Mystery car pix

fintail

60 Ford appears to be a Sunliner, to the right a 61 wagon, appears to be a Country Sedan.

tmart

54 Ford, 60 Ford Sunliner, 60s Falcon, 61 Ford Country Sedan, 61/63 Thunderbird.

magnette

Yes- Soviet built Gaz 12 - they were sold in Finland with British built Perkins Diesel engines in the fifties

Lostwrench3

magnette said:

Yes- Soviet built Gaz 12 - they were sold in Finland with British built Perkins Diesel engines in the fifties

I see hints of a '50 Chevy in there.

andys120

imidazol97 said:

ab348 said:

Bargain-minded shoppers looking for cut-price menswear shopping here in 1963:

1960 Ford above the hood of the red Falcon

Maybe not a Falcon; IIRC they were Frontenacs in CDN.

Oldest car is a '56 Chevy wagon under sign on left.

ab348

andys120 said:

imidazol97 said:

ab348 said:

Bargain-minded shoppers looking for cut-price menswear shopping here in 1963:

1960 Ford above the hood of the red Falcon

Maybe not a Falcon; IIRC they were Frontenacs in CDN.

Not a Frontenac though, which had a unique grille.

tmart

andys120 said:

imidazol97 said:

ab348 said:

Bargain-minded shoppers looking for cut-price menswear shopping here in 1963:

1960 Ford above the hood of the red Falcon

Maybe not a Falcon; IIRC they were Frontenacs in CDN.

Oldest car is a '56 Chevy wagon under sign on left.

Actually, the oldest is next to the Chevy wagon. Appears to be a 54 Ford, or Canadian namesake.

andys120

Bou, I;m batting .000!

ab348

Here's one I haven't seen before. Omaha, 1973. Expands greatly.

tjc78

Love how the two Beetles stand out amongst all that domestic iron.

Nice looking Monte in a period color right up front. My dad had one like that in brown when my mom was pregnant with me. She was supposed to take it but decided on her Beetle instead. Good thing, it lost the brakes and a tractor trailer t-boned my dad. He was pretty beat up, if there was a passenger they most likely would have been killed.

kyfdx

'73 Monte Carlo, lower right

stickguy

nice 68ish tan Nova top left.

red later gen Falcon in front of a white LTD>

white 72ish Charger behind a nice early blue GTO.

imidazol97

In the Robert Hall picture, the Falcon is a 1962.

andys120

imidazol97 said:

In the Robert Hall picture, the Falcon is a 1962.

I found myself wondering if the Falcon was a visitor from the USA or perhaps they were sold as an alternative to the Frontenac,

fintail

In Omaha in the 2nd to leftmost lane ahead of a 70 Mustang is an apparent VW fastback.

re: Canadian Fords, I may be mistaken, but I think the USDM names and Canadian names were both sold in the Canadian market.

ab348

fintail said:

re: Canadian Fords, I may be mistaken, but I think the USDM names and Canadian names were both sold in the Canadian market.

That's correct. Falcons were far more common here than Frontenacs, which were only sold through Mercury dealers.

andys120

kyfdx

Eldorado

stickguy

interesting purple on the DeVille convertible too.

little car is a Morris Minor?

andys120

stickguy said:

interesting purple on the DeVille convertible too.

little car is a Morris Minor?

Yup, it's the convertible version of the Morris Minor ca. late 50s/ early 60s, it enjoyed some poularity in the USDM for a few years.

andys120

Big cars/small houses>

stickguy

a Chevy guy. corvette hiding behind the Bel Aire

imidazol97

stickguy said:

interesting purple on the DeVille convertible too.

little car is a Morris Minor?

On my monitor the Deville (D96P) looks like a light metallic blue.

The color balance in the picture seems skewed. The gentleman in the process of
sitting down into the camp chair has a shirt that looks blue with a lot of red in it.
The stripe around the hood of the car in front of the camera looks to be magenta
or red toned. And the Eldorado looks far too magenta when I suspect it's a red.

AND the boot on the car facing the camera is the same magenta as the paint on the
Eldorado.

I wonder if this is a colorized picture that is posted on one forum on Facebook.

andys120

On my monitor the Caddy is a reddish purple, thr car next to it's a light metallic blue and the Minor is
greenish great.

stickguy said:

a Chevy guy. corvette hiding behind the Bel Aire

The four headlight Vette is the newest car (1958-'62). Chevy on the street is '53 or '54.

imidazol97

I'll take 1953 for the Cadillac Deville Coupe on the street.
It's the same colors as the 1596 Chevy...

magnette

The Minor tourer (convertible) was popular in its day as it was a good reliable way to have practical open car as opposed to a sports car, and its main contemporary rival was the Triumph Herald which was launched in 1960 and offered similar performance (although the Herald didn't have such good handling - though a great 25 foot turning circle which was like a London taxi!)

