedan would be a 57 Bel Air and I think its for sale although probably gone by now..
At left, left of the Volvo PV (544 likely) is a Corvair van, and to the left of that is a 46-48 Ford woody.
Just "behind" the 57 Chevy sedan looks like a 61 Chevy, possibly a convertible.
Window sticker from a different vehicle shown below.
Apparently the Wild Westerner was a $75 appearance group option for 1973 which I've never heard of. But I can recall some things back then which may have inspired it.
This is Corpus Cristi TX
Apart from our regular 60 Ford is that 2-door a Chevrolet Delray ?
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The trim on the 2-door '58 Chevy matches that of the Delray, which was the bottom of the line that year, so I'd say you're correct.
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Ok, Pop Quiz. - The 1953 Chevrolets were the first to have a (X) since some of the 1935 Chevrolets.
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The other car in the foreground is a 67(?) Ford
I think I see a 60 Ford behind the Karmen Ghia