Mystery car pix

tmart

Yeah! A 60 Ford taxi.

stickguy

And a rambler wagon.

Lostwrench3

1963 Cadillac.
That Nissan Patrol needs to have its left front end examined. Something is worn and/or loose.

magnette

Is that Nissan Patrol a licence built version from South Asia - perhaps Indonesia?

magnette

Am I too late to win that Rambler wagon ?

texases

@Lostwrench3 said:
1963 Cadillac.
That Nissan Patrol needs to have its left front end examined. Something is worn and/or loose.

Is that because of the uneven tire wear? The other side also looks a bit uneven.

ab348

magnette said:

Am I too late to win that Rambler wagon ?

That’s what fascinated me about the pic. What did it take to win it, and why choose such a prosaic prize?

Lostwrench3

texases said:

@Lostwrench3 said:

1963 Cadillac.

That Nissan Patrol needs to have its left front end examined. Something is worn and/or loose.

Is that because of the uneven tire wear? The other side also looks a bit uneven.

Yes, that tire is shouting, problem.

fintail

63 Fairlane hardtop under the Casino sign. That 60 Ford looks fairly battered.

bhill2

fintail said:

63 Fairlane hardtop under the Casino sign. That 60 Ford looks fairly battered.

By that time there was at least three years on that Ford cab, probably closer to four. That's a long time to be a cab.

magnette

@ab348 It is a prosaic prize but aimed accurately at their customers. - This isn't a flashy place and probably has loads of Mums & dads getting supplies etc and then dropping in as customers.

EDIT - My previous comment isn't right - what I meant was the people going into Nuggets would br probably doing so while passing - it looks off any strip or whatever, more like a neighbourhood street

ab348

I can't disagree, @magnette - any place that has a sign out front advertising "good grub" probably isn't going after the carriage trade.

Lostwrench3

That Rambler is being given away by a simple drawing unlike the Casino not far from me which has the prize car elevated and rotating on a pedestal encircled by numerous slot machines with people hoping their machine's spin will stop on the winning combination.

andys120

Taxi on the right is a 1960 Ford, white Caddy is MY 1962

andys120

Lostwrench3

1962 Mercury Monterey.

andys120

Lostwrench3 said:

1962 Mercury Monterey.

Tail light treatment unique to '62 Mercs!

bhill2

andys120 said:

Lostwrench3 said:

1962 Mercury Monterey.

Tail light treatment unique to '62 Mercs!

Luckily!

texases

Seems like that era Mercuries were Fords given the odd treatment.

fintail

Those always make me think of the Mr. Wilson (Gayle Gordon) vs Mrs. Elkins fender bender on Dennis the Menace. I think Mr. Wilson drove the Mercury.

ab348

andys120 said:

Lostwrench3 said:

1962 Mercury Monterey.

Tail light treatment unique to '62 Mercs!

When I was a kid, I always thought of those as "Popsicle" taillights.

ab348

From the Halifax Municipal Archives, this pic (which expands nicely) from 1969 of a long-gone facility on the Halifax waterfront:

stickguy

Volvo144. Just like the one I learned to drive on. Tailor a facelift Corvair next to it.

Is that a baby rambler in the center rear? Grill looks slightly off.

magnette

I think that Rambler is a 65 American

The 57 Chevrolet Wagon looks like a lower level of trim than say a BelAir - would be it a 210?
Or is it something different due to being for the Canadian market?

ab348

magnette said:

I think that Rambler is a 65 American

The 57 Chevrolet Wagon looks like a lower level of trim than say a BelAir - would be it a 210?
Or is it something different due to being for the Canadian market?

1965 American is correct. I think the '57 Chevy is indeed a 210 but I am no expert. Impressed that it is still on the road at age 12.

andys120

Right side facing away is a VW 1500 Notchback.

Lostwrench3

Early 1957 Plymouth.
The 1957.5 had a different front bumper.

andys120

kyfdx

andys120 said:

'84 Celica Coupe

stickguy

82-84ish Celica. Man I wanted one when I got out of college but my budget said “Colt”. Should have stretched it.

Can’t tell if it is an ST or GT.

Michaell

My mom had a baby blue hatch of that era.

andys120

Yup it's a`95 Celica

Michaell

andys120 said:

Yup it's a`95 Celica

Did you mean 1985?

xwesx

Michaell said:

andys120 said:

Yup it's a`95 Celica

Did you mean 1985?