Minor two door saloons have been converted by several firms since the convertible became popular as a classic car (the original ones tended to rust more than the saloons due to leaks when neglected )

Original Tourers are worth about twice the converted ones and at least three times the two door saloon

tjc78

Why don’t we get great blues like that anymore?

ab348

Currently there are two basic types of blue paint available on vehicles it seems. One is the very dark shade that looks almost black unless it is in direct sunlight, as offered by Toyota and Mazda. The other is the very bright mid-blue, almost a French racing blue shade, that is very trendy and offered on a lot of makes. I don't like either. Manufacturers need to go back to some of the dark-but-not-blue/black metallics offered in the past which were very attractive. Of course it would be nice to have a blue interior available to go with that.

andys120

My nephew has a '15 535i which looks like black except in strong light when you can see a blue tint, which BMW calls Carbon Black.
This is one of those multii-layer paints and they can be very cool. They've been around for a couple of decades. I had a mid 90s Audi A4 that looked like ivory white but in a strong light would look like a diamond silver.

imidazol97

uplanderguy

Who can identify whatever Ken Berry is standing next to here?

https://www.etsy.com/StorchsPlace/listing/1116207262/ken-berry-estate-personally-owned-f?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lmsm&share_time=1638135472508&fbclid=IwAR3hj3A3xiuB6F8P41q6vm8KDDaBZqn0oNsEtrsNwXR2UsphAaq0h67VJqk

stickguy

Yellow rambler.

stickguy

Looks like a Maserati to me.

tmart

imidazol97 said:

59 Ford, 61 Ford

ab348

stickguy said:

Looks like a Maserati to me.

Pretty sure it is an Iso.

andys120

ab348 said:

stickguy said:

Looks like a Maserati to me.

Pretty sure it is an Iso.

Yup, it is an Iso, pecificallly an ISO Rivolta GT ca. 1963-64 (Aka IR300 . This was one of the first Euro cars to combine American power (327 Chevy) with European sports car or Gran Turismo chassis and body, a combination that produced the Facel-,Vega HK500, the Gordon-Keebler, the Shelby Cobra and others.

The Ken Berry pic does not show the true proportions of the car>


Iso is the company that introduced the Isetta bubble car and the Rivolta was the sire of the Bizzarinni Grifo. Rivolta styling was from Bertone, note the resemblance to Alfa Giulia coupes.

Lostwrench3

1960 Pontiac.
1953 Pontiac.

ab348

andys120 said:

ab348 said:

stickguy said:

Looks like a Maserati to me.

Pretty sure it is an Iso.

Yup, it is an Iso, pecificallly an ISO Rivolta GT ca. 1963-64 (Aka IR300 . This was one of the first Euro cars to combine American power (327 Chevy) with European sports car or Gran Turismo chassis and body, a combination that produced the Facel-,Vega HK500, the Gordon-Keebler, the Shelby Cobra and others.

The Ken Berry pic does not show the true proportions of the car>

That is a handsome car IMO.

tmart

Front end reminds me of a Mustang.

stickguy

reminded me of a Maserati!

uplanderguy

If Ken Berry owned that car, he apparently did better in 'F Troop' than I might've thought! I had no idea what the car was.

andys120

Michaell

Vega Cosworth.

'75 or '76, I'd guess

andys120

Yup, the correct name is Chevrolet Cosworth Vega.

andys120

Fifties on one side, sixties on the other>>

stickguy

Corvair is easy. No idea about tan car behind it on the end.

fintail

Almost looks like a somewhat abstract painting. Little 'furrin job at left appears to be a Renault Caravelle.

uplanderguy

I would love a Cosworth Vega now. Not the 150 hp it was originally supposed to be, but surprisingly competent compared to European competition at the time. Great styling IMHO. I read it cornered flatter than the same year Corvette with radials. They were built on their own line, about 40 miles from where I lived then, and 40 miles from where I live now in the opposite direction. I rode in one in 1975, and it was a thrill, and I rode in the same serial number car twenty years later, when a friend bought it. Also, beat the 'Bandit' color scheme by a year or so.

The Cosworth pictured is a '76. I don't care for the yellow taillights that year, but I like that any regular Vega color could be had on a Cosworth in '76. I really liked the dark blue with white interior with blue dash and carpet.

sda

I liked the Cosworth Vega as well. They were expensive relative to other Vegas, and I think that was a factor that limited sales. In addition, A/C wasn't available and many 'sports' cars did make this available. For folks that lived in southern states by 1976 A/C was an expectation. And sadly it was a Vega. Regardless how good the Cosworth was its reputation was already tarnished. The dark blue with white interior was sharp as was the forest green with saddle interior.

andys120

fintail said:

Almost looks like a somewhat abstract painting. Little 'furrin job at left appears to be a Renault Caravelle.

Can't tell if it has removable h/t or coipe w fixed top. Nice-looking car but unfortunately a Dauphine underneath (slow and unreliable),