Mystery car pix

imidazol97

That's a Lincoln behind the Cadillac, a Premier?

What are those huge tailfins behind the salesman's head--behind the 1958 Chevy wagon?

fintail

I think the big fins are another Lincoln similar to the one you mention.

Looks like a 62 Ford under the covered area at left, door open, probably a Galaxie 2 door HT.

Interesting to see a few old timers at Powell Motor Co. at right - I spot a 39 Chevy and what looks like a Model A coupe, with maybe a Scout between them, also something old to the left of the 39 Chevy (gives me a 35-36 Mopar vibe).

imidazol97 said:

That's a Lincoln behind the Cadillac, a Premier?

What are those huge tailfins behind the salesman's head--behind the 1958 Chevy wagon?

magnette

The 58 Chevrolet wagon - I'm guessing it's Brookwood

Under the VO of Powells is a Chevrolet with a chrome grille - circa 38? - not the oldest car there though - there's something from the Depression on the right shoulder of the guy with the white shirt in the distance

imidazol97

This has been an interesting picture and it enlarged nicely. The Ford wagon at far left must be red. IIRC, this is how a red showed up in black and white photos.

texases

That lot must have specialized in old iron.

tmart

Two 57 Fords,.

explorerx4

I see the backs of a 57 Chevy and I think a 61 Buick next to it, then the back of the Lincoln.
In the front row, a 57(58?) Plymouth between the 57 Ford and 58 Chevy and a 60 Chevy on the corner.
A 59 Mercury in the very left of the photo.
Over at VO's, the back of a white 61 Impala bubbletop.

bhill2

explorerx4 said:

I see the backs of a 57 Chevy and I think a 61 Buick next to it, then the back of the Lincoln.
In the front row, a 57(58?) Plymouth between the 57 Ford and 58 Chevy and a 60 Chevy on the corner.
A 59 Mercury in the very left of the photo.
Over at VO's, the back of a white 61 Impala bubbletop.

FWIW, the Plymouth is a 58. The 57 had smaller, parking lights as the inside pair.

andys120

stickguy

Messerschmidt?

andys120

You're right but your spelling is a little off. Messerschmitt was forbidden to build aircraft after WWIi so the built a series of Kabinrollers(Cabin-scooters) the last of which was the KR500 which was introduced in 1955 and sold until 1964.

It is not known how many were squashed under the wheels of Unimog trucks.

andys120

tmart

I’ll say an MG and leave the model and year to y’all.

andys120

tmart said:

I’ll say an MG and leave the model and year to y’all.

Your monitor is better than mine.

texases

Well, it looks like the same basic car was sold under a raft of names, including that MG:

Austin: 1100, 1300 and 1300GT
Austin: 11/55, America, Apache, De Luxe, Glider and Victoria
Innocenti: Austin I4 and Austin I4S
Innocenti: Morris IM3 and Morris IM3S
Innocenti I5
MG: 1100, 1275 and 1300
MG: Princess, Sports Sedan, 1100S and MG-S 1300
Morris: 1100, 1300 and 1300GT
Morris: 11/55, 1100S, Marina and Marina GT
Riley: Kestrel, Kestrel 1275, Kestrel 1300 and 1300
Vanden Plas: Princess 1100, Princess 1275 and Princess 1300
Wolseley: 1100, 1275 and 1300
Wolseley: 11/55 & Wesp

magnette

I think Glider was particularly in Denmark - and may have been for Morris in Denmark as well as Austin - it was a reference to the then new Hydrolastic suspension

Michaell

texases said:

Well, it looks like the same basic car was sold under a raft of names, including that MG:

Austin: 1100, 1300 and 1300GT
Austin: 11/55, America, Apache, De Luxe, Glider and Victoria
Innocenti: Austin I4 and Austin I4S
Innocenti: Morris IM3 and Morris IM3S
Innocenti I5
MG: 1100, 1275 and 1300
MG: Princess, Sports Sedan, 1100S and MG-S 1300
Morris: 1100, 1300 and 1300GT
Morris: 11/55, 1100S, Marina and Marina GT
Riley: Kestrel, Kestrel 1275, Kestrel 1300 and 1300
Vanden Plas: Princess 1100, Princess 1275 and Princess 1300
Wolseley: 1100, 1275 and 1300
Wolseley: 11/55 & Wesp

And here we thought GM was the king of badge engineering!

fintail

Philly, March 3rd 1964:

sda

The 60 Ford looks unloved. What year fintail is next to it? The 56 Buick looks nice.

stickguy

4 years in the salt belt, could age cars quite quickly.

fintail

Fintail is indeterminant - it's a W110 so no older than 1961, but the midlife changes the cars received didn't occur until 1965. It appears to be a 190D with accessory bumper guards and optional white steering wheel.

