Mystery car pix

stickguy

4 door Rambler. Taller than I remembered.

Is the black foreign car up front a Peugeot?

far left, is that the partial butt of a Jag saloon?

ab348

A pair of Poughkeepsie Plymouths, a '62 Fury 4-door sedan (late production given the 3 taillights per side) and a '65 also.

Lostwrench3

Plymouth had some fun with those 1962 rear lights.
4 lights - Savoy
6 lights with the backup lights being in the 3 and 4 position - Belvedere.
6 lights with the backup lights being in the 2 and 5 position - Fury.

fintail

Peugeot 404 is the obvious oddity there, although there's also something else poking in at far left.

andys120 said:

Poughkeepse NY> (enlargeable)

fintail

Corolla and a ZAZ Zaporozhets. Possibly a Zhiguli at far right, all at the Battle of the Nations memorial.

magnette said:

This one is from Leipzig in the old DDR

magnette

Yes, the red car is a Zaporozhets - I think the model is 968

I also think the wing visible on the right is a Lada / Zhiguli - I hadn't looked at it until you mentioned it....

You've been getting your money's worth out of Google earth today what with Maidstone and the Monument to the Battle of the Nations. I've never seen Leipzig

only bit of (now former) East Germany I've ever been to is Eastern Berlin, and that was after the wall came down.

magnette

In Poughkeepse isn't the Jag tail on the left an XK 150? - window looks too large for a Mk 1 - it's at a funny angle though.

andys120

magnette said:

In Poughkeepse isn't the Jag tail on the left an XK 150? - window looks too large for a Mk 1 - it's at a funny angle though.

Hard to say but the size would be say XK-150/140/120 than one of the saloons.

No one has mentioned the two Gen1 Corvairs or the Cadillac ('57/'58?)

kyfdx

There is a great song about Poughkeepsie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_JD5jYFI4

magnette

I hadn't heard of Poughkeepsie until this posting but nice to link it to a song too.

Many of the places we post pictures of aren't particularly musical I suppose unless they are on a coast or something but it;'s good to learn....

Less likely to get one about some highways - except of course Route 66

Talking Heads Road to nowhere reminded me of the M25 (London Orbital Motorway) particularly when it is slow which is not unheard of...

andys120

xwesx

I'm probably missing some little detail, but I'm going with 1958 Dodge Coronet.

magnette

imidazol97

1954 Hudson Jet-Liner

magnette

@imidazol97 - yes, the 54 Hudson Jet (liner) - not a car we ever got here.

magnette

Another which hasn't been marketed here

fintail

Ssangyong Chairman, late 90s - they used some MB DNA.

magnette said:

Another which hasn't been marketed here

andys120

xwesx said:

I'm probably missing some little detail, but I'm going with 1958 Dodge Coronet.

Close, it's a '58 Dodge Royal Lancer

xwesx

andys120 said:

xwesx said:

I'm probably missing some little detail, but I'm going with 1958 Dodge Coronet.

Close, it's a '58 Dodge Royal Lancer

Ah! I knew I was going out on a limb trying to hit the model.

imidazol97

As strikingly aggressive as the Dodge's design was, the two hood ornaments
always struck me as overkill. They may as well have put one above each
letter in D O D G E and had 5 of them. Now that would be memorable.

andys120

imidazol97 said:

As strikingly aggressive as the Dodge's design was, the two hood ornaments
always struck me as overkill. They may as well have put one above each
letter in D O D G E and had 5 of them. Now that would be memorable.

The 1950s were the Golden Age of Overkill and '58/'59 were the most overkill ever.



Need I say more?

imidazol97

Agreed.

I lived that era. I recall the heavy chrome cars like the one pictured.

I think on the 58 Dodge, the designer may have thought the dual hood ornaments
were alliterative to the (new) dual headlights and the dual dagmars on the bumper.
And that was repeated also in the dual lower bumper masses and the upper
masses that held the dagmars with turn signals in them. 2 of everything?

There was a Cadillac of the era of the red one all in white that convertible that showed
up at a large weekly cruise in. Brougham? Or Eldorado. Just beautiful in its extravagent elegance.