I seem to recall a one-year-only special edition in 1995 that was retro-styled.

andys120

Yeah, 1985

magnette

Wadham Stringer were main agents for British Leyland for a large part of the South East, including a lot of London suburbia - this is one of their showroom sites circa 1975/6 with a few non Leyland trade-ins too

Will expand

ab348

I recognize the Allegros, and the VW. I see what looks like either a Wolseley 6 or 18/85. The others have me mostly stumped. At first glance the pair of single-headlamp cars on the right edge seemed the same but a closer look makes me less sure. I thought one might be an Austin Maxi but really am unsure.

stickguy

Is the dark blue car next to the red one, right side of picture, a triumph dolomite?

magnette

@stickguy - yes the car left of the red one is a Dolomite.

@ab348 - yes the Allegros - the red one is the lowest trim with that grilles probably an 1100 while the mud coloured one is probably a 1300 or an 1100 Deluxe-
You are also right on the Wolseley - it is a Six but virtually identical to an 18/85 - the way you can tell them apart is the headlights are surrounded with a black space, while the 18/85 has a chrome surround. - My parents both had18/85s at one stage
You are right to suspect the Maxi - its the red car next to the Dolomite. - and the car to the far right - sort of brown metallic - is a non Leyland trade in - and was sold in US under a different make from us.

fintail

Far right car: Hillman Avenger/Plymouth Cricket.

Maxi - the car that knocked over Stonehenge:



That Wolseley Landcrab is interesting.

magnette

Yes, the Wolseley version was by far the best of the "Landcrab" cars - it was better equipped and like all that range it had more room inside than almost anything else except the Citroen DS

The Austin and Morris versions were less well appointed but the Wolseley was really plush for its price - and unlike most BL cars it was very sturdy too.

Strangely when they updated the 1800 range to the Mk 2 Austin and Morris versions got a longer boot while the Wolseley didn't so it was about nine inches shorter.

That was actually an advantage for us as dad parked behind his work in a little bay that was too short for most cars, and his 18/85 just fitted nicely - suited him perfectly.

You can see the very limited differences between the 18/85 and the later six here -

andys120

Riley something?

magnette

The Griswolds were lucky to get that close to Stonehenge - when I was a kid you could park about 100 yards from the stones but now they've given the place its first overhaul since the late neolithic period and diverted traffic away from most of the site at last.

Trouble is the site has been the junction of two pre-Roman roads since ancient times and one of them carries much of the holiday traffic from London to Devon & Cornwall
although it still has a road on one side - the car park is now served from shuttle buses or a long walk.

They have been planning a tunnel under the site since the fifties but the number of ancient artefacts - the whole site is huge - precludes a lot of digging - not ideal when tunnels go in holes...

magnette

I found another picture of a garage - this time in Ipswich, Suffolk - this was taken in 1960.
Note how Latimers were not only Morris distributors but also had a more
transatlantic link too

magnette

And this one isn't a car dealers but more of a back street repair place - except its in West London in Westbourne Park Mews - just south of Notting Hill
One unusual car - never saw many of them at the time...

fintail

First pic, I see a 105E Anglia peeking out at right. Second pic, the futuristic car makes me think Lamborghini Espada or deTomaso Mangusta, although several supercars of that era had a similar stance. I wonder if they posed it with the older looking cars and 19th century buildings to make it stand out - almost looks photoshopped in there.

fintail

Interesting tech in those cars, too bad the momentum was soon wasted. Some Landcrabs were sold in NA, I don't know about the US, but Canada for sure. I saw one in the wild once, nearly 20 years ago, pic taken with one of the first cameraphones:



Note the early Spridget next to it. At the time I lived about 15 miles from the Canadian border, so it could have been an expat.

magnette said:

Yes, the Wolseley version was by far the best of the "Landcrab" cars - it was better equipped and like all that range it had more room inside than almost anything else except the Citroen DS

The Austin and Morris versions were less well appointed but the Wolseley was really plush for its price - and unlike most BL cars it was very sturdy too.

Strangely when they updated the 1800 range to the Mk 2 Austin and Morris versions got a longer boot while the Wolseley didn't so it was about nine inches shorter.

That was actually an advantage for us as dad parked behind his work in a little bay that was too short for most cars, and his 18/85 just fitted nicely - suited him perfectly.

You can see the very limited differences between the 18/85 and the later six here -

ab348

The Austin 1800 was moderately popular here in the late ‘60s. I remember the mayor of Halifax had one as his personal car back then.

In the most recent pic, the exotic car first struck me as a Mangusta, but don’t hold me to it. My second thought was a Lamborghini. The black over white car next to it might be a Ford Zephyr.

andys120

Brochure art>

Lostwrench3

1954 Plymouth Belvedere.