Mystery car pix

fintail

Not just a Corniche, but a brown one, like Jake Ryan's dad's car. And in front of that might be a Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit/Spur, something about those rear lights and headrests. Maybe a whale tail on the Porsche at upper left.

MB appears to be a W114, 70s equivalent to E-class.

ab348

Billy Vera and the Beaters on stage at The Central.

Is that an '80s Monte Carlo sandwiched between the two VW convertibles in the right lane?

Gold '67/'68 Mustang making the turn to the left up ahead.

fintail

I think the car between the 2 VWs is a Jaguar XJ6, maybe a series III car.

fintail

Lebanon, late 60s:

Lostwrench3

1961 Ford.
1968 Villa Rides.

ab348

A big bunch of old Benzes but, hey! A ‘68 Plymouth Satellite! 😜

andys120

Looks like a red MGB peeking over roof of Ponton on right and a Ford Falcon ahead of that.

fintail

Can't recall if I have posted it before. Old floating bridge, Seattle, 1981 (should zoom in very clearly):

stickguy

AMC Eagle on the near right. Looks like the shortie (spirit based) version. Man, funny how much a slightly raised small AWD looks gigantic and tall back then, when everything else was a normal low height.

Dodge Omni in the middle, next to a BMW 320i going the opposite direction.

and that bridge does not look like something I would car to drive on. certainly not in that weather.

ab348

I was going to ID a '71 Plymouth Satellite coming towards us, but I think I may see a Roadrunner decal on the right rear quarter panel, so it may be one of those. I want to say there is a Mercury Lynx two spots ahead of the Eagle going in the opposite direction.

I drove that bridge once on a nice day and found it mildly unsettling, so I can imagine how it was here.

andys120

Didn't that bridge infamously collapse?

magnette

That bridge looks like a good reason to go the long way round

magnette

This one is from 1964 and for a change it's Newcastle - not ours, but the one in Australia... - it should expand somewhat

sda

With all the cars of a similar color, one would really need to remember what aisle the car was parked. Some stand out like the 404, Falcon and beetle.

ab348

Upon further review, what I thought might be a Lynx, isn’t upon fuller expansion of the pic. Not sure what that car is.

I also just noticed there are pedestrians on that bridge. One helluva walk.

ab348

Two-tone Falcon far right. Austin Cambridge (?) center-left next to a domestic Ute of some sort. The ute’s sedan relative is in the front row next to a Fiat 500.

@sda, the reason most of the cars are the same color is because it’s a B&W pic… 😆

fintail

The car two in front of the Eagle is a little mystery for me too. I was thinking EXP/LN7, but not sure if the lights are right.

I've been on that bridge a hundred times, you get used to it.

ab348 said:

I was going to ID a '71 Plymouth Satellite coming towards us, but I think I may see a Roadrunner decal on the right rear quarter panel, so it may be one of those. I want to say there is a Mercury Lynx two spots ahead of the Eagle going in the opposite direction.

I drove that bridge once on a nice day and found it mildly unsettling, so I can imagine how it was here.

fintail

It sank in a storm in 1990:



It had been under renovation, so IIRC no cars were on it, some kind of mismanagement with the pontoon system caused it to fail. The replacement bridge is very similar. The Tacoma Narrows bridge is the one with the famous collapse.

andys120 said:

Didn't that bridge infamously collapse?

fintail

Lower left next to a Beetle looks like a Jaguar Mark V.

I spot a boxy late 20s looking car kind of upper middle, and just below that to the left and below it, a wartime style/just-prewar design Plymouth (I think) truck.

magnette said:

This one is from 1964 and for a change it's Newcastle - not ours, but the one in Australia... - it should expand somewhat

magnette

That Mk V Jag looks a bit out of the ordinary but the twenties car could be almost anything

The Australian market was a bit different from either UK or US with one domestic model - Holden - and a few local assembly variants.
Chrysler had an operation doing local variants of the fifties ranges and like the prewar British made Chryslers they did things like using Plymouths badged as Chryslers or Dodges I think.