60 Ford looks like a very basic model, which probably didn't encourage anyone to care for it.

sda said:

The 60 Ford looks unloved. What year fintail is next to it? The 56 Buick looks nice.

texases

Someone needed to go over that Ford with Blue Coral...

ab348

The Holy Grail of Mystery Car pics! A '60 Ford next to a fintail! The world may spin off its axis...

explorerx4

I see the 57, 62 and 61 Chevies have their own clique going.

magnette

The 55 Buick looks loved and thats a 57 Bel Air wagon

magnette

Sometimes the largest car in the parking lot gets upstaged by some little runabout ....

texases

1960-ish Fiat Abarth 500 (Zagato?)?

Get one today for $250,000:
https://www.obprestigeauto.com/vehicle/fiat-500/

andys120

texases said:

1960-ish Fiat Abarth 500 (Zagato?)?

Get one today for $250,000:
https://www.obprestigeauto.com/vehicle/fiat-500/

If they're going to ask a small fortune for a tiny little car they ought to get the name right. (Zagato not Zegato).

I think the blue car is a Fiat 600

boomchek

texases said:

Well, it looks like the same basic car was sold under a raft of names, including that MG:

Austin: 1100, 1300 and 1300GT
Austin: 11/55, America, Apache, De Luxe, Glider and Victoria
Innocenti: Austin I4 and Austin I4S
Innocenti: Morris IM3 and Morris IM3S
Innocenti I5
MG: 1100, 1275 and 1300
MG: Princess, Sports Sedan, 1100S and MG-S 1300
Morris: 1100, 1300 and 1300GT
Morris: 11/55, 1100S, Marina and Marina GT
Riley: Kestrel, Kestrel 1275, Kestrel 1300 and 1300
Vanden Plas: Princess 1100, Princess 1275 and Princess 1300
Wolseley: 1100, 1275 and 1300
Wolseley: 11/55 & Wesp

My parents' first car was an Austin 1300 that my dad imported into Poland when mom was pregnant with me. Since foreign cars were rare in 70s communist Poland, it turned heads in our town. They had it for a few years and my early memories was of dad always working on the car, fixing something.

magnette

I've got my doubts about the grey Fiat - its a 500 basically but the note on the photo which I lifted from Flickr said it was a Fiat 500 Zagato Cabriolet - but the plates on that car look like they are from Yugoslavia - so that would probably mean its some sort of Zastava.

The red one is of course a bit easier as it is an Abarth 1000 and probably extremely fast in the right hands - for a tiny Fiat based car...

explorerx4

There are trees like that in Yugoslavia?

andys120

magnette said:

I've got my doubts about the grey Fiat - its a 500 basically but the note on the photo which I lifted from Flickr said it was a Fiat 500 Zagato Cabriolet - but the plates on that car look like they are from Yugoslavia - so that would probably mean its some sort of Zastava.

The red one is of course a bit easier as it is an Abarth 1000 and probably extremely fast in the right hands - for a tiny Fiat based car...

i was going to say the blue-grey car isn't a Cabrio but if you look carefully you see the back of the roof is one of those roll-down jobs so it's a kind of poor man's "cabriolet" . The Abarth/Zagato combo produced several different models the most famous being the 750 "double bubble

andys120

The Fiat-Abasth 750 "duble bubble"

Michaell

Undetermined year, but this was the big used car dealer in my hometown.

fintail

Looks like an 82 or 83 Celica with the hatch open.

stickguy

I think the red car in the front is a Zepher. Though could be a bigger Ford coupe.

andys120

Odd that t has the nice wood but not whitewalls and whi is he parked on the postage stamp-sized lawn?

stickguy

a Henry J?

just a guess.

texases

@stickguy said:
I think the red car in the front is a Zepher. Though could be a bigger Ford coupe.

How about a Fairmont Futura?

stickguy

same thing, right? I think the Zephyr was just the Mercury version.

fintail

50 Ford Country Squire. By the somewhat matte looking paint, and maybe a little corrosion (could just be dirt) low around the rear wheelarch, maybe not a brand new car when the pic was taken?

ab348

texases said:

@stickguy said:

I think the red car in the front is a Zepher. Though could be a bigger Ford coupe.

How about a Fairmont Futura?

The Fairmont Futura did not have an emblem at the beltline on the basket handle, but the Zephyr did. This car has that emblem, so it's a Zephyr. The coveted Z-7 model.

ab348

Plaza Del Lago Shopping Center, Wilmette, IL, circa 1965.

stickguy

Nu furrin’ cars there!

Nice riviera. I like that design, before they became too huge. Next to the obligatory Falcon.

sda

3 new GM 65s parked side by side, Pontiac, Olds, Chevy. 65 Yellow Corsair next to the Mustang. Impressive.

texases

Reminded how just about ALL cars had whitewalls back then.

tmart

Square Bird, guessing a 60, Mustang, and the Falcon.

fintail

No doubt Wilmette was as affluent then as it is now.

I spy a Barracuda in the background.

ab348

Turns out Plaza Del Lago was one of the earliest car-centric shopping centres, opened in 1928.

andys120

A mixed bag>