Mystery car pix

texases

I'm going with an '81-'83 Dodge Challenger, looks like a "C" starting off the name on the front fender.

tjc78

Pretty close it’s a 1980

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/dodge/challenger/2490777.html

texases

Dig that plaid, man!

xwesx

tjc78 said:

This makes me think of my mother's 1979 Dodge Challenger. I only recall it from early childhood memory, but I seem to recall it looking just like that (if not as shiny). She actually had two: one silver, one blue.

EDIT: Oh, whoops. Turns out, all the answers were on the next page!

sda

(Mitsu) Dodge Challenger

ab348

Wasn't there also one of those called the Dodge Challenger?

magnette

My little red car was a 1989 Seat Marbella - Seat made a version of the Fiat Panda when Fiat introduced it in 1981 as the Seat Panda, but only sold it in Spain and a couple of other countries.
When Seat parted company with Fiat in 1989 they introduced the Seat Marbella which was different from the contemporary Fiat Panda and they sold it right across Europe including into Italy - prior to this Seat never sold cars in FIat's home market.
This is one of those Marbellas registered in Italy.
They also sold them in UK until about 1992 in competition with Fiat Pandas

fintail

I low-key like those Challengers, reasonably sized malaise era Japanese hardtop, probably reliable but prone to rot in the right climate.

I remember that car (or a Sapporo) being the "Jiffy Pop Airbag" car in a SNL commercial parody:

andys120

Lostwrench3

1957 Mercury.
Since the lady seems "well to do", I'll go with a Colony Park.

andys120

Lostwrench3 said:

1957 Mercury.
Since the lady seems "well to do", I'll go with a Colony Park.

Yup!

fintail

Funny how wagons went full circle - originally were kind of a thing for the affluent, then became mainstream, then were seen as lame and boring, now they primarily exist in highline models again.

kyfdx

Lostwrench3 said:

1957 Mercury.
Since the lady seems "well to do", I'll go with a Colony Park.

So, who rides a horse in jockey silks, in a field, next to a station wagon?

Lostwrench3

I think the jockey brought the horse to its owner.

andys120

xwesx

Pontiac Solstice. I don't know nearly enough about them to zero in on the year (IIRC, this was 2006-2009..?) or whether it was a performance (GXP) version.

texases

I was thinking the red brake caliper might have meant it was the GXP, but that was probably aftermarket.

Michaell

The Solstice and the Sky were released when we were in our Saturn phase, so it was probably the best chance I would have had to get something fun and sporty....

....until I sat in it. I'm only 5'11", but my eyes were looking straight at the top of the windshield frame. So very bummed....

stickguy

I had that problem with my Miata. when the top was down (pretty much the only way I ever drove it) I found it easier to look over the windshield header than through the windshield! though I will say, headroom was never an issue (even with the top up). I was just way short of foot and leg room.

imidazol97

I've never had that problem. LOL

andys120

FWIW the Solistice is captioned as a 2007.

ab348

Unknown downtown shot, mid to late 1960s. Sharp-eyed viewers may note the sign for a bar advertising Blatz beer, which always makes me think of the line in the movie "Scent of a Woman" when Frank orders a beer for Charlie:

Waiter: "Any particular beer?"
Frank: "Schlitz. No Schlitz? Blatz. No Blatz? Improvise."

Lostwrench3

Bottom right - 1962 Chrysler.
Check out how close that guy got to the car ahead of him while he was checking out that blonde.

texases

Three 65/66 Mustangs, almost bumper to bumper.

magnette

To the left a 68 Ford Convertible with the concealed headlights
The guy checking the blonde is in a Bluebird
57 Buick in the distance beyond the right hand gap
62 Chevrolet with rear door open

texases

I was guessing that was some kind of Fiat, never thought of the Bluebird (Datsun 410 in the US).

fintail

A little digging shows the pic might be in Waukesha.