There is at least one of those prominently on the right above the Falcon - Ford assembled British and US models and BMC also had a load of local variants - directly behind that upright white panel van (itself a Morris / Austin clone) there is a car with a sun visor - just ahead of that Plymouth Ute - which is called a Morris Elite Major - looks like this



There are a couple of those - based on the Wolseley 1500 - and indeed there is another of those two to the left of the Falcon although that one was probably an Austin Lancer - Wolseley body but Austin trim levels

magnette

At the rear next to that "Plymouth" ute is a Minx but behind it is one of the earliest Holden cars - a dark 48-215

Also there is a Fiat 1900 / 2100 Farina model - Fiat were popular in Oz as they were basic and coped with hot climates, and they were not bothered about rust there

fintail

I notice two to the right of the panel van, next to a Ford, is another Dodge truck, roughly 1950 style.

Immediately to the right of the wartime style "Plymouth" truck appears to be a Vauxhall Victor, and a Renault 4CV beside that.

magnette said:

At the rear next to that "Plymouth" ute is a Minx but behind it is one of the earliest Holden cars - a dark 48-215

Also there is a Fiat 1900 / 2100 Farina model - Fiat were popular in Oz as they were basic and coped with hot climates, and they were not bothered about rust there

andys120

Remember these two beauties>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Isotta-Fraschini_Tipo_8A_Castagna_Landaulet.jpg/1280px-Isotta-Fraschini_Tipo_8A_Castagna_Landaulet.jpg



They're Isotta-Fraschini Tipo 8C Monterosas ca. 1947-48. Examples of the handful of cars turned out after WWII by one of the most renowned prewar carmakers. None of the postwar cars were ever sold publicly. The sedan has a Zagato body and the Spider is by Boneschi.

They are quite different from the prewar I-Fs>


1928 Isotta-Frascini Tipo 8a by Csstagna

andys120

There are few cars as nice to look at as the Italian sports and GT cars ofthe 50s and 60s. This one is one of the most perfectly styled of all time (IMHO)>

stickguy

Look at that great visibility!

kyfdx

That is a pretty one. I'm partial to this era of Alfa:

texases

stickguy said:

Look at that great visibility!

No different with a modern one, is it?

andys120

kyfdx said:

That is a pretty one. I'm partial to this era of Alfa:

I've never been able to decide whether the Giulietta or the Giulia coupe is better looking, both are nearly perfect looking

sda

Both are very nice. Who can forget the scene of Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Graduate’ driving the convertible in a spirited manner?

andys120

stickguy

definitely a VW rebadge, but I never heard of it before. From back in the days of actual compact PUs!

xwesx

stickguy said:

definitely a VW rebadge, but I never heard of it before. From back in the days of actual compact PUs!

Style looks very Toyota of the time.

fintail

Same basic bodyshell as a MY 1989-94 USDM Toyota pickup.

texases

A VW Taro, their way of getting into that market in Europe. Toyota thought it a good way to build credibility. Taro is a Japanese word, not the root…

andys120

Yup the VW Taro was the Euro market version of the Toyota HiLux

andys120

sda

61 LeSabre wagon. I like the color.

ab348

Don't think I've posted this previously but here is a shot of E. Chicago St in Elgin IL from 1967.



Not all that much there car-wise but the contrast with today's Streetview is remarkable. Still clean and tidy but virtually no retail, all offices, parking and the like.

https://goo.gl/maps/NXB2kCMcahMFGSV78

tmart

61 (?) Ford wagon and a Falcon.

imidazol97

1960 Chevrolet (does that make up for having no 1960 Ford in it?(
1956 Buick
!960 Oldsmobile flattop

#1, #3, #5 on left.

bhill2

I’ll grab the ‘61 Impala Sport Sedan because I always thought they were the most attractive four-door Chevy ever made.

andys120

ab348

Lada Niva. Popular in Canada for a time as a cheap but very crude 4WD machine, also a favorite of the Soviet military.

ab348

Let's visit Midtown Motors in the early 1960s!

stickguy

60 Ford next to a 56 T bird

sda

I’m a little surprised by the multiple Cadillacs on the lot. Nice overall selection.

andys120

ab348 said:

Lada Niva. Popular in Canada for a time as a cheap but very crude 4WD machine, also a favorite of the Soviet military.

Correct. The Niva was based on the Fiat 124 IIRC.

Lostwrench3

1953 DeSoto.

texases

I'm guessing that's another '60 Ford, next to the building under "Town".

ab348

@andys120 said:
Correct. The Niva was based on the Fiat 124 IIRC.

No, that was the Lada sedan. Here’s the story on the unkillible Niva:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Niva