Mystery car pix

ateixeira

Girl I want to holla,
In the back of my Impala!

That's my guess, not sure about the year, '72? I could be way off.

-juice

andys120

Honda Legend or Acura RL

Acura Legend ca. 1996

andys120

Olds Starfire '63 or '64.

bumpy

1963. The big silver band was gone the next year.

ateixeira

Off by a brand name and by about a decade. :sick:

-juice

magnette

Largest Nissan saloon we get here is a Primera, but we get the 4x4's ie Pathfinder and Patrol.
Grey import Japanese cars tend to be models which were never sold here, and which are mostly imported second-hand, typically when about three years old. If you bring in a car which hasn't been sold in the E.U. then provided only a few of that type are imported into UK in any year you don't need to get type-approval, ie to get it to comply with EU crash regulations etc - the same applies to US cars and any others from outside Europe. The reason Japanese domestic market cars are so popular here as imports is that they are RHD and apparently when they are a few years old it becomes progressively more difficult for them to pass vehicle testing requirements in Japan, no doubt because that stimulates demand for new cars....
The really large Japanese cars don't tend to turn up here, but I do regularly see a couple of Cedrics and Glorias, and a Mazda Luce, which must be more than ten years old and was never available here new.
Japanese embassy has Toyota Centurys and they used to have a Nissan President - I got into trouble with the Met Police Diplomatic Protection Squad once for photographing that around the back of their embassy in Mayfair...

aurelius

aurelius

fintail

Panhard PL17, which is differentiated from the Dyna in that it isn't sticking out its tongue.

chuck1959

A '72 Impala???? I am speachless. not only Way off....but LIGHT years way off!

aurelius

I'm surprised someone got the Panhard that fast. Obviously not obscure enough for this crowd.

andys120

DeTomaso Vallelunga, early-mid 1960s.

aurelius

yes...Vallelunga. and this one?

andys120

Looks like a one-off or a wild custom, no telling what's underneath it..please refer to rules in post one>>

I propose adhereing to a few simple rules--

1) No pix over 470 pixels wide per TH regulations

2) No pre WWII cars (MY 1946 and newer only)

3) No one-offs or customs.

4)NO CHEATING by right clicking!

aurelius

ok, that sucked the fun out of it. it's the Speed Racer Mach 5.

andys120

My apologies for spoiling your fun Aurelius.

Here's a big favorite of mine>>

johno111

Alph Romeo ?? I think mid to late 60's ??

bumpy

andys120

Alph Romeo ?? I think mid to late 60's ??

Yeah it's an Alfa-Romeo but you're off by a decade. The 1955 Giulietta 1300 Spider was indeed far ahead of it's time offering twin overhead cams and five speeds. The Fiat 124 Spider copied the formula a decade later in 1966
and offered twin cams, 5-speeds and Pininfarina unibody coachwork and it was one of the most sophisticated sports cars of it's day.

andys120

chuck1959

1966 Chevy Caprice Custom Coupe. Was the console a rare option for the Caprice?

andys120

1966 Chevy Caprice Custom Coupe. Was the console a rare option for the Caprice?

You're correct, certainly most of the coupes were ordered with buckets and the console. '66 was the first year for the Caprice, the ad shown depicts a 427 coupe.

andys120

stickguy

mid-50's. Is that the one known as a Ponton?

Of course, Fin will know all the numerical stuff.

fintail

Yep it's a ponton, a W120 or W121, making it a 180 or 190, introduced in 1954. I'm not sure what the exact differences are, save for under the hood.

andys120

I borrowed that shot from Inside Edition's Generations feature, it's a '57 Mercedes 190 (W120), the forerunner of today's E-Class according to IE.

andys120

firemanjack

61 Impala coupe..She's a beauty..I can't make out any crossed flags indicating a big v-8..could be a 6 cylinder or a 281.

imidazol97

1960 Chev. Impala, top of the line. Note the dual antennas. Did they both work? The flat tops o the "fins" separates it from the 1959 which is near and dear to me.

andys120

Yep it is a '60 Impala Sport Coupe, the '61 dropped the fins for a more restrained look.

I imagine one of the twin raked antennae was fake but they sure looked cool.

andys120

bumpy

what #6546 is when the doors are blocking half of the car.

ateixeira

I want to say Skyline but it looks slightly different, almost like an old Corolla SR5. Must be a JDM-only model. Could also be one of the many platform-mates of the Mazda 626.

Sure looks Japanese, though.

-juice

stickguy

looks like a Fiat 124 sport spyder.

fintail

Yeah I was thinking the same thing...an old JDM Corolla...but it looks bigger somehow.

bumpy

It looks bigger because it is bigger. What we have is a 1989 Toyota Soarer, a little brother of sorts to the Mark 3 Supra. We got its successor as the Lexus SC300/400.

fintail

The Soarer sure moved upmarket





I saw one of these cute little things last weekend...i am sure this is an easy one

andys120

Yup, it's a '73 Fiat 124 Spider, my '71 looked just like it except for the two little bumps in the hood that came along in '73 with the 1800cc engine (replacing the 1600).

The color was called Positano Yellow. I used "Mellow Yellow" for my CB Call Sign.

wgrafer

Chuck - 1966 may have been the first year for the Caprice 'Coupe', but the Caprice package was available in 1965 on a 4-door hardtop! :P

chuck1959

Thanks for that info...learned something new!

andys120

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gsemike

I'm going to say Volvo

johno111

Well, seeing that blue and white medalian on the top of the grille is a good give-a-way. Let's go with a BMW mid fifty's.

magnette

The two cute pick-ups are Austin A40's - the black&white one is earlier, 1950-51 (even earlier ones from 1948 didn't have separate side lights); the green one is following the face-lift of May '51. Although based on the Devon saloon, which was phased out in 1952 for the A40 Somerset, the van continued until 1956 and I would imagine the pickup went on until then too.
Another clue as to age is the registration - EHH 300 is from Carlisle, and the series ran from Aug.1950, while JDM 961 is from a series first issued in Flintshire,Wales, starting in June 1952.....

fintail

Yep, it's a 502 "Baroque Angel" ca. 1956

andys120

Yep, it's a 502 "Baroque Angel" ca. 1956

Jahwohl Fintail!, it's a '56 BMW 502 Cabriolet. IIRC these were bodied by Baur.

fintail

I saw one of those pickups - in sound looking condition - parked near an old garage in coastal WA state over the weekend. I didn't have my camera or phone with me, unfortunately.

I've always liked the A40/Devon cars...they remind me of a 3/4 scale 1940 Chevy, they are cute. A couple of years ago my old MB specialist had to purchase a grouping of cars to get at a ca. 1950 170D he really wanted. Among the mix of a Lincoln Cosmopolitan and a Model T was an A40 sedan, sound unrestored car. I was half tempted to buy it, he would have sold it to me for nothing.

magnette

BMW 502, 1954-62 (although they were very slow sellers by 1959...)

andys120

magnette

My father's first car was an Austin A40 Somerset saloon, 1954 I think (one of the last), and he had that until 1960, so I can just remember it - I looked at a similar model in a car lot some years ago but I didn't have anywhere to garage it, and so I didn't buy it - it was quite cheap at the time, I think...