I think I see a 67 Ford wagon 5 behind the 62 Chevy wagon, parked at right.

magnette

London in the sixties

ab348

And also in the '60s but not quite so genteel, Waffle House #1 in the Atlanta suburbs:

magnette

I like the juxtaposition between the 59 Cadillac and the Minor Traveller
Also 63 Continental

Lostwrench3

magnette said:

I like the juxtaposition between the 59 Cadillac and the Minor Traveller
Also 63 Continental

And, the waffle house selling T-Bone steak.

ab348

Mmmm, steak and waffles.

sda

The 63 Caddy looks narrower and leaner than the 59 Caddy and 63 Lincoln. Perhaps the angle in which it is parked gives that illusion?

ab348

magnette said:

London in the sixties

Alvis perhaps? Late 1950s?

magnette

@ab348
Yes, its an Alvis TD21 - registration on this one is 1959 and from Leicestershire - great car but not sold abroad very much.

I like waffles too...

magnette

Austria - most interesting are the white cars on the left side

stickguy

Pair of yellow Golfs.

fintail

Citroen GS Break to the left of the center Golf, looks like a VW K70 behind the red Beetle at left.

fintail

magnette said:

I like the juxtaposition between the 59 Cadillac and the Minor Traveller
Also 63 Continental

Looks like a 66 Galaxie 4 door HT beside the Traveller.

magnette

I was quite pleased to see the K70 - we hardly had those here as they never caught on when they went on sale really.
I think the other white car is an Opel Rekord - the red and black one is a Commodore

ab348

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1971:

magnette

Due to the lockdown I haven't been to a car show for a long time, but found this picture of a show at Tatton Park, Cheshire which is just south of Manchester.
I've never been to it myself but its one of the biggest in the North West and seems to have a wide range of cars judging by this photo - which should expand

stickguy

Nice green Chevelle wagon. Must be an Aussie pilot, based on the Qantas license plate!

andys120

magnette said:

Second row fromright about a rhird of the way down, a white MG-A FHC just like the one my college roomie had, Don't see many of those, never did.

sda

ab348 said:

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1971:

Nice, new 71 Cutlass conv.

stickguy

Back row, red sunbeam next to a yellow Capri with a whale tail. Love the car, not a fan of the spoiler.

fintail

Great pic, what a variety - must be a fun event to attend.

In the mix, left middle row, I see a gold Renault Caravelle and a white Alpine, far back in the right middle row I spot a DKW 1000 sedan next to a Volvo P1800ES, lower right row light grey pickup perhaps a Hillman-based Commer.

magnette said:

Due to the lockdown I haven't been to a car show for a long time, but found this picture of a show at Tatton Park, Cheshire which is just south of Manchester.
I've never been to it myself but its one of the biggest in the North West and seems to have a wide range of cars judging by this photo - which should expand

magnette

@fintail

Yes, I've never been up to Tatton Park but it is one of the best in the North so they say.
This is just a sample I think as they get a couple of thousand cars some years.

That pickup isn't a Commer (like the Matchbox one?) but a Vauxhall E series Velox Ute from Australia - several of them have been re imported from the colonies over the years although the model wasn't sold here originally and I think the bodywork was actually done by Holden.
I've found what looks like the same car on another picture on Flickr and it was imported in 2013

magnette

There are actually two more of those Vauxhalls next to that white Renault Alpine - a turquoise Velox and a metallic green/grey Cresta
There are even some prewar cars too - that huge Laundaulet between the maroon Triumph Renown and the blue Vauxhall HB Viva is - I think - an Austin from about 1930 but it could be anything really at that distance
That blue coupe two down from @andys120 MGA FHC is I think an Ashley Sportiva kit car (blue) and there is even an Austin A99 Westminster in the same row.

This could actually be that Sportiva judging by the colour

magnette

There is a car show in Bromley south London usually in about May in normal times, and that is huge - they get a couple of thousand cars and have loads of one make areas for MG / Triumph / Jag etc but when I've been there the main appeal is all the odd cars that emerge in the general area - anything from what you would call brass era cars to modern ones - I have seen some really rare cars there some years.