Lostwrench3

Andy, Elsa will be here tomorrow.
Looks like you will do better than we.

magnette

@fintail Yes the Ssangyong Chairman - M Benz wanna-be that we didn't get here although we have had some of their other offerings in the past - ie the Rodius which in fairness is very practical and unlikely to be confused with anything else - they were popular with cab companies - roomy and ideal for a group booking to the airport.

magnette

Not quite what it seems

ab348

Stealing Andy's thunder, here's a pic from The Old Motor and their Kodachrome series, just not this week's edition. Expands nicely:

andys120

There's a nice '52 or '53 Mercury (Colony Park?) woodie wagon parked mid-first row.

fintail

Those always rubbed me the wrong way, so awkward from rear angles - the car with a dormer:

magnette said:

@fintail Yes the Ssangyong Chairman - M Benz wanna-be that we didn't get here although we have had some of their other offerings in the past - ie the Rodius which in fairness is very practical and unlikely to be confused with anything else - they were popular with cab companies - roomy and ideal for a group booking to the airport.

fintail

Blue (English) Ford Anglia 100E at right in a group of 55 Chevys. At far left, to the right of a ~53 Pontiac, maybe a Simca Aronde.

I think a couple more 'furriners back near the building, too.

ab348 said:

Stealing Andy's thunder, here's a pic from The Old Motor and their Kodachrome series, just not this week's edition. Expands nicely:

magnette

I think the car to the left of the Pontiac is a Mk 2 Ford Consul - possibly with some sort of badge bar on the grille
I think the red car beside it is a Packard circa 51/53
Right through to the back below the word Guaranteed is a yellow truck and in front of it is that cream 2-door with the brownish roof a 47/8 Chevrolet Fleetline Aero?

andys120

magnette said:

Not quite what it seems

SEAT 850?

andys120

tjc78

48 Buick Super

andys120

tjc78 said:

48 Buick Super

Zactly

jpp75

xwesx said:

August, 2001. Walla Walla, Washington.

Probably the best Camry ever built. Looking at the hub caps I'll guess a 92 or 93.

Michaell

Had one of that era as a rental on my one and only visit to Hawaii in 1997 (it was a business trip, but the wife joined me).

Built like a tank, and scared the crap out of Ford as they were developing the ovoid Taurus and Sable.

texases

A landmark sedan, in my opinion. My sister had one for 20 years, I had the Lexus version for 15, great cars.

xwesx

jpp75 said:

Probably the best Camry ever built. Looking at the hub caps I'll guess a 92 or 93.

Yes, that's right. This was a 1992 example (LE), purchased new by my father in November of 1991. He actually bought his first motorhome, a 1992 Winnebago Brave (hey, he had to start somewhere!), that same month. It's the only time I can remember him buying two vehicles so close together.

At the time of this photo, taken in 2001 at my brother's wedding, this car had just over 220,000 miles on it. They (my brother and his wife) kept it for another few years, but she was very hard on it ("drives it like she stole it" sorta driver), and the transmission went at around 260,000 miles.

kyfdx

Well, it was definitely a more modern Camry, larger, and it was a tank.

But, I think the '88-'91 model was the best ever.

magnette

@andys120
My Fiat 850 look alike wasn't a Seat but instead a 1966 Neckar Fiat Adria.
Fiat had an assembly plant in (West) Germany and sold their cars there from the fifties onwards as NSU Fiats until 1960 when they revived another name - Neckar Fiat, which was how they had done the same thing in prewar days.
This is one of those - they stopped production in Germany a year or two later ..
This is the rear
of it

ab348

Have we seen this one before? San Jose CA airport, 1969. Expands well.

stickguy

looks like a silver-blue 67 Camaro roof over the top of the buick wagon.

and a which Nova behind it.

sda

69 Olds 98 behind the red Mustang and to the left of the blue 63 or 64 (?) Chrysler.

Lostwrench3

Bottom right - 1963 Ford wagon.

fintail

Older red car to the right of the Camaro looks like a 55-56 Buick.

bhill2

Beyond the Nova is a 67 Ambassador.

andys120

kyfdx

Nissan Patrol. No idea on the year

andys120

kyfdx said:

Nissan Patrol. No idea on the year

1979

ab348

Courtesy of Shorpy, Carson City NV, 1964. Expands to huge size. A bit of everything we like here.